Strategy Stories from Recruiters

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

Daisy wasn’t the surprise at 2, it was Pendlebury at 5.

They were both surprises.

The Carlton recruiting team were surprised you selected Thomas first and according to them it set off a chain of events with other club selections.

November 2005: When Wayne Hughes called Marc Murphy’s name

A retrospective look at how Marc Murphy became a Blue.

www.carltonfc.com.au

 

[RedmanWasHere]

At pre draft interviews (Combine) as asked by Mark Neeld why Melbourne would want someone that looked like a big long haired sissy.

Grundy responded with something like "Well you've got probably the softest midfield in the AFL so I wont be alone".

Neeld and all the MFC recruiters just stared and didnt know what to say.


Also GWS with SoS:

To understand Grundy's personality you have to hear what he said to Stephen Silvagni and the rest of the GWS recruiting crew last month.
After being quizzed during an interview, Grundy was asked if he had any questions.
"Why would I want to come to a club that's only been around for one year?" he said.

Funny how it's turned out with Grundy and Melbourne.

Guess you could say they Neeld over and chose to be more ruthless.

 

[RUNVS]

Carlton were set to pick Paddy Ryder at #4 in 2005 after taking Murphy with the first pick.

Collingwood pulled a suprise taking Dale Thomas at #2 leaving Ellis on the board for the Hawks (who were planning on taking Josh Kennedy).

If Collingwood had of selected Xavier Ellis at #2 - Josh Kennedy would have been a multiple premiership player at Hawthorn, and Paddy Ryder would have been traded back home to WCE as part of the Judd deal.

So Hawthorn almost had Buddy, Roughead and Kennedy in their forward line?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

So Hawthorn almost had Buddy, Roughead and Kennedy in their forward line?

Something would've had to give.

As Roughead was the swingman, he'd've been more the defender than Kennedy and Buddy.

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

So Hawthorn almost had Buddy, Roughead and Kennedy in their forward line?

They still drafted another highly rated KPF (Beau Dowler) at Pick #6 in that draft.

I'm assuming they aimed at playing Roughead down back.

 

[dexter_]

Freo's recruiters made a presentation to the board to explain why they were going to pick Stephen Hill

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Stephen Hill

Age

36

Ht

183cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.5

5star

K

11.7

4star

HB

7.8

5star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.9

4star

MG

223.5

3star

D

13.5

3star

K

8.8

4star

HB

4.8

3star

M

4.8

4star

T

0.8

1star

MG

223.5

3star

D

11.2

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

5.8

4star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

over Daniel Rich

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Daniel Rich

Age

35

Ht

183cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.7

5star

K

12.6

5star

HB

7.0

4star

M

3.4

3star

T

3.2

5star

MG

430.3

5star

D

14.9

4star

K

13.1

5star

HB

1.8

1star

M

3.8

4star

T

1.0

2star

MG

384.3

5star

D

16.2

4star

K

10.4

4star

HB

5.8

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

5.2

5star

.

 

[Pistol Night]

They still drafted another highly rated KPF (Beau Dowler) at Pick #6 in that draft.

I'm assuming they aimed at playing Roughead down back.

Roughy rucked a bit too didn't he pre achilles injury?

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

Freo's recruiters made a presentation to the board to explain why they were going to pick Stephen Hill over Daniel Rich.

Essendon would have taken either Hill or Sidebottom (who they were leaning towards as he was a huge Essendon supporter) at Pick #5 if Hurley wasn't still on the board.

 

[Taylor]

Perhaps the Hawks don't trade for Hale end of 2010 and Roughy fills that 3rd and Ruck role.

 

[Davo-27]

I've always heard we were into Daisy Thomas until the pies took him, then we reacted by taking Ellis, I never heard this Josh Kennedy stuff until now?

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

I've always heard we were into Daisy Thomas until the pies took him, then we reacted by taking Ellis, I never heard this Josh Kennedy stuff until now?

You had him pegged in for Pick #3 according to our recruiter (Wayne Hughes) at the time:

A side story is that we visited Josh Kennedy and ‘Paddy’ Ryder on the Tuesday prior to the draft on the Saturday and suggested we’d probably get one of them. Not long after, Chris Pelchen the then Hawthorn Recruiting Manager rang me to say: “You’ve just wasted a trip to Perth to speak to Kennedy, we’re picking him at three (bearing in mind Carlton also held selection four)” – and it was always presumed that Collingwood, with selection two, would take Xavier Ellis.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Roughy rucked a bit too didn't he pre achilles injury?

He ran through the midfield too and was really good up the ground in general. Given he was so mobile he and Buddy would have played HFF or Wing.