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Weekend Wrap and "Liked, Learned, Hated" right here -- How did tipping go?
There were some odd remarks in that article. I don't think I have seen anything in the media that has been overtly critical of Blucher. Most of the vitriol has been focused on the Crows, and only more recently on Tippett and the AFL for making a meal of things.
Don't see many mods round these parts no more.
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I think part of it is that the wider AFL interested public probably doesnt care about blucher. The AFC is a target that interests a lot more people, Tippett less so, but Blucher is a bit of a non-entity when it comes to selling papers
West AdelaideJournalists have to protect their sources of leaks
Maybe this relates to the decision making problems that Noble alluded to with Tippett. It seems he vacillated wildly over staying or going at different points over the journey. But the club knew full well that he wanted/was willing to leave at the end of at least two different seasons, yet arrogantly believed that eventually he'd realise the error of his ways and buy in to this imaginary, impossible to leave culture that the powers that be have deluded themselves into believing exists at the club. It's just staggering that we wouldn't accept 8 alone, or 12 and Brisbane's compo pick, knowing Kurt's uncertainty about staying with the club. And this is before we even get to whether there was any chance the 2nd round trade agreement may have been in place.
Oh it wasn't a complaint. I love how ridiciulous this thread is.
We would have been up in arms because our recruiters made a poor choice at pick 8, not because we had traded Tippett for it.
No it wasn't. Kurt had an average year and 2 poor finals, partly due to concussions and partly because he continued his form from 2010 and 2011. And when you gamble and you know the odds are stacked against you with the consequences of the gamble blowing up in your face then it's not worth the risk.
How much evidence do you need that the club was well aware that Tippett was an enormous flight risk? There's the desperate extent we had to go to to keep him away from joining GC's first squad (instantly and unjustly making him our highest paid player on a massive salary that even the guy who re-signed him has since admitted regret to, plus the suspect trade home agreement and third party deals), then there's his willingness to go to Brisbane last year if we could agree on a trade deal, plus to a lesser extent his unusual "beach boy at heart" video. When do you think the club started thinking about the possibility of getting Joel down here to help Kurt's "homesickness"? And this is only what we know publically; it's safe to say that a lot more would have played out behind closed doors. They absolutely knew last year, that there were massive doubts about Kurt staying with the club long term. Now, can you please detail what you must know about the players you've used as comparisons wanting to leave their clubs? Boak received a huge salary increase to stay at Port, and seemingly only would have left for genuine, family related reasons. Cloke has done very well out of staying at Collingwood and who knows if he ever really wanted to leave. Danger re-signed prior to round 7 and has never displayed anything other than a total passion for the club.
