What if

[King Elvis]

Reilly should have been traded last year.

When his value was at it's lowest?

Radar, if he doesn't get injured again, will have a great year for us - we missed him a lot last year.

 

[Campbell's Chunky]

I'd be in favour of trading Reilly.

He has value - but he is replacable. Perfect tradebait really.

 

[jo172]

I'd be in favour of trading Reilly.

He has value - but he is replacable. Perfect tradebait really.

I always love how we're allowed to scream about the disloyalty of blokes like Meesen and Griffin last year whereas we're happily allowed to enter the meat market to screw loyal servants of the club.

 

[Campbell's Chunky]

I always love how we're allowed to scream about the disloyalty of blokes like Meesen and Griffin last year whereas we're happily allowed to enter the meat market to screw loyal servants of the club.

It's the nature of the beast though. I don't scream about it. I'm still a fan of Fergus Watts despite him '****ing us over'. I'm not one of those who guys who completely denies he had any talent at all because he left us. He had talent. Plenty of it. He just had his own reasons for leaving - if anything we should've been more rigorous in identifying that he was unlikely to stick around.

Footballing wise - what does Brent Reilly offer that we cannot replace?

 

[Pride of SA]

How about instead of playing 'how perfect would we be if we were the only team to have a perfect strike rate in drafting' we go back and look at something as simple as our kicking accuracy.

with shots on goal the last few years, with even a minor improvement in accuracy, we`d have won a lot more games and been top 4 most years.
without needing to have traded for Pavlich or have picked up every hidden gem in the draft.

 

[Deaneus!]

What if Jacob Schuback... HAD CHAINSAW HANDS?

LOL

He would certainly have cut up the opposition.

 

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I also think what if...

Carey didnt injure his neck in 04 and the form he showed in mid 04 carried over to 05.

Flag ???

Most probably

Truth is we will never know, but you could make a case for every clubs using hindsight.

 

[twentydollarnote]

carey was always retiring he had quite a few injuries that had built up.

It's funny how we've probably been doing the whole recruiting and trading thing pretty well since 04, but really all it comes down to is one or two crucial trades which would of made a really big difference to our chances over the last 5 or so years.

 

[Crow-mo]

who's liam petrie?

the nature of the system is such that there are always alternate outcomes.

 

[Crow-mo]

What if Jacob Schuback... HAD CHAINSAW HANDS?

genuinely this made me laugh!

 

[Mismatched]

carey was always retiring he had quite a few injuries that had built up.

It's funny how we've probably been doing the whole recruiting and trading thing pretty well since 04, but really all it comes down to is one or two crucial trades which would of made a really big difference to our chances over the last 5 or so years.

Actually before he did his neck in '04, he had worked himself into some pretty decent form and was starting to look the goods, almost winning a game against Essendon with 6 goals (half our total score) and then 4 goals a couple of weeks later in a massive win against Hawthorn, he managed 27 goals in 12 games, still finishing 2nd in our leading goal kickers. He had also up to the point of his retirement played every game for the season. Definitely no reason to suggest we wouldn't have got a 3rd or even 4th year out of him.

Whilst we should have gone Pavlich, we certainly weren't helped by the bloody square goal posts and the before mentioned freak career ending neck injury.

 

[Mismatched]

I also think what if...

Carey didnt injure his neck in 04 and the form he showed in mid 04 carried over to 05.

Flag ???

Most probably

Truth is we will never know, but you could make a case for every clubs using hindsight.

Another in a similar vein, what if Ricciuto doesn't contract bloody Parvo virus and Trent Hentschel doesn't break his leg in 15 places back in 2006, Mcleod and Burton don't break down with their respective injuries come finals time and later Rhett Biglands in the PF, surely these cost us a premiership that year.

Really we could go on all day with "what if's", but it won't get us anywhere, unless we improve on them, learn from them and essentially don't make the same mistakes again. Which, from what we know at the moment, our recruiting at least has improved dramatically since NC has taken over.

 

[maccas_no1]

It's the nature of the beast though. I don't scream about it. I'm still a fan of Fergus Watts despite him '****ing us over'. I'm not one of those who guys who completely denies he had any talent at all because he left us. He had talent. Plenty of it. He just had his own reasons for leaving - if anything we should've been more rigorous in identifying that he was unlikely to stick around.

Footballing wise - what does Brent Reilly offer that we cannot replace?

Nothing, he is soft, injury prone and is in his 6-7 season and this is supposed to be according to some his 'breakout' year Should have been traded last year.

Massie > Reilly.

 

[jo172]

Another in a similar vein, what if Ricciuto doesn't contract bloody Parvo virus and Trent Hentschel doesn't break his leg in 15 places back in 2006, Mcleod and Burton don't break down with their respective injuries come finals time and later Rhett Biglands in the PF, surely these cost us a premiership that year.

I'd forgotten about the Parvovirus and Biglands, **** me we had atrocious luck that season.

What if the umpires bounce to Chris Judd was called back in the 2006 PF?
What if Nathan Bock didn't go down and Mark Ricciuto didn't get suspended before the 2005 Qualifying Final? Home PF against Sydney ... and probably GF appearance!

 

[Geoffa32]

All these what ifs show that 05/06 were not Craigy's fault. Shows how good a coach he is considering we made the Prelims both years.

 

[Stephen2]

What if Jacob Schuback... HAD CHAINSAW HANDS?

Post of the year LOL!

 

[Thylacinus]

With a thread title like this, don't ever go into counseling those grieving the loss of a loved one through suicide!!!

 

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Actually before he did his neck in '04, he had worked himself into some pretty decent form and was starting to look the goods, almost winning a game against Essendon with 6 goals (half our total score) and then 4 goals a couple of weeks later in a massive win against Hawthorn, he managed 27 goals in 12 games, still finishing 2nd in our leading goal kickers. He had also up to the point of his retirement played every game for the season. Definitely no reason to suggest we wouldn't have got a 3rd or even 4th year out of him.

Whilst we should have gone Pavlich, we certainly weren't helped by the bloody square goal posts and the before mentioned freak career ending neck injury.

I heard Carey in 05 speaking on the radio and he said that it took him 12 months to get back to playing top tier football and that he wasn’t happy with how his career ended at Adelaide and that he would have loved to have played one more season, especially because it took him a while to hit good form again but the neck injury stopped it from eventuating.

 

[twentydollarnote]

At the start of his last year he hinted pretty strongly that was going to be it. Good games against essedon dont really count every decent key forward has a field day against them, which is why Dustin Fletcher is so overrated.

 

[kulak]

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25208116-5016212,00.html

What if there was a form of the father-son rule in 1997 that allowed their inaugural coach Graham Cornes to send his older son Chad to West Lakes rather than be claimed by Port Adelaide at No. 9 in the draft? And the debate on how Adelaide chose the now-retired Ken McGregor ahead of Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich in 1998 is well worn.

Is it just me, or is this too coincidental to be a coincidence?

Sadly no reference to Jacob and his hands however. Was a good try though, it would've worked on Ron Burgundy:

What if there was a form of the father-son rule in 1997 that allowed their inaugural coach Graham Cornes to send his older son Chad to West Lakes rather than be claimed by Port Adelaide at No. 9 in the draft? What if Adelaide chose the now-retired Ken McGregor ahead of Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich in 1998?

And the debate on how Adelaide wasted the talents of Jacob "Chainsaw Hands" Schuback is well worn.

 

[jo172]

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25208116-5016212,00.html

Is it just me, or is this too coincidental to be a coincidence?

I'm not sure that makes sense

FWIW I've suspected that Rooch has been stealing our IP for years. I'm still convinced that the whole Bryce Gibbs saga was as a result of a BF thread!