@NDhillon82@AlbertonPower It only works if you aren't already chocablock full of kids and actually have list space to use them or good players who want to come to your club. Eg. Not Essendon that year.
@AlbertonPower even use the crap picks offered cos we didn't have the space and they were junk pics not 3top picks like petracca deal. It's got nothing to with trades anyway. We have been languishing much worse than some clubs that got comp did. We have been stuck in no man's land4 15 years.
@AlbertonPower Ur wrong on Merrett. Trading him would have been a disaster&we knew it. Can U imagine how bad we would b right now with 2more kids on our list instead of him. We had 2keep him because we were already2young& inexperienced by a long way. Merrett=consultant&never hurt. We couldn't
@FrankTomaras Ur wrong on Merrett. Trading him would have been a disaster&we knew it. Can U imagine how bad we would b right now with 2more kids on our list instead of him. We had 2keep him because we were already2young& inexperienced by a mile. Merrett=consultant&never hurt unlike every1 else
@elonmusk U r so dense. Don't U get that racism causes rape&murder among other horrible treatment systemically. Yes the England cop killing was awful but U look at everything as an excuse4 you to be a white supremacist. You're a corrupt, slimy, bigot who got rich walking over people&bodies
@ballboysfantasy ... Although Ur wrong on Merrett. Trading him would have been a disaster&we knew it. Can U imagine how bad we would b right now with 2more kids on our list instead of him. We had 2keep him because we were already2young& inexperienced by a long way. Merrett=consultant&never hurt.
@ballboysfantasy factors such as unbalanced fixturing, yearly rule changes, compromised drafts&over the past 15 years,Dons have been on the receiving end of most of them, all contributing 2 long term difficulty. Your right,they should have left the game alone more&worked towards evenness of clubs
@JoeyNicey@rohan_connolly what they see as unfinished business. Unless he's given that chance or dies, the divide will still b there. If he fails, he fails, but the supporters will finally be able 2 move on. We can't go any worse than right now. Might as well get it out the way. Longmire prob out anyway.
@JoeyNicey@rohan_connolly It's not really Hird still doing the damage even if he said I never want to coach again the club would still be decided because a huge chunk of the supporters truly believe that the only way for the club to recover from ASADA tearing its soul out is to see Hird given a redo on
@rohan_connolly But look at the team Longmire has had to achieve that percentage with. I'd argue Hird got more out of a group of players that were not as good in a team that was already working well. Hird took a team that had looked a rabble and made them look top 4 before it all fell apart.
@NathanMBourkie@DonCaldwelll@icantell10 a scandal2 remove pressure on the Gillard/Rudd merry go round. People know very little of the truth of what went down cos they never reported it in mainstream media. It was a lot deeper than1club&Dons were scapegoated. Demetrio=always corrupt&the time he did was small potatoes.
@NathanMBourkie@DonCaldwelll@icantell10 Was switched for tb4 which he had asked for a quote on for his private clients outside the club and never ordered. Without the tb4 lie they couldn't have pinned anything. It could have been any club but we were the saps that 'self reported' after the government asked the AFL for
@Markmandanici@DonCaldwelll If we are advising each other on what 2read2 understand the truth about the saga. I suggest u read the straight dope by chip LeGrand. It will tell you a lot more of the truth than the very limited in scope WADA report &then u yourself might be less inclined to run your own mouth.
@Markmandanici@DonCaldwelll with WADA& individualy consented. There were 3 people dank, weapon&bomber who had direct oversight of the program but the senior coach role was not part of that silo. People just still acted like the coach is responsible 4 everything in the club. Which hadn't been the case4years
@Markmandanici@DonCaldwelll supplements through him which means if Essendon cheated they all cheated. It wasn't birds idea or his program or his department or his responsibility. We have strength and conditioning as a seperate thing for a reason. Hird is the one that demanded it be above board, compliant