What the club did has worked
Do you also read the Green Left Weekly?
Ace you seem to be the SA inside man. Thoughts on what happens with him if he has a cracking year next year? Does he still try to get home?
He didnât try to get home this year. My understanding is he was a little homesick and depressed as things werenât going his way or progressing as quick as he hoped and that the club actually put forward to him the idea of coming back to SA. Aaron and his manager then had a little look to see what was on offer but I believe he never enthusiastically chased a trade and was more than happy to stay. The way things are these days if he wanted to come home he would of and his managers statements reflect his thoughts on it
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Come on Aceman. Youâre buying the spin. His manager said, âHe would prefer to go homeâ. Word for word. We may have been pushing him out the door too, but the reality for him is that there was little interest from either Adelaide club. He wanted to go home.
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How I wish I was 29âŚ
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He was retired at 27, so not reallyâŚ
would of.
not sure what youâre saying. Those 2 words shouldnât be put together
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See a few posts earlier.
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A bloke I went to school with âretiredâ at about that age, they âretiredâ (cut) him because he kept being shown up for looking slow as treacle
In reality he was the quickest heâd ever been, knocked 0.1 off his 20m sprint that off season which is huge. Sometimes looking slow and being slow arenât the same.
I can only go on face value from his family and friends and Aaron was taken by surprise and it was the club that made the initial move. He had already teed up his brother to come and live and live with him in Melbourne and who had started looking for work over there. Doesnât sound like a guy who was eager to come home to me. If he had seriously wanted to get home he would of
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Is his brother still coming over? And do you know if francis is happy?
AFAIK his brother is still coming over, not sure of timing or how long for. My understanding he is happy and excited about the coming season for both himself and the team
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Oh, agreed, definitely.
And coaching has come a long way. Itâd be rare that they coached in such a way as to reduce individuals explosiveness these days. Now thereâs individual programs etc. Which didnât really exist much before Quinn brought it to Essendon.
He was probably a slow decision maker.
Instinct is probably the most difficult thing to teach in AFL.
Sam Mitchell is probably one of the fastest players of the last ten years.
I accept and respect that youâre in the know but his manager went on air saying they wanted a trade but appreciated it may not happen. If it was an âEFC approached him for a tradeâ situation weâd barely hear about it like with Hooker (thatâs not public knowledge) or other players who Iâve heard about who you never hear about it with.
I fully accept your claim that it wasnât completely one way from Aaron but thereâs no chance it was completely one way from EFC (or even close to it) either.
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A lot of stuff gets said publicly that isnât worth a pinch of â â â â , especially during trade week. So I wouldnât be reading too much into that.
Pretty much every respected poster in the know on this site has said Francis didnât really want to leave
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Yeah like âi want to go home to familyâ, opps adelaideâs good enough
from the article, direct quotes from his manager.
Francis attended Thursday nightâs best-and-fairest â won by Joe Daniher â and then flew home to Adelaide.
âHe would prefer to return home,â Francisâs manager, Michael Doughty from TLA, said on Friday.
Doughty said Francis has asked Essendon for a trade, but conceded it appeared âunlikelyâ.
Yet, we are sposed to believe now these comments are bullshit, and that he is manager was talking out of his backside. I appreciate what Aceman is saying and it is always good to get some personal insights, but itâs revisionism rubbish to suggest that âhe really didnât want to leaveâ
Anyhow he is is still here, and whilst he is a Bomber heâll have my support and I hope he makes it. And I hope the club will be flogging the bejesus out of his this preseason, to give him every chance of making it.
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