I’m still a Cooper Trembath fan, but fair to say that if Cal had the inside word that those were the names on Dodoro’s whiteboard he was saved from himself there by our lack of picks.
In fairness to dodoro on this one though, that year i watched a tonne of underage footy and didn’t really rate Frejiah as someone we needed. He was very outside and another winger which we didn’t really require. Lual i didn’t really rate either though, but we needed half backs, so that must have been the thinking at the time in going for him.
The Veale deal!! (Lachlan Veale).
The start of the pick 6 curse. It all went downhill from there.
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Were GC aware the Cats were into him early though?
I just assumed that GC were so desperate to get Bowes off their books, in order to get him to agree to the trade, they included the high pick to attract more suitors, giving Bowes more choice.
The Hird and Lloyd outside-the-cap payments for other things went well for us in 2001. The beginning of the collapse costing us Dimma, Cess, Moorcroft, Heff, Cara, Blumfield.
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You’re saying a team that has relied on Jones and Kelly on the wing didn’t need another winger? 
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Back at that time we had Durham and Martin as our wings and just recruited Duursma. We also had Cox developing in that role, so appeared stacked in the position.
Who would have thought Scott would have had the wacky idea of Martin to the back flank and Kelly to the wing.
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That was it, the classic Dudoro/Sheedy dodgy. I recall discussing it at the time with my Essendon mates and to a person we were proud of the dodginess of it all. Pity it was brought undone by selecting Autum Leaves Bradley (as I recall).
A prolific and damaging game from Rory Wright. He played mostly midfield in the first half and displayed a more mature and competitive contested game than we’ve seen in the past, cracking in for repeat efforts and using some quick and slick hands in congestion. In the second half he played more high half forward and relished the extra space, using his absolute weapon of a left boot to slice open the opposition.
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Any ex Geelong people there?
If i can agree and extend some concepts there.
I think people are too focussed on the mechanism for obtainment of an outcome rather than the outcomes. i.e. Do we really care if we get an AA player through the draft of trade?
And we we look at it, what are are trying to build, well to be a contender we need (on average) 3-4+ AA players for be a GF/Premiership side, we need a decent key tall, a decent key forward and a bunch of high quality role players. And we need them to all be in the side at the same time for more than half a season.
Instead of focussing on obtaining and maintaining that, we focus on the picks, trades or players current (perceived) capability. Geelong, Collingwood and other have been able to sustain their success as they can look at what they have, look at what they need and obtain it, filling gaps as they come up, they don’t care how they get them, and they recognise how hard they are to obtain, so they work incredibly hard on ensuring durability and longevity in those players.
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This biggest loop hole that currently exists is 2 year out picks, there was a study on the value of future picks in the AFL by a guy at VU, estimated 1 year future picks was a 40-50% drop in value, my my estimation 2 years out it’s going to crater. So build a strategy on how you can load up on a crap load of 2 year out picks, fill the gaps now some other way.
Its a slow play, but picking up first round selections for 25% of their value and stacking them to own a draft like GWS in their first year is a real possiblity.
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I wonder who might have been working at Geelong with a greater understanding of the suns position than every other club in the league.
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Very surprised this position hasn’t been rebuked already by the ‘tanking is the only way out of mediocrity’ crew. Nino would have copped plenty.
I reckon one more solid draft and a raft of hard list decisions gets this club into a better position to reap the benefits (that you spelled out) of winning games.
Brisbane were so ■■■■ when they took McCluggage in the draft. Talk about turn around.
This kid looks like a ripper. What is his draft range?
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BODIE
People talk about that one point win over freo as an example of a win that cost us. The reality is that if we have one or two similar wins on the way home this year they’ll be cause for much greater optimism given tgat they wont be wins purely off the back of guys who aren’t taking us forward (Stringer kicked 5 against Freo didnt he)
Difficult to say at this stage. Metro have only played one game and he wasn’t great.
I have him in my top 20. Others feel like his lack of pace will hurt him at AFL level.
Cess was done by then and we had Hille that was ready to go, Moorcroft was done in by his own mark and we really wouldn’t have needed him had we given Milne the shot we should have following Bewick’s retirement.
Dimma, Cara, Heff and Blumfield were the guys that had the biggest influence in losing our edge imo especially the first two who clearly have very good footballing brains being fantastic coaches post playing career.
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