Probably not. I was thinking about Stringer when I wrote that.
anyone have any idea on the contracts? Maybe we simply didn’t want to pay what Rockliff was asking
Probably not. I was thinking about Stringer when I wrote that.
anyone have any idea on the contracts? Maybe we simply didn’t want to pay what Rockliff was asking
I think it was as simple as he was to old. I’m not sure why people find that hard to understand.
I personally would prefer Stringer, Smith and Saad anyway.
The number i read being thrown around for Rockliff was 4 x 800k
Crazy money for a bloke being pushed out by Brisbane.
Which is more than what both Smith and Saad would be on combined.
It was less ‘pushed out’ than wanting out, I thought, wasn’t it?
Sounds similiar to will hams.
Definitely both ways. Lions didn’t want him to stay
How lazy does he make kicking it 60-70 metres look?
you may say myers is the same but he looks like hes belting the ball when he kicks it.
How lazy does he make kicking it 60-70 metres look?
you may say myers is the same but he looks like hes belting the ball when he kicks it.
Haha yeah. At about 2 minutes in (on the Essendon website highlights) he “rushes” a kick from the back line that goes from about five meters from the goal line to almost the center square. Off a step.
I’ll expand why I think Rockliff was a good fit. The club may have a direction that It’s heading in, and I for one believe we are on the right track.
But, as HM said, there’s one big, glaring hole in our list and that’s contested ball players and clearance players. You could say its that obvious of a deficiency, that a kindergarten kid could realise it. So when a elite clearance player comes on the market, one of the best around, for a club who can’t win a clearance to save their lives, you’d think we would be interested. It’s not rocket science
I don’t buy for a second we weren’t interested for the sole reason “he doesn’t fit where we’re going” that’s just utter sh*t. Your completely naive if you think that’s the reason we didn’t get him. Salary cap is probably one of the reasons and a big one I’d say, but if you don’t think he’d be a good fit for us right now you’ve got no understanding of how bad our clearance issue is. He’s also 27. Is that now deemed too old and cooked? Jesus
Why couldn’t we win the flag next year? Or within the next 4 while Rockliff is a damn good player? Like I said, who would have picked the dogs and tigers for premiers the last two years. Flags can be won a LOT easier these days and apart from the bottom 6 or so clubs, the other 12 should be thinking short term as it can be done. It’s been proved. It doesn’t mean you can’t have a long term plan in place but there also needs to be a short term view all the time too. I would have liked to see us REALLY have a red hot crack at him, he’ll be good at port and make a big difference
All fair and good points - but which 2 of our off-season acquisitions would you have passed on to sign Rocky?
Stringer is a lot younger, and has a higher potential ceiling. Risk/reward.
Long and Merrett. Even throw mckernan in there
Why we wouldn’t go after Rocky:
Why we would go after Rocky:
Clearly, good reasons why on both sides. I can understand not going for him if it means shelling out 800k a year - not sure we would have been able to afford the other 3 recruits if we’d done that. I’d also hope we have some money left over to target an FA next year.
That’s a bit facetious. He was obviously talking about $$$ wise, those 3 together would be lucky to be getting 1/3 of what Rockliff is.
Probably need to cut another 1 and a half players - who else goes?
That was the point
It’s horses for courses. There’s always a way. Anyway, it’s done now anyway
You should look up what the word ‘acquisition’ means.
you’re doing what with horses now?
Can you do it for me?