Not the thread for it but…
Rosa is kinda the great white hope for mine. Or at least minimising the influences of Dodoro and RFK. If the former two are having a big say in our upcoming off season then I’m out.
He kind of has the easiest job in the world at the moment given everyone is operating under the assumption that:
Anything good = Rosa
Anything bad = Dodoro
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Not really. There’s a clear difference between the two. There’s been actual changes in our recruiting and drafting.
If it’s one thing that this club does very well, it’s over celebrating basic list management decisions.
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What do you expect? We’ve been terrible at them for so long that yeah, it’s a breath of fresh air when somebody shows a semblance of competency
please elaborate?
We’ve never traded up in the draft before. Haven’t taken a true key forward with a first rounder for years. Much heavier emphasis on needs based recruiting.
I think we did all those things last year with Caddy.
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Yes, which is why I was praising Rosa and differentiating between he and Dodoro/RFK.
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We traded up to North Melbourne’s pick in 2019 to get Harry Jones. They said yep, no problem because they thought Charlie Comben was the better key position player of the two. And to be fair to them, whenever he’s been fit, he probably has looked more of a bankable commodity. He plays like a proper tall.
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Jye Caldwell 4 more years brought to you by Johnson & Johnson baby oil.
astute trading away future fourth for Archie Roberts too.
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Fair enough, I stand corrected.
I’d argue that my overall point still stands and that is this; we’re too conservative with trading up to land a specific target amongst top end talent. Rosa has done it once from one draft and it was an aggressive move that involved a mid first rounder. Our previous recruiters are too timid with their draft currency.
I mean I don’t disagree but where’s this narrative that it was Rosa and not Dodoro coming from?
I believe Vozzo had told Dodoro to take back seat with the executive decision on drafting, at the last draft.
The draft was essentially left to Forster-Knight…… but Dodoro was in charge of trades.
Fair enough, sounds like the kind of performance politics we would do. I just hadn’t read anything suggesting that was the case and only stuff saying the opposite
Happy to be corrected but my understanding is that Dodoro’s influence was dialled back and that Rosa was taking the lead on drafting. Makes sense given the change in strategies we’ve seen.
How can a list manager select players without senior coach input. makes no sense.
I think the biggest issue is that we keep changing coach.
Blitz will melt down regardless of results. It is the nature of the beast. Carry on.