It’s one of the reason I’ve always been a huge fan. He just works his butt off and you know whatever deficiencies he has he will improve them.
I thought the club had made it too hard for him but he appears to have come out the other side now and is such a key player for us. I just hope with all the hard work now starting to pay off we don’t loose him.
Not if this is how they want to the list to be now. We are going nowhere for three to five years. Call it purposeful innovation. That five thousand odd days without winning a final, has a way to go yet.
At the very least can’t we get a bit of synergy Between the coaches and the list manager? We played Heppell and Clarke on a wing and I’d be damn sure Dodoro didn’t draft them to play those roles.
Looking at the the side compared to Cats we are easily outmatched when it comes to size and even their smaller players have a bit of size too them aswell including the younger ones. I can’t be confident that a change of list manager will change us enough the whole club needs to be in sync for any sort of improvement.
Stephen Wells was appointed as Geelong’s Recruiting Manager in 1994.
Adrian Dodoro was appointed as Essendon’s List Manager in 1998.
Let us compare the pair, shall we?
Wells:
3x Premierships
3x Runners-up
Won 23 finals games
Played finals in 20/27 seasons
Dodoro:
1x Premiership (Almost none of the players were recruited by him)
1x Runners-up
Won 9 finals games
Played finals in 12/23 seasons
Have not won a final in 17 years
Now I ask you, how does this guy still have a job?