Yes, I’m not talking about the position but rather his assessment of them. Speaks of Francis as being considered a contender for going #1 earlier in the year although questions about endurance. But based on intel too, other clubs around our picks were considering him if available.
Had him 7th. Curnow 8th. McKay 21st.
Wonder how our fitness team would have handled Curnow’s injuries? “Injuries are on Dodoro. Just another excuse. The decision to take Curnow over Schache was a ripper”.
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High net worth support et S hand over bucketloads of cash. Go back over the reports from the saga onwards and look up ‘fundraising’ and ‘donations’. There’s tens of millions raised here. This is one reason I believe the Club has been slow on building a non core football business arm like other clubs. It’s been supported by these very generous supporters when ‘tapped’ on the shoulder. The Club wouldn’t be here without the tbh. We’re lucky they supported the clubs calls for help when they did. 
Not too late to made a trade is it?
oh…wait… sheesh.
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I was told by an ex Swan player that Francis turned up to Sydney pre-season in poor shape and was given a bake by the coaches
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Yes, the club is a not-for-profit organisation.
People can absolutely make donations for tax purposes.
But I believe the coterie members enjoy the perks of enjoying a drink at social events, and mingling with past players, executives, Board members and players. Plus seeing themselves as charitable to the club, while also supporting the club with things like getting players into employment after football.
It was well noted in any pre draft commentary that fitness was Francis’s biggest question mark. I’m not sure why Dodoro thought we would be able to overcome this issue.
He needed to be better at recognising this risk was likely to be difficult to overcome and rather than picking an unsized KPP he should have looked elsewhere. McKay was never going to get any shorter and Curnow had the athletic attributes Francis didn’t ever have.
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There was a fair bit of Hype for Francis before the draft, I’m not a Dodoro fan but I don’t blame him for that one…
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Finding things to criticise our recruitment is like shooting fish in a barrel. I don’t know why you’d jump on a boat and start firing into the ocean.
We can actually. It’s dodo’s job to pick the best players and in this instance he failed to do that.
The fact that others outside the club also rated him pre-draft doesn’t change the fact that it was a failed selection.
Most people don’t mind errors like this and even expect them. But dodo has made a career out of failed draft choices and is never held accountable.
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You should do a top 10 of Dodoro’s worst selections/misses.
If only we had one big those guys
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If Cox becomes a high level player, I’ll forgive him for Francis 
You can blame Dodoro for many things, but i don’t think it’s a remotely fair interpretation of history to pretend that he was trying to outsmart anyone with the Francis selection. It was very much the conventional-wisdom choice. Outsmarting people would have been reaching for an injury-wracked and unfit Curnow, or a McKay who was still very raw and who would be competing with Daniher for position.
Pretty much the whole AFL recruiting world rated Francis as a top end pick. I was a bit wary for a few reasons but couldn’t name anyone I’d be confident taking ahead of him, while @fogdog (or whatever his blitz handle is these days) was pretty much a lone voice promoting McKay.
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You sure? For example, the only donations deductable during construction of the hangar, ie ‘The Flight Plan’, were those made to The Australian Sports Foundation, not EFC.
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He picked a player who was undersized and not fit. What were we expecting him to be? If I failed in my job as much as Dodoro has I would expect to be criticised.
Curnow was fit. It was his drink driving offence the week before the draft that turned clubs away from him.
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I have been telling them how to pick the Team since 1965 every chance I ever got.
Yeah, I have met a few of them, but they get sorted out and comply or move on to be a pest elsewhere.
And I might be remembering wrong but I feel like even fogdog acknowledged that as much as he would’ve loved us to get the McKay boys, our picks were too high to be reasonably used on them.
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Pre-draft his size and aggression were flagged as positive attributes. Exactly the traits we usually criticise Jackets for ignoring.
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