Essendon 101. Something else is always to blame for whatever goes wrong!
You mean itās not as simple as ābest availableā? Boooo.
We are one Ollie Wines away from being just fine in terms of inside mids.
Plus, our VFL side is killing it in every inside mid stat.
Our list balance is fine if weād take some of our talls out of the AFL side and replace them with smaller quicker players. Then our VFL side would have more talls available, and our AFL side would be quicker across the ground.
Do I wish we had Adelaides recruiters. Yep. Would I risk replacing Dodoro with whoever this club thinks is best available out there. Not a chance. Iām more confident in Adrianās ability to pick players, than I am confident of the clubs ability to pick employees.
Yeah, we should definitely go and pluck a Jobe Watson, Josh Kennedy or Patrick Crips from the draft it will sort out all of our contested ball winning issues.
Getting these blokes is like picking apples from a tree. 190cm brick sh*t-house, inside midfielders are everywhere in the draft.
Get Kelly to have a chat with Mitch Duncan, see if we can wedge him out with a decent offerā¦4yr 700-800k
Fantastically bi-polar this place. 12 months ago Dodoro was āJacketsā, the messiah, now heās the root of all evil.
Just mind boggling.
helps if you quote the whole sentence
His performance in trade week was outstanding.
The draft and past draftsā¦ far from it.
Really? Weāve been rapt with most of his draft picks of late. Itās widely agreed that the list currently has the most talent of any time in the last decade or so. Other than big bodied inside midfielders, the list is in decent shape.
Our gameplan and coaching isnāt great, but the list itself isnāt a disaster.
Or just maybe itās two different groups of people
Yep.
And most of the picks heās taken since are looking OK, Dev Smith would be leading the B&F, saad has slipped straight in, guelfi (pick 70-something!) debuted & looked good
You can only laugh
During trade week.
His performance at the draft table for 15 years has been appalling. Still short on inside mids x 2 and small defenders
Btw. Dodoro as list manager in a contracts and list addition and retention sense has done an excellent job.
This needs to be said.
List balance and a recruitment sense is where the holes open up.
Like your analysis, but u r over-generous in a lot of your A grade ratings
Get Kelly to have a chat with Mitch Duncan, see if we can wedge him out with a decent offerā¦4yr 700-800k
Is that the Mitch Duncan people were calling a spud not that long ago?
No, thatās Ditch Muncan.
Bhahaha!
Well said
Every club has holes on their list
Not as many as ours, that stay that way over seasons
You need to get your coaterie mates to find a way to pump more money into the recruiting team. Itās far too under resourced compared to the rest of the AFL