No, I don’t think he’s soft.
The problem is, I just don’t think he’s much good.
And watching Midtable Brad play him in the backline is just pure comedy gold…
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I agree with your assessment, Stringer had I think his best season with us in 2024. That said, he did miss some sitters. I am thinking that what sunk Stringer, were the revalations about his dodgy mates. We never got the full story about that. But it is notable that BS went from being a big advocate and supporter of Stringer at the beginning of the season, to happy to see him go at the end.
Nah…you’re forgetting 2021.
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BS probably was ordered by AFL house to let him go to GWS. Afwul are desperate to get more support for GWS.
Plenty of clubs have problem players e.g de Goey at Collingwood but they don’t all give in to city hall’s orders.
One thing about Lloyd that makes me realise that we spend way too long hanging onto players who aren’t going to make it is how quick the comparison he was the guy.
Debuted in 95, turns 18 during 96 season and in 97 he’s already the guy.
Sure Lloyd was a bit of a freak, but he we are six years into Jones career still trying to work it out.
The Sheedy factor. Always prepared to take a risk, gave players confidence, pushed them to the limit. Always said “get them to 50 games as soon as possible”
No comparison with what we have now……
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Certainly hope he doesn’t enter the backline at all this year, hope Brad thinks the same
Even better.
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James Hird AGAIN.
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Bloody dodoro screwing us with poor signings and contracts for the past 25 years.
(May not be true )
Should have given him the Brodie Grundy at the end of 2002.
Added plus it would have changed history and avoided his coaching appointment in 2011 most likely.
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I’m pretty sure Hird took pay cuts in 2000 and 2002.
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Really liked David Flood and he should have had a better career (not sure why it didn’t happen for him?). I think Sheedy picked Wallis for 2 reasons; flash backs to not playing Ronnie Andrews in 83 and the risk Mark Harvey got re injured.
I know it’s a popular game to attempt to pinpoint the time it all fell apart, I guess it’s somewhat cathartic. However, the idea that the decisions Jackson made in 2001 still permeate through the club or have any relationship with our woes over the past decade and a half are to my mind, fanciful. Every club deals with poor ceos, coaches, presidents etc… and come back strong . We have not. Our problem is the compounding effect of mismanagement over two decades beyond Jackson.
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Good memory and fair point being made
There are two considerations here:
- the monumental mistakes PJ made that crippled the club for a decade
- the inability of the club to recover from the monumental mistakes PJ made that crippled it for a decade
If not for the first, we would not have had the second.
The AwFL imposing the Saga and EFC incompetence after that accounted for the next decade
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That’s a good point, I should have worded my post better.
One can draw a direct line between our current state and Jackson’s tenure as CEO, but that doesn’t excuse subsequent administrations of their own failures.
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Jackson basically held the club back right when the competition underwent a massive change in its professionalism. Instead of staying at the forefront of the comp we stayed in the 90’s and fell behind in every facet. Nobody since then has even gotten the club back to the middle. Vozzo is the 1st CEO who gives me optimism that he knows what is required.
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If anyone could be bothered to do the research, I am sure that at every change of personnel over the last 20 years, some people here have come out and said something like that about whoever the appointee was.
Very few have said from the start that appointment was wrong. At the time, only two people said it about Knights’ appointment. Jessica did and was hounded out and hasn’t come back. I don’t recall anyone else who said at the time that Worser [sic] being appointed was a huge mistake - most welcomed it, despite it being the worst coaching appointment in EFC history. I don’t recall anyone who complained about X at the time. Most responded with lame crap like “X gonna get ya”. And so on and so forth.
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I dont know if he was injured for the 93 GF but I thought Symonds was a better option than both Flood and Wallis.