That sounds like Archie Perkins.
Oh dear…
What? Archie’s an insipid Brighton Grammar ‘nice lad from a good family’ type. I’m talking about working class types everyone loves to hate but can play… think Toby Greene, Papley, Ginnivan, Sicily… We’ve got a fat Stringer and daylight to the next player with that level of annoying farkhead about them.
Every team needs them… windup merchants. Mitchell being one himself, built a team and culture around those types.
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Yes, I know that “Archie’s an insipid Brighton Grammar ‘nice lad from a good family’ type,” but it was your final comment which reminded me of Perkins : “the ‘leaders’ we might need might actually be young, arrogant, but skillful and singleminded nobjockeys.”
Toby Greene’s a Wesley nice boy and an MBA to boot.
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Didn’t explain myself very well… arrogant on the field, singleminded about getting the footy and showcasing their talents.
Perkins has lost any of that these past 12 months…
Yes indeed - I take your point. But he’s a well-known knobjockey all the same…
Old man is a felon… Greene hardly comes from privilege. Good on him, but maybe not having a safety net is what makes these players appreciate more the opportunities being an AFL player affords them…
…and maybe we should be drafting more of these types
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Dodoro doesn’t like tattoos or untidy bedrooms
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Please Mr Rosa, fix this ■■■■ list.
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We need leaders that have played in fairly recent premierships ie. Forget North, StKilda etc. Geelong, Sydney, Richmond ideally.
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has nothing to do with your background, it’s about your attitude
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But your background can have a lot to do with shaping your attitude.
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sure, but it’s not actually about that when you’re drafting people
can’t people start getting creative, we want the kid that smashed his friends face into the ground at kindy because he took his toy
Yes, it’s about many other things, primarily to do with football ability. However it’s a fact that we have very few tough bastards on our current list, because along with the football ability we’ve been selecting for “niceness.” Would a Rotten Ronnie type get a guernsey with our current team ?
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maybe we should put a hard ban on any kid at all that goes to private inner city schools and sit on the bendigo secondary steps and hand out flyers
One of the main reasons I want us to be good again is so I don’t have to read countless dumb theories about why we’re no good.
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That might get us another Nick Hind or two or even another Stringer.
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This is peter jacksons ultimate end-game, hes driven more clicks on essendon than anyone else.
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two bastions of mental resilience right there
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