The latter. But he seems to the the constant in that time. Also, he would be letting the coaching staff know what on offer in the upcoming draft so he might very well say “not many good mids, plenty of good guys who can play defence and move into the midfield”. However if he isn’t good at identifying midfielders or is trying to hedge his bets with HBF/mid then the coaches will take his word for it
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Ok gotcha. Seems this trade/draft period is do or die then.
In 13 years since our last finals win, dodoro still hasn’t build a good midfield. Even the sh*t sides like freo, Brisbane, Carlton have quite good midfielders
If it’s been 13 years without a finals win, I consider that, as dodoro has failed. He’s the one who recruits/trades and is easntially in charge of building us a team to play finals and win them
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A loose cannon who is a stickler for the rules, listens to no one yet is the ultimate team man. He’ll trade and pick whoever he wants except when he is told not to. The man, the myth, the legend Adrian Dodoro.
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Some know him as…Keyser Soze…
We were into oliver balls deep
This is Dodoro’s time of year.
Hold onto your genitals, we are going to see some magic like jackets with stars.
Now is not the time for a replacement. You replace recruiters / list managers after the draft not before it.
If we had our current list plus Ryder, Carlisle Crameri and no cancellation of draft picks the list would be looking pretty good.
Dodoro is the list manager. Merv Keane is the Recruiting Manager and they are a package deal. The real issue to be addressed is player development.
Jumping at shadows after a finals loss doesn’t help anyone.
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People are tired of not winning a final for 13 years not just losing 1 elimination final.
1 Dodoro for 13 years and 0 Finals wins in that time is pretty damning.
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Wasn’t his goldern era going to be 2011-2014 when we would see the fruits of his labour?
Well we ■■■■■■ that up for him didn’t we.
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Our recruiting team just delivered McGrath, Ridley, Begley, Mutch and Draper in one draft. Kelly isn’t going to talk up Mutch if he didn’t believe it (and he should know) and Ridley and Draper are obvious talents we can develop. At this stage the recruiting team can only be judged as having done tremendously well in the 2016 draft identifying 5 players who should have long AFL careers.
Give them more resources if you want and widen the net but you don’t sack the team after coming top of the class.
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I reckon in 2015 people were saying “They just delivered langford and Laverde” etc etc
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Exactly
10 years ago we said we delivered Dyson, pears etc. honestly, nothing changes. Ever.
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You can’t use players that haven’t played AFL get as a reason for recruiters smashing a draft or 2
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It’s not 100% on Dodorro. We are very conservative as a club.
We won’t tank
We don’t trade out players
Most premiership clubs have built lists through aggressive trading and securing as many top picks as possible. Yes Dodorro has failed to build a premiership side. But no one has through just taking a single first and second each year and that’s not Dodorros sole decision to make.
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So you’re saying we should be tanking?
For me his job is on the line this trade period. If he cant get any trades done that bolster our needs in midfield then he gets sacked straight after the trade period is done
No more excuses, we need midfielders- bring them in or fk off
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We could have, we did spend two years in the bottom 4. We could have traded out hooker or Hurley or Zaka for example and stayed bottom 4 for another year or two and loaded up with more very good picks. We did trade out players, but they were forced on us, rather than us deciding.
We didn’t tank/manage our list and that had a fair bit to do with the SAGA and standing by the players.
My main point is it’s not Dodorro that decides this, it’s the coach, the board etc as well.
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Wasn’t Dyson and Pears part of our 2012 push. Pretty sure they were.
Dyson was pick 44 and ended up averaging 20 possies a game that year.
Tayte could have been anything if injuries hadn’t stepped in.
You can’t say at pick 44 Dyson was a miss.
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