For someone who hard hardly any opinions when the trade period was on, it’s always easy for a revisionist poster to pontificate on the result.
For a brilliant List Manager to let the list get where it is 4 years since we won a premiership says it all,
As I said, posters have been commenting on our lack of Kpp s for the last few years. We got Gibcus. That is all.
Young mids? We couldnt find any so we went and bought 2. Overpaying for the privilege?.. some say yes.
So out went 4 very good draft picks.
Still no other Kpps apart from a couple of Hail Mary late picks. Who haven’t had a game yet.
“Nudged” Soldo out..extended Ryan’s contract. Even though we don’t know where or when to play him. Emerging ruckman? No we got an cheapie in who already had 4 acl Reno’s or whoever many he had. Emerging mids? Who Dow? Sonsie?
Excellent work.
The highly vaunted draft class of 2021. 3 years on who has made the grade? Who is pushing best 22?
Clarke and Blair. Talent and list management. As I said, they got us to a position where we traded out 3 of our best players for draft picks.
While big egos will say if we kept them we’d still be mulling around down the bottom of the ladder. But reality tells you that with better list management and drafting, with the amount of picks we might not have reached the depths we are. And those players wouldn’t have been lost or released in one go.
But it’s easy to overlook that fact, with ihindsight you know more than Blair himself did at the time.
He did mostly the best he could with what he had. Now we go to the next interesting play.
For a brilliant List Manager to let the list get where it is 4 years since we won a premiership says it all,
As I said, posters have been commenting on our lack of Kpp s for the last few years. We got Gibcus. That is all.
Young mids? We couldnt find any so we went and bought 2. Overpaying for the privilege?.. some say yes.
So out went 4 very good draft picks.
Still no other Kpps apart from a couple of Hail Mary late picks. Who haven’t had a game yet.
“Nudged” Soldo out..extended Ryan’s contract. Even though we don’t know where or when to play him. Emerging ruckman? No we got an cheapie in who already had 4 acl Reno’s or whoever many he had. Emerging mids? Who Dow? Sonsie?
Excellent work.
The highly vaunted draft class of 2021. 3 years on who has made the grade? Who is pushing best 22?
Clarke and Blair. Talent and list management. As I said, they got us to a position where we traded out 3 of our best players for draft picks.
While big egos will say if we kept them we’d still be mulling around down the bottom of the ladder. But reality tells you that with better list management and drafting, with the amount of picks we might not have reached the depths we are. And those players wouldn’t have been lost or released in one go.
But it’s easy to overlook that fact, with ihindsight you know more than Blair himself did at the time.
He did mostly the best he could with what he had. Now we go to the next interesting play.
