The Sydney one or the West Coast one?

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#20 = Hislop #21 = Urquhart #22 = Proud
Of course there were players after that but the ball-park was pretty ordinary.

I've haven't shed a tear for Grigg and wouldn't do so irrespective of how his career may go at Richmond or anywhere else for that matter.
Our Richmond counterparts are also turning on Grigg. I wonder why?

Crying for Grigg is not the point, we failed to monopolise on the situation which is all too familiar.

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Monopolise? Do you mean capitalize?

It didn't work out great for us.
Should have we done better? Could have we done better? How so?

We tried, but Richmond held the power with the PSD threat.

Same happened to Essendon* with Houli. Best offer they got was #46 which the Bombers knocked back.

Richmond were on record saying they would trade for 1, and take the other for nothing.

Without being privvy to all the negotiations, in hindsight we may have been better off calling the bluff, accepting nothing, and hoping they'd have blinked last minute....

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Correct, as I recall "the spineless poonce" told us before he went on holidays that he would sign with us and whilst he was sunning himself in Phuket got his manager to tell us he was taking the cash at Richmond, we didn't have much room to manoeuvre, I guess we felt that Andy Collins was a better risk than a speculative pick at around 70 where knowing our track record we would have chosen a Raso, Tiller or Kerr (total of AFL Games = zero).

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Winston Churchill

Probably, I was tired, if I recall. I already said we could have done better, we handled the situation poorly.

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Still, "our track record" is at least partially in our hands. We should have called their bluff, we blink too easily and people who think that's not part of what makes our list management sub-par is not following the plot.

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I guess we figured Collins was better than the zero we would have got if Grigg walked into the draft as an uncontracted player.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

No. I meant McVeigh. I thought he went there from Essendon*. Must be wrong.

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McVeigh is one of their very few top ten picks IIRC.

I wish we had SOS as our list Manager......but he's with GWS.......

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We should ask him. Apparently he barracked for Carlton as a kid....

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Weren't things strained between SOS and the CFC?.....or am I imagining I heard that?

I recall that he was a CFC Director around 2003.....and heard nothing after that.

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You're thinking of Dannii Minogue.

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HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR TALKINGCARLTON SUPERCOACH 2009 YET?

So; obviously nobody knows the current SOS and CFC story?

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Why do you say that? I think most people know the current SOS CFC story.

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SOS CFC? Is this some sort of thing you do on a graphics calculator, like 8008135 or 54377?

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I think we all know that Laidler, Duigan, Davies and Joseph are going to be cut. And Mitchell as well, since he's now playing for our 3rds.

Having seen the VFL today, I'd be very surprised if Ellard, ROK and Dale stay on the list. And Temay's probably lucky to have another year on his contract.

So that's 7 changes at least.