The way things look, no one will want to jump to Carlton unless they are paid high $$$ and have generous severance terms inserted into the contract in the event of a departure prior to the end of the contract term.

We're going to pay over the odds already no matter which way we look at it.

I still haven't renewed my membership. Still querying whether I should. Bought my first one immediately after our first wooden spoon and have continued to do so despite being living in Sydney.

We are worse than a rabble.

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"A good composer does not initiate. He steals."

- Igor Stravinsky

Who's to say st kilda or melbs don't have a 2IC with big ideas and an excellent philosophy and good contacts/ network all through the country, they've just never been given a go thus far?

They could be at any club, but we wouldn't know because we just look at the league ladder, see Port or hawthorn or the cats on top and say to ourselves, hey lets go buy that guy, he must be good!

I heard his 3aw interview. I thought he was quite good. Clear , precise , and explained the points quite well. But maybe I'm comparing him to a politician where you don't get ant clear answers ever.

There's an idea.

GET KRUDD!

Can someone enlighten me. I would like to know what the particular skill set that is required to be a gun recruiter?
I mean i know what they spit out during trade week, but other than that, what separates the men from the boys? How do they add value? I suspect that a good recruiter can be hamstrung by some or all of the following

1 a poor coach
2 a poor football manager
3 a poor development strategy
4 a poor vfl coach for development
5 a poor physical conditioning department
6 interfering ego driven board members
Some examples

If a recruiter is instructed to recruit players of "good character" to negate say the flack from fevolas antics, but at the expense of physical ability.

If a vfl coach refused to cooperate with the senior coach by playing AFL players in positions that they were required to fullfil in the AFL team

If a footballl department is reactive rather than strategic . For example our "batch recruiting" of rucks (kreuzer, hampson, warnock,jacobs). Our batch recruiting of talls (mitchel et al)

If board members are still living in the past and insist on big name recruits at the expense of lost flexibility and ability to recruit more midrange players that give you depth.

A coach who continues to play players based on their accepted positions rather than try to develop and change their roles eg Yarran, Walker, Gibbs under Ratten versus Rowe, Yarran, Gibbs, Buckley, under Malthouse.

I am interested to hear from anyone who has an insight into how it works, because it seems to me that just focusing on one man is ignoring the other factors that can sabotage a good mans efforts.
Ps i have no horse in this race, I have no strong opinion either way of our current recruiter.

This is how it was a year ago...
http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2013-0 ... stem-works

Based on that article he seems quite content about the resources he has available.

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It is not as bad as you are lead to believe.......it is %$#^& worse!!!

We are the Cleveland Browns of the AFL.

Has he walked? Anyone know?

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TC suffers from the social media illness - the death of respect and constructive discourse by keyboard.

Gone.

Pretty sure we have won more titles than them.

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dane's trolling again

I think you're right. Or the Jets, panic at every opportunity.

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Koperek.

Really??

Oh well.. need to get Burgatron in to do our selections....

My comment was based on we recruited a 2IC from a system regarded as good as any in the AFL and for what ever reason you want to believe he was gone within a few months.

There are some fantastic recruiting people out there. For a long while we have been regarding as the worst in the industry in this area. Not just for who is in charge but for our whole process and strategy or lack thereof.

There are a number of names we should be looking at and I'm not sure SOS should be one of them. How about Matt Rendell or Kinnear Beatson? They would be just two I would be looking at.

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

That's insane. Idiots

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TC suffers from the social media illness - the death of respect and constructive discourse by keyboard.

I don't get it.

Why is it so difficult to draft the right player? There are so many resources out there and hundreds of people dissecting every kid who plays the game, I can't see it being such a hard job. Do you think it's over done and micro managed to a point where they are just wasting time or confusing themselves?

If we picked players according to what most outsiders thought we should have before the draft had even taken place, we would have done better. Talia is a good example.

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Koperek.

i have said it before, its called the phantom draft....
they had us taking Daniel talia, we take lucas
they had us taking Isaac smith, we take watson
they had us taking Sam kerrdige, we take bootsma
take those picks over ours any day of the week..

Good

THIS.

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"Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I,
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference."

Robert Frost

and THIS.

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"Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I,
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference."

Robert Frost