Blue Sombrero wrote:
keogh wrote:
Soss last 2 drafts have been very poor
Some really stupid trades
Particularly last year
Was in panic mode
The quick fix was back and it’s set us back a couple
of years and Bolton is the scapegoat
The board never @#$%&! learns
If you're still going on about Stocker, it's too soon.
OK, we will probably finish 18th. W lose pick one. If we had have traded it for Stocker without any comeback, it is looking pretty 'stupid' to use your words.
However as it stands, we look to have traded #1 for Stocker and pick 9-11.
Stocker looks the goods. Let's say he would have gone at 9 anyway.
We have traded #1 for two picks around #10. Unless we (SOS and his team) cock up the Adelaide pick, I'd say we've done OK.
Finally, Adelaide is playing flukey footy at the momet. I havn't looked at their run home BUT they might yet finish 8-12. What if they finish 12 Possible) and we finish 16-17 (unlikely).
We get Stocker and pick 7-11.
I wouldn't b surprised if we didn't get a PP this year. They can't just keep pretending we are going OK.
We obtained pick 13 from Sydney
We could have used that pick to get Stocker and been more patient after the year we had in 2018
Also the later picks are a worry as well
O’Dwyer and Silvangib have shown nothingYou should show something at VFL level in your first year
And the new coach has them on the list next year
We could have used one of these 2 picks to get an experienced head like McVeigh
Instead we were more obsessed in flying Shiel around in a private jet
He was never coming to us
We went the early crow in trading picks and going after a big fish eat way too early
Instead we get Fasolo
Whether it was Silvagni alone or pressure from the board to do these trades
the fact is the club got ahead of itself and went the quick fix yet again
The trade that doesn’t look good is the Tuohy trade
Apparently the offer the Blues gave him was embarrassing
So off he goes to Geelong when his experience would have been invaluable
Smedts lasted one year
Pickett has done virtually nothing
Marchbank is just ok
That trade already looks like another one we have stuffed up
Remember Silvagni said that we would start to trade out picks for bigger bodies after 66 games
Well imo we should have revised that strategy after the year we had in 2018
We didn't draft any decent mature players as we are freeing up space in the cap so that we can lock in our quality kids for some time and leave enough cash to lure a FA