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why? if anything, experience is critical in a role like this.

Time to go? Hardly - Dekka has made his fair share of mistakes (as have all recruiters) but he's also found gold (as have all recruiters) Take 2017 for example Stephenson (Rising Star - but not Hine's fault that he was moved on) Murphy - doing fine Appleby - gone T Brown - just delisted Checkers...

I'll miss Brodie but a quick reminder that our record without him this year was 13-3 And the Cats won a flag with a less than mediocre ruck.

unfortunately we'll probably never know the truth about how much we are paying. IMHO I don't think we're paying $300k - but I doubt if we're only up for $100k. But what do I know!?

I reckon Grundy will do very well in his first year. And then taper off quickly after that

from what I understand there wasn't enough $$ savings in cutting Cameron and Cox. And having a dependency on one player isn't smart. Neither Cox nor DC are in the same league as Grundy but the reality is that they are both capable enough while still being better forward options than Grundy...

A GWS friend said that Setterfield had issues with decision-making and often kicked to the wrong option. He may have improved since then. However we also have JDG, Crisp as taller/bigger mids

Ryan O'Keefe was the other one. Wanted to move to Hawthorn but when trade couldn't get done he stayed on a won a Norm Smith

that's what the Welcome Back Ollie thread is for

TBH there's a real possibility we keep Grundy and Henry. Which isn't a bad thing except that Mitchell and Fiorini cease to become options. In the meantime, who's your back up ruck? Brown is a forward who happens to ruck occassionally and Mcdonald is just a pinch-hitter. Genuine question BTW

does anyone know who's got FS or NGA picks next year? Won't they be looking at loading up points to draft them

If he stays I reckon this is the likely outcome. He'll have to win back the skeptics who called him "soft, mumma's boy" etc but TBH, winning cures everything. And even if he still decides to leave, we can then ask for 2 first rounders.

Disagree with the first part of the post. Freo are seriously well-coached and often played better away from home. Big chance to top 4. Moving up to 13 is my preferred option

no. Pineapple on pizza is culinary mayhem

Not sure what the answer is but if he does nominate a huge (front-ended) contract that would send ripples across Geelong's well-managed salary cap. If Henry had the similar record to Cameron, a large/long contract would've been acceptable. But Henry is a 2 year old with defensive weaknesses...

and if they do, they burn a pick on him. Everyone bagged Port for not trading Nick Stevens to us and letting him go to the draft (2003 I think) where Carlton picked him up. Port got nothing. And yet they won the flag the next year. Let that be your lesson GW

I was looking back on the thread I got banned from - about 70% of the posters respectfully disagreed with me which is fine. The other 30% just hurled abuse. Which I don't care about. But it's clear the mods were in the 30% group.

sorry about your car mate. As someone who lives in Geelong and had to endure 2011, their inability to even acknowledge any weaknesses of their players is unparalleled. I'm as one-eyed as any Collingwood fan but Cats supporters are next level. Don't get me wrong, Geelong is a great place to...

this wouldn't be the worst outcome. Henry has talent and I'd rather not waste the 2 years of development. And even if he leaves, his increased value will increase what Geelong have to pay.

Even the Richmond board is not as bad. And I can honestly say that I didn't verbally assault anyone. Not even after I was told to go back to my own board with all the other "ferals". Meh

Not disagreeing with you but regarding Point 5, is this what happened? I don't watch VFL so I'm keen on your view

Personally I hope so too. I got kicked out of the Geelong board simply because I said that Collingwood wanted a first rounder. Can't wait till Maynard lines up on him next year

To be fair I thought it was his mum's account

probably because we didn't have the cap space. Issues with our salary cap is our primary reason for trading Grundy

which may explain why Geelong are reluctant to give a first rounder for Henry. Which is irrelevant as we won't release him for anything less than a 1st (or a 2nd and a lot of other things eg a player)

hardly - to be fair I do live in Geelong but have also managed to get myself kicked out of the Geelong BF board. I'm just being pragmatic not one-eyed.

let's just take 25 and make sure Maynard runs through him like he did with Neal-Bullen.

doubt we would've got Gunston - he wanted to move to Qld for personal lifestyle reasons. The only choices were Qld or stay at Hawthorn

you're right. And TBH the whole messiah-complex with the likes of Hine, Wright, Stephen Wells etc is laughable. For every Dane Swan there's a Jay Rantall or McLarty For every Joel Selwood there's a Nakia Cockatoo-Collins Even critics of Dodoro forget that he's selected Perkins and Nik Cox and...

it's always interesting looking back on these threads with the benefit of hindsight. The forecast faster play through the corridor proved to be more exciting and productive than I expected. Having said all that, where do you think the likes of Draper, HH can help. I can't help thinking that...