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Delisted Adrian Dodoro - On leave Aug ‘24. Parted ways Nov ‘24. Lodged a dispute with FairWork. Paid out. Gone. #putoutyourjackets

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2006 to 2016 was the killer period

Had we not drafted Gumbleton (we still had Lloyd and Lucas for another 3 years - this still baffles me), Myers, Melksham, Heppell, Kavanagh, Langford, Laverde, Francis and Mcgrath (ALL TOP 20 PICKS) our round 1, 2017 team post saga could have been:

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Touk Miller played juniors in the Essendon and District Football League and was right under our noses and was VIC METRO CAPTAIN and in our own backyard and WE DIDN'T PICK HIM and took Langford with #17 and Laverde with #20 and Miller went at pick #29!

How exciting to watch would that forward line have been?
 
The knock on adrian isn't that he has a fetish for long contracts.

The knock on him is that he, for 20 years, has filled up on breadsticks at the buffett table- leaving no room in his guts for the real food.

He has a fetish for overpaying (in dollars and additional years) for decent, but unspectacular players.

Rinse and repeat that approach over and over- and suddenly you have a maxxed out cap on a list that is competitive at best- but never a real flag threat.

Why does adrian have this fetish for overpaying for GOPs?

In order to be seen to win trade week every year.

He's clever enough not to do it on too many huge 'big fish' deals- but him doing it across the whole list at a smaller level is why he's hopeless.

He's not filling up on breadsticks by eating a few gigantic breadsticks (ie 5 year + deals.)

But hes doing it via eating a whole mountain of those smaller dinner roles for 20 years- always throwing a few extra years and $$ at GOPs
ahhhh… that’s the problem!

we’ve been trying to nut it out for 300+ pages and you’ve just come in here and absolutely nailed it!

and you’ve used a bread analogy, and everyone loves bread!
 

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2006 to 2016 was the killer period

Had we not drafted Gumbleton (we still had Lloyd and Lucas for another 3 years - this still baffles me), Myers, Melksham, Heppell, Kavanagh, Langford, Laverde, Francis and Mcgrath (ALL TOP 20 PICKS) our round 1, 2017 team post saga could have been:

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Touk Miller played juniors in the Essendon and District Football League and was right under our noses and was VIC METRO CAPTAIN and in our own backyard and WE DIDN'T PICK HIM and took Langford with #17 and Laverde with #20 and Miller went at pick #29!

How exciting to watch would that forward line have been?
I'm pretty sure every supporter base could put together a brilliant team of players they've drafted that are good, removing the players they've drafted that were no good, and added players they wished they'd drafted who were available at a given pick.
 
I'm pretty sure every supporter base could put together a brilliant team of players they've drafted that are good, removing the players they've drafted that were no good, and added players they wished they'd drafted who were available at a given pick.
The difference is essendon’s recruiting goes from absolutely pathetic to acceptable/decent, whereas other teams go from good to great.
 
The difference is essendon’s recruiting goes from absolutely pathetic to acceptable/decent, whereas other teams go from good to great.
Is that our recruiting or player development? We haven't really taken anyone who was thought of as a bit of a reach at the time.
 
I’m tipping this thread will still be in the top 20 in 2034.
He'll be President of the club then, and just before the 2034 trading period starts (our 30 year anniversary just come and gone) he'll do a Slobbo propaganda piece about how we are about to launch up the ladder from our lackluster 11th place finish as he's going to directly oversee the trade and draft period.
 

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Is that our recruiting or player development? We haven't really taken anyone who was thought of as a bit of a reach at the time.
If there have been no risky selections, then why not just go with the phantom draft and save ourselves a salary of several hundred k per year?

Also, why does it have to be either/or? Clearly it is both. The difference is though that recruitment at our club have historically been a protected species whereas our development has been turned over several times to no avail.

It also doesn’t explain why the development coaches who were successful elsewhere suddenly failed to work their magic upon arrival at essendon.
 

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Were the long term contracts for McGrath and Parish just an attempt to shore up some ‘face’ for Dodo? Now at least two of our zillions of first round picks for the last decade have a chance to pull on the sash for 150+ games
 
Were the long term contracts for McGrath and Parish just an attempt to shore up some ‘face’ for Dodo? Now at least two of our zillions of first round picks for the last decade have a chance to pull on the sash for 150+ games
I think it may have been player managers playing Dodoro a bit along the lines that 5 years plus is what everyone is offering.
 

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Delisted Adrian Dodoro - On leave Aug ‘24. Parted ways Nov ‘24. Lodged a dispute with FairWork. Paid out. Gone. #putoutyourjackets


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