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Agree. It's a huge ask expecting a number 1 pick to follow team rules and commitment to a club. Look at the high picks that have come after him and how much they are struggling to play good footy and be good team mates.....
Sheezal, Wardlaw, Mckercher.
It has to be the club's fault.....poor little Jason....
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Black Diamond
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Such a moronic response. You realise several things can be true at once?
Character and maturity are important factors, and it is why clubs need good welfare and support networks.
Devington
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Like intervening so the kid isn't eating uber eats for dinner every night for several months...
Black Diamond
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Was that really happening?
Devington
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Pretty damn sure it was. I think it was explicitly stated in an interview.
Black Diamond
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If true then that is my point about JHF. You can’t just bring an immature 18 year old from interstate then leave him to his own devices.
There are plenty of 18 year olds who still behave like they’re 12. Being the number 1 pick doesn’t change that.
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Travel is travel. Whether its tasmania or wa, it doesn’t matter. Interstate teams travel heaps so its no big deal.
You've just become accustomed to it.
The consideration has to be 2 x Home games in Melbourne at our home ground (when we are a finals contender) vs 2 x away games in at the worst trip in Australia.
I don't care what we've been doing at Tasmania.
These are home games.
The other factor is, the AFL ensures we have a higher proportion of VIC teams as our home game opponents for the remaining games, we don't get the same home field advantage as others.
3 hrs mate. Until we can afford it, there isnt much else we can do. Need more people at games, need more sponsors. When we start winning and making finals it might change as more stakeholders come on board.. until then, there isn’t a lot of options here
Hey we play well over there at the moment so it's a guaranteed 4 points just like tassie
toepoker
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At his family's insistence, no?
Sometimes little turds can be enabled in their turd-like activities and there's not a whole heap the club can do about it
Black Diamond
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Of course. Everyone is a product of their upbringing.
We either failed to do our due diligence recruiting him, failed in our player welfare, or both.
I don’t lay all the blame on an 18 year old, even if he carried on like a delinquent at stages.
No due diligence. Didn’t do enough background research
Devington
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It's a bit besides the point these days, but I still don't know whether he was just miserable after leaving home and the shit environment (probably more due to losing than anything else) made him throw the ultimate tantrum, or if it was always the plan to say all the right things but get out ASAP (and maybe he just pulled the pin a year early because they thought he could get away with it).
If it was the latter then there's not much we could have done.
If it was the latter then there's not much we could have done.
toepoker
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I must've missed all the BF experts screaming "due diligence" while they were salivating over his SANFL finals in 2021. Sometimes, I'd guess, you have to roll the dice on any character concerns if you think they're the best player. The return we eventually got from his trade was worth more than the next layer on our board in 2021.
Sorry, but moronic is trying to blame the club for JHF's behaviour.
If he was a speculative pick in the 60's and went off the rails after one season, then you can accept that.
High risk, high reward....
But you expect Pick 1's to carry themselves differently. Pick 1's are supposed to be high character, super professional and future captains.
Not whinging undisciplined and unprofessional, who dont follow team rules.
That is on JHF himself, not the club.
possibly so, but i doubt we could have engineered a result that bought a better outcome in the end, in hindsight Mac Andrew may have been the best pick and would have really suited our list atm but we wouldn't have wardlaw .
alternatively kai lohman would have been a good pick but i doubt anyone saw his breakout year back then,
none of the proposed picks would have ensured sheezel wardllaw double header.
There was no chance we weren't taking Horne. He basically would've had to admit to having killed a man for us to go off him. The club left him to room with CCJ in its worst year since the 60s, he behaved like a right little weasel from about R8 onwards, it was a match made in shitsville. Can we please leave it in the rear view mirror
Not until we find out what he knows, that Brady knew, that none of us know about CCJ…
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I reckon our future first will be pick 2 in 2025
