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Doctor, I have a feeling your prescription could be taken all too literally
Might be able to see some sort of pattern...
We did have this conversation last year, and oddly enough, it was dom, IP and chook
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=353513&highlight=haddrill&page=2
Whether it is only awarded to departing players, "developing themselves for a life after football", I am not so sure.
Senior moments?
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Smith waits on Dockers decision
12:00a.m. 26th September 2008
| By Jon Tuxworth
Fremantle rookie Chris Smith is back on the Sunshine Coast. Photo: Chris McCormack/162213b
Sunshine Coast rookie-lister Chris Smith faces an anxious wait to discover whether he will remain at Fremantle next year after a post-season meeting left his immediate future up in the air.
The Dockers are set to make a decision on whether to retain the Caloundra product for its 2009 campaign at a follow-up meeting in around a fortnight’s time.
Smith, 20, was taken by Fremantle in the 2006 rookie draft, but is yet to play a senior match.
“I had a meeting with them at the end of the season when the finals started, and they said it was 50-50 and they hadn’t made a decision yet,” he said. “We’ll have another meeting in the next two or three weeks.”
Well aware a strong finals campaign for Swan Districts in the WAFL would help his cause, Smith played a starring role in his club’s preliminary final win over West Perth, before they went down to Subiaco.
“They said make sure I play well in the finals and have a good series,” he said. “I played pretty well during the finals. I had a real good preliminary final game.
“The role Fremantle want me to play is as a tagger, so they get me to play on the opposition’s most damaging midfielders.
“I played on Callum Chambers who was on Carlton’s list and got him out of the game.”
Fremantle have experienced more turnover in personnel than most clubs, with a host of retirements and homesick players asking for releases.
It’s an exodus that can only work to Smith’s advantage.
“At the moment I think we’ve had about ten players that have left the club; something like seven retirements and Robbie Warnock and Josh Carr wanting to go elsewhere,” he said. “It’s definitely in my favour.”
Smith admitted he has no idea what option the Dockers will take.
“It was hard to gauge at the meeting. They just said physically they couldn’t ask anything more with my athletic attributes and they way I go about things,” he said.
“I walked away from it the same as when I went in. I went in knowing it (my future at the club) was going to be 50-50.”
While Smith is yet to crack the big time, fellow Sunshine Coast products Rhys Magin and Sam Reid managed to make their debuts in their first season on an AFL list.
Magin played four matches for the injury-ravaged Essendon late in the season, while Reid received a call-up for the Western Bulldog’s final round clash with Adelaide.
But rather than look on with envy, Smith said he was pleased for the duo.
“I’m really happy for both of them getting a game and especially for Sam in the Bulldogs as they were a hard team to crack into seeing how far they pushed into September,” he said.
Should Fremantle end the association, Smith said he would discuss looking for an opportunity at another club with his manager.
We did have this conversation last year, and oddly enough, it was dom, IP and chook
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=353513&highlight=haddrill&page=2
