Definitive List 12: The most stupid decisions....

[toeknee2]

Carlton has had some howlers to offset the Fevola deal.
Swapping McLean for pick 12, swapping Micheal Mansfield for the Paul Chapman pick. Chris Massie at #3, Luke Livingstone at pick#4, we could have swapped Fevola for Judd instead of Kenedy, the list goes on...

 

[Sttew]

When will people get it through their head, we did not sack Cameron Bruce!

He was an aging, fringe player who wanted more than we were willing to give him.

MFC "sacked" him. He's still playing, and you need someone with his experience

 

[bradrowe#32]

8. Buckley's succession as coach at Collingwood - time will tell whether this turns out to be monumentally stupid or not.

So why put it on the list then?

 

[Sttew]

So why put it on the list then?

Stupid -v- monumentally stupid, thats why

 

[Mr.X]

Tigers believing in this guys 5 year plan, which he dropped like a hot potato once he finished up at the club

 

[BF Tiger]

Tigers believing in this guys 5 year plan, which he dropped like a hot potato once he finished up at the club

I'll agree with this, but the Tambling before Buddy thing is only really valid in hindsight. Seriously, Tambling was rated by everyone prior to that draft. Yes, it was the wrong pick, but no-one knew that at the time.

The Blight decision was the same. Blight was a great coach and had runs on the board. I think a Lethal-Malthouse-Sheedy hybrid still would have struggled at the Saints, especially with Thomas scheming in the background.

 

[melanChronic]

Stupid -v- monumentally stupid, thats why

mind blown

 

[telsor]

Tigers believing in this guys 5 year plan, which he dropped like a hot potato once he finished up at the club

The 5 year plan was, in broad terms, correct. We were majorly stuffed and needed to get past the quick fix attitude and start looking at things from the longer term. Yes, it was badly implimented in various ways, but the idea was sound.

Tambling over Franklin was a awful call in hindsight, but at the time it was understandable. It should also be remembered that buddy was pick 5...there were 3 picks other than Tambling before him.

Princes Park...Couldn't relaistically be expanded any further (transport was at it's limits), and was too small for Carlton and they charged anyone else so much to play there that Dicklands was a better deal. To keep it as a third ground for small crowd games, they would have needed to get CFC out of the ownership/management of the place.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Carlton has had some howlers to offset the Fevola deal.
Swapping McLean for pick 12, swapping Micheal Mansfield for the Paul Chapman pick. Chris Massie at #3, Luke Livingstone at pick#4, we could have swapped Fevola for Judd instead of Kenedy, the list goes on...

McLean - yes
Mansfield - no, what was it, a pick in the 30s? A nice piece of drafting by the Cats, chances are we wouldn't have done the same thing.
Massie - was rated at the time
Livingston - was rated but we might have reached a bit
Fevola for Judd - did Fev want to go and did West Coast want Fev? Other than that, is fantasy football thinking.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Buckley going to Collingwood to win Premierships...

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

1. Carltons decision to cheat the salary cap. Took them ten years to recover
2. Richmonds drafting decisions..not just Tambling and Fiora, but plenty of other wasted top 20 picks, Oakley Nicholls for example
3. StKildas decision to trade for Andrew Lovett after getting references from the seller.
4. Carlton losing Kennedy in the Judd trade at time when Fevola would have gained great currency
5. Brisbane thinking Fevola still had currency a few years later and trading for him
6. North Melbourne refusing to relocate to the Gold Coast and now pushing back against a permenant relocation to Tasmania
7. Just about every trade Fremantle has done in their history...especially with Collingwood
8. Port Adelaide knocking back Heath Scotland in the failed Nick Stevens deal
9. StKilda knocking back Wellingham/Goldsack and pick 30 in the failed Luke Ball deal
10. Melbourne - where do you start.

 

[dmc333]

I'd close this thread and delete it.

If it gets too many good ideas it will be pinched by some drunk at the HUN.

 

[bradrowe#32]

Stupid -v- monumentally stupid, thats why

But you aren't even sure if it's a mistake or not.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

The 5 year plan was, in broad terms, correct. We were majorly stuffed and needed to get past the quick fix attitude and start looking at things from the longer term. Yes, it was badly implimented in various ways, but the idea was sound.

Tambling over Franklin was a awful call in hindsight, but at the time it was understandable. It should also be remembered that buddy was pick 5...there were 3 picks other than Tambling before him.

Princes Park...Couldn't relaistically be expanded any further (transport was at it's limits), and was too small for Carlton and they charged anyone else so much to play there that Dicklands was a better deal. To keep it as a third ground for small crowd games, they would have needed to get CFC out of the ownership/management of the place.

At the time the Hawk board here and elsewhere went into meltdown that we'd passed up Tambling. Some even called for Buckenara's sacking.

Richmond weren't the only club(recruiters and supporters) fooled.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I'd close this thread and delete it.

If it gets too many good ideas it will be pinched by some drunk at the HUN.

Who happens to like pizza?

 

[Kaiser Powser]

3. StKildas decision to trade for Andrew Lovett after getting references from the seller.
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Yes, the glowing endorsment of effectively booting him from the club and putting him up for trade. Saints went into that one eyes wide open.

Hawthorn's behaviour in regard to keeping key player's depression on the low-down, to maximise trade return, is another story all together.

 

[wce4premiership]

The umpire marking the ball about 10 years back.

 

[St Edward]

8. Buckley's succession as coach at Collingwood - time will tell whether this turns out to be monumentally stupid or not.

time will tell but you put it in the top12 anyway. so is this about what has happened or what you think or wish will happen???

 

[bradrowe#32]

time will tell but you put it in the top12 anyway. so is this about what has happened or what you think or wish will happen???

It's pretty clear what his intentions are. It was admirable putting Bucks at No. 8 as well, just to make sure it didn't draw too much attention.

 

[Astro_]

I'd close this thread and delete it.

If it gets too many good ideas it will be pinched by some drunk at the HUN.

Im fairly confident the idea for this thread was from a discussion held on 3AW last night (Friday night)

 

[Astro_]

Nathan Brown going to Richmond to play finals

 

[scomac]

Appointing Vlad as C.E.O along with the Muppet Anderson .

 

[Normy132]

Appointing Vlad as C.E.O along with the Muppet Anderson .

He might be a bit of a prick but he's a damn good businessman. He's taking the sport places we can only dream of.

On Buckley being in the top 12, I think it should be rephrased to giving Malthouse the boot. The guy had coached us for 12 years, made four grand finals and missed the finals only four times, of which two were his first two years. We shouldn't have got rid of them regardless of who replaced him.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Hawthorn's behaviour in regard to keeping key player's depression on the low-down, to maximise trade return, is another story all together.

North can blame Donald McDonald for that one, or the players, or even themselves....or perhaps, just perhaps, their depression was none of North's business.

Besides, one had a very good career at North, and the other had issues other than just depression that cost him his career. Lets not make out that Depression is some sort of career ending disease that needs to be at the forefront of everyones mind either.

 

[rickyp]

Appointing Vlad as C.E.O along with the Muppet Anderson .

That would honestly be one of the best decisions ever made. They've got this league to it's strongest position in history by a SIGNIFICANT amount. Every single code in this country would kill to have the administration that the AFL does.