If We Got Sam Reid

[Didak Wine]

Hey all,

A bit of useless hindsight from me. Just wondering, given we seemed certs to get Luke Ball in the draft a few years back, do you think we could have run the risk of picking up Sam Reid with pick 30 and snapping up Luke Ball later in that draft. A gamble it would have been i know but gee i'd love benny's brother sam at collingwood right now.

DW

 

[Swooop]

Hey all,

A bit of useless hindsight from me. Just wondering, given we seemed certs to get Luke Ball in the draft a few years back, do you think we could have run the risk of picking up Sam Reid with pick 30 and snapping up Luke Ball later in that draft. A gamble it would have been i know but gee i'd love benny's brother sam at collingwood right now.

DW

I think the philosophy of getting Ball and Jolly won us the 2010 flag.

There's just too many what ifs in your proposition and as you admit, hindsight is a pretty useless tool in reality!

Having said that, you'd love Sam at the club for sure.

Though can't see Swans ever letting him go now unless we offered up an amazing deal.

 

[vjknight]

and if they lured ben reid north ?

 

[The Get Up Kid]

Just got a new jumper with 20 on my back. Really worried he may be the one we end of losing to GWS or somewhere else. Bloody hope we can hold onto him. As for Sam, I think he's well off limits as Sydney will have heaps of cap without Bradshaw and limited stars to pay next year and on.

We can't possibly have played with pick 30 any other way. We were lucky we didn't lose Wellingham to St Kilda or North. We did better than most teams would in that situation. Take the win and move on.

 

[Scodog10]

With the benefit of hindsight both Ball and S Reid would have been top 10 picks so it probably wouldn't have worked out that way.

I think Sam looks like he'll be a mighty player in the future, but we also need to remember that if we drafted him he wouldn't have even made his debut until the weekend just gone (in replace of Keefe).....

 

[golazo]

Happy with Keefe/B.Reid + the way our future is looking

 

[HFF]

We can't possibly have played with pick 30 any other way. We were lucky we didn't lose Wellingham to St Kilda or North. We did better than most teams would in that situation. Take the win and move on.

This.

Sam Reid is a fantastic young prospect but the fact that we got our man who was a pivotal piece to the premiership puzzle and did it without losing anyone in the situation was genius business. Luke Ball has been sensational for us.

It also feels better that we did all this to Rossy Lyon and St Kilda.

Take the win, enjoy and move on.

 

[The Get Up Kid]

This.

Sam Reid is a fantastic young prospect but the fact that we got our man who was a pivotal piece to the premiership puzzle and did it without losing anyone in the situation was genius business. Luke Ball has been sensational for us.

It also feels better that we did all this to Rossy Lyon and St Kilda.

Take the win, enjoy and move on.

Slightly off topic but does anyone else think Luke Ball is having a better year than last year and he's actually going unnoticed! The guy is a freak. And a bloody nice bloke.

 

[tattooedswan]

Slightly off topic but does anyone else think Luke Ball is having a better year than last year and he's actually going unnoticed! The guy is a freak. And a bloody nice bloke.

He is probably moving the best he has in his career, everytime a pack clears to allow a ball up, he is the last man to his feet from that pack, such a good player.

 

[Knightmare]

Looks like a beauty doesn't he?

But don't buy into brothers playing with brothers. Sure it would be nice for them.
But whether Sam + Ben. Or Mitch + Nath. It won't mean they will have more successful careers than they otherwise would.
- Would Sam be getting regular games at Coll? Probably not. We have: Dawes, Cloke, B.Reid, N.Brown + Tarrant all head. Same with Mitch Brown.

But Luke Ball = Premiership. So Sam Reid would never have happened anyway.

But should be a very, very good KPP for many years to come.

 

[Markfs]

Luke Ball is finally getting managed properly. St. Kilda flogged him.

 

[JA27]

another for consideration could have been nathany vardy, tipped to go 16-17, with a draft range of 8 to 28, ended up being pick 42

guess hine is the only one that knows what we would have done, troy taylors name was being thrown around a lot

thankyou ross

 

[JA27]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...-st-kilda-saints/story-e6frf9jf-1225826096190

this quotes mick as saying sinclair would have been taken at pick 30, wonder if that is true or was he trying to upset st kilda even more suggesting we lost nothing for luke ball

 

[TheFreshBanana]

Doubt they would let him go, also I read somewhere that Malthouse doesn't like to have brothers at the same club. I wonder if Buckley shares the same thought as him.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

If only we had drafted Sam Reid!
If only we had drafted Sam Reid!
How fortune would have smiled indeed!
For then we'd have two number 20's
Who'd grab between them marks aplenty!
And these blond brothers, Ben and Sam,
Who go together like cheese on ham,
Would never be soft like Bill and Ben!
They’d never play like flowerpot men!
The Reids are Big and Strong, Slick and Brave
Bookends that every team would crave!

 

[Swooop]

Great work MyManDawes!

But this poetic side of yours we're seeing...one could say the female side....you sure you're not still trying to woo the Possum?

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

Great work MyManDawes!

But this poetic side of yours we're seeing...one could say the female side....you sure you're not still trying to woo the Possum?

One or two comments, Mr Swooop, regarding your near-slanderous# utterance:
1. Not all poets are female. Amongst the more famous, I would venture to suggest that men predominate, albeit not the kind of men you are likely to want playing back pocket for Collingwood. I doubt, for instance, that Des Tuddenham put thought to paper in poetic form, if indeed, in any form at all. But those are bygone days, and Des played forward not back, to the best of my knowledge, anyway. Now I need to be careful! These are squeaky-clean times of the utmost political correctness! Utter not what thou'st shouldn't!
2. I have many loves, and The Posssum is but one such love! A search thru the archives would reveal a sonnet I once composed to Sharrad Wellingham, and yet another, to of all people, Danny Stanley! Soo, Mr Swooop, I spread my love far and wide. Both the brothers together might tax my powers, but a king-size bed in the mind will suffice for now.

 

[Swooop]

You're on fire mate, not sure how the Possum will resist!!

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

How to contact The Possum, to acquaint him of my desires? Does The Possum Twitter? The possums in the hills here sure as hell don't! Their nocturnal cries are appalling sounds, like the cry of a wraith from the inferno with one of those voicebox machines applied to its neck.

 

[Quicky]

I love it when MMD busts out the poetry!

How to contact The Possum, to acquaint him of my desires? Does The Possum Twitter?

We live in the information age. Check it out.

Hows giving up the **** goin? Much rep for the effort! My old man had a stroke last year probably largely coz of the ciggies. He only got off them because of the length of time he spent in hospital and palliative care where he wasn't allowed to touch them.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

I love it when MMD busts out the poetry!



We live in the information age. Check it out.

Hows giving up the **** goin? Much rep for the effort! My old man had a stroke last year probably largely coz of the ciggies. He only got off them because of the length of time he spent in hospital and palliative care where he wasn't allowed to touch them.

All this poetic shit I am sprouting is largely the result of giving up the ****. I've been off them for 2 weeks nearly, and I got so opinionated on Facebook that I felt compelled to delete my Facebook page, which I did. Yeah, i am getting there, but there is so much more time to account for now, the days go much more slowly past because I do not have the **** to fill up the gaps. Thanks for asking!

 

[Quicky]

All this poetic shit I am sprouting is largely the result of giving up the ****. I've been off them for 2 weeks nearly, and I got so opinionated on Facebook that I felt compelled to delete my Facebook page, which I did. Yeah, i am getting there, but there is so much more time to account for now, the days go much more slowly past because I do not have the **** to fill up the gaps. Thanks for asking!

Awesome to hear you are still off them MMD. Keep at it. Having watched it first hand I guarantee any pain you go through now is nothing compared to re-establishing brain maps in response to the brain damage caused by a stroke. The simplest actions become a massive burden. And thats in the lucky event you actually live through it. Don't mean to be dramatic but thats my experience.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

Awesome to hear you are still off them MMD. Keep at it. Having watched it first hand I guarantee any pain you go through now is nothing compared to re-establishing brain maps in response to the brain damage caused by a stroke. The simplest actions become a massive burden. And thats in the lucky event you actually live through it. Don't mean to be dramatic but thats my experience.

My dad died at 92 of a stroke last year and I was with him when he had it. He was not a smoker like me. One reason I gave up is because he always wanted me to stop, then when I inherited his money, I felt guilty about the cigarettes. I watched the 2nd grand final with him on TV and he slept through 90% of it, including the end. I felt a bit ambivalent about the win like Luke Ball, not for the same reasons, but because part of me could not truly enjoy the win.

 

[shawthing09]

Just got a new jumper with 20 on my back. Really worried he may be the one we end of losing to GWS or somewhere else. Bloody hope we can hold onto him. As for Sam, I think he's well off limits as Sydney will have heaps of cap without Bradshaw and limited stars to pay next year and on.

We can't possibly have played with pick 30 any other way. We were lucky we didn't lose Wellingham to St Kilda or North. We did better than most teams would in that situation. Take the win and move on.

This is spot on.
If we didn't pick him at 30 I doubt very much we would have got Ball to the club and as good as Sam looks, and could have been for us long term not having Luke Ball last year probably would have cost us a flag. No way we could have run the risk.