This news got a couple of lols and a yuck gif over on the Richmond board.
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Not really surprising.This news got a couple of lols and a yuck gif over on the Richmond board.
He's a fixed point in time like Captain Jack Harkness.
If you go through 150 years of Port history you'll see someone who looks uncannily like Cam Sutcliffe.
Why would Richmond want to hire Davies after what has happened here?
In hindsight we would've been better off taking just Sweet and BZT on the (relative) cheap and keeping the first rounder. Esava may not even be best 22, and Soldo is probably a bit better than Sweet but not by anywhere near enough to justify the price we spent on him when we have Visentini waiting in the wings as well.Also just in case anyone misinterprets it, I do think Esava, BZT, Soldo and Sweet are all good additions (though the last two probably wouldn't have been needed if we had just developed Hayes).
My issue though, in particular with Esava, is that it should have been as simple as: "Ok here's a future third, take it or we take him through the draft". Geelong decided to see just how much they could take the piss out of us by saying they wanted a first rounder for a fringe defender with obvious deficiencies who had been trying to leave for two years and we are the only club in Australia that would have even entertained that nonsense.
Yes this would have been better but my point is that we would have taken all of them and kept the first rounder if we were competent.In hindsight we would've been better off taking just Sweet and BZT on the (relative) cheap and keeping the first rounder. Esava may not even be best 22, and Soldo is probably a bit better than Sweet but not by anywhere near enough to justify the price we spent on him when we have Visentini waiting in the wings as well.
Not Soldo. He was contracted.Yes this would have been better but my point is that we would have taken all of them and kept the first rounder if we were competent.
It gets complicated due to the split of the pick, but I'm sure we had enough capital to get Soldo across without giving up a first rounder.Not Soldo. He was contracted.
And I reckon Hawthorn would have taken Esava in the PSD before us, but I'd still have preferred that outcome than spending our first rounder on him.
This.If this happens we'll soon be running out of offices down the corridor to source the best candidates for the job from.
Depends if they would have taken our 2024 2nd instead of Freo's (which would have actually been a good move for them in hindsight, but nobody would have expected that at the time).It gets complicated due to the split of the pick, but I'm sure we had enough capital to get Soldo across without giving up a first rounder.
This is just the annual "Chris pumping his own tyres by dropping a few rumours"
Remember when he was off to the AFL? This is just out of the Hinkley playbook. He'll be here forever.
That would work in a perfect world where injuries don't happen. We needed to find some depth in those positions.In hindsight we would've been better off taking just Sweet and BZT on the (relative) cheap and keeping the first rounder. Esava may not even be best 22, and Soldo is probably a bit better than Sweet but not by anywhere near enough to justify the price we spent on him when we have Visentini waiting in the wings as well.
Keep Hayes or draft some equivalent bloke from the state league. You don't need to spend a second rounder and multiple third rounders to get a depth player.That would work in a perfect world where injuries don't happen. We needed to find some depth in those positions.
We did try both Hayes and Teakle but neither were any good.Keep Hayes or draft some equivalent bloke from the state league. You don't need to spend a second rounder and multiple third rounders to get a depth player.
If this happens we'll soon be running out of offices down the corridor to source the best candidates for the job from.
We did try both Hayes and Teakle but neither were any good.
Depth players usually aren't. That's why they're depth players. Still wasn't an efficient use of resources. You don't use first rounders to get decent depth.We did try both Hayes and Teakle but neither were any good.