Game Day NAB Round 2 - Cats v Crows, Symonds Stadium.

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

What about mediocre pre-season form?

Falls somewhere between the two

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I think Craig's lack of willingness to trade is somewhat overstated. Sando has been in charge for two trade periods now and we haven't seen any sign of changes to the club's trading policy. Just as it was before (under Craig), the only players traded out are those who have specifically requested to be traded.

Looking back through history, there don't seem to be many examples of players being traded against their will. Most of the times when it has occurred have been related to high profile trades involving the "steak knives" in trades for champion players (eg Wellman's departure, bringing Jarman back to Adelaide, or Kennedy being traded to WCE for Judd). Adelaide haven't been involved in one of these mega trades for years.

Are you kidding?

In Sando's first trade period we offloaded an early pick to secure Brad Crouch.

Something we had not done for years.

If Craig didn't want to off-load players, fine. If our players were soooo good that we didn't want to part ways with any of them, that meant you could afford to part ways with early picks. Who'd need these picks anyway with all these untradable players on our list already?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

It wasn't overstated. He was on record many times as stating that he hated trade week and players being used as commodities.

He did soften this stance later in his tenure though. As we were slipping further and further down the ladder - go figure.

This change in Craig summed up his reign unfortunately.

The failures in the finals of 2005, 2006 and 2007 undermined his authority and also his confidence in himself. Once his core beliefs were tempered by others and compromised it was a slippery slope.

 

[A FEW GOOD MEN]

Are you kidding?

In Sando's first trade period we offloaded an early pick to secure Brad Crouch.

Something we had not done for years.

If Craig didn't want to off-load players, fine. If our players were soooo good that we didn't want to part ways with any of them, that meant you could afford to part ways with early picks. Who'd need these picks anyway with all these untradable players on our list already?

Carl, do you believe it was Sando's decision to use a potentially high draft pick (it ended up in the 20's though, sucked in GWS) to add a gun midfielder to our list.

Do you give the same credit to Neil for using one of our highest ever draft picks (number 10) on a kid that was not going to train with / play with / live in the same state as his team mates. Are you prepared to give the credit to Neil for picking up Patty Dangerfield instead of the much safer pick of Brad Ebert?

 

[cmndstab]

It's clear that coaches set the direction to some degree. Craig's aversion to trading was transmitted to the staff members responsible for actually conducting the trades.

I don't have, and never had, any issues with Craig's preference not to trade out players that didn't want to leave. I do wish he had been willing to investigate trading in players who might want to come here more often. Mind you, after he agreed for us to trade in Brad Moran I can see why he might be a bit negative about it

 

[Vader]

Bit hard to trade a player against his will, when he needs to sign off on the trade.

They can be talked into it and convinced that it's in their best interests, which is probably what Sydney do when trading out fringe players. Adelaide don't seem to make any effort to do this - it's only players with a clear desire to leave who end up being traded.

 

[Vader]

Are you kidding?

In Sando's first trade period we offloaded an early pick to secure Brad Crouch.

Something we had not done for years.

If Craig didn't want to off-load players, fine. If our players were soooo good that we didn't want to part ways with any of them, that meant you could afford to part ways with early picks. Who'd need these picks anyway with all these untradable players on our list already?

Craig always stated that he was open to trading draft picks. He only ever had problems with trading players.

Oddly enough, I recall us trading draft picks (relatively high ones) for both Jacobs & Tambling, in Craig's last year in charge.

Besides, the mini-draft was a unique opportunity - one which never arose during Craig's tenure and hopefully never will again (given how badly the AFL botched it).

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Carl, do you believe it was Sando's decision to use a potentially high draft pick (it ended up in the 20's though, sucked in GWS) to add a gun midfielder to our list.

Do you give the same credit to Neil for using one of our highest ever draft picks (number 10) on a kid that was not going to train with / play with / live in the same state as his team mates. Are you prepared to give the credit to Neil for picking up Patty Dangerfield instead of the much safer pick of Brad Ebert?

Really reaching for Craig-praise now.

Allowed our recruiter to take his 3rd ranked player at 10.

And I'm sure Neil didn't see a new draftee being unable to play as an issue

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Craig always stated that he was open to trading draft picks.

Yeah... he just didn't though.

Oddly enough, I recall us trading draft picks (relatively high ones) for both Jacobs & Tambling, in Craig's last year in charge.

Funny how attitudes changed when we tumbled down the ladder.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Craig was obsessed with "character," talent was secondary. If he had it all his own way, he would have recruited the Pope and then allowed him to finish Chapter 13 of Monastry Studies before pulling on the boots.

 

[Wright Away]

Nah nah the key to winning footy is to be as uncontested as possible and avoid all physical pressure acts and contested possession like the plague. You need to rely on the turn overs of the other team in order to score on the rebound. Suppliment this with extreme endurance training and avoid repeated sprints at all costs. Finally never, ever make changes to pre game match ups, especially if opposition players are running amoke, have faith in your players to continue to fail, because doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the paragon of forward thinking. Doing all this you too can coach a team to a premiership, whether it be Norwood or the Crows.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Nah nah the key to winning footy is to be as uncontested as possible and avoid all physical pressure acts and contested possession like the plague. You need to rely on the turn overs of the other team in order to score on the rebound. Suppliment this with extreme endurance training and avoid repeated sprints at all costs. Finally never, ever make changes to pre game match ups, especially if opposition players are running amoke, have faith in your players to continue to fail, because doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the paragon of forward thinking. Doing all this you too can coach a team to a premiership, whether it be Norwood or the Crows.

If we could have used our bikes on the field, we would have won a flag easy!