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Player Watch Pick #5 (2006) - Travis Boak
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I would have got rid of Boak at the end of 2023 & that statement is why. Can't have club leaders with that sentiment & expect to be successful. Do we hear this crap from other clubs, it's so nauseating.
Tell me you want to win so badly every time you take the field. Tell me how important it is to win a flag & you will drag your team-mates with you to achieve this. Tell me you bleed for PA. DON'T tell me you want to be a great person coz I don't give a shit.
Both failures when it counted
Don't they realise that we pay their wages because we want them to win?
Nothing wrong with being a good bloke but it shouldn't pay 500k a year.
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Nothing wrong with being a good bloke but it shouldn't pay 500k a year.
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He's part of the reason we haven't won a flag.
Then he shouldn't play at all. Seriously read your comment again.
Being a good person is obviously important in all walks of life but when you are a professional footballer surely the legacy you want to leave behind is your footballing achievements.
And at the end of the day we all help pay these guys wages and none of us really care about how good of a bloke you are, we care about winning games of footy.
A team of shit blokes that could take us to a flag v a team of nice guys that never get you there? I know what I’m taking.
We are leaning far too much on this nice guys stuff.
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And at the end of the day we all help pay these guys wages and none of us really care about how good of a bloke you are, we care about winning games of footy.
A team of shit blokes that could take us to a flag v a team of nice guys that never get you there? I know what I’m taking.
We are leaning far too much on this nice guys stuff.
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Not seeing that in finals where we are continually getting flogged
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If we'd picked Selwood we'd have at least another flag. One could lead.
The day I lost respect for him as a footballer. It summed his attitude up perfectly.
At least Robert Harvey played in a GF.
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Huh?
'St Kilda qualified for the 1997 AFL grand final after wins in the qualifying and preliminary finals. Harvey played in the grand final in which St Kilda was defeated by 31 points.'
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'Port Adelaide qualified for the 2007 AFL grand final after wins in the qualifying and preliminary finals. Boak played in the grand final in which Port Adelaide was defeated by 119 points.'
I've wiped that from my memory banks. It never happened.
Mark Taylor was a great Australian Test Captain. Up there with the best.
A couple of winning 'jerks' would be nice in the team at the moment.
No one cares about your personality, just your footballing. I haven't thought one bit about McKenzie or Dixon since they retired.
There is nothing wrong with helping the community but it should be a strong second to winning.
You have to balance being nice with the reality of the situation.
We've just got a Chairman that is all about image and franchising us and an incompetent coach who will hang on to dear life for his job and anyone who rocks the boat is shafted out.
No one cares about your personality, just your footballing. I haven't thought one bit about McKenzie or Dixon since they retired.
There is nothing wrong with helping the community but it should be a strong second to winning.
You have to balance being nice with the reality of the situation.
We've just got a Chairman that is all about image and franchising us and an incompetent coach who will hang on to dear life for his job and anyone who rocks the boat is shafted out.
Being a good person is not high on the list of qualities supporters want from a player. Not being a complete dick is generally good enough to clear the bar, and if you're talented enough even this is negotiable.
Like I mentioned both have had a great sporting careers.
Tubs never won a or was part of a World Cup side though. That was more my point.
As for winning the Ashes, that’s the equivalent of playing a Showdown. Apart from AUS & ENG no one gives a toss
And the thing is we've probably got a few winning 'jerks' in the team but it's drowned out by the mediocrity of Hinkley, the tepid captaincy of Rozee and the vanillarisation of Koch.
Taylor was not suited to one day cricket and IIRC, the team toured South Africa and won the Test Series but lost the one dayers and he said that their priority was to win the Test Series and not the one dayers and after that he didn't play or captain in the one dayers much after that and it was around that time when both of those teams became more specialised instead of the teams being the same players.Like I mentioned both have had a great sporting careers.
Tubs never won a or was part of a World Cup side though. That was more my point.
As for winning the Ashes, that’s the equivalent of playing a Showdown. Apart from AUS & ENG no one gives a toss
He was captain of the World Cup side that lost the final to Sri Lanka in 1996 and you are talking eras ago when ODI's were barely rated above hit and giggle by purists. Test Cricket is the highest scale & his achievements are plentiful on the international stage as opposed to a niche sport no one outside Australia gives a shit about.Like I mentioned both have had a great sporting careers.
Tubs never won a or was part of a World Cup side though. That was more my point.
As for winning the Ashes, that’s the equivalent of playing a Showdown. Apart from AUS & ENG no one gives a toss
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I believe in a test in Pakistan Mark Taylor also refused to surpass Don Bradman's Australian test record score of 334, which he had scored in his first test in England.
Taylor had been dropped twice before he had scored 25, reached 334 due to a very basic mis-field on the last ball of the day and declared the next morning saying something along the lines of his innings not belonging in the same category as that of Bradman, and winning the test was more important than chasing individual records.
No such problem for Matthew Hayden though, when he surpassed Bradman's test record score against a very ordinary Zimbabwe attack in Perth in 2003.
Dude you've made one of the shittest comparisons of all time. Just own it, admit you made a dumb call and move on.Like I mentioned both have had a great sporting careers.
Tubs never won a or was part of a World Cup side though. That was more my point.
As for winning the Ashes, that’s the equivalent of playing a Showdown. Apart from AUS & ENG no one gives a toss
Towards the end of his career he was in all sorts, could hardly lay bat on ball.
