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hayes
Brownlow Medallist
Like everything during that time the problem wasn’t that we dealt McEvoy it was the player we took with the pick. That’s what it always comes down to. If we pick Merrett instead of Dunstan we look like geniuses but instead it was another butcher job.Thats what the club said about trading McEvoy.... we have three ruckman (Longer, Hickey, Pierce) . "He's excess to needs... Rucks are a dime a dozen"
Then a few years later we had no effective ruckmen on our list.
People say we can't use history to govern our future, but the smart people say that you use history to learn from your mistakes.