Tom Hislop

[Phat Toni]

Ted Richards = Picks 19 (Courtney Dempsey) and 50 (Sam Lonergan). Revisit this at the end of 09 see who did better out of the deal.

I'd say we are winning already

 

[Caj]

Ted Richards = Picks 19 (Courtney Dempsey) and 50 (Sam Lonergan). Revisit this at the end of 09 see who did better out of the deal.

Don't speak to soon Bomber fans.

The 3rd round picks were swapped as part of this deal, we picked up Matt Laidlaw or Kristan Thornton with the pick from Essendon (not sure which one but i suspect it was Thornton).

Laidlaw has played 1 game but has suffered chronic hamstring injuries (see Dempsey!) and Thornton did his knee in preseason last year just when he looked like breaking through

 

[table tennis]

I wasn't going to bother posting, but having seen ANOTHER reference to Hislop's "memorable" game against Sydney, can you guys tone down the bollocks a bit, please?
An "inside dynamo" in a game your team lost by 91 points.
He was good, and from what I can tell, it was probably his best game. But the rest of it just your typical Essendon fan waxing delusional about the club's playing list.
And this about a bloke who's just been cut.

Still, Sydney might pick him up somewhere along the line, and turn him into a decent footballer.
Two words, little Bomber fans ... Ted Richards.

Agree with above statement. We are the worst for overrating medioricrity, But it comes from a very loyal and large supporter base.

Example. Fevola is a gun foward. if he played for Essendon, he would be the superstar of all superstars. That is just the way we are.

We did alright too out of the richards deal. Lonergan & Dempsey.

 

[ant555]

I am surprised that people are going on about his one good game against Sydney . I thought he was ok but it was hardly what i would have called really good.
As far as the VFL goes he never really had any standout games for us at that level either. He had a couple of mid 20 possesion games but most of the others he ran around giving away stupid free kicks for crude tackles.
The kid has some potential but his skills where still a fair way short of what was needed. At no stage at all has he ever tried to tone down his agro on the field and off the field he has proven to me a nut. He was also a nut around draft time as well. If you dig around you will find the taxi incident reported.
I think a lot of people fell into the trap of believing he was better than he was becasue he went at pick 20 in a strong draft.

 

[daveyboy3]

Do people think he will be picked up in one of the drafts?

 

[table tennis]

Do people think he will be picked up in one of the drafts?

I think someone will give him a go. We may even redraft him and use it as a kick up the backside for him.

 

[Silvagnis]

I'd have a look. He's a talented player. He'll ask for 2 years in the PSD though. Melbourne should go after him.

PASS.

One Darren Pfeiffer is more than enough.

I remember everyone rating Hislop higher than Urquhart in 2006.

All I saw him do on the footy field was run around out of position and totally lost.

I recall Hislop looking lost and off the pace in a game like Russell in his first two seasons.

But Russell is a top bloke and has a great work ethic off the field.

Stupid to knock back a one year contract when he hasn't shown anything.

Adam Hartlett will get to 20 games on one year contracts from now on.

Thank God we have a no ********s policy.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Thank God we have a no ********s policy.

Stevens Fevola Pfeiffer (who you picked up last year) Scotland Walker

Since when have you had a no ********s policy

 

[disgruntled goat]

Agree with above statement. We are the worst for overrating medioricrity, But it comes from a very loyal and large supporter base.

Example. Fevola is a gun foward. if he played for Essendon, he would be the superstar of all superstars. That is just the way we are.

We did alright too out of the richards deal. Lonergan & Dempsey.

Sensible response, cheers.
I really rate Dempsey, he was a Supercoach stalwart for me, I kept him on my bench despite his problems, and I'd love to see him fit and get a full season in.

 

[Silvagnis]

Stevens Fevola Pfeiffer (who you picked up last year) Scotland Walker

Since when have you had a no ********s policy

Sorry?

I don't recall Walker, Fev, Stevens and Scotland being delisted after two years and not even playing a good game of football.

Pfeiffer is proof that we shouldn't pick another reject because they had enough talent to get drafted in the top 20.

You can't talk about picking idiots when you have Lewis, Franklin and Thorp.

I guess they were too good to pass up like Pfeiffer in the PSD....

Hislop would fit right in at Hawthorn.

I'm amazed that Carlton supporters want this idiot in Navy Blue next year and think he's worth the risk.

Wouldn't surprise if Essendon are making room on their list to pick Cousins.

Have they ruled out picking Cousins?

 

[slugger]

Sorry?
Wouldn't surprise if Essendon are making room on their list to pick Cousins.

Have they ruled out picking Cousins?

Pretty sure Jackson ruled it out.

 

[yaco55]

Hislop would fit in at the WC ?

My location will give you a hint.

 

[UpTheGuts]

Saw him be clearly BOG at Bendigo one day. Led JON a merry dance (as would Sonia Kruger), and did some fine gut running.

I doubt he will be lost to AFL, though I'm no expert on him. Surprising, but who else knows him better than his former Bendigo coach and current senior coach?

 

[Eccles]

Saw him be clearly BOG at Bendigo one day. Led JON a merry dance (as would Sonia Kruger), and did some fine gut running.

I doubt he will be lost to AFL, though I'm no expert on him. Surprising, but who else knows him better than his former Bendigo coach and current senior coach?

This is a good point... Knights would have spent a lot of time with him in his role as development coach last season. If Knights feel he's not worth more than a one year deal and is happy enough to cut him loose once he rejected it then I'm happy enough to see the back of him and assume we wont be losing much.

You cant get them all spot on at the draft table... seems with Gumby, Jetta, Davey, Houli and Reimers we've done reasonably well from the 2006 draft.

 

[whirl]

I wasn't going to bother posting, but having seen ANOTHER reference to Hislop's "memorable" game against Sydney, can you guys tone down the bollocks a bit, please?
An "inside dynamo" in a game your team lost by 91 points.
He was good, and from what I can tell, it was probably his best game. But the rest of it just your typical Essendon fan waxing delusional about the club's playing list.
And this about a bloke who's just been cut.

Still, Sydney might pick him up somewhere along the line, and turn him into a decent footballer.
Two words, little Bomber fans ... Ted Richards.

Waxing delusional? Tone down the bollocks?

Yes Hislop had his best game for the club against Sydney, he wasn't amazing, and when you boil it down it was a few particular passages of play that stood out. He also didn't win us the game which you were kind enough to mention however the way he went after the contested ball while we were being belted was a bright spot on a dark day. He was barely sighted on the football field again, hence that brief flicker of promise tended to linger in the memory and given that it was a football match I thought the phrase "memorable game" was a decent description. You of course have taken exception to this.

You will also have to forgive me the use of the term inside dynamo but I thought it was fair given how he attacked the game (he attacked the contested inside ball ferociously). it means nothing more or less than what it said, it doesn't mean future champion for example.

An individual can surely play well in a losing side given that the result is a reflection of team performance?

When you look at what I've said about Hislop's game "memorable game, inside dynamo" and what you've said "he was good, probably his best game for the club" they are not all that different.

Maybe your reply wasn't a reply to my post at all but a composite of various posts that you fiited together to fulfill your pre-conceptions. Or maybe you were unable to read my post without that psychological filter in place? That would make sense since my references to Hislop were hardly glowing bar that one game, and I neither mentioned nor "waxed delusional" about the state of the list.