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Comparison Tiges, Hawks, Dogs & Pies 2004 draft to now
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polo was doing fine until his shoulder injury and was a constant in the team. he has great potential, but it seems for some reason he isnt given a go.
would much rather him as our tagger, than jackson, hyde and even kane. yes kane has had a good year, but give polo half a year in the seniors in a row, and i guarantee he will be winning his own ball, kicking goals and stopping the opposition.
but this year he aint got a go. 1 game then dropped.
play him for the rest of the year then either say ur delisted, or ur part of our future. thats the only way to know.
should do the same for a few others, but who has the guts.....and thats why we stagnate where we are.
would much rather him as our tagger, than jackson, hyde and even kane. yes kane has had a good year, but give polo half a year in the seniors in a row, and i guarantee he will be winning his own ball, kicking goals and stopping the opposition.
but this year he aint got a go. 1 game then dropped.
play him for the rest of the year then either say ur delisted, or ur part of our future. thats the only way to know.
should do the same for a few others, but who has the guts.....and thats why we stagnate where we are.
At least you have the good grace to admit mistakes Craig.
My feeling on 2004 is that it was solid without being spectacular, the same goes for 2003.
Nobody could argue that Deledio, Tambling, Thursfield and Foley will form a solid nucleus moving forward. Guys like Moore, Raines, Tuck, Pattison and Polo have every chance of playing their part in a successful Richmond outfit. Sure, the latter all have their flaws but no no team has 20 superstars playing at any one time. With Rance, Riewoldt, Cotchin and Edwards coming through, I believe things are taking shape nicely.
I sincerely hope we are able to snare a ruckman in this years draft because the stocks are a dangerously thin at the moment. This is the one area that Wallace has neglected and puts us in a position whereby we may have to pay well over the odds, 2004 was certainly a missed opportunity in this regard.
My feeling on 2004 is that it was solid without being spectacular, the same goes for 2003.
Nobody could argue that Deledio, Tambling, Thursfield and Foley will form a solid nucleus moving forward. Guys like Moore, Raines, Tuck, Pattison and Polo have every chance of playing their part in a successful Richmond outfit. Sure, the latter all have their flaws but no no team has 20 superstars playing at any one time. With Rance, Riewoldt, Cotchin and Edwards coming through, I believe things are taking shape nicely.
I sincerely hope we are able to snare a ruckman in this years draft because the stocks are a dangerously thin at the moment. This is the one area that Wallace has neglected and puts us in a position whereby we may have to pay well over the odds, 2004 was certainly a missed opportunity in this regard.
Brodders17 said:
The fact is that all the players I noted were better in their initial outings than latter. Do you disagree with that statement.
Raines - runner up in the Rising Star award and now?
Polo - took on oppositions best players and cut them out in his first year and now?
Connors - initial matches were as a hard nosed in and under type midfielder and now?
Jackson - the player to take over tagging duties from Kane and now?
Edwards - the creative spark that suddenly burst into the team and now can't get near the ball.
King - the hard running back pocket who now creates turnovers and lets his opponent have soft goals.
Hyde - the player who was one of our best link players before fracturing his skull and now can't get going in the midfield and is criticised as a poor tagger.
Pattison - who carried our rucks single handed and now can't even seem to provide a contest and is being dismissed as not being a ruckman, maybe a CHF.
I believe they have gone backwards because of poor coaching.
jb03 said:
haha thats a classic the pies giving up pic 14, i thought it was too high and some posters here were saying at least there attending to list needs, what a load of crock cause if the player aint that good its a wasted pick, simple as that. I was 50/50 on whether this kid can make but the more ive seen of him this year i seriously think he aint gonna make it....Well pic 14 was way over the odds IMO....
Read that someone was sad we traded pick 19 - to the Bulldogs - guess who they got, a young midfielder/forward who has kicked 2 goals in two games - Callan Ward. No surprise I know the kid, his grandfather played for South Melbourne, his Dad for Yarraville in the VFA. Kicked 6 goals on the hf flank in losing semi in u18s. Sad to say we will pay for that one...
eldorado said:
It was Brown, Hodge, Young, Ladson, Williams, Mitchell, Osborne, Clarke, Boyle and Bateman I believe.
