Richo took three grabs right on the fifty in the latter stages of last nights game.
All three missed comprehensively (both the goals, or, alternatively, a closer Tiger forward).
At what point of his career is he going to go back and kick an important goal for us. Hamill would have done it. McKernan would have done it. Hell, even the Roccas would have probably got at least one of them!!
When do we get that elusive bag of goals in a big game from the big fella' that we've been promised for ten years. Ten years.
I was critical of us not trading him last year. I felt his currency was diminishing, and his value to us was waning. He is yet to prove otherwise to me this year despite, a couple of double-figure marking games.
If the Roos could wrangle Pick 2 off the Crows for a washed-up 32-year-old Wayne Carey, surely we could have worked something out for a supposedly-peaking 28-year-old Matthew Richardson.
I was also critical of the lengths we went to to get Kane Johnson. No. 2 pick and Jason Torney for a mid-range on-baller. Too large a price to pay, when the likes of Goddard, Wells etc.. were in the offering. Didn't our guys look at the likes of Reiwoldt, and and Judd, and Hodge the previous couple of years.
Again, Kane is yet to prove anything to the contrary to me that he is not a poor man's Andrew Macleod or Simon Goodwin. That decision may haunt us for years to come as we watch Wells continue to develop.
We must ... must ... trade aggressively at season's end ... and get early draft picks ... or we'll continue to tread water with other Vic clubs such as Melbourne, Hawthorn, and the like.