You must be terribly conflicted then Posh.
I mean, on the one hand being ultra competitive but on the other being a Peterborough supporter…
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You must be terribly conflicted then Posh.
I mean, on the one hand being ultra competitive but on the other being a Peterborough supporter…
Agree with a lot of that.
As others have pointed out, alternatives for the small forward role existed.
It was the junk pick received from St Kilda that upset me. Butler offered much more draft capital than this suggested. That much is now obvious.
I'm not sure if it was hubris or recklessness on the part of our list management, but they never extracted anything like decent value for Butler. These decisions have a habit of biting you on the arse.
Faced with pick 57 or re-signing a premiership player with proven class, you do the latter every day of the week.
200%.
Poor list management decision that one!
Who knows. He may have just wanted a fresh start and Saints came knocking.
I don’t know if we tried hard enough to keep him????
Clever ploy by norf. When biggie doesn’t develop as well as they’d hoped, they’ll be demanding more compensation from the afl
Stupid enough from us (Dimma?) to make this guy play just 1 game!! At least try him out in more to see what value he has. I wonder why lolnorf were interested, unless Clarko's gone bonkers with Xmas shopping.
yeah it's a strange one.
RFC put time,energy and money into a guy - plays one game, one! and trade him for pick 65...
Not really that strange.
We found a guy called Tyler Young.
Instantly made Biggy redundant.
Good use of late picks / rookie draft: have a few cheap shies at the stumps, hope one hits the target.
In Tyler it has, big time.
So bye bye Biggy.
Typical of the way we have developed our kids (mainly talls) in recent years. Hey Biggie, you're going to be our next KPD inteceptor. Actually, we have a hole up forward, show us that you can take a mark in the forward line. Actually, you have a nice leap, you could make a good ruck. Injured. Welcome back Biggie, you're up forward this week, just play your role and apply defensive pressure.
That has netted him 1 game. I will be disappointed if North settle him into a spot and he becomes and Aliir Aliir. Swans did similar with Aliir. Started as a defender, went forward and then played ruck. At least they played him in the 1s occasionally though.
Miller and to lesser extent Balta and Bauer have also endured this rubbish over the past few years.
They have Aiden Corr as their first KPD. That and the fact or perception there is a lack of KPD talent available and Biggie may have development left in him for nothing makes some sense for their decision.
All because of poor succession planning post Jack & Lynch IMO (granted winning 3 flags makes it difficult to find talent but there was available talent we overlooked on several occasions).
I see it a bit differently in that he was tried in multiple positions in an attempt to see if he clicked in one.
Overlooking the obvious, Biggie just wasn’t very good. If he had excelled or even just been okay in any of the positions we tried him in we’d have left him there but he never did.
The coaches are not denying our kids senior opportunities because they hate the foul stench of youth or some other nefarious reason. It’s simply because most of our kids and particularly the taller ones, are just not very good. If/when we get better kids I reckon we’ll play them earlier and more often.
Fun fact, Biggie played the same number of AFL games in his first four years as Miller did.
