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I have taken some liberties with the team that could have been.

We could have taken Fevola in 98 instead of Lamb & in 99 Simon Black (T Longmuir) & Adam Hunter rather than P Wheatley & also in 01 Campbell Brown & Nick Del Santo instead of S Armstrong & L Molan & in 2000 Johncock was available ahead of D Breese.

James Kelly ended up at Geelong as part of the Grgic/Bizzell deal & there was a possibility of a trade between Ryan Ferguson for Brad Sewell.

I am also assuming we kept Simmonds, Jolly, Travis & Scott Thompson & am making the realistic assumption that with a half decent side Chris Judd would of come to us last year.

Whelan Rivers J Kelly

Johncock A Hunter Campbell Brown

Judd Simon Black Travis Johnstone

Del Santo Robertson Woanemirri

Simmonds Fevola Davey

Jolly Sewell Scott Thompson

I'change - Mclean, Green, Miller, Bruce

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    Yeah...but what are ya going to do?

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    Consdering that we started the entire sport, we should've just locked out every other team.

    We'd have 150 premierships, Ablett, Matthews, Coleman, Coventry, Mchail, Doull, Carey all would've worn the Red and Blue.

    At present we'd have the All Australian team running around.

    How depressing. Missed opportunity that!

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    Consdering that we started the entire sport, we should've just locked out every other team.

    We'd have 150 premierships, Ablett, Matthews, Coleman, Coventry, Mchail, Doull, Carey all would've worn the Red and Blue.

    At present we'd have the All Australian team running around.

    How depressing. Missed opportunity that!

    Point taken and this exercise this of course is just fantasy

    However its not unrealistic to think we could of had James Kelly, Travis, Simmonds, Jolly, Sewell and Scott Thompson (and probably Alwyn Davey) all in the team this year and I think the main reason we missed both Judd & Nick Stevens was that they had no faith in the future of the Club

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    For one, Simmonds wanted to leave and we weren't going to chose him ahead of our AA ruckman, a stature Simmonds have never reached, pretty much the same story for Jolly, just lucky for him he now has a premiership. Sewell for Ferguson rested on Ferguson's shoulders as he was contracted, and he didn't want to leave.

    Judd was a money hungry $%^ and said more about himself than of the club. I wouldn't want Nick Stevens anyway. We couldn't have kept Scott Thompson as he wanted to go home, we had no choice.

    As for the rest, we all know the draft lies on luck, the same teams who went well on those blundered on others. We've picked many good players when there were worse players going before and after them, the draft is luck and many of your examples were out of our hands.

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    Point taken and this exercise this of course is just fantasy

    However its not unrealistic to think we could of had James Kelly, Travis, Simmonds, Jolly, Sewell and Scott Thompson (and probably Alwyn Davey) all in the team this year and I think the main reason we missed both Judd & Nick Stevens was that they had no faith in the future of the Club

    ...and if you married your fathers sister, you'd be your own uncle.

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    campbell brown was a father/son selection wasn't he?

    i also doubt we would've had a top 5 pick in 2003 to get mclean with all those players in our side...

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    For one, Simmonds wanted to leave and we weren't going to chose him ahead of our AA ruckman, a stature Simmonds have never reached, pretty much the same story for Jolly, just lucky for him he now has a premiership. Sewell for Ferguson rested on Ferguson's shoulders as he was contracted, and he didn't want to leave.

    Judd was a money hungry $%^ and said more about himself than of the club. I wouldn't want Nick Stevens anyway. We couldn't have kept Scott Thompson as he wanted to go home, we had no choice.

    As for the rest, we all know the draft lies on luck, the same teams who went well on those blundered on others. We've picked many good players when there were worse players going before and after them, the draft is luck and many of your examples were out of our hands.

    I'm sorry but that is incorrect.

    Simmonds did not want to leave - he was offered as trade bait because we needed a key defender (Craig Ellis) so he was part of a 3 way swap. Simmonds may not have been AA but he was first ruck for the Dream Team which is close.

    He is probably paid half as much as Whitey & is not far behind him in value to the team plus he is 2 years younger.

    Jolly is a big physical ruckman who goes down & kicks goals & is probably one of the form big men of the last 2 years.

    We did have a choice with Scott Thompson because the year he left a Melbourne team finished last so he had no leverage - in fact if you go over the records he is quoted as saying that if a deal could not be done he would have stayed at Melbourne but Daniher decided he wanted Moloney & the rest is history.

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    Devastating until you realise that every single team in the competition could build a coulda-woulda-shoulda side like that.

    With that in mind, it can be concluded that this thread is pointless and contributes absolutely nothing to this board.

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    the most ridiculous post ever....lol

    Miller on the interchange bench he probably couldnt do that properly...

    Apart from that i think if you looked at simmonds career and whitey i would prefer white every time

    the only thing simmonds has is age.. and we are being hypothetical

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    For one, Simmonds wanted to leave and we weren't going to chose him ahead of our AA ruckman, a stature Simmonds have never reached

    I thought Simmonds was All Australian a couple of years ago?

    Or maybe he was just in the initial squad. . .

    Either way I'd take him over White in their current state

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    With that in mind, it can be concluded that this thread is pointless and contributes absolutely nothing to this board.

    So what!!! It's a bit of fun.

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    I hardly see how in 2001 we were supposed to stop and say, "oh in 7 years simmonds will be better than white" :huh:

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    I have taken some liberties with the team that could have been.

    We could have taken Fevola in 98 instead of Lamb & in 99 Simon Black (T Longmuir) & Adam Hunter rather than P Wheatley & also in 01 Campbell Brown & Nick Del Santo instead of S Armstrong & L Molan & in 2000 Johncock was available ahead of D Breese.

    James Kelly ended up at Geelong as part of the Grgic/Bizzell deal & there was a possibility of a trade between Ryan Ferguson for Brad Sewell.

    I am also assuming we kept Simmonds, Jolly, Travis & Scott Thompson & am making the realistic assumption that with a half decent side Chris Judd would of come to us last year.

    Whelan Rivers J Kelly

    Johncock A Hunter Campbell Brown

    Judd Simon Black Travis Johnstone

    Del Santo Robertson Woanemirri

    Simmonds Fevola Davey

    Jolly Sewell Scott Thompson

    I'change - Mclean, Green, Miller, Bruce

    Excuse me.... Where is the Big Nieta in this "Super Team"? I mean really!!!!

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    With that in mind, it can be concluded that this thread is pointless and contributes absolutely nothing to this board.

    then why post on it

    and what exactly did your post contribute?

    and what did my post now contribute?

    ffs ppl, we've won one game for the season

    whats wrong with having a bit of fun

    yes of course we could never have ended up with this team

    who cares, its a bit of fun

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