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Hi,

Just reading an attached thread about the proposed side in 2010 with two priority picks included. I wonder are people site impaired, can you not all hear? How many times has it been said and written in print media WE ARE IN A REBUILDING PHASE!!!!. To my knowledge rebuild entails working from a micro level up. Yes that is right start with bare foundations and move upwards.

Now people im not sure what your expectations are but I see some people writing in expectation about the Geelong game this Sunday " We want to win games dont worry about the draft pics". Well I hate to burst you bubble guys but we aint going to win on Sunday against Geelong. If you teeter along to the game hoping for a Melbourne win you are unrealistic and know very little about football. Would there be any harm in envisioning the side with Scully and Butcher in it? For the people who argue the clubs poor record over the years since its last premiership, and the lack of finals wins well truthfully that is just the spherical nature of football and poor records come with the territory.

In 1998 in Daniher's first year as coach we drafted Jeff White who was a number one pick. In fact we had a few high draft picks that year and sites were flooded with people loving the lime light and toasting the wins on the back of great performances from Jeff White A DRAFT PIC PEOPLE. When reality sets in your will realize that with the list we have atm if we dont get the draft pics we aint going anywhere really fast because the kids are all young and they are LEARNING on the job because we have no other choice. When Dean Bailey says we need to be competitive this is what he means and the young kids are our best chance of being competitive.

I am sick of this parochial hedonistic nature of some of our supporters who criticize everything the club is doing at atm " oh Sylvia is no good, Newton is no good". Then you go on about Bailey and how he coaches.

Get a grip people and think about how much you love your club and enjoy going to the football every week and not winging and whining.

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You know someone reading this may actually be sight (not too much) or hearing impaired. Or they may know someone who is. You could end up offending someone saying things like that. By the way it's "sight" not "site".

Posted
I think you mean sight impaired, not site impaired.

I thought I was going to be the first to point that out. You must have just got in first while I was typing my reply! :)

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The arguement is that some believe we are creating a culture of a club that's ok with losses. And that winning at all costs is all that gets you flags. There's some truth in that, though in the end I agree with you... the other issue is that the young guys' development will be stunted if they don't play like they're trying to win for their formative years. Again, there might be something in that...

As fans though, watching Scully go about it, and the thought of Butcher-Watts up forward, with our defence... I couldn't be more excited.

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Hate to be pedantic but we never drafted Jeff White, we traded for him (picks 2 & 18).

Carry on.

If we used the 2 draft picks we traded for him on the same players Freo did we'd have ended up with Justin Longmuir and Daniel Schell.......

I think we won that one ;)

In another thread BBP asks the question of trading pic 2 (if we get 1 & 2) for an established young gun.

It does make a lot of sense because 1st round draft pics are "GOLD" in the final unpillaged draft for the next few years.....


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I actually am sight impaired (I don't look out of my right eye).

While I see where you're coming from, I don't think there's anything wrong with supporters wanting to see wins - after all if we did roll Geelong today we'd be partying hard tonight. But I do see how important it is for us to get 2 early picks this season

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I actually am sight impaired (I don't look out of my right eye).

Interesting 45hotgod, I too am blind in my right eye (and therefore a true one eyed Demon supporter).

Yours injury or disease?

Posted

Mine's not an injury...don't know if you'd call it a disease, I suppose it could just be described as an ailment.

Depth perception isn't my strong point!

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Ohh good one mate add that to your hall of fame

You can't be a shrink, mate. You're too stupid.

Then again...

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In another thread BBP asks the question of trading pic 2 (if we get 1 & 2) for an established young gun.

It does make a lot of sense because 1st round draft pics are "GOLD" in the final unpillaged draft for the next few years.....

Except that what you're looking for in the first round of the draft is a young gun.

Why would you give away an established young gun to take your chance on a youngster you think is a gun but may not make it?

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I actually am sight impaired (I don't look out of my right eye).

While I see where you're coming from, I don't think there's anything wrong with supporters wanting to see wins - after all if we did roll Geelong today we'd be partying hard tonight. But I do see how important it is for us to get 2 early picks this season

I don't see anymore than stevie wonder out of my left eye, so there you go. One eyed supporters do exist...good.

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