Because if Fevola had any influence over Cook, he would've put on weight.

And sometimes you have to look beyond common misperception to find gold, take Tommy Rockliff being taken in a rookie draft for example.

Well shoot, that's just flawless logic.

And yes, we had Rockliff training with us and were keen to select him, but he wasn't available after we took a punt on a supremely talented player with his own particular hurdles to surmount, and you could say LJ was much better equipped to do it than young Garlett.

The irony isn't lost on me.

Garlett has a few similarities with Nicky Winmar who loved a drink and a smoke. Ended up one of the greats of the modern era.

Question: did Winmar also indulge in class A drugs, and flaunt his behaviour publicly in a manner that strongly suggests he thinks his skill means the normal rules don't apply to him?

Did he also think his skill made him exempt from having to do the hard work other players were required to do?

I think part of the issue was Garlett being overhyped by clubs in general, all of them obviously in the knowledge he was a ticking timebomb, but in the faint hope another team would be foolish enough to burn a pick on him.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) in 2012 there was no obvious MFC-circa-2009 or Richmond-circa-2004 to fall prey to such tactics.

NB. It's no coincidence that one of Jack Viney's best highlights comes when he is matched up against Garlett.

One works his arse off and takes the game on.

The other gives up.

The same reason Geelong took a punt on Ablett Snr after his Hawthorn days.

And getting him to play for Casey isn't even taking a punt. Either he consistently gives it a good hard honest crack or he doesn't, whichever way it goes the MFC loses nothing out of it.

And Geelong should have won a couple of premierships with the talent they had at the time...yet they didn't...wonder why?

To much risk if you are on the juice the night before the draft.

He doesn't care.

Pass.

Edited January 2, 201313 yr by why you little