Dodged a bullet here. 

"Yarran arrived at Richmond for the pre-season overweight and has injured his calf muscle twice in the pre-season."  

Link  http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-richmonds-chris-yarran-wont-play-in-seniors-in-first-third-of-season-20160216-gmw2sp.html#ixzz40NdaPqJ2 

If you turn up overweight you obviously haven't done enough training in the break. If you haven't and then try to keep up with pre season training you are likely to get injured. Double whammy. There was a lot of talk last year about us trying to get him. Phew, not our problem.

Lesson here about being careful in recruiting players who have attitude problems at their old Club and thinking you are going to turn them around. Sylvia anyone. You are on notice StKilda. 

 

Chronic underachiever - so glad we didn't go there 

The Toiges grasp on  9th is slippiing 

Unlucky Tiggers.

 

 

 

hehe...

We got the good one

Garlett was a bargain

1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

We got the good one

Garlett was a bargain

"shorts" betts was probably a bettser one, but

Big smile emanating from Princes Park!

Edited February 17, 20169 yr by old dee

2 minutes ago, old dee said:

Big smile emanating from Princess Park!

Interestingly there was an article about Menzel at Adelaide also not coming back in good enough condition and having to go off into the fitness group as his fitness level isn't good enough for their midfield. Mentioned that Jacobs and Betts were able to advise the fitness people what to expect from a player coming from the Blues.

Sounds like us a couple of years ago. 

5 minutes ago, old dee said:

Big smile emanating from Princess Park!

And they haven't that much to smile about lol

Didn't the Blues have Dave Buttifant as fitness adviser? The same guy who was credited with getting the Pies into finals with Malthouse?

Interesting, if so, that he wasn't able to stay ahead of the curve or get the Blues to train to the required standards..

Interesting story I heard on SEN yesterday about the Blues.

It seems they did a survey of members and a third of female members said they did not feel comfortable around the club or when attending home games.

They felt they were less than welcome and  it was very much a boys club

He's entering that age where calf injuries become chronic.

 

As we have seen with Dawes, it severely limits their output.

If Richmond were smart they would have gone after Jed Anderson instead.

9 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

If Richmond were smart they would have gone after Jed Anderson instead.

...but as we know, they've not smart.

5 minutes ago, rjay said:

...but as we know, they've not smart.

We probably should have gone after him instead of getting Melksham.

If you are feeling we are no chance to make the finals then glance Richmonds way. They suck, hugely. They are the definition of mediocrity. The Tigers should give us hope and confidence

I don't see any reason why we can't be better than them, take their top 8 spot and play first week of the finals

 

54 minutes ago, old dee said:

Interesting story I heard on SEN yesterday about the Blues.

It seems they did a survey of members and a third of female members said they did not feel comfortable around the club or when attending home games.

They felt they were less than welcome and  it was very much a boys club

I definitely agree with this. My uncle was a blues supporter and took me to a bunch of games when I was a kid. I really hated the atmosphere in the members section at Optus Oval. It felt unwelcoming, there was lots of swearing and yelling. It felt intimidating.

Doesn't surprise me that their female members feel like that too.

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

"shorts" betts was probably a bettser one, but

"Shorts" would have cost us a lot

Garlett was almost a freebie. 

Stoked at that one

2 minutes ago, Choke said:

I definitely agree with this. My uncle was a blues supporter and took me to a bunch of games when I was a kid. I really hated the atmosphere in the members section at Optus Oval. It felt unwelcoming, there was lots of swearing and yelling. It felt intimidating.

Doesn't surprise me that their female members feel like that too.

Fairly confident that back then Choke it would not have mattered where you went footy clubs were very blokey places.

Most have since changed substantially but not so much at Carlton it would seem.

2 hours ago, It's Time said:

Dodged a bullet here. 

"Yarran arrived at Richmond for the pre-season overweight and has injured his calf muscle twice in the pre-season."  

Link  http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-richmonds-chris-yarran-wont-play-in-seniors-in-first-third-of-season-20160216-gmw2sp.html#ixzz40NdaPqJ2 

If you turn up overweight you obviously haven't done enough training in the break. If you haven't and then try to keep up with pre season training you are likely to get injured. Double whammy. There was a lot of talk last year about us trying to get him. Phew, not our problem.

Lesson here about being careful in recruiting players who have attitude problems at their old Club and thinking you are going to turn them around. Sylvia anyone. You are on notice StKilda. 

 

We turned Garlett around.

Its a risk but that why some clubs are willing to take those risks because of the potential. We saw that with Garlett.

Btw does anyone know what pick Richmond gave up for Yarran?

9 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

"Shorts" would have cost us a lot

Garlett was almost a freebie. 

Stoked at that one

no, stoked went to bummers, didn't he?

btw shorts worth every penny

5 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

We turned Garlett around.

Its a risk but that why some clubs are willing to take those risks because of the potential. We saw that with Garlett.

Btw does anyone know what pick Richmond gave up for Yarran?

Pick 19, which ended up being David Cunningham. 

10 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

no, stoked went to bummers, didn't he?

btw shorts worth every penny

Oh absolutely Shorts is a gun

But Jeff aint far behind him if he can just straighten up those shots at goal. 

Does he actually run too fast to have steady aim when kicking??

so easily could have dobbed 60 goals last season. 

Misses often by centimetres!

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

We turned Garlett around.

Its a risk but that why some clubs are willing to take those risks because of the potential. We saw that with Garlett.

Btw does anyone know what pick Richmond gave up for Yarran?

In his case it's not onfield we have to worry about, its off field. So fingers crossed they have been able to do both. His domestic situation is very complicated apparently and a lot of behaviour problems caused by his partner. Hopefully its all sorted now. He seems to be naturally shy and having a year under his belt in the Club will probably set him up even more for this season

1 hour ago, Clint Bizkit said:

We probably should have gone after him instead of getting Melksham.

shhhh