Mitch Clark - did we dodge a bullet?

[nutbean 8,838]

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

so hunger gave him brain damage? 

I just chose to leave the entire post alone.....

[Undeeterred 3,045]

Didn't dodge a bullet. But for that foot injury, who knows. If he stayed healthy, he would be an absolute monster for us and did some incredible things. I don't care where he plays or even whether he does, but we definitely lost out here.

[old55 22,853]

On 3/2/2016 at 6:51 PM, ProDee said:

The humanitarian in me ...

Hang on just getting it into focus ...

[Emerald 1,744]

I feel it was more a case of common sense letting a player with a broken mind and body go than dodging a bullet.

As for Geelong,they played Russian roulette.

[Fork 'em 6,940]

Fork Geelong.

Running around cherry picking as hard as they can.

 

[Redleg 40,228]

47 minutes ago, Emerald said:

I feel it was more a case of common sense letting a player with a broken mind and body go than dodging a bullet.

As for Geelong,they played Russian roulette.

Correct, just like we did with Melksham.

[Skuit 9,966]

On 3/1/2016 at 9:37 PM, CBDees said:

And now ironically we have ended up with Kennedy who was the number 10 draft pick.

No, but in a roundabout way Kennedy was what we gave up for Dawes minus Matt Jones. Oh, and that Clark bullet we dodged is now a cannon-ball sized crater at CHF.

[ILLDieADemon 804]

On 2 March 2016 at 8:27 PM, thevil1 said:

I hope you'll be rubbing it in his face too..... Reminds me I have a smart ass relo to mock who told me Clark & Hawkins were going going to tear team's backlines apart. 

Edited March 4, 2016 by ILLDieADemon

[ILLDieADemon 804]

On 1 March 2016 at 7:42 AM, Fork 'em said:

Not sure they did.
Clarke caused the beginning of the end for Jonathan Brown.
Tell me this wasn't a deliberate elbow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10o9oR3TxUs

The way Clark would crash packs he was a hazard to the game, No wonder his injured. 

[picket fence 16,702]

On 3/1/2016 at 9:37 PM, Whispering_Jack said:

Sad to see a great talent destroyed by injury and illness. 

I really believe he was on the verge of something great when he came down with that debilitating Lisfranc injury. What followed was a tragedy for the player and the club.

I don't think you can say we ended up "dodging" a bullet because we went to great lengths and invested heavily in Mitch and lost out badly as a result of his long running injury and the mental problems that followed.

I hope he recovers and gets some enjoyment from the tail end of his career. He's had a pretty wretched run.

Not to mention "other Issues"... lets be frank, Bloke shafted us, got good money and up and left. But agree we sure did dodge that bullet!

[McQueen 17,864]

At the moment, Collingwood have clearly had the most value from that trade with Varcoe playing some very good football.

If Lumumba manages to get back to a high level of fitness I believe he can offer us some of that great attacking drive out of defence.

Clark when up and going is a very good forward but he's body is shot, playing just 23 games over the last three years.

Leigh Matthews said that the Pies would get greater value out of Ben Hudson than what Melbourne would from Clarke and we all laughed at him. As we now know, Matthews might've been addressing his character more than his footballing ability.

[Still Waiting 94]

Pretty happy now, that he takes up no space on our list. Has been ordinary at the cattery. His illness may be real but his ordinary attitude and fitness is real-er !!!  He isn't a very good AFL player now and won't be ever again. Has natural ability bigtime, but not the mind to apply it, nor a willingness to do everything that is required. Just because you are diagnosed with depression does not always mean you cannot shine at something in life. (In this household I live with someone who has made this fact, very clear.) Depression can be repetitive but also fleetingly annoying and frustrating. Telling porkies is the 1st thing you need to address. Doing something to fix things is the 2nd step. Open-ness is the 3rd step. This bloke is not tackling things in a normally advised manner. Only he can change things and it seems that wont happen. He shows classic signs of high end selfishness. We don't need that and are now in a good place with our list.

[Deewiz05 0]

It's a tough decision 

on one hand we know what clark was/is cable of , but with our current squad and  mind set I think we are better off with out him, but still wish him all the best at the cats 

[CP5 166]

Bump

A few poster on BF have stated that Mitch Clark has been sacked from Geelong.  Nothing has been announced, but comments include:

"Anyway at the end of the day Clark has been fired from Geelong and Geelong is the clear loser in the trade deal as Clark has played about 10 games for us with basically no impact in any of them."

"Isn't it common knowledge yet that geelong has already sacked him and he has left the club?"

And - "This. I'm surprised it hasn't blown up more." (in response to post above)

The comments are from 3 separate Geelong supporters today.

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11 minutes ago, CP5 said:

Bump

A few poster on BF have stated that Mitch Clark has been sacked from Geelong.  Nothing has been announced, but comments include:

"Anyway at the end of the day Clark has been fired from Geelong and Geelong is the clear loser in the trade deal as Clark has played about 10 games for us with basically no impact in any of them."

"Isn't it common knowledge yet that geelong has already sacked him and he has left the club?"

And - "This. I'm surprised it hasn't blown up more." (in response to post above)

The comments are from 3 separate Geelong supporters today.

His Twitter account has been deleted.

[rjay 24,616]

'Mach'...any news on the Geelong front?

as for dodging a bullet, purely on the football sense we haven't had much of a win with 'H'.

[Adam The God 29,433]

Collingwood won that trade, just.

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3 minutes ago, A F said:

Collingwood won that trade, just.

By a mile. I think we laughed off the Varcoe offer. He'd be pretty valuable for us.

[old55 22,853]

Just now, Pipefitter said:

By a mile. I think we laughed off the Varcoe offer. He'd be pretty valuable for us.

Agree, Collingwood winners by a mile - Varcoe would be very good for us.

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On 9/2/2016 at 10:41 AM, Pipefitter said:

By a mile. I think we laughed off the Varcoe offer. He'd be pretty valuable for us.

I am not 100% sure and i reckon Mach5 would have a better idea, but i reckon we were open to taking Varcoe for Clark but he wasn't keen to come to us.

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3 minutes ago, Abe said:

I am not 100% sure and i reckon Mach5 would have a better idea, but i reckon we were open to taking Varcoe for Clark but he wasn't keen to come to us.

There was a fair bit of talk Clark was off to Collingwood and it was nearly a done deal then it got changed to Geelong late in the case.

 

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On 9/2/2016 at 10:48 AM, stuie said:

There was a fair bit of talk Clark was off to Collingwood and it was nearly a done deal then it got changed to Geelong late in the case.

 

that does ring a bell, i could have sworn i read or heard somewhere that we were into Varcoe and he wasn't keen to come to us.

[DemonLad5 1,642]

Freo dodged a bullet. Geelong gave up Varcoe who wanted out anyway. We gave up pick 12 for a bloke getting mega money and only playing 15 games in 3 seasons. Pretty sure we were hit by the bullet 

Edited September 2, 2016 by DemonLad5

[Sir Why You Little 36,670]

Mitch will soon have lots of wedding videos to shoot no doubt. 

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38 minutes ago, DemonLad5 said:

Freo dodged a bullet. Geelong gave up Varcoe who wanted out anyway. We gave up pick 12 for a bloke getting mega money and only playing 15 games in 3 seasons. Pretty sure we were hit by the bullet 

Yep we took a hit alright