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On 10/9/2016 at 1:16 PM, Redleg said:

Don't know why the hate for him.

Why do you jump to hate Red.. I simply dont rate him.  Now Rate and Hate share 3 letters arguably...but thats all.

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33 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Why do you jump to hate Red.. I simply dont rate him.  Now Rate and Hate share 3 letters arguably...but thats all.

Some of the comments on Vickery are far closer to hating than rating. 

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Talking about hate, I still hate the free agency compensation with a passion.  Not only does the recruiting club essentially get a free hit, but ever other club in the league gets penalised by being pushed down the draft order.  The club recruiting the player should be forced to give up a draft pick of nominal equivalence in order to square the ledger with the rest of the comp.

Edited by Rodney (Balls) Grinter
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31 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Some of the comments on Vickery are far closer to hating than rating. 

I don't hate him just dislike him

But I HATE his hair

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15 minutes ago, Old Bear said:

I don't hate him just dislike him

But I HATE his hair

I could never 'hate' somebody's hair, I like people who are tonsorially adventurous

With Vickery,  reminds me of Sylvia, it's there, you just don't see it enough

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^

IMHO Sylvia had far more talent than Ty.

Lyon, like a succession of coaches at MFC, couldn't get him to unleash it. 

Clarkson may get more of whatever Ty may have hidden away there than the others got out of Col. 

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On 10/10/2016 at 7:11 PM, Satyriconhome said:

I could never 'hate' somebody's hair, I like people who are tonsorially adventurous

With Vickery,  reminds me of Sylvia, it's there, you just don't see it enough

Tonsorially adventurous? I rate that expression. Could you please give some examples of the characteristics of such persons?

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BUMP

I read that the Hawks were 'considering his future'.

Dodged a bullet, albeit a slow moving one, there. 

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Vickery was every bit as bad as Mayne was for Collingwood this year.

These guys were recruited on contracts with some serious coin attached. I think both are on at least $500k a season.

Combined, they only played nine games in 2017 and booted a whopping four goals. 

When looking at these blunders, I certainly feel incredibly thankful for our recruiting staff and the superb job they've done rebuilding the club by getting these type of picks right. Guys like Hibberd (2017 All-Australian), Melksham (20+ goal second half of the season), Lewis (leadership and guidance), Vince (2015 Best & Fairest) and even someone like Daniel Cross (see Lewis) from a few years ago have been fantastic pick-ups for our club. 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, chook fowler said:

May be we could give him a job as business adviser to the catering dept.

Maybe we could give his " business adviser " a job at the strengthening and tattooing department too !

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In fairness to the Hawks... they have been pretty good at making ordinary players look decent over the years so probably figured they'd do the same here.

Too much spud though

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We have made plenty of mistakes over the years, in trading and drafting, don't think we need to laugh at a club that has won 4 flags since our last GF.

Hopefully we are limiting our mistakes now with a better group of recruiters.

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