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  • John Crow Batty changed the title to Another great big Neeld era recruiting stuff up...
 

Very familiar. If I was a hindsight recruiter we'd won 20 of the last 20 premierships. 

Neeld had his faults but I'm not sure you can blame him for not picking someone who lasted until pick 58... 

 
6 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

Close the thread before someone pulls a muscle

Too late, I've just done that when putting on my hairshirt.


 

And long ago we could have had James Hird at 80+ and Chris Grant at 100+ if I recall correctly. 
So many recruiters from every club passed over both of them multiple times.

But of course had the originator of this post been our recruiting manager all along, we would have the whole bloody AA team.


Haha as if Prenderghast wanted to pick Neale.

He rated him so highly yet he still chose Josh Tynan at Pick 52.

Prendergast is a [censored] id iot.

Grain of salt, surely? We supposedly had so many other players on our radar. Rory Sloane is often mentioned. Would he or Neale have been lost to the game early if we got them under the Bailey/Neeld/Schwab era? 

I’d speculate it may have been Neil Craig recommending that one.

 

 


Thank god we didn't ruin Neale's career.

We recruited the best young player from Kybybolite and stuffed his career, we didn't need to do it to the second best young player from there too.

Oh look at all the spilled milk flowing under the bridge. 

Let's look to the future and don't worry about things that could have happened but didn't, and we (the fans) had no control over. Why bring it up? To stick the boot in us? 

I'm looking forward to Trak improving even more next year and the whole team following him. Brownlow Medal and Premiership 2021 campaign already underway.?

Melbourne are masters of their own destiny. Just do it!

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

He rated him so highly yet he still chose Josh Tynan at Pick 52.

Prendergast is a [censored] id iot.

...and Rory Taggert at pick 36.

Yep, he really rated him 'dazz'.

Could have had Adam Goodes at pick 43 too. We all saw him strut his stuff for North Ballarat grand final day 1996...

I reckon James Hird was clearly our biggest drafting blunder.

Jackovic seriously hardly played for us.


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29 minutes ago, rjay said:

...and Rory Taggert at pick 36.

Yep, he really rated him 'dazz'.

 Mitch Clark, Rory Taggert, Josh Tynan, James Sellar, Jay Sheehan, Tom Couch, James Magner, Leigh Williams and Mark Neeld. Forgotten how disastrous the recruiting was in 2011.

21 minutes ago, america de cali said:

 Mitch Clark, Rory Taggert, Josh Tynan, James Sellar, Jay Sheehan, Tom Couch, James Magner, Leigh Williams and Mark Neeld. Forgotten how disastrous the recruiting was in 2011.

Stop it!! Enough 

The Pain. The Pain!!!

26 minutes ago, america de cali said:

 Mitch Clark, Rory Taggert, Josh Tynan, James Sellar, Jay Sheehan, Tom Couch, James Magner, Leigh Williams and Mark Neeld. Forgotten how disastrous the recruiting was in 2011.

Mitch Clark was good. The rest were terrible

 
1 hour ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

I’d speculate it may have been Neil Craig recommending that one.

In the article it mentions Craig and Todd Viney were recommending Sellar.

 

What’s the point? I’m sure they chose the players they thought were the best available at the time, no need to be hindsight heroes. 

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