John Crow Batty 8,892 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 Sound familiar? https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/former-demons-staff-lament-call-to-overlook-neale-20201019-p566fc.html 1 3 1 Quote
Deefiant 441 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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... 8 Quote
Little Goffy 14,963 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 Close the thread before someone pulls a muscle rolling their eyes too hard. 1 7 Quote
Demonstone 23,573 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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. 3 1 Quote
Queanbeyan Demon 7,023 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 Everyone relax . . . we got 23 games out of James Sellar. 3 1 Quote
spirit of norm smith 16,679 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 Neeld and Prendergast 3 6 Quote
Cards13 9,117 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 Lol yea sure Barry! It would have been your 1 decent pick... ever 1 Quote
SFebes 4,884 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 We would have ruined him anyway and he would've been delisted, don't panic. 5 Quote
monoccular 17,760 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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. 2 3 Quote
spirit of norm smith 16,679 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 Neeld and Prendagast have failed everywhere. Put clubs into ruin. Their track records are hopeless. 1 Quote
TheoX 1,222 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 Haha as if Prenderghast wanted to pick Neale. 1 Quote
dazzledavey36 56,334 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 He rated him so highly yet he still chose Josh Tynan at Pick 52. Prendergast is a [censored] id iot. 10 1 Quote
Earl Hood 6,167 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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? 1 Quote
TeamPlayedFine39 8,525 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 I’d speculate it may have been Neil Craig recommending that one. 1 1 Quote
DeeSpencer 26,675 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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. 3 Quote
Dame Gaga 2,453 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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! 4 Quote
rjay 25,424 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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'. Quote
dee-tox 4,835 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 Could have had Adam Goodes at pick 43 too. We all saw him strut his stuff for North Ballarat grand final day 1996... 2 Quote
Cheap Seats 3,310 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 I reckon James Hird was clearly our biggest drafting blunder. Jackovic seriously hardly played for us. 1 Quote
John Crow Batty 8,892 Posted October 19, 2020 Author Posted October 19, 2020 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. 4 1 Quote
Sir Why You Little 37,457 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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!!! 2 2 Quote
Elegt 872 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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 2 Quote
Lord Nev 13,512 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 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. Quote
Ethan Tremblay 31,388 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 (edited) 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. Edited October 19, 2020 by Ethan Tremblay Quote
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