Does this bloke ever get it wrong?

Dunn, Bate, Jones, McLean, Sylvia, Davey, Petterd, Bartram, Frawley, Buckley, Newton .....

CAC, we love you.

Please do not leave. You are BY FAR the most important man at the club, and you should ask for a pay rise, and get it.

agreed one of the most mprtant guys on our list. yes he has had some bad picks over the years but the who hasn't

I still hold the view that his one really bad draft was the one year when the coach took control of the selections. You know what I mean Luke Molan.

Aaron Rogers.

But overall, CAC has done an excellent job.

Early call on Simon Buckley Yze_Magic. Anyway, where have you been lately?

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Agree CAC has been one of the best in recruiting, especially the last 4 years.

I mentioned way back in some other thread that CAC was probably the particular one of the curent crop of the MFC football dept that i would want to keep above the others. But no one is totally irresplacable. If he goes he goes, would prefre he stays as he's been quite the deliverer ( when no meddling ) . Am very intereted to see who he homes in on in both trade week and the draft. Given the new boorm coming through he ought to have a bit of a shopping list :-))))

We are 15th on the ladder he can't be that good. Molon, Smith, Rogers were ordinary. Choosing Gianfagna ahead of Alwyn Davey was very ordinary as well. We should wait until we start winning games before we pat him on the back.

so he should get no well dones for drafting

mclean, sylvia, bate, dunn, jones, bartram, frawley, newton

Does this bloke ever get it wrong?

It would be unfair to say he hasn't.

Does this bloke ever get it wrong?

Dunn, Bate, Jones, McLean, Sylvia, Davey, Petterd, Bartram, Frawley, Buckley, Newton .....

CAC, we love you.

Please do not leave. You are BY FAR the most important man at the club, and you should ask for a pay rise, and get it.

Yep CAC has potentialy built a ripping list.

Now time to take potential to reality.

PS : I was @ Balwyn Tigers V Vermont on Saturday & saw a young bloke playing for Vermont named Nathan Henly tear the game apart. Loaded with class & would be a great high draft pick smokey.

He's a strongly built goal kicking wingman.

I know there is a huge gap between AFL & EFL but this kid just stood out like a beacon.

Brett Ratten was in the crowd & rumour was he was checking him out for The Blues to draft.

CAC take note & jump The Blues this kid just looks the right fit for AFL...

We are 15th on the ladder he can't be that good. Molon, Smith, Rogers were ordinary. Choosing Gianfagna ahead of Alwyn Davey was very ordinary as well. We should wait until we start winning games before we pat him on the back.

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That's not like you Y_M.

Are you alright?

I agree he has made some great selections and we have some very exciting players that should play 200 plus games..

However he has never picked up a KPP that has been a regular first 22 player( Newton could turn out to fit that bill)....

aswell you have to look at the other clubs, we have picked up good players but so have the other teams and not just the teams who had earlier picks.

I think He is very god at his job but if he goes its not the end of the world and i think some of you guys have met him so like to think he is the absolute best.. can anyone honestly say our recruitment has been the best in the AFL over the last few years.

hope this isnt taken the wrong way im not bagging him at all, i just cant agree we re stuffed if he leaves.

I agree he has made some great selections and we have some very exciting players that should play 200 plus games..

However he has never picked up a KPP that has been a regular first 22 player( Newton could turn out to fit that bill)....

aswell you have to look at the other clubs, we have picked up good players but so have the other teams and not just the teams who had earlier picks.

I think He is very god at his job but if he goes its not the end of the world and i think some of you guys have met him so like to think he is the absolute best.. can anyone honestly say our recruitment has been the best in the AFL over the last few years.

hope this isnt taken the wrong way im not bagging him at all, i just cant agree we re stuffed if he leaves.

Correct Herb! He is no more or less important than anyone else at the club. His best draft by far was 8 years ago in 1999, when despite salary cap breach penalties he has manged to get over 500 games from Bruce, Green, Whelan and Wheatley. He's also had a few misses (98, 01 being 2 that spring to mind). Even in 2000, he got Scott Thompson and not much else, and then Thommo left anyway - the other part of his role is list management (Remember his title is recruiting and list management!)

His recent acquisitions look promising but it is too early too make the call on the likes of Buckley, Newton etc. I like the job CAC has done in general, but he is not indispensable. I quite like the work Ricky Barham has done at Sydney - he has assembled a first rate list with very little in the way of early draft choices since about 1995.

However he has never picked up a KPP that has been a regular first 22 player( Newton could turn out to fit that bill)....

aswell you have to look at the other clubs, we have picked up good players but so have the other teams and not just the teams who had earlier picks.

Rivers? Carroll?

Rivers at pick 20 odd was an absolute gem and more than cancels out Rogers.

Yep CAC has potentialy built a ripping list.

Now time to take potential to reality.

PS : I was @ Balwyn Tigers V Vermont on Saturday & saw a young bloke playing for Vermont named Nathan Henly tear the game apart. Loaded with class & would be a great high draft pick smokey.

He's a strongly built goal kicking wingman.

I know there is a huge gap between AFL & EFL but this kid just stood out like a beacon.

Brett Ratten was in the crowd & rumour was he was checking him out for The Blues to draft.

CAC take note & jump The Blues this kid just looks the right fit for AFL...

Send him an email, I've done it before, he's more than happy to receive them if you really think the kid has talent.

I agree he has made some great selections and we have some very exciting players that should play 200 plus games..

However he has never picked up a KPP that has been a regular first 22 player( Newton could turn out to fit that bill)....

aswell you have to look at the other clubs, we have picked up good players but so have the other teams and not just the teams who had earlier picks.

I think He is very god at his job but if he goes its not the end of the world and i think some of you guys have met him so like to think he is the absolute best.. can anyone honestly say our recruitment has been the best in the AFL over the last few years.

hope this isnt taken the wrong way im not bagging him at all, i just cant agree we re stuffed if he leaves.

Totally agree Herb. Sure, he has pulled some absolute rippers, but so have pretty much every other team and their respective recruiting managers. Look at Goodes and O'Keefe for Sydney, Kerr for the Weagles, etc... CAC is very good, but so too are many other recruiter's. Somehow i think i can see our list improving, even when CAC leaves (whenever that may be).

However he has never picked up a KPP that has been a regular first 22 player( Newton could turn out to fit that bill)....

Carroll, Rivers, Robbo (KPP??), Bate

time for a bump

can we stand on our own two legs without CAC?

trade week will be the first real test for BP and his men and also to see if he can beat CAC down at punt road

i wonder if everyones comments on newton and frawley have changed since this time...

And what Old Man Rivo thinks of Henley

And what Old Man Rivo thinks of Henley

did he end up getting picked up?

Nah he's still at Vermont.

He got BOG in their grand final win last year from memory

time for a bump

can we stand on our own two legs without CAC?

trade week will be the first real test for BP and his men and also to see if he can beat CAC down at punt road

i wonder if everyones comments on newton and frawley have changed since this time...

Of course we can and it's laughable to think otherwise.

Does this bloke ever get it wrong?

Dunn, Bate, Jones, McLean, Sylvia, Davey, Petterd, Bartram, Frawley, Buckley, Newton .....

CAC, we love you.

Please do not leave. You are BY FAR the most important man at the club, and you should ask for a pay rise, and get it.

Oh my god, you are a tool YM.

You are so full of [censored], please leave the board.

All you do is bag the players, and the Demons are like SO awesome and we will win the next 50 flags cos we are perfect.

Go away you tool, mods please ban him!