I'll never forget the day Byron Pickett shirked it, right in front of me on the mcc wing, when Tingay was going to run through him. Unfortunately, I haven't had more highlights watching Melbourne over the years.
And Pickett ends up coming to the dees so I can't hang it on my mates who barracked for North.
Draft best available and select players for need.
All of a sudden we might be able to win at the MCG. The wings have been our deficiency since Goodwin took over.
This is the opposite of what I was suggesting.
Bring a troubled genius into the club and have a support system around them. Like Richmond do. Back them and give them a chance. If they [censored] up they are out. Nothing to lose.
If you have an idiot within your system like Martin Pike get rid of them. Melbourne made the correct choice despite his success as a player.
My mistake, it doesn’t change the fact we were worried about the problems associated with him rather than his footballing ability which is the point of the thread.
In 2009 we have pick 1 & 2 but don’t interview Dustin Martin because of his dad’s links to bikies and the neck tattoos didn’t help.
Sydney Stack was overlooked by everyone until Dimma asked him to live with their family and ends up selecting him. He knocks out Viney in one of his first games and nearly wins the rising star.
Marlion Pickett is one of the best footballers in the country but gets over looked by everyone because he has been to jail.
Richmond will be the best team of the decade. Perhaps we should look at the best player, back our culture and not worry so much about their background.
Dean Wallace punching Brad Green in the throat.
Whelan missed through injury that day too.
Two of our best players in a generation miss. They were both young and on the up without reputations so it never got reported.
Player development is important but so is winning. You have to pick the best available side every week and if Billy was in it one week and not the next the onus was on him to become better not for us to pick a worse side.
He needs to stop dropping the footy from somewhere between his belly button and nose when he is kicking it.
He will be a good kick if he just drops and guides it from a proper height.
When he improves his kicking guarantee he will command it more.
It says a lot about our year when one of the nominated players in contention for the b&f was dropped at the end of the season despite a massive injury list.
Said player also did his best work in the forward line, got moved to the backline and got dropped 2 games later.
i’m over 2019 let Toby Green scratch the eyes out of Richmond. Mumford to go out swinging, not worried about drug testing in his last game and bring on 2020.