Robbo and Buckenara revisit the 2004 draft in today's Herald-Sun from Hawthorn's view
... Richmond went for Brett Deledio at No. 1, the Hawks opted for Jarryd Roughead, the Bulldogs took Ryan Griffen, the Tigers Richard Tambling and Buddy Franklin fell into the arms of Buckenara at No. 5.
It's been told before, but Buckenara had information Richmond wanted Tambling with No. 4, so he took Roughead first and crossed his fingers on Franklin.
"In doing our homework on the draft, we knew that Richmond had already invited Roughead and his family to their Sunday lunch after the draft," Buckenara recalled.
"They told him they were going to take him at No. 4.
"So if we were going to go Franklin at No. 2, we wouldn't have got Roughead, so we took a punt.
"We got the word that they (Richmond) had gone off Buddy a little bit and everyone was talking about us taking Richard Tambling.
"We were keen on him, too, but we decided to go Roughead at No. 2 and threw the cat among the pigeons.
"So we then felt they (Richmond) would take Tambling ahead of Franklin.
"We were always going to take the two best talls with our first two picks, and then we would take the next best midfielder at No. 7, and that was Jordan Lewis.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,24296090-19742,00.html
What a load of crap, that means they also were happy to let the Bulldogs pass him over too. Buckenara said immediately after the draft that they'd hoped that Tambling would fall through to them. If they were so certain on taking Franklin, why did they need to call for extra time and then almost call out the wrong name, needing to go back and correct themselves?
Spot on Infamy. Of the three clubs there was only one that stuck to and got their planned choice(s) and that was the Bulldogs who wanted Griffen all along. We wanted Deledio at 1 and Roughead at 4 whereas the Hawks wanted Tambling and Roughead. They went for Roughead at 2 hoping we'd go for a KPP at 4 (Franklin) allowing Tambling to slip through to 5. Watch the replay of the 2004 draft again and the Hawks hesitate and call for time at pick 5. No doubt it worked out great for them especially as they had a large developing young core of smalls/mids already on the list at the time from 2000-2002 but that's a nice piece of rewritten history by Buckenara in that article.
In any case after last night it should be the Doggies who should get castigated over passing on Buddy when they expect a 182cm 32 y.o. at FF and a 186cm at CHF to win finals.
thats the biggest load of crap MT and you know it.
"it should be the doggies who should get castigated over passing on buddy"
MT shall i remind you we had 2 picks inside the top 5 of which the dogs had just let me see, 1.
This is the most athletic man possibly ever to play the game and what do we do, choose another mid. please give me a break.
it was the draft that could have propelled us into the top 4-6 right now, instead we are left with the likes of patto, Meyer, tambling, polo, and limbach, who to date have done SFA. dont crap on about Tambling's inside work, its pathetic. That poo makes me laugh when all you go on about it.
What i saw him do this year is MORE than last year. he broke packs ran a bit faster, thats about it. He aint no X factor and NEVER will and all you need to get your RFC goggles off and understand this. We are hoping he may turn out to be Daniel wells or half of him, but he is too timid to make it.
How many goals does he kick? uum SFA. I even hear some of you u crap still crap on abvout the Eagles game, much like Schulz with his 5/6 goal haul against the Lions.
Get over it. We have a habit of holding onto players till their worth nothing e.g pathetic pettifer, Schulz.
If you let this buddy thing get to you which he has then maybe he should be traded. Thats weak.
Lids leads by example. I just thank Geez we got that right.
