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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Bulluss on October 08, 2004, 01:14:14 PM
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SEN just reported that Fiora has been traded to the Saints, Heath Black to Freo and Simmonds to us
This is a sensational deal.
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:gobdrop :birthday :cheers :birthday :cheers :birthday :cheers :birthday :cheers :birthday :cheers
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SEN just reported that Fiora has been traded to the Saints, Heath Black to Freo and Simmonds to us
This is a sensational deal.
Great, we keep the pick and off load a dud, great news Bull
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Ohhhh poo where is the toilet? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH How good is this?\
Is this confirmed?
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Smelling salts please lol :rollin
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Good deal but I get a feeling that we have also given up picks cos saints would have to be mad to let Black go for Fiora. Better not be pick 20 or else I'll scream.
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Good deal but I get a feeling that we have also given up picks cos saints would have to be mad to let Black go for Fiora. Better not be pick 20 or else I'll scream.
LMAO...pictures Harry doing a Ned Flanders style scream :lol
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Good deal but I get a feeling that we have also given up picks cos saints would have to be mad to let Black go for Fiora. Better not be pick 20 or else I'll scream.
There's been alot of madness in this trade week Harry lets hope this is one of them ;D
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Operation Dudkill is in full swing. :thumbsup
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Apparantly it was a trade or I'll walk ultimatum from both Black and Simmonds that left Richmond with the upper hand... :bow
and PSD pick 1 is still free :bow :bow
:cheers
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Apparantly it was a trade or I'll walk ultimatum from both Black and Simmonds that left Richmond with the upper hand... :bow
and PSD pick 1 is still free :bow :bow
:cheers
If thats the case and we didn't lose any draft piks then thats excellent.
Now that our PSD pick is free we can tighten the screws on that farkwit Brad Ottens and clean out the cats.
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Operation Dudkill is in full swing. :thumbsup
Yes it's dud season at richmond :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup
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Huddo just mentioned it again, no picks as far as he was concerned.
Ottens deal is looking bad with Adelaide playing hardball with pick from West Coast which would then release pick 12 to Melbourne for Thompson.
That is meant to be the pick 12 which we would get from Moloney going to Melbourne.
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Why don't we just ask for Moloney, pick 16 and 32. Moloney will be a gun. If the Cat's kik up a fuss, we should then just settle for Moloney and pick 16.
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Why don't we just ask for Moloney, pick 16 and 32. Moloney will be a gun. If the Cat's kik up a fuss, we should then just settle for Moloney and pick 16.
Moloney would be a good get but the problem is the Club wants to draft a young ruckman (Wood, Meesen or Deluca) and they might not be around by pick 16.
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Simmonds, Black, Fiora in three-way swap
1:36:52 PM Fri 8 October, 2004
Sportal
Troy Simmonds, Heath Black and Aaron Fiora will all have new homes next season after their clubs agreed to a three-way swap for them.
Simmonds, who recently rejected a new contract offer from Fremantle, opted not to go to Richmond through the pre-season draft, agreeing instead to a player swap.
The ruckman moves to Punt Road, while Tiger utility Fiora is now a Saint, and Black gets his wish to return to Fremantle, the club he represented between 1997 and 2001.
http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=174525
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Hell-lay-loo-ya
Great deal tigers
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Say that again WP :thumbsup
How good is this! :bow :bow :bow
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GM coming through with the goods yet again!! :cheers
What next Chaffey to Dogs for Bowden! :thumbsup
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Hmmm...a tripod for a snake :shh :lol :scream
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Lets all have a disco Lets all have a disco LA LA LA HEY LA LA LA HEY
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AWESOME! Another softcok bites the dust!
:rollin :cheers :rollin
:birthday :bow :rollin
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Fantastic news that we got Simmonds for Muppet arms.
Well done Greg Miller
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Lets all have a disco Lets all have a disco LA LA LA HEY LA LA LA HEY
LMAO@Doing the hussle because we got rid of a pea dik !
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:gobdrop I know nothing has been mentioned, but do you think there is a chance we are paying some of his salary if he is on a reported salary of around $270k a year?
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Ive been walking around like a man whos ODed on viagra since this deal happened.
And Grant Thomas sees fiona as an 'in and under player'
LMAO @ being 100% wrong!!!
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Guys this is so funny. :lol
Fortune again favours Fiora
15 October 2004 Herald Sun
Mark Stevens
AARON Fiora is the first to admit he is extremely lucky to be one full season away from the 100-game milestone.
"I've played 78 games and I can't believe I've played that many the way I've played," is the 23-year-old's blunt assessment of his output at Richmond.
If there hadn't been cheap games on offer at Punt Rd in the past few years, Fiora knows he would have paid a much more painful price for his form.
"Anywhere else, I might not have got a gig," Fiora said.
"All I can say is I'm disappointed with where my footy's at."
Fiora has tested the patience of coach Danny Frawley and almost every Tigers supporter since his debut in 2000.
As silky :help as Fiora looked coming off half-back, critics were keen to attack his perceived lack of hardness, inconsistency and reliance on his left foot.
The blowtorch was far hotter because Fiora was the prized No. 3 draft pick in 1999 -- one ahead of Matthew Pavlich and behind only Josh Fraser and Paul Hasleby. :banghead
"I got drafted high and I haven't really done what a lot of high draft picks have done in recent years, so it is disappointing in that sense," Fiora said.
"I was always in the mix, but I've never really played how I want to play or how the Richmond footy club wanted me to play. I just know I can do better."
Fiora gets his chance to prove it at St Kilda after a three-way swap on the final day of trading.
Saints coach Grant Thomas has made it clear he wants his latest recruit to start winning more of his own footy and Fiora knows he has to change his ways to survive at Moorabbin.
"I suppose I've just got to go in and get the footy myself a bit more and prove that I can do it. St Kilda think I can do it and I know I can do it," Fiora said.
"I think I've always had to improve in that area.
"I'll just spend my whole pre-season doing drills and getting guys to help me."
Fiora also knows he needs to add beef to his 186cm, 80kg frame.
"Physically, I'm not that mature -- that's got to come along pretty quickly or else it will be all over soon," he said.
"I've just got to eat more and make sure I eat more. I think that's all it is, getting more stuff into my guts.
"It will be good for me to have a change. A whole new culture change."
The news came out of the blue last Friday as Fiora was visiting his mother in the South Australian town of Naracoorte.
"I was having something to eat and bang there's the phone call -- at around 11.30am," Fiora said.
The first contact was about Fremantle, which had shown interest.
"If it had've happened a bit earlier in the week and I had a bit more time to think about it, then I may've gone to Fremantle. I only had 20 minutes to think about it, so I said no to Freo."
Half an hour later, the phone rang again. This time, St Kilda had taken the bait.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,11076270%255E20322,00.html
"Physically, I'm not that mature -- that's got to come along pretty quickly or else it will be all over soon," Really?
"I'll just spend my whole pre-season doing drills and getting guys to help me." Isn't that what he did at RFC?
"Anywhere else, I might not have got a gig," You're correct there Aaron and you won't get a gig at the saints.
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Guys this is so funny. :lol
I have to agree H Tiger - so many gems
Fiora has tested the patience of coach Danny Frawley and almost every Tigers supporter since his debut in 2000.
Tested the patience :o - no wondr poor Spud went grey ;D
Extra Gems...............
"I got drafted high and I haven't really done what a lot of high draft picks have done in recent years, so it is disappointing in that sense," Fiora said.
In a sense - you've gotta be joking :help :lol
"I was always in the mix, but I've never really played how I want to play or how the Richmond footy club wanted me to play. I just know I can do better."
:gobdrop :gobdrop :gobdrop :gobdrop - is your middle name Brad by chance :help :rollin
Fiora also knows he needs to add beef to his 186cm, 80kg frame.
"Physically, I'm not that mature -- that's got to come along pretty quickly or else it will be all over soon," he said.
"I've just got to eat more and make sure I eat more. I think that's all it is, getting more stuff into my guts.
How many Big Macs was that? ;D
We tried to bulk him up - fair dinkum he should be at least 86-90kgs I reckon.
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Well boys and girls,if thats not exposing your weak side to the world what is ??
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
RRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOLLLLMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOO
@" I suppose I've just got to go in and get the footy myself a bit more "
IMBECILE !
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:rollin @ that article.
"Eat more" ???
Fiora played one good game in his 87 and it was such a rarity that I remember which one it was - round 3, 2001 in our win over Brisbane at the 'G. In the 3rd quarter he was one who took that game by the scruff of the neck with his leap and pace. At the time it looked like he may have taken the step up to AFL standard but as history shows we never saw that level again at Tigerland (like many of his teammates :P) and he has steadily gone backwards to the point where he was struggling in the VFL unable to hit the side of a barn.