I find it amazing how highly regarded Robert Walls is within the general football community. He has to be the most overrated football person there is. His commentary is hopeless......he is the master of stating the obvious. Never has anything insightful to say.
Walls, Gieschen, Frawley......no wonder we are where we are.
That pretty much sums it up.
Walls walked into Richmond claiming Northey's gameplan was too predictable and we needed to add more possession. Geez that worked well. The only player of any skill and class Walls added to the Club was Joel and he was a father-son. Gas, Chaffey and Holland were the only other 100+ game Tigers Walls recruited from 20 recruits. A 20% success rate
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1995 35 Brad Smith - 0 games
46 Ben Moore - 24 games
59 Ewan Thompson - 4 games
67 Michael Raidis - 0 games
Father-Son Joel Bowden - 213* games
Father-Son Nicholas Jewell - 1 game
Trade Ben Harrison (+ pick 35 for Justin Murphy) - 74 games
Trade Ben Holland (for picks 16 and 32) - 125 games
Trade Robert Powell (for Matthew Francis) - 56 games
Trade Wayne Thornborrow (for Jamie Elliot) - 0 games
1996PSD Darren Gaspar - 202* games
16 Pat Steinfort - 0 games
35 Mark Chaffey - 166 games
41 Matthew Manfield - 6 games
55 Steven McKee - 20 games
63 Jason Baldwin - 2 games
72 Brent Frewen - 0 games
79 Daniel Donati - 1 game
Trade Trent Nichols - 19 games
1997PSD Brett Evans - 28 games