Rookie pick #60: Gibson Turner

[Owl]

He was making excuses for not wanting to meet his obligations, simple.  It is called blame shifting.  He didn't have the will to tough it out and took the easy option of having a goodtime now, and will pay for it with regret later.

[mightytiges]

Nothing to do with Turner or Taylor but what was Martin Flanagan going on about in his article today...

The argument can be summarised simply. In 2012, the face of the game is an indigenous player, Hawthorn's Buddy Franklin. Richmond passed him up in the draft because they thought he was trouble.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/act-now-on-footballs-changing-landscape-20120312-1uwgo.html#ixzz1p022m2nM

Does he realise we still drafted an indigenous player (Tambling) instead of Franklin!

[Coach]

What are you on about
if we passed up Buddy cuz we thought he was trouble it doesn't mean we thought all indigenous were trouble

edit: nyeah. carry on 

[mightytiges]

What are you on about
if we passed up Buddy cuz we thought he was trouble it doesn't mean we thought all indigenous were trouble

edit: nyeah. carry on 

I'm not disagreeing with that Davey. But we didn't even pass up on Buddy because we thought as an individual he was a troubled indigenous player as it reads in Flanagan's story. Franklin's race never came into it. Just like the following year we overlooked Mitch Clark for JON or back in 1999 missing out on Pavlich for Fiora. Whether a young footballer was indigenous or not was irrelevant. Simply our recruiting just plain sucked  due to poor judgement by those in charge of recruiting back then and virtually non-existent recruiting resources.