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Offline Infamy

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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #45 on: September 02, 2009, 09:46:33 AM »
Hasn't he been injured all year?
How could a player complain about not getting a game when he can't get out on the park?
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #46 on: September 02, 2009, 10:26:16 AM »
we shouldnt even be trading for raines, anything would be better even pick 100
just delist him and hope he ends up at freo for costing us so much over the yrs with his overrated game and name
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #47 on: September 02, 2009, 11:37:38 AM »
Like father, like son

Take your bat and ball and stuff off
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #48 on: September 02, 2009, 11:49:28 AM »
Quote from: Damo on September 02, 2009, 11:37:38 AM
Like father, like son

Take your bat and ball and eff off

bingo

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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #49 on: September 02, 2009, 12:08:09 PM »
a straight swap for either Charman (preferred) or Hooper...both we have expressed interest in the past...and would be some kind of chance on being offered up
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #50 on: September 02, 2009, 12:11:42 PM »
Funny how when Andrew first got to the club Geoff commented how he always regretted leaving
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #51 on: September 02, 2009, 12:16:08 PM »
Lions don't need a running half back flanker with kicking issues and injury concerns. They have better players of his type unfortunately.
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #52 on: September 02, 2009, 12:47:16 PM »
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/tigers-left-raines-to-rot/story-e6frexx0-1225768729714

Tigers left Raines to 'rot'
Finn Bradshaw From: Herald Sun September 02, 2009

ANDREW Raines' manager said the defender wanted to leave Richmond because the Tigers left him "rotting" in the VFL.

The Tigers told the former Rising Star runner-up it will try to accommodate his request to be traded elsewhere after he told the club he wanted to leave on Monday.

Raines told the club he needed a fresh start, even if new Tigers coach Damien Hardwick wanted him stay.

“(Raines and I) had a chat after he wasn’t selected in the side for Round 22 and Coburg had a bye and he decided he wanted to move on no matter what Damien Hardwick had to say,” Raines’ manager Ricky Olarenshaw told radio station SEN this morning.

Raines has been plagued by knee issues for the past two years and played just three AFL games this season.

Olarenshaw said Raines became dispirited when he couldn’t break into the Tigers’ side in the second half of the year

“Andrew was pretty frustrated throughout the season, particularly the second half when he was fit and rotting away in the VFL.

“I think while Terry was in charge in the first part of the year Andrew had some injury problems … but the second half of the year, when Jade was in charge, he was playing decent footy in the VFL. He’s the sort of guy that plays with passion and is courageous and brave … that’s the sort of guy I though Richmond would have required.

“There’s some criticism about his kicking but at Andrew plays with a bit of passion. He just felt he needed a fresh start (despite a new coach coming to Richmond).”

Olarenshaw said Raines wanted to go home to Queensland and that Brisbane was his first choice - rather than the Gold Coast - because he couldn’t face another year in the VFL.

“That was always in Andrew’s sights – going back to play on the Gold Coast, being a Gold Coast boy – but it’s still 12 months away so he’d have to spend a year in the VFL and I think he’s over doing that, he wants to be playing AFL,” Olarenshaw said.
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #53 on: September 02, 2009, 02:13:27 PM »
olarenshaw should stick to boundary riding and even that he is useless at.

Raines was left to rot in the VFL because Raines is a pathetic overated footballer who only got the gig because of his fathers name.

He is another Tom Roach.

on second thought stuff the pick let Freo take him.
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #54 on: September 02, 2009, 02:21:35 PM »
Quote from: daniel161 on September 02, 2009, 02:13:27 PM
Raines was left to rot in the VFL because Raines is a pathetic overated footballer who only got the gig because of his fathers name.

 :shh Shhhh

Brisbane might be reading.
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #55 on: September 02, 2009, 03:56:25 PM »
Andrew Raines will be sorely missed by all us Richmond faithful for his hard running dash out of defense and his booming right foot (?). His ferocity at the ball was more than admirable and has been truly unlucky with freak once off type injuries that have no possibility of returning!
(just in case brisbane is reading)
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #56 on: September 02, 2009, 04:02:54 PM »
Quote from: crannyvegas on September 02, 2009, 03:56:25 PM
Andrew Raines will be sorely missed by all us Richmond faithful for his hard running dash out of defense and his booming right foot (?). His ferocity at the ball was more than admirable and has been truly unlucky with freak once off type injuries that have no possibility of returning!
(just in case brisbane is reading)

Don't forget he finished runner-up in the Rising Star behind mega-star Danyle *cough* Pearce. 

Check out his highlights package!!

Raines rips it up
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #57 on: September 02, 2009, 04:10:44 PM »
What will be will be.
I thought he was good but then again I only get to see the matches on the idiot box so this sort of rules out what my thoughts on this are.
I'm too fart away to be able to make a constructive comment. But I did like him when he got a game.
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
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Re: Raines has asked to be traded
« Reply #59 on: September 02, 2009, 06:34:35 PM »
Raines was exciting for his first 10 or so games because he showed some dash out of the backline, which at the time was dominated by sideways kicking stat gatherers.
Unfortunately for Raines you need to be able to kick the ball to play AFL footy, most players in suburban footy are a better kick than him.

I wish Raines all the best in his QAFL career.

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