most supporters are all chicken littles.
most can see we have to give up something to get something but steadfastly refuse to offer up a player who may become a decent player.a player who has some potential but has shown only the odd good sign here or there after 5 seasons.
people continually ignore his performances lock in on his potential and poo their pants at the thought of him becoming a decent player at another club. who gives a toss what he does at another club hes nothing but a means to an end to me.
me i couldnt give a toss if he stays or goes. his performances have been in the main lousy.whilst i would prefer to keep him over vickery that is not possible.i would happily trade him and our second rounder to carlton for theuir first rounder which would be a top 10 pick.the only trouble with trading for picks is i have little faith in our recruiters but i believe we need to go thru the process despite their lousy records.
we dont need 3 200cm ruck / fwds one is expendable, what we need is a genuine power fwd, a jtall agile gunston type and a high quality super quick crumbing sml fwd. we also need a replacement combative ruckman for ivan in our system.
its unbelievable people scared of losing an under performing player because they may one day become a good player. seems most have not learnt a thing about what this club has got so wrong for so many yrs on end. no wonder edwards king newman and so so many others have played so many games for us for so little return.
me i want a decent pick to actually address a serious list deficiency we have 3 players who can never ever play in the same team ffs playing two of them is fraught with danger. one of em is expendable take your pick i really dont care which one goes my preference would be to foist vickery onto some unsuspecting club. but hey the chicken littles around here dont want to lose him either in fact they dont want to lose anyone who has some sort of worth. as long as they show some sort of potential all is good. its laughable.
Trouble is there is no guarantee that anyone we will pick up will be any better! You clearly cannot see any improvement in Griff. Many here can. I'd rather trade Vickery TBH. He might even get you a better pick.
Also look at Melbourne. They've had oodles of top ten picks. Where the hell has it got them?
and theres no guarantee griffiths will improve in fact his record says its not likely to much if any. ffs there are no guarantees in footy mate just go ask jon patton. so with the melbourne comment what are you saying, lets not participate in the nd at all because theres no guarantees.
yes hes improved a little this yr but hardly enough to warrant all the optimism in him. hes gone from a permanently deplorable player to a player who plays the odd passable game with mostly very poor games still mixed in. hes no world beater in fact hes a battler to date who like many has potential.
its his potential and relative youth that sees him have currency in two yrs time if he continues in the same way that currency will be zilch.
ffs probably his best game for us at the weekend yet he found the ball just 11 times didnt manage a contested mark but in saying this i thought he played fairly well. can you see what im saying his best to date is pretty average and barely up to the standard. yet i could believe if i listened to posters on here that hes the next lockett lol.
look all im saying is we have more than enough of a particular type of player trade one out for a good pick that then can be used to address a real list need.
