Nought dropped Edwards and he still can't get a game.
Advise you to go and reconsider the job that Blair Hartley actually performs for the club.
It is to find players who aren't getting a game at their present club but would improve the list at Richmond.
Think of players like Houli not getting a run at Essendon or Grigg not getting a run at Carlton or Maric not getting a run at Adelaide. All of them were getting overlooked by their clubs for players who virtually everybody outside those clubs thought were duds.
Guess what? Hartley saw underdeveloped talent and gave them a chance. They are now regular players for Richmond. Would you seriously dispute that Maric, Houli and Grigg are not in our best 21?
Let Hartley do his job. Whoever Hartley gets for next year I think he has deserved our faith based on present result and Lyons article shows most others in the AFL agree, despite your idea that you know better ahead of Blair's choice.
im shocked this thread is only 5 pages long when such an important aspect to getting ahead is being discussed.
good post by the way. now lets see. if hansen is say a 10% improvement on mcguane then it is list improvement nothing wrong with it as long as it is done cheaply. i call it value adding and we dont do enough of it.
if hansen doesnt kick on as we hope what do we lose. nothing we gain a 10% better player than the one we cut and we look to go thru the process again looking for a cheap better player than hansen.
sometimes you may have to go thru the process 3 or 4 times. value adding as you go before you actually get a real good player.
imo the real key point in doing this is you stay in the nd with good picks giving yourself the best possible crack at good kids.
just my opinion but i think we should have someone like hartley whos sole job is to go around the country and look at state league players like morris as well. who are not on an afl list or no longer on one. to me there are so so many state league players you can draft who would speed up the value adding process.
