Funny what happens when you give someone an extended run in the ones... sometimes you just have to give a sucker an even break. Criminal to not give them a fair go before delisting
this is about the only thing i agree on so far on this thread.
we had to give him a decent go at some stage before cutting him.
thing is we took him as a mature recrit 23yo and he played just 2 games in his 3 yrs with us. he did nothing at all to warrant a game not a thing.
he was never going to get a game in front of maric and i can tell you all now there would have been hell to pay if he had got gifted games in front of vickery. yep the one who kept derickx out of the side is the big old softie himself.
no one can blame the club for delisting derickx he did absolutely nothing to warrant a spot.
and its freakin hilarious all the wrist slashing about him getting a game at sydney. do people actually watch players hes been shizen id sydney got thrashed in one position tonight it was in the ruck.
to me its such a shame we cant make calls like the derickx call on more players whose performances have been poor for much longer.
the bloke was absolute crap at richmond and we sure as hell made the right call in cutting him.
replacing him with hampson and useing such a good pick to get hampson was always a risk a risk i thought we should not have taken. im laughing now though at all the teeth gnashing not many were too upset or spoke up about us drafting him at the time.
finally on hampson unlike most on here i think PURELY as a ruckman at ruck contests hampson has been more than servicable. its just a shame the other areas of his game have been so poor.
the club really did have to at the very least rookie a young ruckman last yr. oh well.
