flags you got stuck into the club over this as if it was gospel.
Redans accusation is based on one quote saying key forward.
yet to readout the wrong name would take so many errors going unnoticed by so many people it's not funny.
have a look at the interview after the draft with FJ,
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/roarvisionarchive/tabid/11454/contentid/314631/default.aspxdoes he look like a bloke who has just had the wrong name read out when he talks about dmac?
perhaps he is a master liar but i cant see any indication he was caught out. seemed to know his stuff about him pretty well.
his bio was given to the IT dept before hand so they could prepare in advance, so this was pre planned mistake?
what is more likely?
the term used in one interview was a mistake
or
a carefully planned event was stuffed up so much on so many levels that it all came together in such a way that no one realised the mistake was made until it was too late?
it was reported in the press about the reaction of the essendon table when we read out helbigs name, but there was no report in the press about any reaction at the richmond table when they read out macdonalds name.
surely one of the recruiters would have realised it was wrong, or do you believe that they all pale in to insignificance with them, that they dont recall who they actually looked into ain their list of potential draftees? that after all the analysis they put in and narrow down to number of potential draftees, that they didn't even know who their man played for?
just say somehow the bloke reading out the names was somehow given the wrong name.
what sort of reaction do you think the recruiters would have had as the wrong name was read out? there would of have been a look of shock on their faces followed by all sort of activity and frenzied discussion going on at the table. someone would have picked it up.
or perhaps given most peoples opinion of FJ as being pretty low, he regards 6 ft 1 as being a key forward? poo if you want to be technical he said key forward, not key position forward. would it be that long a stretch to consider someone that kicks 40+ goals in a year as a key forward, (as opposed to a key position forward)? who knows from a dud like jackson?
seriously, which scenario is quite possible and which is most unlikely?
Ramps, I'm all for criticism where it it deserved, but by the same token i find unwarranted criticism distasteful.
The scenario that RT paints, while not impossible is improbable, but as i said, people will generally believe what they want to.
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