Dodged a bullet

[Remi Moses]

After witnessing the exploits of Russell Robertson this season can't help feeling we dodged a major disaster by him agreeing to stay at melbourne. The persistant diving and easily going to ground,the all about me attitude is something thanfully we missed out on

[AndrewP6]

Re: Dodged a bullet

Think you might be right there...

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Dodged a bullet

Hindsight is a wonderful thing to have. Who knows, by being at the Bulldogs he might have be a better player mentally & not needed to stage for frees. He would have seen alot more of the ball than he does at Melbourne.

[Mantis]

Re: Dodged a bullet

Having his achilles tendon rupture in the menatime hasn't helped his cause at all.

[Jasper]

Re: Dodged a bullet

Hindsight is a wonderful thing to have. Who knows, by being at the Bulldogs he might have be a better player mentally & not needed to stage for frees. He would have seen alot more of the ball than he does at Melbourne.

I dont think this is a question about hindsight because it was a bad idea at the time and one that reeked of desperation and a couple of years on it has proved to be godsend.The Remi Moses suggestion that we dodged a bullet is correct.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Dodged a bullet

I dont think this is a question about hindsight because it was a bad idea at the time and one that reeked of desperation and a couple of years on it has proved to be godsend.The Remi Moses suggestion that we dodged a bullet is correct.

It didn't reek of desperation at all. There was the prospect of securing him via the PSD, the same PSD that enabled us to secure Scott Welsh, like for like if you will & that hasn't reeked of desperation.

Surely it's all about hindsight. If (& here's where hindsight comes into play) Robertson had been kicking bags of goals & standing on blokes heads we'd be bemoaning the fact that we didn't get him.

[Jasper]

Re: Dodged a bullet

It didn't reek of desperation at all. There was the prospect of securing him via the PSD, the same PSD that enabled us to secure Scott Welsh, like for like if you will & that hasn't reeked of desperation.

Surely it's all about hindsight. If (& here's where hindsight comes into play) Robertson had been kicking bags of goals & standing on blokes heads we'd be bemoaning the fact that we didn't get him.

He was old and injury prone and his best football long behind him and the fact that we even considered trading a high pick for him is indeed an act of desperation.He only even considered our offer as a bargaining chip anyway.Even if he had kicked 30 goals so far his season I wouldn't see him as the one who got away so its not hindsight for me.

[The Coon Dog]

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He was old and injury prone and his best football long behind him and the fact that we even considered trading a high pick for him is indeed an act of desperation.He only even considered our offer as a bargaining chip anyway.Even if he had kicked 30 goals so far his season I wouldn't see him as the one who got away so its not hindsight for me.

We never ever considered trading a high pick for him. If we did get him, it would have been through the PSD.

[The Underdog]

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We never ever considered trading a high pick for him. If we did get him, it would have been through the PSD.

Don't let the facts get in the way TCD.

I don't think we can make a particularly objective judgement after he's spent a year out with a torn achilles.
I would think that when we were considering him he would have certainly been considered a better player than Scott Welsh. If he had of come to us via the PSD, never done his achilles and been playing as a 2nd or 3rd forward in a side that's a premiership contender with great service from the midfield rather than the worst team in the league with poor delivery then he may have been a great acquisition. But hey it didn't happen so we'll never know.
He's certainly not the player he was which is a shame because at his best he was pretty good and certainly entertaining.
Certainly with Scott Welsh's injury history we;ve been lucky to have him on the park as often as we have.

[ledge]

Re: Dodged a bullet

I think he would have been very good with us.
Different club, different culture, more drive.
He also has good relationship with media which helps in other ways.

[The Coon Dog]

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Don't let the facts get in the way TCD.

I'm not too sure what you mean here.

I don't think we can make a particularly objective judgement after he's spent a year out with a torn achilles.

My point exactly.

[Jasper]

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We never ever considered trading a high pick for him. If we did get him, it would have been through the PSD.

I do not believe what you are saying is totally correct. We were initially offering the pick that we ended up using to get Hudson. Melbourne wanted pick 5 and we offered 22. Of course we would have liked Robertson to slip through to the PSD but we did offer pick 22. Once the Hudson deal was done we then hoped to get Robertson via the PSD and to me that would have still been a high price.

[Mantis]

Re: Dodged a bullet

I do not believe what you are saying is totally correct. We were initially offering the pick that we ended up using to get Hudson. Melbourne wanted pick 5 and we offered 22. Of course we would have liked Robertson to slip through to the PSD but we did offer pick 22. Once the Hudson deal was done we then hoped to get Robertson via the PSD and to me that would have still been a high price.

Who is the source that provided you with this information?

I have never heard that we offered up pick 22 so I would be interested to know more.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Dodged a bullet

I do not believe what you are saying is totally correct. We were initially offering the pick that we ended up using to get Hudson. Melbourne wanted pick 5 and we offered 22. Of course we would have liked Robertson to slip through to the PSD but we did offer pick 22. Once the Hudson deal was done we then hoped to get Robertson via the PSD and to me that would have still been a high price.

That is simply factually incorrect.

It was always our intention to take him in the PSD or not at all.

The source is fairly good.

[The Coon Dog]

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I do not believe what you are saying is totally correct. We were initially offering the pick that we ended up using to get Hudson. Melbourne wanted pick 5 and we offered 22. Of course we would have liked Robertson to slip through to the PSD but we did offer pick 22. Once the Hudson deal was done we then hoped to get Robertson via the PSD and to me that would have still been a high price.

No way, I was there with Mantis & Sockeye when we were told about Robbo.