Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

[Maddog37]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

I think Smith will be more than a toiler. He has shown a bit more explosiveness than that.

[ledge]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

Poor kid 3 games in, 4 goals in his first game and listed as a just a toiler.. what hope has he got.
If you judge on that, Shane Warne was a deadset spud and delisted off the Australian cricket team after 3 games if you were a selector.

[Bulldog Revolution]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

I really believe in the best available pick philosphy but we need to go with needs.

Nobody has been in a better position to go best available pick philosophy over the past decade than Geelong.

And yet they've picked a whole swag of players that fill current needs on their list and in their team i.e Harry Taylor JPod, Orren Stephenson etc

You really have to do a mix of both, and the rookie draft really should enable you to do a bit of both because you have more picks and take fliers on some best performed and desperate state league players

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

Poor kid 3 games in, 4 goals in his first game and listed as a just a toiler.. what hope has he got.
If you judge on that, Shane Warne was a deadset spud and delisted off the Australian cricket team after 3 games if you were a selector.

And Marty McGrath would have won 3 Brownlows.


This isn't about what he has or hasn't done in his first 3 games, it's looking at his potential and thinking 'how much better can he be?'.

If his kicking can't improve he will always have a ceiling on how good he can get.

[Maddog37]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

Same things would no doubt have been said about Luke Dalhaus.

[Doc26]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

And Marty McGrath would have won 3 Brownlows.


This isn't about what he has or hasn't done in his first 3 games, it's looking at his potential and thinking 'how much better can he be?'.

If his kicking can't improve he will always have a ceiling on how good he can get.

Are we talking Rhys Palmer ?

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

Im awaiting an article on how successful the recruiting of Rawlings and Streety were, just to name a few. Especially giving up pick 17 for Streety for memory!

While Terry has a few marks against him, you can't pin those on him.

Those great deals were manufactured by "The Mastermind" Peter Rohde.

and Hudson was picked up in the 50s by Adelaide.

[1eyedog]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

Does this mean that next year we will be the best team since 1997?

[Missing-Dog]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

Same things would no doubt have been said about Luke Dalhaus.

Dahlhaus had no real attributes that stood out according to all reports, including his kicking.. Dont see anything holding little Dahl back Smith might just follow in Lukes footsteps.. Hoping he does anyway

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

Dahlhaus had no real attributes that stood out according to all reports, including his kicking.. Dont see anything holding little Dahl back Smith might just follow in Lukes footsteps.. Hoping he does anyway

Decision making is something you can't see easily on the outside at first. But over time, it makes its presence felt. Luke makes great choices and backs it up with a massive hunger for the ball. Footy Brains and Brawn.

[The Doctor]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

If The Bulldogs win the premiership next year Wallace will find some way to take the credit for it. But for all that he is correct in this context. The list is weak and you can't expect it to remain strong when you lose players of the calibre of Johnson, Hall, Aker, Hudson in quick succession and have so many fading stars, ie Lake, Gilbee, Cooney etc.

However our drafting & list management has been poor.

- Clayton bungling so many first round picks
- Allowing 2 of our best youngsters Ward and Harbrow to leave (Fantasia Dept)
- Strange draft choices (Howard, Tutt, Thorne, Skinner)
- Unnecessary trades, Sherman, Djekurra and the price we paid for them.

Mistakes will always be made and you can't get everything right but we have a knack of stuffing things up when we are in a good position better than any other club.

[AndrewP6]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

- Allowing 2 of our best youngsters Ward and Harbrow to leave (Fantasia Dept)

Mistakes will always be made and you can't get everything right but we have a knack of stuffing things up when we are in a good position better than any other club.

I'm not sure Fantasia and Co. just 'allowed' them to leave. Short of bankrupting the club (twice) what more could've been done? Harbrow left for mon...er, his family and girlfriend, and Ward left for mon...er, the next part of his "football journey"

[Bornadog]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

I'm not sure Fantasia and Co. just 'allowed' them to leave. Short of bankrupting the club (twice) what more could've been done? Harbrow left for mon...er, his family and girlfriend, and Ward left for mon...er, the next part of his "football journey"

but why didn't Essendon, Carlton and Collingwood lose anyone? Its a matter of how you negotiate and how you treat a player and the environment you create in the club.

[AndrewP6]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

but why didn't Essendon, Carlton and Collingwood lose anyone? Its a matter of how you negotiate and how you treat a player and the environment you create in the club.

Or perhaps how underhandedly they work deals to be able to keep players there (Mr Visy Ambassador, anyone?)

[Hotdog60]

Re: Terry Wallace says - Current team Weakest since 1996 team.

We should have got in early with Ward, if we valued him as a future player we should have extended his contract well before GWS came sniffing. The club knew about the expansion clubs coming in and should have acted to sign up our future stars.