It seemed like a good idea at the time....

[Dry Rot]

A bit of late year fun - the great stuff ups by our team or coach or any other team or coach.

I have a hazy memory of a bad match up by Wallace in a 98 Crows final that cost us dearly.

Thoughts?

[GVGjr]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Aker getting another 12 months didn't exactly work for us especially given the off field distractions that followed and the fact that we gave him the license to do extra things in the media.

Great intention but Aker underlined that he was never going to go quietly

[Rocco Jones]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

A bit of late year fun - the great stuff ups by our team or coach or any other team or coach.

I have a hazy memory of a bad match up by Wallace in a 98 Crows final that cost us dearly.

Thoughts?

Smith on Robran?

Drafting Allen Jakovich with what was it? Pick 8/9?

Lachy Veale deal (as well as Koops and Street both for top 20 picks in that same trade period)

I guess they weren't even a good idea at the time.

[Scraggers]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Peter Rhode

[Dry Rot]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Smith on Robran?

Yes, thanks.

Smith on Robran?

Drafting Allen Jakovich with what was it? Pick 8/9?

Lachy Veale deal (as well as Koops and Street both for top 20 picks in that same trade period)

I guess they weren't even a good idea at the time.

Agreed.

[Doc26]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

A bit of late year fun - the great stuff ups by our team or coach or any other team or coach.

I have a hazy memory of a bad match up by Wallace in a 98 Crows final that cost us dearly.

Thoughts?

Rohan Smith on Matthew Robran should never have seemed a good idea at the time.
DR, thread title might better be read 'What we're they thinking ?'

Angry Anderson singing Bound For Glory in a dodgy looking Batmobile out at VFL Park in the 91 GF pre game entertainment.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Getting Meatloaf to sing at the Grand Final.

[jeemak]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Rohan Smith on Matthew Robran should never have seemed a good idea at the time.
DR, thread title might better be read 'What we're they thinking ?'

Angry Anderson singing Bound For Glory in a dodgy looking Batmobile out at VFL Park in the 91 GF pre game entertainment.

Mate, that really happened. There's evidence of it an' all.

Doggies Doggies Doggies, woof woof woof!

[jeemak]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Getting Meatloaf to sing at the Grand Final.

Honourable mention behind the angry one!

[LostDoggy]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

2008 Qualifying Final.... Yep i went there.

Hawthorn giving us an absolute bath, in the second quarter especially.

Just remember looking in Hawthorns forward 50 and all was there was Morris and Franklin.

Don't think it was the time and place to leave Buddy one out for the entire first half...

[jeemak]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

2008 Qualifying Final.... Yep i went there.

Hawthorn giving us an absolute bath, in the second quarter especially.

Just remember looking in Hawthorns forward 50 and all was there was Morris and Franklin.

Don't think it was the time and place to leave Buddy one out for the entire first half...

I remember sitting with my best mate who's a Hawks supporter saying the same thing, though this was after the 20 minute mark of the first quarter telling him we'd be lucky to get out of the game with an 8-10 goal loss.

That game, along with the 2009 qualifying final remain the biggest disappointments of our 2008-2010 run for me. We were completely underprepaired from a headspace perspective.

[Greystache]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Aker, Eagleton, Hahn all for an extra year in 2010. None had played well in any of the 4 qualifying or prelim finals but we thought for some reason they were going to reverse some 800 of games of form and be the difference. Their salaries probably cost us Harbrow.

Peter Street saved from delisting by a first round draft choice from us.

Trapping an inconsistent tall swingman into being drafted by us rather than going to where he could play with his brother.

Scott Clayton's obsession with skinny athletic utilities in the draft, and no one else thinking to overall him.

Allen Jakovic....

Getting rid of Bruce Reid on 88 games.

Having my Mum put number 9 on my Bulldogs jumper after John Georgiades' first game.

[Hotdog60]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Getting rid of the reserve competition and the under 19's so fans couldn't see players evolve in the curtain raisers.

[LostDoggy]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

What about Jose Romero getting that game in one of the Prelims (from memory 97 or 98) against Adelaide ?

His shoulder was stuffed, everyone knew it was stuffed, every supporter knew it'd pop out, he plays, it pops out early in the game.

[Maddog37]

Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Sorry to go there but...............changing the name from Footscray.