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He would be a walk up start, but then, that's not saying much. There would be at least 15 Tiger players that I would take ahead of him.

That doesn't mean the way you can play can't benefit someone else....just not us.

Yet here we are 7 years on, sitting dead last with one win and a percentage of 62. .
He surely couldn't have done us any harm.

Which part of 'We offered him a contract - he left for more money at Richmond' don't you understand?

EDIT:
In fact, further to the above, rumour goes he had agreed to terms with Greg Swann who left on an overseas trip, then changed his mind and agreed with the Tigers in the meantime.

But sure, we should've offered him EXTRA coin on top of what he agreed to, just in case he was going to change his mind. You think he'd solve all our problems now?
Are you a member of his family??

He's barely missed a game since going to Richmond (130 games in 7 years 13 so far in 2018), after 40 odd games in four seasons at Carlton, so Richmond obviously saw something in him that we didn't and the bald facts suggest that their judgement has proven to be correct.
With due respect, I doubt that Hardwicke cares how you rate his players.

Hardwick doesn't care, and neither do plenty of others. But that's not the point of forums. Richmond were treading water for years before they finally got their act together. You can swap Grigg with dozens of average role players and not know the difference. It's like picking out one match in a match box and saying "I prefer this one".

Which part of 'We offered him a contract - he left for more money at Richmond' don't you understand?

EDIT:
In fact, further to the above, rumour goes he had agreed to terms with Greg Swann who left on an overseas trip, then changed his mind and agreed with the Tigers in the meantime.

But sure, we should've offered him EXTRA coin on top of what he agreed to, just in case he was going to change his mind. You think he'd solve all our problems now?
Are you a member of his family??

But every club needs them, and Grigg plays his role very well.
And I don't think that they are as common as matches in a box, if they were we wouldn't be sitting on the bottom.

No, just a realist who pays little attention to rumours.
We offered him a contract as a player who had played 40 games in four seasons, a Nick Graham type in other words, Richmond saw something in him that we didn't and offered him more.
Only a fool would have knocked it back.

Why are you so fixated on Grigg? You've been silent on him for the past 7 years he hasn't been at the club. Suddenly because he has a premiership medallion around his neck he is an automatic superstar?

You're reading way too much into my posts Kruds, someone else brought Grigg up and I said that we made a bad call on him and that was all I said.
By bad call I didn't mean not offering him more money, I wasn't referring to anything to do with his contract.
I meant that we were playing players like Chris Johnson, Joe Anderson, Aaron Joseph, Jordan Russell and Denis Armfield ahead of him which gave him cause to look elsewhere, and even if you don't rate him you can't possibly rate him below those others.
That's what I meant, I also admitted that I underrated him as well but I don't get paid to make those calls so my opinion of him is irrelevant.

No, Grigg types are common as matches in a box, it's some of the players around him that are not!

Richmond doesn't have many a graders, neither did Footscray, it's the Grigg types who win clubs flags.

You're reading way too much into my posts Kruds, someone else brought Grigg up and I said that we made a bad call on him and that was all I said.
By bad call I didn't mean not offering him more money, I wasn't referring to anything to do with his contract.
I meant that we were playing players like Chris Johnson, Joe Anderson, Aaron Joseph, Jordan Russell and Denis Armfield ahead of him which gave him cause to look elsewhere, and even if you don't rate him you can't possibly rate him below those others.
That's what I meant, I also admitted that I underrated him as well but I don't get paid to make those calls so my opinion of him is irrelevant.

Yep. Grigg turned out to be a much better foot soldier than the ones we ended up going with. We've had some good players but we have struggled with the foot soldiers to support them imo.