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Unfortunately the recruiting of Dale Thomas is going to go down as one of the worst decisions of the Malthouse administration. Not only did it cost a lot of money over an extended time period, but it had to have an effect on retaining (more accurately, the no - retaining) of Betts.
Thomas has been an excellent player, but his body is no longer allowing him to do the things that made him such a good player. He is fragile. He breaks very easily (in that regard he has taken the mantle from Broke McLean).
His pace, his aggression at the contest, his spring and solid hands and the depth of this kicking have all disappeared. He has shown some of the indomitable will (like the smother against the Weagles last year), but he just doesn't get to the contests any more.
He has to be thinking of retirement. He is a proud man: he cannot be liking what he is producing any more than we can like seeing it.
At this point he id not being able to deliver enough with any consistency. It must gall him at least as much as it galls us.
With his body no longer being reliable, he has to be considering his future.

@ Crash

As they say in the classics, "We were crucified Tony!"

must be corrected - 7 of the current 8 directors that appointed MM are still on the Board - they are responsible

@ Crash

I think you're right about Daisy and it wouldn't surprise me to see him retire - with probably some kind of inducement offered by the club.

Agree, as someone else said, we are very luck to have him.

I am not sure ANY of the board members were directly responsible for recruiting Thomas. I seem to recall that a certain former coach, some recruiting staff and maybe a GM having more input than any board member, including the President of the club. Most of these have been replaced already.
That the board must have rubber stamped it, they probably remember now with embarrassment, but it is not their responsibility to make those decisions. if they had interfered with that process, then they would deserve to be sacked.

I am more than inclined to agree. Buckley has played his best football in defence. He had to concentrate on his game more and his pace from defence was very useful.
For all that, he started very well and had some good patches. But that dropped mark was lethal.

He may be better in defence, but he's not clinical, is often out-muscled and his decision making (and disposal at times) is poor.

He may be better in defence, but he's not clinical, is often out-muscled and his decision making (and disposal at times) is poor.

Unfortunately the recruiting of Dale Thomas is going to go down as one of the worst decisions of the Malthouse administration. Not only did it cost a lot of money over an extended time period, but it had to have an effect on retaining (more accurately, the no - retaining) of Betts.
Thomas has been an excellent player, but his body is no longer allowing him to do the things that made him such a good player. He is fragile. He breaks very easily (in that regard he has taken the mantle from Broke McLean).
His pace, his aggression at the contest, his spring and solid hands and the depth of this kicking have all disappeared. He has shown some of the indomitable will (like the smother against the Weagles last year), but he just doesn't get to the contests any more.
He has to be thinking of retirement. He is a proud man: he cannot be liking what he is producing any more than we can like seeing it.
At this point he id not being able to deliver enough with any consistency. It must gall him at least as much as it galls us.
With his body no longer being reliable, he has to be considering his future.

He left Collingwood for the money, no way he'll retire before he gets it. He has no loyalty to us, why would he give a fork?

He left Collingwood for the money, no way he'll retire before he gets it. He has no loyalty to us, why would he give a fork?

Exactly, his decision to leave Collingwood was based on sureing up his future after football and 99% of people in the same situation (injured body, uncertain future) would act in the same way - it's certainly not Dale Thomas' fault that we allowed an ageing senior coach to extend his sphere of influence into recruitment.

You don't know him from a bar of soap and have no idea what his attitude to the CFC is, your blind hatred of anything or anybody associated with Malthouse colours everything you post.

The only thing that interests me is whether we are a better side with Thomas than without him as things currently stand, and there's no doubt in my mind that we are better with him.
I couldn't care less how much he's getting paid, whether he's Mick Malthouse's love child or what he eats for breakfast.