Re: Pre Game Permutations: AFL 2020 R1 Carlton vs Richmond
Reply #28 –
Hard to seriously discuss trading when using examples of players going home or making lifestyle choices ahead of commercial reasons, it's just not a valid example.
If we want to blame somebody look at the blokes who cut Robinson, Fevola, Garlett and Yarran because they were bad people and they(We/Carlton) wanted them to be somebody else's problem! The same people who claimed Betts wasn't worth an extra $50K/year!
You don't just recruit guys like Fevola and Betts because of what they give you on field 24x7, they might well play one good game in 10, but it's the effect they have on the club and membership as a whole that is more important.
Robinson, we had a club full of passives and we got rid of the only bloke who was willing to fly the flag because of a personal beef, moronic decision making. Unprofessional!
It's those decisions that eventually triggered a rebuild of a rebuild, after years of attempted patching!