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Re: North Melbourne

Postby bennymacca » Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:29 pm

Zelezny Chucks wrote:
bennymacca wrote:It doesn’t send a very good message to their currently playing list either.

Most clubs are about filling a need - north seem to be trying to fill the lack of a star - no matter who that player is


I think you are probably right about your Gaff gaffe not being inside your top 20 dumbest comments. Mainly through sheer weight of numbers.

If you can name a player on that list, that wouldn't improve any team in the league, then you are a bigger muppet than we already know.

Hannebury is the only one you would now question but not the 2015 version.

I'd be more pissed off if I found out we weren't going after elite players solely because it looks bad to numpty opposition supporters. Despite the fact we end up in the same position as 16 other clubs.



You’ve missed the point entirely.

Of course all of those would improve your list.

But most other clubs identify a need and then go about satisfying that need

Ie lynch to Richmond
Hogan? To freo
Lever to Melb
Gibbs to Adelaide

Etc etc

North have gone fk it we will take anyone, we have the cash. And people clearly haven’t bought into that as they have turned down bigger offers to stay at their own club
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Dutchy » Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:41 pm

Miles off Benny
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Booney » Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:44 pm

So De Goey was going to fix the outside run issues?
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Dutchy » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:10 pm

Booney wrote:So De Goey was going to fix the outside run issues?


Any club would take De Goey and like 16 other clubs we missed out
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Zelezny Chucks » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:11 pm

Booney wrote:So De Goey was going to fix the outside run issues?


If you think our forward line doesn't need improvement then you watch Port too much.
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Zelezny Chucks » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:25 pm

bennymacca wrote:
Zelezny Chucks wrote:
bennymacca wrote:It doesn’t send a very good message to their currently playing list either.

Most clubs are about filling a need - north seem to be trying to fill the lack of a star - no matter who that player is


I think you are probably right about your Gaff gaffe not being inside your top 20 dumbest comments. Mainly through sheer weight of numbers.

If you can name a player on that list, that wouldn't improve any team in the league, then you are a bigger muppet than we already know.

Hannebury is the only one you would now question but not the 2015 version.

I'd be more pissed off if I found out we weren't going after elite players solely because it looks bad to numpty opposition supporters. Despite the fact we end up in the same position as 16 other clubs.



You’ve missed the point entirely.

Of course all of those would improve your list.

But most other clubs identify a need and then go about satisfying that need

Ie lynch to Richmond
Hogan? To freo
Lever to Melb
Gibbs to Adelaide

Etc etc

North have gone fk it we will take anyone, we have the cash. And people clearly haven’t bought into that as they have turned down bigger offers to stay at their own club


I've not missed your point you just haven't made a valid one. If it was as simple as spending the cash we would just move down the list and be paying someone like Jenkins overs. No list manager would be dumb enough to do that.

With the exception of De Goey and arguably Heeney the rest are all elite mids. So with my limited knowledge of our list management strategy we probably identified that we need to help out Cunnington and Higgins with some more quality.

Heeney and De Goey could also be used through the midfield and would improve our forward line. Mason Wood has all the potential in the world but at the moment hasn't come on so why wouldn't we look to bolster our forward line. It's almost like we are looking to the future and want to improve our list...

Staggering that you are having a go at a club for trying to get the best possible players available each year. If we were spunking our wad at Grundy or Gawn while having Goldy and Pruess on the list you might have an argument. As it stands you don't.
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Dutchy » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:34 pm

Did we go after Lynch or McGovern this year? Lever, Stringer, Rockliff, Smith last year? No.
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby mots02 » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:41 pm

Dutchy wrote:Did we go after Lynch or McGovern this year? Lever, Stringer, Rockliff, Smith last year? No.


Luckily you didnt... on current form you'd miss those too ;)
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Brodlach » Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:13 pm

Dutchy wrote:Did we go after Lynch or McGovern this year? Lever, Stringer, Rockliff, Smith last year? No.


How do you know you didn’t?
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Dutchy » Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:14 pm

McClure didn't say so
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Brodlach » Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:20 pm

Dutchy wrote:McClure didn't say so


To borrow from Booney

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Re: North Melbourne

Postby HH3 » Tue Oct 09, 2018 9:16 am

Crows supporters having a crack at Norths recruitings pretty funny.

Name all the players that have wanted out of North once they're there. We have to kick them out, ie Boomer, Petrie.

Now name all the Crows players who wanted out....lets start with Dangerfield, Gunston, Davis, McGovern, Cameron, Lever....

And your Captains a f**kin spud of a human.
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Spargo » Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:02 am

Well that oughta calm things down...
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby MW » Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:24 am

HH3 wrote:Crows supporters having a crack at Norths recruitings pretty funny.

Name all the players that have wanted out of North once they're there. We have to kick them out, ie Boomer, Petrie.

Now name all the Crows players who wanted out....lets start with Dangerfield, Gunston, Davis, McGovern, Cameron, Lever....

And your Captains a f**kin spud of a human.


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Re: North Melbourne

Postby daysofourlives » Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:26 am

HH3 wrote:Crows supporters having a crack at Norths recruitings pretty funny.

Name all the players that have wanted out of North once they're there. We have to kick them out, ie Boomer, Petrie.

Now name all the Crows players who wanted out....lets start with Dangerfield, Gunston, Davis, McGovern, Cameron, Lever....

And your Captains a f**kin spud of a human.


Devils advocate here, Gibson, and Hale and thats just to Hawthorn
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby MW » Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:27 am

daysofourlives wrote:
HH3 wrote:Crows supporters having a crack at Norths recruitings pretty funny.

Name all the players that have wanted out of North once they're there. We have to kick them out, ie Boomer, Petrie.

Now name all the Crows players who wanted out....lets start with Dangerfield, Gunston, Davis, McGovern, Cameron, Lever....

And your Captains a f**kin spud of a human.


Devils advocate here, Gibson, and Hale and thats just to Hawthorn


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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Dutchy » Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:28 am

Going back a fair way to find one there! Hale got delisted BTW
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby daysofourlives » Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:29 am

Dutchy wrote:Going back a fair way to find one there! Hale got delisted BTW

Proof?? Im 99% certain he was traded, happy to be proven wrong
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Booney » Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:30 am

HH3 wrote:Crows supporters having a crack at Norths recruitings pretty funny.

Name all the players that have wanted out of North once they're there. We have to kick them out, ie Boomer, Petrie.

Now name all the Crows players who wanted out....lets start with Dangerfield, Gunston, Davis, McGovern, Cameron, Lever....

And your Captains a f**kin spud of a human.


This post will be more successful in drawing responses than North's free agency recruiting efforts.
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Re: North Melbourne

Postby Booney » Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:31 am

daysofourlives wrote:
Dutchy wrote:Going back a fair way to find one there! Hale got delisted BTW

Proof?? Im 99% certain he was traded, happy to be proven wrong


On 8 October 2010, David Hale was traded to Hawthorn in exchange for a 1st round draft pick.
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