Of course you don't have to bottom out but we have already. Twice.

Yes but the good young players the ones that are going to become the next generation Kernahans, Bradleys, Williams etc are not available in the second tier competitions like the WAFL, VFL, SANFL, most of them come through the Under 18 Competition, clever recruiting is not going to get you these kids only early draft picks will, The talent identification process is far more precise these days.

You wont get any (or hardly any) of these talented 17/18 year old players slipping through to the older age competitions ready for clubs to pluck in the draft at 60 and 70th pick, it just wont happen. Even the reverse is starting to happen where you get clubs recruiting the bottom age 17 year olds late in the draft gambling that they would have been a top 20 pick in the following year - like we have done with Anthony Raso, and the jury is still out on that one.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

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Of course most of the best players missing multiple games had nothing to do with it.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

What a strange thread!

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Oompa loompa doompety dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me

Adrian Bassett was a Castlemaine boy (Bendigo zone). He was a gun. True.

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I support Carlton, Fulham and I'm an accountant - my mate calls me a 3 time loser.

He was a winger at best until Parkin tried to turn him into a CHB come FB - I think he had a nervous breakdown one day playing on Gary Ablett.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

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A bit of where are they now stuff....my wife got invited to a party through her work and it was down Torquay/Lorne way and I figured it was going to be a long drive to be bored out of my brain with a lot of ditzy women talking about tupperware, babies, etc but the host turned out to be Adrian Bassett...the Hound has a lovely home near the beach and was very friendly and teaches at a local school and has built himself a nice lifestyle down there and it was good to see he has used his money wisely and kicked on after his career ended... he was grateful for the opportunity that carlton gave him and had no regrets...

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- Conor Gillen

Good on him. He was a good player in a bad side. Once we got a bit stronger, he dropped to the back of the pack and eventually out of sight all together.

Did anyone hear Parkin on SEN a couple of days ago?

He said something like, "I really worried about seeing Carlton win another premiership in my life time".

He must be planning his afterlife in a couple of years time then.

Seriously despise the way everyone is jumping on our death bed in the past couple of days.

I thought he was from Coburg? Or maybe I'm getting it mixed up with Tim Reineits.

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No both Tim Reineits and Adrian Bassett were recruited from Coburg in the VFA (around 1990). I think it has been posted elsewhere but am pretty sure that Tim Reineits kicked 3 goals with his first 3 kicks in AFL football.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

That may well have been on Queen's B'day 1990 against Melb

The game where we were down by 50 odd at half time & lost by a goal...

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Hmm...not sure about that one. I have the clippings for that game at home. Am I going insane? For some reason I'm thinking Mark Naley kicked five goals that game.

Brent Heaver did for the Dees, I know that.

The MCC Members were standing singing 'For Heaver's a jolly good fellow'

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Sydney have proven that. They've made the finals most of the last 10 years, never having high draft picks and still winning the flag lat year.

You're right about Heaver CK, as I was about Naley, though it must've been another game with Rienets kicking three.



And here's our buddy Adrian laying a somewhat high tackle in the same game.

How many players have even been capable of taking 7 marks in a quarter?

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3 in that game.

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