Staggering Patience for the Inept!

[inxs88]

One of the frustrating and often staggering issues in our list management over the years is the sheer amount of seasons it takes for us to evaluate (I'll be blunt) uselessness of players who simply after 10 matches won't make it. Yet we somehow give them 3,4,5, 6 and often 7+ seasons to delist.

Examples over last decade:

* Lachie Keefe: 7 seasons
* Ben Sinclair: 7 seasons
* Marley W: 5 seasons
* Jack Frost: 4 seasons
* Adam Oxley: 6 seasons
* Tim Broomhead: 7 seasons
* Jack Ramsay: 5 seasons
* Corey Gault: 5 seasons (yes correct)
* Ben Crocker: 4 seasons
* Rupert Wills: 5 seasons
* Flynn Appleby: 3 seasons
* J Thomas: 11 and counting
* Max Lynch: 4 years and counting

Yet we are geniuses in evaluating Rising Star winner Jaidyn Stephenson after
2 seasons and a Covid-19 cluster f......k season. Understand injuries have curtailed some but most of the above "revealed themselves" after 1-2 seasons.

Staggering!

[Magpietothemax]

[Haff]

Reckon most lists would have cloggers like this. I always thought Oxley showed something. Thomas always had potential, his 2018 was fantastic but the last two seasons should be enough to see this his last contract.

[Pebbles Rocks]

Well done on spending all that time, but if you do the same exercise with the other 17 clubs and you will find a similar result.
So do it properly and waste more of your time on comparing to all the other clubs.

[simon tonna]

Post of the year inxs. It’s staggering.

[Mr Miyagi]

Yep should delisted that dud Dane Swan after two years of nothing. Fat, slow, not interested.

[Pies2016]

It’s definitely that annual lull between the trade period and draft night.

In fairness, four of those seven who had long gone, also received second chances, so at least one other club saw something in them. In the end, that just vindicated Collingwoods decision.

So by extension, would you rather be remembered for keeping players too long or letting them go and then having them go on and embarrass you down the track. Players like Hambling and Houli spring to mind.
Every club has their skeletons but I would love to be that fly on the wall when some of those third time around contracts are discussed and then approved.

P S Taberner has been at the Dockers for seven seasons. Sometimes but not often, a clubs patience is rewarded also.

[inxs88]

[inxs88]

Hire fast and fire faster always trumps the sloth approach

[CootaPie]

* Callum Brown: 4 seasons and counting

[think better]

When I read the title to this thread I thought it was all about many of the people that post on Nick's

[scoobydoo]

[inxs88]

[piedys]

[watt price tully]

Sinclair was a terrific player when they found his right position: backline but he had dodgy hammies. He should not be on that list. His pace scared teams. His was unfairly judged by a few muppets ...... on Nicks.