Nope, now you can be fairly accused of only reading what you want to read.bigred wrote:The time for sticking with some of the cattle, hoping for them to come good must surely be over.
As I said in my earlier post.
A farmer who sent his dairy cattle off to the knackers on the basis that they were past their best before he had checked out the quality, price and availability of replacement dairy cattle on the market would rightly be called a fool.2) A poster earlier on has suggested that we might end up with picks 6, 22, 38, 54, 70, 86 if we finish tenth. If we were to go ahead and attempt to draft six players to our senior list from this, and we used the 2005 draft as a guide, we would have ended up with Beau Dowler, Beau Muston, Travis Tuck, Kristin Thornton, Jonathan Giles and, I suppose, Justin Sweeney (who was the last player picked at 71). Personally, I would far rather have Blake, Fiora, R Clarke, Gwilt, X Clarke and L Fisher than that lot. Perhaps other drafts would look better, but - apart from the 2000 and 2001 super drafts, I doubt that it would be that much better.
This is not Fantasy Football. If you delist an Aaron Fiora this year and end up drafting an even bigger dud to replace him, you don't get to go back next year and get rid of the dud and bring Fiora back. He's gone for ever.
There is no question in my mind that TS40 - no matter how fat he got over the summer of 2006-07, would offer more value at the club right now than a number of our current list: C Gardiner, A Schneider, M Ferguson, B Howard all spring to mind. But he's gone for good now.
That's why it's a giggle to read all of the posters who used to lambast Guerra week in and week out now talking about him as if he was the proverbial one who got away.
