loyalty (or not) in the afl circa 2011

St Lenny · Post: # 1142827Post **St Lenny** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 12:45am

St Kilda lost patience with Joel Smith after his second knee reconstruction. Seriously, I wish people would do their research before they write this s***.

Winmar7 · Post: # 1142991Post **Winmar7** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 10:14am

Doesn't change the fact that he was...

a) traded to Hawthorn
b) a very good player for the Hawks

plugger66 · Sat 17 Sep 2011 10:25am

St Lenny wrote:St Kilda lost patience with Joel Smith after his second knee reconstruction. Seriously, I wish people would do their research before they write this s***.

So the person made a mistake. To me it seems a very good article. each to their own though.

skeptic · Post: # 1143001Post **skeptic** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 10:28am

My response

"yeah Joel Smith quit... wasn't traded

he was a young kid coming off a reco competing for the St.Kilda midfield with Burke, Harvey, Winmar, Brown, Jones, Lappin to name a few. Hawks put a better offer to him and he took it.

Do your research"

I should have added... you can't blame him for leaving given his circumstance

Winmar7 · Post: # 1143477Post **Winmar7** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 6:21pm

Plugger 66 - thanks, glad you enjoyed it

Skeptic - So Joel Smith quit after being offered a dud deal by St Kilda and was not traded, my point still stands that if we had more loyalty in him we would have eventually been re paid, as Hawthorn were when he was All Australian in 2001 & 2003, won their B & F in 2001 and was vice captain in 2005. Clearly we let go a very good player... and no cannot blame him