WHY DID WE NOT TAKE McINTOSH

[barks4eva]

Please forgive me if I'm missing something here as I have been too busy working on my 2020 board challenge and am not up to speed on all of the draft scenarios of the past few weeks

I'm mystified as to why we did not take Hamish McIntosh

We need a ruckman and gave up PICK 13 for a young developing one who will be years away

Geelong got McIntosh with pick 36

If we'd given up pick 25 or 26 or whatever it is we had or have surely we could have landed an already developed and quality ruckman originally drafted with pick 9

AND still had pick 13 to use on a quality kid in the draft

Can someone please explain how this happened?

Is this a complete stuff up?

It just seems to me to be totally illogical

Or is there some logical explanation that current;y escapes me!

[SaintTom]

He's 28. Hickey is 21. Why the hell would we want a ruckman who is 28? We're certainly not lacking in that age group. You can't always just go after players that are going to help you for 2 or 3 years max. Hickey is meant to be part of a ruck duo with Mac for the best part of a decade.

I would have been livid if we went for McIntosh. Luckily, our recruiters aren't that stupid.

[savatage]

He also had Lars surgery done to his PCL -massive risk.

[Little Dozer]

He's always injured and isn't very good is why. Norf dealt him for a reason.

[plugger66]

I suppose the question should be why the hell would we take him.

[barks4eva]

I suppose the question should be why the hell would we take him.

The rationale would be we could have got that extra ruckman and still kept pick 13 for a quality young kid in the draft

When McIntosh is tearing it up at Geelong perhaps then you might understand

I admit I don't know much about Hickey but it seems on the surface we paid way over for Hickey at 13

[saintsRrising]

Please forgive me if I'm missing something here as I have been too busy working on my 2020 board challenge and am not up to speed on all of the draft scenarios of the past few weeks

I'm mystified as to why we did not take Hamish McIntosh

We need a ruckman and gave up PICK 13 for a young developing one who will be years away

Answer Part One: Geelong are topping up for one last crack, with an aging core

Answer Part Two: StKilda are clearly restructuring for the future and are taking a longer term view

[plugger66]

I suppose the question should be why the hell would we take him.

The rationale would be we could have got that extra ruckman and still kept pick 13 for a quality young kid in the draft

When McIntosh is tearing it up at Geelong perhaps then you might understand

I admit I don't know much about Hickey but it seems on the surface we paid way over for Hickey at 13

Do you think we can win a flag in the next 3 years?

[barks4eva]

I suppose the question should be why the hell would we take him.

The rationale would be we could have got that extra ruckman and still kept pick 13 for a quality young kid in the draft

When McIntosh is tearing it up at Geelong perhaps then you might understand

I admit I don't know much about Hickey but it seems on the surface we paid way over for Hickey at 13

Do you think we can win a flag in the next 3 years?

If we'd taken McIntosh and kept pick 13 for a young jet we were odds on to win the premiership next year

Once again our club has shot itself in the foot

Time to sack the board

[plugger66]

The rationale would be we could have got that extra ruckman and still kept pick 13 for a quality young kid in the draft

When McIntosh is tearing it up at Geelong perhaps then you might understand

I admit I don't know much about Hickey but it seems on the surface we paid way over for Hickey at 13

Do you think we can win a flag in the next 3 years?

If we'd taken McIntosh and kept pick 13 for a young jet we were odds on to win the premiership next year

Once again our club has shot itself in the foot

Time to sack the board

Or posters on drugs.

[bergholt]

The rationale would be we could have got that extra ruckman and still kept pick 13 for a quality young kid in the draft.

Isn't Hickey a quality young kid? He's only 21, and he's played some solid games at AFL level. Why would we want to take a less proven kid in his place?

[felix]

Hickey is ready to go.

[bobmurray]

The club and Barks at loggerheads again...

Only one of them can be right

And the winner is....


THE CLUB

[SideshowMilne]

That's very good bm

[stinger]

If we'd taken McIntosh and kept pick 13 for a young jet we were odds on to win the premiership next year

Once again our club has shot itself in the foot

Time to sack the board

mr rixrox.......lmfao....

[rexy]

McIntosh not different enough to mac to play in tandem either IMO! Similar type, bit lumbering, good grab, pushes and shoves but not necessarily a prolific tap winner! Hickey looks more athletic and mobile and to be a bit of a leaper, good contrast!

[Sick Nal Danto]

lol at this post, Geelong are doing what we did with Garder and King

We have past that period and now have to look to the future

[St Ick]

If it was the year 2008 I'd be all for a McIntosh type. But it isn't and we aren't topping up on expensive injury prone ruckmen.

McIntosh and Goldy didn't go well together. Instead we get a 10 year partnership between two of the top handful of ruckman based on potential. I'm guessing you missed the bit where Quayle rated Hicjey in front of probable #3 draft pick Brodie Grundy.

I get the feeling we could pick up Ablett and you'd still want to sack the board!

[mad saint guy]

He's constantly injured, can't play in the same side as another ruckman and the list is being geared up for another crack around 2015, when he'd be gone.

[gringo]

The new rules make carrying two specialist tap ruckmen less appealing. Athletic rucks that can be handy around the ground will become more valuable now. Mc Intosh looked good a few years ago but hasn't shown much lately and North look worse when they had Goldy and McIntosh together. I'm happier with a long term option.

[Verdun66]

North were not unhappy to see him go as he was on quite a high wage.

[Devilhead]

RIX ROX MCINTOX

[evo]

Under the new rules he will struggle. No more body contact in ruck, suits ruckmen who are athletic and can leap. I think MacEvoy may well be replaced in the long term by Hickey. These new rules were announced during trade week which along with Collingwoods interest pushed Hickeys value up. All the other ruckmen available were spuds.

[samuraisaint]

Judging by the (very) little I have seen of Hickey, he seems to play in (roughly) the same mould as Peter Everitt. I think that is exactly the type of player we really need (apart from a full-back of course).

[ShanghaiSaint]

He's 28. Hickey is 21. Why the hell would we want a ruckman who is 28?

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