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We would all be happy if he didn't have a succesfull career at Richmond I know i would
I think you'll find many of us would love to see him have a great career @ Richmond.
No one likes to see a champion fall, even if at one time they hated him.
Really what i'm trying to say is i want him to be healthy and all but st.kilda made a bad decsion not to draft him and if he has a succesfull career i'll be really pissed off
This decision will go down as one of the greatest f#$ ups St Kilda has ever made (and there's a fair few over the journey).
Some much for worried about sponsors reactions... they f#%ing lining up at Punt Road to throw $$$ at them.
If it wasn't so sad I'd laugh at the thought of McQualter lining up on Cousins & think what might have been.
Oh well, I'll just try to be positive at the thought of our kids following our fantastic Captain & taking us to the promised land.
Mcqualter would be earning the same as him too ... biggest mistake we've ever made not doing it... would have brought in sponsers, marketing, membership and most of all performance on the field... and if it went ass then we'd have the same list minus one on the rookie list... (because one will be promoted)
If Cousins finishes in the top 3 in Richmond's B & F, the current board of the St kilda football club/ Family First should agree to resign on masse and move aside for someone with a fair dinkum clue to take over!
Afterall they've had their go, proven to be a bunch of nuffies with NFI, relocated the club to Seaford, taken liberties with reserved seat holders on level two and now gifted Ben Cousins to Richmond!
It's time to go > current board of the St kilda Football Club!
barks4eva wrote:If Cousins finishes in the top 3 in Richmond's B & F, the current board of the St kilda football club/ Family First should agree to resign on masse and move aside for someone with a fair dinkum clue to take over!
Afterall they've had their go, proven to be a bunch of nuffies with NFI, relocated the club to Seaford, taken liberties with reserved seat holders on level two and now gifted Ben Cousins to Richmond!
It's time to go > current board of the St kilda Football Club!
IMO it shouldn't have been a board decision in the first place. We have a football department that is perfectly capable of assessing players, and they take player psychology into account when recruiting players. It should have been left up to our recruiters to do their jobs without having the board get involved.
vacuous space wrote:IMO it shouldn't have been a board decision in the first place. We have a football department that is perfectly capable of assessing players, and they take player psychology into account when recruiting players. It should have been left up to our recruiters to do their jobs without having the board get involved.
I thought Matty Drain and John Peake would be left to the last say
[quote="rodgerfox"]Ben Cousins is gone. Move on.[/quote]
Ben Cousins is not gone, he will be right there at the centre bounces cutting our midfielders to shreds.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
Ben Cousins is not gone, he will be right there at the centre bounces cutting our midfielders to shreds.
Bahahahahaaa...Hayes, Dal Santo, Ball...who'd have thought a bunch of Saints supporters would be so fixated by an opposition player that they'd forget we've got a few top 10 midfielders ourselves??? Get Baker back to his best (just as plausible as BC getting back to his best) and Benny will be lucky to see the ball.
[quote="vacuous space"]IMO it shouldn't have been a board decision in the first place. We have a football department that is perfectly capable of assessing players, and they take player psychology into account when recruiting players. It should have been left up to our recruiters to do their jobs without having the board get involved.[/quote]
There is a reason why we have boards.
It is so that we have someone to make the really big stuff ups.
No boards, no global financial crisis either.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
Nice try Barks...but theres already a thread on the Potential ramifications of us not drafting Cousins..sorry if adding to that doesnt make your post stand out enough
... biggest mistake we've ever made not doing it... would have brought in sponsers, marketing, membership and most of all performance on the field... and if it went ass then we'd have the same list minus one on the rookie list... (because one will be promoted)
......Its footy first 
