The not drafting or trading for James Stewart

[inxs88]

With time Geoff Austen and Michael Horsborough can still make it!

[stui magpie]

i still believe his best work was "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

[Neil Appleby]

[loki04]

The club stuffed up by not at the least testing the waters there was no harm in nominating and then not matching should too low of a pick be used.

[Bob Sugar]

With all due respect mate, that is a load of tripe, he drafted Ramsay With our second pick FFs, our second pick was always going to used.

[E]

Need to remember as well, if we'd nominated him as a FS chances are excellent Sheedy would have bidded with his second round pick, In turn forcing us to use our original second rounder and im pretty sure we traded that for a pick upgrade, so Stewart probably would have cost us a lot more than Ramsay, possibly one of BK-Grundy or Broom.

Oops, I take that back, 38 was our second pick, so he would've cost us Ramsay.

yeah, but only if we matched!

[E]

[Pies2016]

I will just reserve my judgement until he actually shows some consistancy on the footy field. Im yet to be convinced we have missed out on anything special. Good luck to him, anyway.

[neil]

Has done nothing so far to suggest Hine was wrong

[E]

agree.

[Dave The Man]

He had 1 Good game in a Meanliss Game vs the Dogs and 1 got Practise Games.

Looks good but far way away from knowing IF we made a Mistake or Not

[Collingwood Crackerjack]

What about his 5 kick, 1 goal game against the Bombers' 3rds prompted this thread?

Exactly but it probably won't stop John Ralph writing another article about how the Pies recruiters ballsed another one up and how the lack of Stewart is causing Pies supporters ulcers, haemorrhoids and various other anxiety related afflictions.

So that's whats causing it! I told the doctor it had nothing to do with the beer and fried food intake!

He's not much chop, you'd make room for him on the list if the cards fell that way, but I doubt he'll ever cost you a premiership by his absense

[AN_Inkling]

I'd have thought that locking away a second round pick for a player we didn't rate that highly in a year where we were doing a decent amount of trading would not have been the smartest decision. We needed flexibility to ensure the trades we were working on could get done.

[MightyMagpie]

I'd back Hine's judgment in.

Having said that Stewart looked raw but promising for a KPF in the game the other day.

If turns out to be any good then at least we have the FS link to try to bring him back into the Pies family.

[inxs88]

Unfortunately Ramsay is an unremarkable height, kick, skill and X factor player and in hindsight a 6ft 6 player like Stewart could have been a point of difference. Especially when we have 9 half back flankers on our list too!