04-22-2021, 01:26 AM
Someone on FB went to listen to Robert Walls at a Sportsman's Night.
"I had the pleasure of listening to Robert Walls speak last night at a Sportsman’s Association evening. He’s a great presenter and spoke for roughly an hour (inc Q & A), a few take aways for me were;
1. He mentioned that he still follows Carlton, and that he met with Mark Maclure on Tuesday to speak about his comments. For what it’s worth he agrees with Maclure but won’t speak to the media about it as the Club always follows up with a please explain (in his words; “I don’t want to be beaten over the head with a baseball bat”)
2. As the current team sits he can see that there’s only 3 players that would die for the jumper each game. He named them in order of Cripps, Walsh & Ed Curnow. Jones & Weitering go close but just aren’t desperate enough every minute of every game. He said the rest were happy to get paid and be mediocre.
3. His son is the current list manager/TPP manager at Freo and he’s based in Melbourne as Freo has a focus on WA players as the go home factor is real. He never mentioned Cripps as being a target but did speak of Tim English, Aaron Naughton & Bailey Dale of the WB’s. Also mentioned that Fyfe is currently on 1.4mil a year. I read into this that he was trying to say they won’t be going for “big fish” but rather younger players on smaller contracts."
"I had the pleasure of listening to Robert Walls speak last night at a Sportsman’s Association evening. He’s a great presenter and spoke for roughly an hour (inc Q & A), a few take aways for me were;
1. He mentioned that he still follows Carlton, and that he met with Mark Maclure on Tuesday to speak about his comments. For what it’s worth he agrees with Maclure but won’t speak to the media about it as the Club always follows up with a please explain (in his words; “I don’t want to be beaten over the head with a baseball bat”)
2. As the current team sits he can see that there’s only 3 players that would die for the jumper each game. He named them in order of Cripps, Walsh & Ed Curnow. Jones & Weitering go close but just aren’t desperate enough every minute of every game. He said the rest were happy to get paid and be mediocre.
3. His son is the current list manager/TPP manager at Freo and he’s based in Melbourne as Freo has a focus on WA players as the go home factor is real. He never mentioned Cripps as being a target but did speak of Tim English, Aaron Naughton & Bailey Dale of the WB’s. Also mentioned that Fyfe is currently on 1.4mil a year. I read into this that he was trying to say they won’t be going for “big fish” but rather younger players on smaller contracts."