Getting in early this week. AFL Round 8 – Thursday 1st May ORFFA Round 7 – Regrets Round Following on from Bandit's musings in the Round 6 review thread, it might be time to express some rueful regrets when it comes to some drafting, delistment and trade choices our erstwhile group of ORFFA coaches may have made. For some, a simple "I have no playing ruck" may be the appropriate response. For others, well, there might be all manner of other moves (or non-moves) from which to choose. Here's to a round where there are no regrets ... and there are as many playing rucks as possible. Now, if anyone has a playing ruck they'd like to trade me .... Dunsborough Dung Beetles v Cradle Mountain Devils Gariwerd Cockatoos v Junee Jaguars Mount Beauty Uglies v Iron Knob Codpieces Waikickamoocow Incorrigibles v Wagga Wagga Wombats Charlies Opening Spelunkers v Nareewillock Nuffers Lovely Banks Lilacs v Venus Bay Vultures Wineglass Bay Packers v Gundagai Grasshoppers Larrikin Lagoon Lefties v Birdsville Battlers
My biggest regret will always be not picking Bontempelli in the 2014 PSD. I won’t ever let that go. I was genuinely wanting to pick him and I had 3 draft picks ahead of where he was selected at #15. The 3 guys I picked were: 9. Matthew Scharenberg 12. Dayle Garlett 14. Matt Crouch I had Scharenberg ahead of the Bont at the time and I was very happy to select him at #9; he was meant to be the next Brendon Goddard haha. I also really wanted Matt Crouch and I always intended to take him at #14 because I thought he'd last to there. It was at #12 that I was going to take Bontempelli and I changed my mind to Dayle Garlett in a stroke of madness that I'll never be able to explain or justify. He was a super talent, but there was already grumblings of discontent at the Hawks about Garlett at the time I drafted him, and he was let go by the Hawks soon after. Whereas Bontempelli hasn't done too bad with his career since then.