The Ricky Petterd Rule
All DT coaches worth their salt abide by this unspoken rule: never dip into your little bag of trades until after the teams are named on Thursday night. Better still, wait until just before lock-out on Friday arvo.
Ricky Petterd wrecked the weekend of a whole bunch of DT coaches who failed to follow this rule and snapped up the Melbourne rookie during the week. Those coaches couldn't resist the $50,000-$60,000 cash increase that Petterd promised after outstanding performances in his first two outings. Of course, hamstring soreness kept Petterd out of the Demons side and the DT coaches who drafted him in before Uncle Neale released his side were left with a big, fat hole in their midfield rotation.
So, coaches, adhere to the Ricky Petterd Rule and hold off on those trades, no matter how safe they seem, until Thursday night at the earliest.
This can, of course, be more difficult for the white-collar DT coach who has all-day access to the internet during office hours. What better way to wile away the afternoons than to scawl through the player lists, searching for the trade that's going to turn your pretenders into contenders?
The temptation to trade early can be overwhelming for these people. But there is a way: get yourself banned from the internet at work. To do this, simply send hugely offensive emails to your fellow employees, and "accidentally" cc management types.
If this doesn't work, download porn. And lots of it. Print some out and leave it lying around the water-cooler. You may be making your trades from the local library from now on, but at least you'll leave them until Friday, right? From this point on you live by the Ricky Petterd Rule: only touch the trade button after the teams are announced on Thursday night.
Merv Gray.
6 comments:
It's even more difficult for those white-collar workers amongst us who live in a different timezone. Waiting until Friday morning to make much-needed trades is torture.
On another note, still no sign of Troy. You have been missed bro. Although I seem to remember a post about DTers who have another team. I have a "friend" who has five teams (and they're all travelling quite nicely thank you). What do you think, Troy? Respect ... or should I end our friendship?
Amen to that!
Petterd's exclusion illustrates the point perfectly, because unlike other non-selections this year it was a complete surprise.
Being last week's Rising Star nominee, he received plenty of media and not once was there a mention of any injury, or of the outside chance of missing a game or two.
Just goes to show... you can't trust anyone!
My podcast partner, m0nty fell victim of this issue!
Molly
http://www.coachesbox.com.au
When I saw that Petterd was injured (after throwing a keyboard or two across the room, getting out my machette and hacking away at the boxing bag for a good few minutes), I had to take a "snapshot in time" to see how many unfortunate coaches had picked him up before his injury.
Number of coaches with Petterd..
Before Round 7: 3,423
After Round 7: 11,720
I did the same with Cleve Hughes, who I picked up instead of Petterd on Friday...
Before: 8,224
After: 18,866
It would appear that a lot of people still haven't realised trading early in the week is not just inadvisable, it's just fucking stupid.
Well said.
Old-school DT Talk. Funny looking back on it.
Merv Gray now equals Chook and Troy now equals Roy. Troy was fucking hilarious.
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