The Messiah of Recruitment

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- - - - KENDOZA > JC June 17, 2026 at 6:59pm
        
        Joel caine is a fibber then lol
        
        JC > KENDOZA June 17, 2026 at 8:03pm
        
        He needed a cool story to fit in lol
        
        KENDOZA > JC June 17, 2026 at 8:34pm
        
        Lol ... true
        
        KENDOZA > JC June 17, 2026 at 7:00pm
        
        Fair enough my bad
        
        LB > JC June 17, 2026 at 8:54pm
        
        Then again, if he said Caine was right makes him look dumb. So of course he would say it was rubbish if it wasn't.
    - JC > LB June 17, 2026 at 1:01pm
      
      He said that story is not true.
      - Poppa > JC June 17, 2026 at 3:49pm
        
        Amazing how you guys get of the track, the pedantic points you are arguing, are exactly that..... I have not read a word of commentry on the man, only the children squabbling " I told you so". This is to the script the answers are all there.
        
        KENDOZA > Poppa June 17, 2026 at 7:00pm
        
        Yeah sometimes i forget my age...still think i'm a kid sometimes lol
        
        Poppa > KENDOZA June 18, 2026 at 8:48am
        
        That's ok Doza, with age comes wisdom, that's why I have graduated from a "old bastard" to a "silly old bastard"..... takes years of practice to get the silly in your title.
Adam Magrath June 18, 2026 at 4:56am

So there he is, any take aways from anything he said that could help us improve on the recruitment front?

Interesting that he's described as a simple straight forward man. I would say there's a few that fit that mold that have reached the pinnacle of the game (Bennett and Bellamy come to mind).

I would say all three do a great job of observing and analysing people and their behaviours would be my key takeaway. There isn't some mysterious magical trick that only he knows to sign players. It's about making them feel comfortable, building a relationship and reading what they offer and determining if it's what the club actually needs (sometimes it isn't).

A while ago Willie mason had Gus on his podcast. They joked about when Gus was trying to get Willie to go to the chooks. He took him out for a seafood lunch (all you could eat). Willie ended up going to the bulldogs. I don't think Gus has changed his approach in over 20 years.

I'm sure our guys know all this, they've dealt with more important matters in their professional careers than signing some kid to a playing contract.

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