Player Watch #39 Mate Colina
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Apologies for the intrusion - I am really perplexed by the decision to give Colina another year, particularly given your current draft hand.
If I'm not mistaken you currently have 8 list spots free (and 8 top 30 draft picks), no Cat A rookie slots (assuming Tylar Young upgrade) and 1 Cat B rookie slot.
Colina has already had 4 years as a Cat B rookie, so this delisting means the recommitement is as a Cat A rookie. To fit Colina on the Cat A list you'd have to promote someone like Seth Campbell to the senior list. Now there is only 7 senior vacancies and 8 picks...
Seems strange to commit to Colina in this scenario, essentially broadcasting the need to lose a pick either by trading out or combining to trade up...
Just keep the pick and take Dodson instead if you want ruck coverage...?
North will be all over like a rash.
Anyway, really excited to see what the Tigers do on draft night. Suspect moving up for Pick #2 is all but locked in now (in the strangest fashion).
If I'm not mistaken you currently have 8 list spots free (and 8 top 30 draft picks), no Cat A rookie slots (assuming Tylar Young upgrade) and 1 Cat B rookie slot.
Colina has already had 4 years as a Cat B rookie, so this delisting means the recommitement is as a Cat A rookie. To fit Colina on the Cat A list you'd have to promote someone like Seth Campbell to the senior list. Now there is only 7 senior vacancies and 8 picks...
Seems strange to commit to Colina in this scenario, essentially broadcasting the need to lose a pick either by trading out or combining to trade up...
Just keep the pick and take Dodson instead if you want ruck coverage...?
North will be all over like a rash.
Anyway, really excited to see what the Tigers do on draft night. Suspect moving up for Pick #2 is all but locked in now (in the strangest fashion).
Thinly veiled Blues desperately want the tallest man alive post.
We're not going to take 8 picks to the draft, It's pretty common knowledge that we'll trade a couple out into next year. North would know this. Most clubs will be lining up to get another 1st rounder this year. Now we wait for the best offer, and North won't want to miss out.
We have 9 Primary List Spots available (Grimes, Dusty, Baker, Rioli, Bolton, Naismith, Graham, Cumberland, Pickett all removed).
We will upgrade one (Ben Miller presumably as he has a contract for 2025 and been on the Cat A list for the maximum time), which leaves us with the 8 open list spots for our 8 picks.
Then on draft night my guess is we package two picks to trade up and trade out one of 23/24 for a F1. Then promote two additional players off the Cat A list and take Colina and an SSP.
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We should’ve just signed him to our VFL team.
He's our second best ruckman and has never even seen a football.
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It is indeed going to be his FIFTH year. Only way it's gonna be his 4th is if OHB's 2024 season is year 0 also and next year is considered his 1st
. We signed him in 2020, he then finished his college (whilst we paid him rookie wages) 2021 he never played a game despite training with the team. During covid myself and a couple mates got into the Williamstown game where he was supposed to debut but for whatever reason he didn't end up playing and never even attended the game.There was lucky to be maybe 60 fans so a 7ft giraffe would've stood out. He never played the entire year. I remember the hype about him making his debut and was curious to see how he went. That was round 10 by the way he didnt just hop off the plane he'd been training with the club for months at that stage! Then just like last years injury report there was crickets as to the reason he never played.
5!!!!!!! Years for Jack
return on investment is a disgrace for a bloke who has hobbled out 7 games at an ave of <5 lousy touches 0.7 marks and 5 hitouts. I'm 6ft, old and slow and I could eclipse that output. 3/4 years he couldn't even manage a single game including the last 2. This bloke isn't Gibcus with potential galore. This is a spud who is blessed to have the Croat brotherhood feathering his nest.You wouldn't happen to have Croation background by any chance?
Tigers sign Colina as Category B rookie
Richmond has signed 213cm college basketballer Mate Colina as a Category B rookie.
It is indeed going to be his FIFTH year. Only way it's gonna be his 4th is if OHB's 2024 season is year 0 also and next year is considered his 1st
There was lucky to be maybe 60 fans so a 7ft giraffe would've stood out. He never played the entire year. I remember the hype about him making his debut and was curious to see how he went. That was round 10 by the way he didnt just hop off the plane he'd been training with the club for months at that stage! Then just like last years injury report there was crickets as to the reason he never played.
5!!!!!!! Years for Jack
You wouldn't happen to have Croation background by any chance?
Tigers sign Colina as Category B rookie
Richmond has signed 213cm college basketballer Mate Colina as a Category B rookie.www.richmondfc.com.au
I just learned Colina has been full time on our list for 5 years, has done 5 full pre-seasons, on full salary, and worse still, failed to show up at Williamstown one day costing RPB the chance to place him under surveillance.
The relevant facts:
- Colina was first available to play in 2022 when, with little to no football preparation he played 7 games from which no fair person could draw any meaningful conclusion
- He missed the entire 2023 & 2024 seasons with back injuries.
He will have been paid minimum rookie wages, an almost completely insignificant amount in relation to the salary cap. He has not taken up a list spot, being a Cat B Rookie. We just want to see this bloke get a fair run at it, to see what he can do.
Why any poster would choose to criticise the club or player for this or describe his 2.5 years at the club as "5 years" is perplexing, but then again check the identityof the poster, it starts to make perfect sense. Now he is inferring it is a Croatian mafia conspiracy. WTF.
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How I imagine Mate Colina......
He hasn't done 5 full pre seasons. His first session was May 2021, so 2022 was his first pre season.....I just learned Colina has been full time on our list for 5 years, has done 5 full pre-seasons, on full salary, and worse still, failed to show up at Williamstown one day costing RPB the chance to place him under surveillance.
The relevant facts:
- Colina was first available to play in 2022 when, with little to no football preparation he played 7 games from which no fair person could draw any meaningful conclusion
- He missed the entire 2023 & 2024 seasons with back injuries.
He will have been paid minimum rookie wages, an almost completely insignificant amount in relation to the salary cap. He has not taken up a list spot, being a Cat B Rookie. We just want to see this bloke get a fair run at it, to see what he can do.
Why any poster would choose to criticise the club or player for this or describe his 2.5 years at the club as "5 years" is perplexing, but then again check the identityof the poster, it starts to make perfect sense. Now he is inferring it is a Croatian mafia conspiracy. WTF.
I was referring to what I "found out" from reading RPB's post. Colina didn't even do the 2022 pre-season, he was still in Hawaii. He arrived half way through the 2022 season to play, with zero pre-seasons.
The two pre-seasons he has "done" have been truncated by injury.
Hopefully for the big dude he gets a proper run at it this time, then he will know if he has some sort of future.
Meteoric Rise sorry, I should've read your whole post. Right you are
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would hope his skills have vastly improved over the past 2 years because I remember his marking and kicking being horrible, can't remember his handballing but I'm probably safe to assume that it's also horrible
only reason I can understand him getting another year is nepotism cos of balta+maric and that we have a player on peanuts we're prepared to delist next year to free up a slot, which we could've done with an ssp player anyway, so it just goes back to keeping the croats happy
I'm happy to be wrong and he somehow comes good but with how good our player development has been recently, he's not gonna make it
only reason I can understand him getting another year is nepotism cos of balta+maric and that we have a player on peanuts we're prepared to delist next year to free up a slot, which we could've done with an ssp player anyway, so it just goes back to keeping the croats happy
I'm happy to be wrong and he somehow comes good but with how good our player development has been recently, he's not gonna make it
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Hey Mate Colina, what special talents do you bring to Richmond?
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sleeps standing up and never takes his shoes off
got to be a concern
got to be a concern
We're all here, just waitin' for mate
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is that Oliver Hayes-Brown?
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In sporting news, Richmond have given Mate Colina a one year extension....
Are people really complaining about a Cat B Rookie that
Not playing or always injured
Who really gives a sheet , We had Cumberland for 5 years that frustrated the shed out of all and never did a thing
he probably made a million dollars and cost a senior list spot and a draft pick
- Doesnt take a spot on the main/Rookie list
- Gets Paid Rookie salary thats not in the cap
Not playing or always injured
Who really gives a sheet , We had Cumberland for 5 years that frustrated the shed out of all and never did a thing
he probably made a million dollars and cost a senior list spot and a draft pick
