- Apr 27, 2014
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Get over him as he was a dinosaur after his injury and I told you this mid season. He was only getting games in the end bc he was in mini’s boy club. This is is the perfect start to Yze’s coaching career with a brilliant trade and one less plodder on the list.Losing Soldo is a terrible start to the Yze era.
We spent two precious first rounders last year acquiring mid-age midfielders, now we've given away the best hope we had of being successful with them, for chump change, like #1 rucks are easily acquired commodities worth nothing. Is Soldo's value really worth a fraction of Hopper's to us in the grand scheme of things?
What incoming coaching team reviews the Brisbane final, where Nank not only fails to take advantage of rucking for over a half against a barely part-timer, but also actively hits the ball to their most dangerous mid over and over again, then says, 'yep, that injury prone, suspension prone, battered warhorse who can still occasionally get off the ground is safe as houses to be all we need to challenge for the next few years, we don't need this bloke coming into his prime footy years who just went toe to toe with Gawn a few weeks back in by far the best performance by a Richmond ruck in a couple of seasons, we'll do fine without him'?
Or reviews the recent Dogs season killer game and the stark contrast to the stack of goals we got directly from the ruck the week before, then lets Soldo walk?
Or reviews the couple of games where Ryan played the #1 role, saw how far off doing it full-time for any significant part of a season he was, then lets Soldo walk?
Seriously, you start to question the football intelligence involved.
Not to mention the fact that trading is supposed to be about improving your list, while not giving your key rivals exactly what they need to succeed.
We just gave a top-4 side our best ruckman, to compliment their already better, younger midfield, for SFA in return!
To me, that's the definition of dumb trading, even if it was to facilitate a player's request!
Good luck to the big man, when the deck is that stacked against you, apparently even with a new coaching team, then you have to take your career elsewhere.
If he stays fit, I fully expect he'll pick up another couple of flags with that Port list - and it will be downright painful watching him do it in the wrong colours, while we're more than likely at the wrong end of the ladder, knowing we never gave him a genuine crack at it.
