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D-rod goodluck today. / If David Rodan wins the Norm Smith Medal...
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Bill James
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How do you win a club most improved in your first year at the club? Must be a SA thing.RROFO said:
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Even they know he wasn't living up to expectations here. 2 things, could be seen as vindicating our decision to de-list, second could show how bad we are at getting the best out of players.
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Billy, he's gone from being delisted by the wooden spooner (where he played 5 games the season prior) to playing 22 games, playing in a GF and coming 6th in the Grand Finalists B&F. That's a fair improvement in anyones books.
Port proved beyond doubt in the 2007 GF, and that would be a good test, that they were the greatest impostors to ever play off. Rodan gave them a spark in the middle and then faded out.
But that's not his fault.
He has the same limitations that he had at Richmond - he is contact averse - and the same strengths - he is an outstanding gatherer of the ball at toe height.
Reads the ball off the pack very well.
Three fast steps and twenty slow ones. Can't kick unless he sees the white sticks. Sounds like a small forward to me and a good one.
Not a midfielder's bootlace. But a good small forward. How's Krakouer going? How does he measure against Rodan's benchmarks? Then why did we get rid of Rodan?
Bad list management.
But that's not his fault.
He has the same limitations that he had at Richmond - he is contact averse - and the same strengths - he is an outstanding gatherer of the ball at toe height.
Reads the ball off the pack very well.
Three fast steps and twenty slow ones. Can't kick unless he sees the white sticks. Sounds like a small forward to me and a good one.
Not a midfielder's bootlace. But a good small forward. How's Krakouer going? How does he measure against Rodan's benchmarks? Then why did we get rid of Rodan?
Bad list management.
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Bill James
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In the clubs I played for thats grounds for best first year, not most improved.tigertim said:Bill James said:
Billy, he's gone from being delisted by the wooden spooner (where he played 5 games the season prior) to playing 22 games, playing in a GF and coming 6th in the Grand Finalists B&F. That's a fair improvement in anyones books.
Bill James said:In the clubs I played for thats grounds for best first year, not most improved.tigertim said:Bill James said:
Billy, he's gone from being delisted by the wooden spooner (where he played 5 games the season prior) to playing 22 games, playing in a GF and coming 6th in the Grand Finalists B&F. That's a fair improvement in anyones books.
Quite true Bill. I am only surmising here but maybe they don't have a best first year player anymore as it is only a limited field (3, 4 or 5 players?) that qualify whereas most improved can come from any of the 44 listed players?