View Full Version : What a trade (with 2 years hindsight)
Minglis
10 Oct 2008, 14:00
Dean Solomon (32 games for Freo to end of 08, avg 16.2p)
pick #52 - Brock O'Brien (3 games to the end of 08, avg 10.3p)
for
pick #42 Bachar Houli (14 games to end of 08, avg 17.4p)
pick #47 Kyle Reimers (18 games to end of 08, avg 13.7p)
Thanks again Freo. Luv ya
mark1881
10 Oct 2008, 14:23
Dean Solomon (32 games for Freo to end of 08, avg 16.2p)
pick #52 - Brock O'Brien (3 games to the end of 08, avg 10.3p)
for
pick #42 Bachar Houli (14 games to end of 08, avg 17.4p)
pick #47 Kyle Reimers (18 games to end of 08, avg 13.7p)
Thanks again Freo. Luv ya
A big thank you to our recruiting department who had the foresight to recruit these to lads. And Freo played their part aswell Haha
BacharHouli_43
10 Oct 2008, 14:25
Poor old freo, they keep on getting screwed, ever since they let go of mcleod. But even if we had not picked up such promising players with our draft picks, i would still say that we won out of that deal.
It was also a shrewd deal from the recruiting staff, considering we picked up reimers who is a WA boy and fremantle + WC would have been favourites in that year to pick him up, but we bypassed them both to pick reimers at 47, which was a surprise at the time.
you're looking at things the wrong way.
Fremantle overlooked Houli and Reimers themselves with pick31 (Clayton Collard).
suppose they had of selected 1 of those 2, or suppose they had've taken Westhoff (pick71) with their pick53.
looking back on ess recruiting skills & fre recruiting skills is not the way to judge a trade.
Solomon has been bloody good for Freo. i think he's played his best football for them. fair result for imo.
SirJimi05
10 Oct 2008, 16:14
you're looking at things the wrong way.
Fremantle overlooked Houli and Reimers themselves with pick31 (Clayton Collard).
suppose they had of selected 1 of those 2, or suppose they had've taken Westhoff (pick71) with their pick53.
looking back on ess recruiting skills & fre recruiting skills is not the way to judge a trade.
Solomon has been bloody good for Freo. i think he's played his best football for them. fair result for imo.
Ya reckon? I reckon he has been consistantly ok throughout his whole career and has never lived up to his potential. He was touted as the next Glen Archer early on in his career but is obviously light years away from that.
thebigboy
10 Oct 2008, 17:02
At the time, the trade was probably a fairly even one for both teams.
Just that our recruiters nailed 2 very good youngsters with those 2 picks whilst Soloman has spent more time at the tribunal than on the field.
Very good trade only because of our correct selections
bomberz08
10 Oct 2008, 19:35
good trade for us
warney7
10 Oct 2008, 19:38
Can't put much of it down to Freo.
We got 2 3rd round picks which could have turned out to be anything.
Our recruiters struck gold as far as I'm concerned.
We were lucky Houli lasted that long. Good work by Dodoro to take Reimers as a 17 year old
solomon was clearly at his best at the turn of the millenium.