Delisted 8: Ben "Goblin" Hobbs - Delisted - 20/10

[VelvetSledge]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 12, Schnitzengruben

 

[Chief Hopper]

There were enough chances to cement his place in the team. It didn't work out.

Sad to see him go, but it's prob the right choice.

 

[IHurley]

Hopefully a bit of a wake up call to tsatas.

He would have to have Zapp Brannigan levels of self-awareness not to already realise his career is on the line.

 

[Vindicater]

Is set up to go play VFL for a season as an inside midfielder and then becomes Tasmanias meat sack for a few years to protect their talented midfielders.

 

[ant555]

I don't think brad liked him much, like VOSS.

spent 3 years having to play HFF and never given much of a chance to play in the role he was drafted for.

Brad liked him. That is why he kept picking him in the side even as a forward.

 

[ant555]

Tsatas needs everything to go right or he will be gone next year.
At least with Hobbs gone it frees up a half forward spot for Tsatas.

No thanks.

 

[Foxx]

Is set up to go play VFL for a season as an inside midfielder and then becomes Tasmanias meat sack for a few years to protect their talented midfielders.

Id be surprised if no AFL club gave him a second chance.

 

[Petrify]

Tsatas is much more likely to make it than Hobbs if he's given the opportunity next year. Tsatas at least has some elite traits. Hobbs didn't have any.

 

[ant555]

In the end he did develop much at all, physically or his outside game. Got plenty of games because he had a genuine crack.
Thought someone may have had a nibble but the reality is his game did not develop.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Pretty surprised by the delisting since old Essendon would have held onto him for a few years due to where he was selected. Can't say it was the wrong decision though.

One of the arguments for turning over list managers relatively often (not just Dodoro) is they can’t get attached to their mistakes and harm the club by keeping them around.

Happens in business all the time. A new man comes in and can get rid of stupid decisions without having to admit the that he just got it wrong.

 

[ant555]

Tsatas is much more likely to make it than Hobbs if he's given the opportunity next year. Tsatas at least has some elite traits. Hobbs didn't have any.

Tsatas has 1 elite trate.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

If by great you mean dogshit then I agree. He sprays so many sodas

Big fan of “if by great you mean dogshit”

Can see myself using it often.

 

[jannissary]

weren’t richmond interested in some way previously?

 

[FlyingV]

If you can’t run and spread, you are in trouble in today’s game.

 

[andleanback]

Not good enough, modern game doesn’t suit him. It was such a waste of a pick, fell for a reason yet Dodoro thought he was a steal

 

[ghostdog]

Farewell Hobber. Thanks for trying.

 

[Vander18]

The right decision. Not big enough, quick enough or skilled enough.

Nobody can say he didn’t have a crack.

 

[Petrify]

Tsatas has 1 elite trate.

That's 1 more than Hobbs at least... and 1 more than a tonne of our list

 

[dank420_]

Thought that was Menzies. Could be mistaken, but I feel like Hobbs was pretty good in front.

He’s the worst set shot in the team

 

[Foxx]

5.8 this year and I can remember at least 4 OOTF.

5.4

 

[Snake Charmer]

Glad we made the right call here and didn’t hang on for another season or 2

 

[Andronicus]

Can’t be serious.if we’re ever going to get this list build right we need to avoid players with the kicking ability of a Gaelic footballer with stilts on. Tsatas can count himself very fortunate as I would be cutting him as well.

Can’t be serious.

If we’re ever going to get this list build right we need to avoid players with the kicking ability of a Gaelic footballer with stilts on. Tsatas can count himself very fortunate as I would be cutting him as well. In the harsh world of AFL football I have to say that I’m very happy to see the back of Hobbs. He obviously had little interest from other clubs too which tells you what the industry thinks.

So good it was worth using twice.

Good point though. McKenna improved out of sight once we got him off the stilts.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Not good enough, modern game doesn’t suit him. It was such a waste of a pick, fell for a reason yet Dodoro thought he was a steal

It made sense at the time, we were screaming for an inside mid and one of the better ones in the draft was available at our pick.

Unfortunately it would've been around that time where the game started changing and midfielders with inside/outside skills became the new hotness. Pretty typical of dodo to be a decade behind the current trend really

I do sometimes wonder if some of our highly rated draft picks were highly rated by precisely one high profile list manager who told anyone who'd listen that he highly rates a particular kid, which then makes it into the various power rankings.

 

[ant555]

That's 1 more than Hobbs at least... and 1 more than a tonne of our list

And 2 less than what he needs. Have to love the"he is less shit than that bloke argument"
If Tsatas had the same attitude as Hobbs as far as having a decent crack at the contest he would have been in the side in front of him.

 

[Vindicater]

I reckon the handball chain down a wing he had with Tsatas was probably the last straw.

 

[dank420_]

Still better than Hustwaite