Traded #13: Orazio Fantasia - Off to Carlton as a delisted free agent, scored a 2 year deal?

[srobbo]

Who cares?? He’s not our problem anymore.

 

[daffo]

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/afl/afl-2022-port-adelaide-preseason-news-and-injury-wrap/news-story/a2932ab350f54dce7ba4eaba89406bb0

Poor Raz. Hope he gets better soon.

 

[Ambrosia]

Who cares?? He’s not our problem anymore.

Can’t speak for everyone but I quite like most ex Essendon players and enjoy when they do well and am disappointed when they are injured.

 

[VelvetSledge]

Can’t speak for everyone but I quite like most ex Essendon players and enjoy when they do well and am disappointed when they are injured.

Much the same. Never wish injury on anyone, more of a point that his injury concerns have certainly carried over

 

[Andronicus]

Can’t speak for everyone but I quite like most ex Essendon players and enjoy when they do well and am disappointed when they are injured.

Agreed, but I also hope that our replacement has a better career than the one we lost.

 

[srobbo]

Can’t speak for everyone but I quite like most ex Essendon players and enjoy when they do well and am disappointed when they are injured.

I don’t wish ill on any other ex player either, but Raz had emotionally checked out of the club long before he left, so I’m far from inclined to be focused on his misfortune & would rather worry about those on our own list.

 

[Beerfish]

I don’t wish ill on any other ex player either, but Raz had emotionally checked out of the club long before he left, so I’m far from inclined to be focused on his misfortune & would rather worry about those on our own list.

So don't read the thread then.

 

[srobbo]

So don't read the thread then.

Sure, I’ll leave it to you guys to fuss over ex Essendon players that are injured. Yawn

 

[srobbo]

Can’t speak for everyone but I quite like most ex Essendon players and enjoy when they do well and am disappointed when they are injured.

How’s Paddy Ryder’s hammy coming along? Really enjoyed following him at Port & hope he’s got a bit left in the tank for the Sainters…

 

[boncer34]

How’s Paddy Ryder’s hammy coming along? Really enjoyed following him at Port & hope he’s got a bit left in the tank for the Sainters…

This is the melt we didn't know we needed.

 

[Ambrosia]

How’s Paddy Ryder’s hammy coming along? Really enjoyed following him at Port & hope he’s got a bit left in the tank for the Sainters…

Ryder is still a gun when fit. He remains one of my favourite non-Essendon players to watch.

 

[Mootsy]

OraRRzio FaNtaSiA!!

 

[quotemokc]

Who cares?? He’s not our problem anymore.

He didn't leave on bad terms.

We didn't get peak Raz value for him but it doesn't seem like he will ever get back to that level.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

He didn't leave on bad terms.

We didn't get peak Raz value for him but it doesn't seem like he will ever get back to that level.

Got a half arsed final year though..maybe even last two years

 

[Hamez]

Apparently will miss half the season due to knee surgery

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Apparently the first return from injury lasted 30 seconds and the second one less than 1 game before further setbacks.

Hope he gets back but it just illustrates that you have to be willing to move injury plagued players on. With some players it’s just never ending.

 

[boncer34]

Apparently the first return from injury lasted 30 seconds and the second one less than 1 game before further setbacks.

Hope he gets back but it just illustrates that you have to be willing to move injury plagued players on. With some players it’s just never ending.

He's expected to play this week.

 

[Doss]

For me Raz will remain one of our great what ifs of the 2015-onwards era, indeed of the last 20 years.

Go back and watch highlights of him from 2016-17, he was a gun in the making. He is one of the most gifted players we had walk through the door in the past 20 years, he had a lithe athleticism and slipperiness that was genuinely Mercuri-like.

Ultimately, his body just hasn't been kind to him and I suspect by now the player he was and was building into (that is, one of the genuine elite of the competition) is gone; that much injury doesn't come without permanent curbing.

How long will Port even persist with him, at this point?

 

[Zach Package]

Less than no impact last week and left out again.

As gifted a one touch player as you are ever likely to see but his career has lurched from one misfortune to the next and he looks to be going out without a whimper if this continues.

 

[boncer34]

Let's bring him back.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Thought he retired.

 

[citizen-erased]

Less than no impact last week and left out again.

As gifted a one touch player as you are ever likely to see but his career has lurched from one misfortune to the next and he looks to be going out without a whimper if this continues.

Turned him into caldwell more or less.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Being injured has ironically extended his career.

 

[LB#16]

 

[justlookingaround]

Dodo will eat this up.