D.Rodan

[2121]

Just wanted to get your thoughts on him and if you could have him back would you.?

Personally when he is firing he can be a damaging player that will take the oppostion on and break then lines but when he's down he is down. His start to 09 has been shocking but... he played reasonably well on the weekend.

 

[tugga]

Rodan left the club on very good terms with us Tiger fans. We loved him. Unfortunately he was never going to improve in yellow and black colours.
We were all rapt for him when he had that great first year with you guys, but I'm afraid you've seen the best of him.
To answer your question...no, I wouldn't have him back.

 

[2121]

acutally he's played one good game and one reasonable game
the good game comming agaisnt hawks where he had 28 possys 7 marks 4 tackles and kicked 1.1 and on the weekend he had 18 possys, and layed two tackles.

 

[tugga]

acutally he's played one good game and one reasonable game
the good game comming agaisnt hawks where he had 28 possys 7 marks 4 tackles and kicked 1.1 and on the weekend he had 18 possys, and layed two tackles.

I'm glad he got the chance to continue his career. There's a lot of upside to DRod.
I honestly believe we need to sit on our hands at trade week this year. Unless clubs are prepared to offer us picks for our players, I want the days of drafting recycled players to Richmond to be over.

 

[Strawbs]

No. His first year at Port was OK but the media would have you believe we "pulled the trigger too early" on him (some knucklehead actually said that). He was stiff to do his knee at a time when he seemed to be on the up but he had his chances I reckon. Adds a bit of spark but doesn't do enough.

 

[hagansbull]

I always thought we was a live wire, but his head was always 2 steps ahead of his hands, that is why he turns it over and makes his possessions ineffective.

 

[TimeFor11]

Wouldnt have him back no.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

If we had him back, he wouldn't be as good as he is at Port. We've got rocks in our heads and would play him in the back pocket.

 

[HBK619]

Rodan had his time with us, whether he was played out of position, delisted too early is besides the point really, he had a good stint with us and had never really shown anything that would suggest that he was ever going to be anything all that good.

Would we have him back, probably no, not right now, his inconsistency would hurt us at the moment when we are calling for consistent players.

He had an alright season last year for Port, but to be considered anything he needs to continue with it, I have been saying this since he left.

 

[Goldust]

I'm glad he got the chance to continue his career. There's a lot of upside to DRod.
I honestly believe we need to sit on our hands at trade week this year. Unless clubs are prepared to offer us picks for our players, I want the days of drafting recycled players to Richmond to be over.

Hopefully there isn't any other players out there that we were very keen on drafting in the first instance but were beaten to the punch - a-la Hislop and Thomson.

 

[folester41]

hes the type of player that plays good with quality players around him. and at the moment alot of the players on our list are similiar, there are few players that can stand up and do the job themselves at tigerland and that is understandable as they are still young. players like foley, jackson rance and cotchin are the type of players that will take this club foward and hopefully those with quality like jack, morton and deledio can hang around and progress and learn to rely on their own ability rather then waiting for others to stand up and then follow them.

 

[astro_toby]

i would love to have him back. I'm realistic though, he never would have performed as well for us as he has for you = happy for him to be playing so well

 

[drama5]

Rodan is and has always been a gun, Richmond were stupid enough to delist him and im pretty sure he would never come back even if he had the choice. Richmond lacks excitment and players that take the game on, and after rodan was delisted it become clearly obvious why. Once again Richmond did wat Richmond does best and swapped a consistant (well in comparison), hard working excitment player for an inconsistant, lazy potentially exciting yet mostly just frustrating player, Tambling

 

[GhostofJimJess]

Although it's five years further down the track, there's no foubt that Dave Rodan's career at Port is starting to mirror his time at Tigerland.

In his debut year at Richmond - our only significant draft pick at No.33 in the 2001 National Draft after Frawley and his accomplices pissed away our other decent picks on Paul Hudson, Adam Houlihan and Greg Stafford - Rodan was irrepressible. Played all 22 games, and was the one shining light in a very disappointing sequel to a relatively successful 2001 season for our club.

His output declined a little in his second year, but Dave still played all 22 games - when was the last time a young draftee played the first 44 senior games at his club? Or prior to that? Ever?

Then came his third year at Richmond, which went downhill fast and early. The combination of a few niggling injuries and some poor form saw him do some time at Coburg by Round 4, dropping in and out of the Richmond team sporadically throughout 2004. He looked like he'd totally lost his mojo.

I've noticed a real similarity in his time at Port. A really impressive first season, followed by a somewhat less eye-catching but still reasonably consistent sophomore year. Now into his third year at Port, he's dropped his output noticeably, even getting dropped a couple of weeks back (for Round 4 again, strangely). Of course he got a last minute reprieve with Burgoyne a late withdrawal from the match, but there's no doubt that Choco was sending him a message.

Hope he can rectify his slide as I enjoy watching him play well.