Henno Two Weeks

[Longy413]

Interesting to see what that means for his career at Essendon.
Probably had to play the last 3 and prove himself to have a shot at staying on next season.

 

[Nandoz]

Not a massive Henno fan myself, but i'll give it to him, he's held his own the last few weeks and was starting to put some half reasonable football together, enough to keep a spot on the list...? we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[Longy413]

I'll ask this question...

If Henno and Richards had been forwarded the same luxury as Mark Bolton, would they be better players?

Henno has probably got a good go, but injury has meant he hasn't strung games of footy together since his early days. He also hasn't had the opportunity to settle in the backline, which is one position he has been playing pretty solid footy.

Ted just hasn't had a go. If Ted was a 50-60 game player would we now have a solid, reliable 3rd tall defender on our hands? One that wouldn't have question marks over his future?

 

[Darealrath]

A lot will be left up to Richards and Kepler in defence vs Hawthorn by the looks of things. Not that the Hawks have experienced quality talls or anything.

 

[sheller891]

extremely happy

no way for sheedy to pick him now.

Hopefully delisted at end of year, and other players given regular oppurtunities.

Love to see Richards be a permanent fixture in the side, and now for Lee to develop into the key position player he can be.

 

[M29]

Let's appeal. It should be 8.

 

[go team]

I'll ask this question...

If Henno and Richards had been forwarded the same luxury as Mark Bolton, would they be better players?

Mark Bolton
1998 - 4 games
1999 - 2 games
2000 - 1 game
2001 - 12 games

Ted Richards
2002 - 2 games
2003 - 10 games
2004 - 11 games
2005 - 7 games

Whilst Ted hasn't had a lot of ground time, he's well ahead of Bolts in terms of senior experience at this stage of his career.. If Bolton had luxury of a few more games in 99 or 00, maybe he'd be the solid contributer we've all been looking for?

 

[nicho_magic]

Let's appeal. It should be 8.

no i think life

 

[Longy413]

Whilst Ted hasn't had a lot of ground time, he's well ahead of Bolts in terms of senior experience at this stage of his career.. If Bolton had luxury of a few more games in 99 or 00, maybe he'd be the solid contributer we've all been looking for?

That's a fair point. Except in 1999 and 2000 we weren't developing a side, we were having a crack at the title. Now we are. There was no reason to bring Bolton into the side, there has been room to bring Ted in though.

In the last 5 seasons Bolton has been a regular. He probably showed enough as a developing player to earn the first 50 of those, but since then he has treaded water. It was evident a long time ago that Bolts wasn't going to be part of our future, he's played 13 games this season and 23 last season. In that time Bolts has had 14 games in which he has had 10 or less disposals, 29 games of 15 or under and not a single game above 20. What has his role been, I couldn't tell you. He has played parts in the midfield, parts down back, parts up forward. He hasn't had a role in our side, is that unfair on him that he hasn't had a settled position, or is he just not bloody good enough?

It was also evident in that Ted had some sort of talent. I know his stats don't read a whole lot better, but he has spent the better part of his time in the senior side on the pine.

We know Bolts isn't good enough, but we have no idea about Ted. Had he been given the chance to play 40 games over the past two seasons, at least we would either have found a player or be delisting one that isn't good enough. As it is at the moment, we will probably end up delisting a bloke with a question mark over his head.

 

[daveyboy3]

Im a big Teddy Richards fan in that i think he has a big heart and is a real tryer.. My query is he plays, or is always played as a KPP and even though he is listed as being quite big, key fowards seem to dwarf him and im not sure he's big enough to be a KPP.