Player Watch Ivan Soldo

[Spadge]

Seems bugger all interest in either.

I wonder why.. both are junk

Clurey is as cooked than Jonas, and Hayes gets gassed 5 minutes into a game

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

He will not get bullied, absolute unit and doesn't take s**t. Very competitive mindset like his cousin Maric.

He is more cumbersome than mobile though given his size so don't expect a modern day athletic type.

As long as he's averaging at least 90% TOG davesnothere will be perpetually stiff.

 

[TeeKray]

Lol at swapping pick 49 and pick 50.

These people have way too much time on their hands to do a simple job and because they get paid way more money than they're worth they all think they're geniuses.

 

[all seeing eye]

Curtains for Lycett , it would seem. Hayes?

 

[Lefti93]

He will not get bullied, absolute unit and doesn't take s**t. Very competitive mindset like his cousin Maric.

He is more cumbersome than mobile though given his size so don't expect a modern day athletic type.

Does he float back and take relieving marks in defence?

 

[manureid]

Well, a thing happened I guess. All the deckchair shuffling whilst we await getting a proper coach.

 

[Adz2332]

Happy with that

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

Future 4th is likely a late 60s or 70s pick so that’s meh.

 

[tugga]

When he played with Nank how do he go as the Second Ruck?

If we get I’m not sure how he’d work with Sweet?

They are both slow as treacle so it didn't work that well I'm sorry to say.
However during the last few games of the year they combined really well together because Soldo drifted forward and clunked some good marks in forward 50.
I still reckon he will be an asset for you and you will quickly grow to like him because he a tough bastard and will make others walk taller as long as you don't expect him to be the next Max Gawn.

 

[Wargreymon90]

So essentially our future first for Ratagolea and Soldo?

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Future 4th is likely a late 60s or 70s pick so that’s meh.

If we are trading a future 4th it means we have a future 4th coming back from somewhere

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[StueyDaDew]

Next!

 

[raptalia]

We will not know if we have paid overs until we see Ivan play a game or two. His stats look OK and the Tiger supporters seem to think he has value so we wait and see.

 

[Andyy]

I'm quite sad to see Soldo go.

Always thought he was a better tap than Nank and his bigger body was more ideal vs the premier rucks in the comp vs Nank's slightly under-sized frame. Nank's tap work straight down Neale & co's throats in the 2022 EF vs Brisbane still haunts me.

Quite a good set shot within 35m so when he clunks one close to goal he's usually reliable.

Will really miss him personally and wish him all the best.

 

[Grrr]

From a Richmond perspective he was neck and neck with Nankervis as to who would have been the best ruckman in '24.
Nank helps the mids with his ground ball / tackling / clearance work. But Ports strong midfield doesn't need that.

Soldo is a big (204cm) ruck with a pretty good spring. He can match it with the best rucks in the league, but he ain't much chop around the ground. He is as fit as he has ever been so he will get better in that regard. Took him a good year to recover from ACL.

Good get for Port, Lycett was a good battler, but Soldo is a better battler. Kicks straight for goal as well, when he gets a chance.

 

[tiger_tough]

We will not know if we have paid overs until we see Ivan play a game or two. His stats look OK and the Tiger supporters seem to think he has value so we wait and see.

He'll be good, not a star, but Butters, JHF, Wines and Rozee will love him. He will thrive as the main man. Occasionally does some real weird shit on field - soccer goals, headers etc. Reckon he'll be somewhat of a cult hero.

Slight overs by you guys but I can respect that you're going all in for a flag. Will end up a win-win IMO.

 

[DaTBird187]

Great name Ivan

We must get Vigo now and the pair can rain terror down on the Carpathian mountain.

 

[Andyy]

He'll be good, not a star, but Butters, JHF, Wines and Rozee will love him. He will thrive as the main man. Occasionally does some real weird s**t on field - soccer goals, headers etc. Reckon he'll be somewhat of a cult hero.

Slight overs by you guys but I can respect that you're going all in for a flag. Will end up a win-win IMO.

Yep played a lot of soccer as a kid.

Would hate to see a Port flag but would be thrilled for Soldo if he got another one after fat arse Porkins stuffed his knee in '20.

 

[Nicho50]

Good get for you guys its a shame he did his ACL in 2020 as he was having a great season and just hasn't been able to get on the park consistently since then. I rate him more than Nank he is a decent mark in the F50 and a pretty good shot at goal but Nank offers more around the ground.

Shame to see him go as I reckon by end of 24 he would have been our first choice ruck but I guess with Samson Ryan in the wings who we want to play more in the ruck and Kozzie probably taking that 2nd forward / bit of time in the ruck role perhaps the big man saw the writing on the wall and you couldn't blame him for wanting to move to a great club that is in the window and be first choice ruck.

In regards to Lycett there is a bit of news around that Richmond are going to pick him up as a free agent for depth but I think we should stick clear of that can't see him offering much.

 

[Us against the rest]

Yep played a lot of soccer as a kid.

Would hate to see a Port flag but would be thrilled for Soldo if he got another one after fat arse Porkins stuffed his knee in '20.

You won't have to worry about a Port flag, we have Ken Hinkley and Ken reckons that finals are scary and over rated.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Wayyyyyy too much

I know its been corrected by Tom Browne, but I knew it was wrong as soon as I heard it because we couldn't trde out our F2, F3 and F4 as we had already traded out our F1. Twomey obviously forgot we had already traded out our F1.

 

[Nelso]

More shuffling of the deck chairs on the Titanic until Daddy Donuts is gone.

 

[philthy05]

It's not way overs at all it's a future 2nd, 2 garbage picks & a garbage pick back.

People forever overrate 2nd round picks & anything beyond pick 30 is shot in the dark garbage shuffling.

Well two things to answer to this post

1. Yeah sure, draft picks are somewhat overrated, you’re conceding known for unknown but the upshot is the upside potential of a draft pick.

A great example is the Polec trade. A known decent player for pick 11 which we later turned into pick 5 (rozee)

I suspect if we look at draft picks in that range there’s a fair chance it busts or produces a player of lower quality than Polec, but the flip side is sometimes it produces a player far better than that player.

In this case rozee.

2. You have brought up this before. Draft picks are overrated

Sure, but the entire league overrates draft picks.

It doesn’t matter if diamonds are overpriced for what they are, or under priced for what they are, if the going rate for them is x , and you pay or sell for y, you made a dumb decision.

Why should port be the team to not get value for draft picks because they’re overrated?

Do you apply the same outgoing logic, since duursma is trading out, and draft picks are overrated should we expect a price far higher for him? Do you think we would get it?

Yea draft picks are somewhat overrated in the league, you’re buying hope / potential.

But that’s no reason for us to undervalue them ourselves in trades if other teams still hold the market for picks as worth a certain amount.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Devastated that Richmond got that 49 to 50 swap out of us. Sack Cripps.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

He'll be good, not a star, but Butters, JHF, Wines and Rozee will love him. He will thrive as the main man. Occasionally does some real weird s**t on field - soccer goals, headers etc. Reckon he'll be somewhat of a cult hero.

Slight overs by you guys but I can respect that you're going all in for a flag. Will end up a win-win IMO.

Is it I-van or E-van?

I know Ivan Maric got upset if you didn't use the Croatian pronunciation E-van. Heard him correct someone on the radio, as well as post game function when he played for th Magpies in the SANFL pre 2013 re-unification.

Gotta do a Les Murray and at least pronounce the persons name correctly.