It's a tough comparison but Selwood is pretty apt IMO
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When I watch him I see a bit of Paul Kelly.
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And Zac Taylor is playing very well in the guts for the SANFL team.
Soligo and Taylor are a couple of very impressive 19yo boys in their first season on the list …. albeit both a few centimetres short of ideal.
Cook is great kick, just needs to get more involved in the game …. and demand the ball.
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What over leadership, good kid, great family?
There's a novel thought.
So we didn't focus on playing ability with Gallucci, Poholke, Jones, McHenry, Rowe etc.
No-one has an issue with small mids and only d**ks continue to take it out of context.
We have an issue picking the smallest ones who can't football well hence our midfield was full of Rookie picks because our 1st rounders were s**t who all happen to be small as well.
2016, 2018, 2019 1st rounders say no more.
P.S. it's nice to hear Hamish say they just football without all the other irrelevant BS. Not sure why this hasn't always been the priority
Is making many others look very average.
How nice to have a kid make good decision and execute well.
Hope Fogs buying him a few beers.
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Kelly had a lot more breakaway speed, and wasn't a great kick IIRC, but a super, tough player and awesome overhead.
I think I had slept a bit on how good this guy's short kicking is. Damn he can hit a target!
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He’s coming along in leaps and bounds plus he doesn’t do the dumb things.
I think comfortably now.
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He is playing very very well.
For me - time is the biggest thing against Rachele. People forget how bloody good he was in the first 5 rounds.
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I hope he's enjoying the anonymity because it's not going to last forever.
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One of the commentators yesterday..brereton i think..was enthusing on just how good he was playing. Don't worry he is starting to get noticed
He's been getting plaudits for the last month or so, lots of "the Crows have found a player here" types of comments.
I agree with above, he is in the box seat for best first year player at the Crows now.
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If he doesn't end up with a rising star nom before the end of the year shows what a joke that award is.
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There is a bit of recency bias there though. Soligo didn’t play from rounds 3-8, and he certainly hasn’t had the same impact on games as Rachele did in the early rounds.
Rachele's first five games were fantastic, certainly. He didn't do much after that, though. Whereas Soligo has put together a real solid last two months.
Don't get me wrong, I have high hopes for Rachele. But Soligo has gone ahead of him for performance this year.
Surely, SURELY, he gets the Rising Star nom this week. His "Body of work" has been great, and there wasn't really a standout this week like Cumberland last week.
Elijah Hollands had a cracker
Yes, he slipped my mind. Hopefully the fact we had the win gives Soli the edge.
I'd prefer he gets it after the next two weeks if he puts in a blinder. Yesterday was ok, but wasn't his best game of the last few. Had some good moments, but would love to see a four quarter effort next week against the Roos which demands a nomination.
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It's not so much that his short kicking is good, it's more that he has the coolness and poise to see that it's the best option: he's a footballer. The case in point is the short pass to Fog. Most of the rest would have done a panicked thump towards the goal in hope of the miracle matchwinning play.
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Exactly. It’s the sort of kick a Richmond player would do, to spot up a leading forward in a margin of space.
I’m so used to our bomb to the goal square that it took me by surprise. Then I realised it was Soligo and it made sense - he is very good at finding team mates 15-20m away whilst under pressure.
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His pass to McHenry last week was another good example of this. So much poise under pressure.
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