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The Bring Back Solly Thread

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kelvin_sheedy said:
How about we get Dean Solomon back to Essendon next year?

Reasons:

  • We need some hard bodies in the side to teach and protect the kids coming through. Solly can crash and bash through the middle when we are light on. Tick.
  • His form and running ability last year was pretty good. Tick.
  • He's someone who deserves life membership of the club by playing 10 years. Tick.
  • He looks to have got his body right to play a more running game and not KPP as what Sheeds was trying to do. Tick.
  • We might get him real cheap (psd?) as Freo will look to rebuild and offload a lot of players. Tick.
  • He's 29 and should have 2 good years left. Cross. Will hold up a younger player from getting a game, if Peverill gets delisted why then would you turn around and pick up another 29 year old with a lack of leg speed. Yes I would pick up Cuz, but Soli is no Cuz.
Am I crazy? Cross.
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Pev to be picked up by Essendon, maybe.
 

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I've got a genius idea. Stack our bendigo reserves with old stars (ie: Soloman, Hird etc..) and if we get an injury list like we had this year, you can get someone from your 2nds reserves right?;)
 
I'm not totally against the idea.

As crazy as it sounds, I think he might work for us.

We're a side severely lacking in hard bodies, Solly would be the enforcer in the forward line. I'm sure Alwyn Davey and Leroy Jetta wouldn't mind a blocker like Solly on the ground.

He's got at least 2 years left in my book, his form's been terrific for Fremantle and he'd bring hardness and experience. Furthermore, he'd be a PSD acquisition no doubt.

I'd prefer him to Hayden Skipworth.
 
Dropped a heap of weight when he went over there (around 6-8kgs) and played through the middle. Essendon made him bulk up and play a key back role, which didn't really suit him.
If we got him for nothing i would consider it, but can't see it happening.
 
always liked solly but lets face it, on the field hes a nutter who will for the rest of his career spend lengthy time in the stands for even the most minor of infractions

pass:thumbsdown:
 

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I agree - pass.

With this being the last draft before GC get involved - we have to make every post a winner and have every available slot open for a young kid to take his shot.
 
Jonesy1987 said:
GC get involved in 2010.
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In the 2009 NAB AFL Draft it will have the capacity to sign a dozen 17-year-olds born in January-April 1992.

At the end of 2010, Gold Coast will also be able to pre-list 10 players who had previously nominated for the AFL Draft, or were previously listed with an AFL club, and will be permitted to sign up to 16 uncontracted players.
 
EVERLAST said:
In the 2009 NAB AFL Draft it will have the capacity to sign a dozen 17-year-olds born in January-April 1992.

At the end of 2010, Gold Coast will also be able to pre-list 10 players who had previously nominated for the AFL Draft, or were previously listed with an AFL club, and will be permitted to sign up to 16 uncontracted players.
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I was under the impression that was pre-draft, and have exclusive choice of the 17 year olds before draft day.
 
As much as I liked him being around the club half a dozen years ago, it wouldn't feel right to bring him back now. He doesn't play anywhere near his best and it would be a really shaite end to a really honest football career. He got the best out of himself and I can't remember many times at all where he pulled out of a contest, so I don't think he needs to achieve anymore, even add his premiership medallion to the list, not many blokes get to play in a premiership.
 

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We will overdose on 'kids' if we are not careful

You have to remember that most don't make it anyway.

Reading the posts in this thread I am surprised at the repetition of this 'kids' call. I think you have to remember that there will be another 5 'kids' this year regardless and some fair agers exiting.

Anyhow, Kelvins post wasn't selling anything other than an opportunity to add to our list cheaply ONE, that would be expending just one pick [which is possibly worthless anyhow] for a hardened, half wisened footballer.

If that was solly I think it has merit. But i think it will be harder to get him away from the surf than freo over there. The peaks in Bendigo might seem more like troughs
 
Nicely put.

People's attachment to fourth and fifth round picks astound me.

Funnily enough, it's the same people that are considering them for delisting after one year in the system.
 
evs05 said:
maybe freo would bundle solomon up in a deal with kepler as well. he could teach ryder, daniher and CJ everything he knows about being a key position defender. :rolleyes:

seriously, solomon was a good servant of the club, but he represents a lot of what has been wrong with essendon for the last 5 years. unskillful and undisciplined. i think our kids will develop fine without him and don't see what he has to offer our club.
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I agree with this. I fear him returning to Essendon. Just would not fit our strategy going forward.
 
dapto said:
We will overdose on 'kids' if we are not careful

You have to remember that most don't make it anyway.

Reading the posts in this thread I am surprised at the repetition of this 'kids' call. I think you have to remember that there will be another 5 'kids' this year regardless and some fair agers exiting.

Anyhow, Kelvins post wasn't selling anything other than an opportunity to add to our list cheaply ONE, that would be expending just one pick [which is possibly worthless anyhow] for a hardened, half wisened footballer.

If that was solly I think it has merit. But i think it will be harder to get him away from the surf than freo over there. The peaks in Bendigo might seem more like troughs
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He doesn't seem to be getting much wiser from where I'm sitting. Every pick is a chance to get a good player who'll be there for 8 or 10 years. Solomon will not be, full stop; and his value as a player is IMHO debatable.
 
You missed the point of my post
You picked up on Solly and the 'wisdom' factor, the small money of my post, and slept through the crux.
Slattery_20 said:
He doesn't seem to be getting much wiser from where I'm sitting
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And yet I deliberately played down his broader intellect. I did not, however, discount that on field smarts are a different kind of mental quotient. One that we do have and been shown to lack.
dapto said:
for a hardened, half wisened footballer.
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In referencing Kelvin's op, I made direct reference to it's supposition status [see the 'if that were Solly" in my post above] and also that we do have scope for a mature recycled player of his type.
dapto said:
there will be another 5 'kids' this year regardless and some fair agers exiting
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My point was that we have plenty of room to expend a pick in an experimental capacity and was offering criticism for the thread's repetetive drive for kids.
Of course your comment excludes the viability of what I say and that is where we can differ on opinion.

Slattery_20 said:
Every pick is a chance to get a good player who'll be there for 8 or 10 years.
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And i certainly do disagree. 'Every pick', particularly at the later end of the draft, is more likely to cost us spots for two years and tie us up in the interim. What you advocate presents some opportunity costs Slattery.

And watching Stuart Dew in the Grand final, i think there is much license for us to exercise some risk because simply put, we do not need to become a crache in the mantra of pushing 'kids' through. Our middling players are no surity either. It is less of a risk to me using late round draft picks in that manner rather than if we follow your argument because "every pick is a chance to get a good player who'll be there for 8 or 10 years". That seems more risky to me.

There is no great science in it Slatts. We just don't need to spend our picks all in a dogmatic method because knights hasn't made a public statement to Bf posters to soften his initial draft position. It will happen though. Its called balance

Take a look at our list. We are not Hawthorn of 2003/4 and do not have a Hay or a Thompson to trade and plumb the unwitting. Those days are gone

And regardless.....re Solomon.......

I was responding to the threads progression that we must go for another 6 'kids'. Not drafting Dean Solomon per se. He will be one of twenty plus recycles. When I said "if it was solly" it could equally be another recycle as easily.

Just don't overdose on 17 year olds. I think I made that reasonably clear
 
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