Player Watch Jake Soligo - Re-Signed to End of 2029

Gives me this image of ROB perching on his bedpost like an enormous vulture, flapping his arm-wings occasionally and staring at him, unblinking, throughout the night.


As long as ROB's mobile phone works 😊
 

conVINCEd

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Some people are born with undivided loyalty. Hi Patty D.

Random thought but that whole homesickness thing is really dependent on the quality of a player.

A star like Danger has the power to choose where he goes because anyone would have him. If he was borderline AFL quality, he and his partner would’ve happily moved to Perth, Brisbane and back to Adelaide if it meant he could land a list spot (eg Hickey’s four-state/club journey).
 
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Random thought but that whole homesickness thing is really dependent on the quality of a player.

A star like Danger has the power to choose where he goes because anyone would have him. If he was borderline AFL quality, he and his partner would’ve happily moved to Perth, Brisbane and back to Adelaide if he meant he could land a list spot (eg Hickey’s four-state/club journey)

How many years do they have after retirement?
 
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Figured this thread was due a bump with Jake getting the call up to debut round 1. Really impressive effort after the chaotic nature of his draft years and super excited to see how he goes this weekend.
We are starting to get winners at pick 36 again.

I feel like the ship is turning.

Or we are relying on pick 36 to debut in Rd 1, we are buggered.

See Sunday
 

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Expect him to play 20 games a year for the next 3 years just out of habit from our selectors.
That explains it, seems like they had a batch of blank team sheets with 14 already printed on them. Smart move selecting 14 as your number out of the blocks. If his name was David he'd be a guaranteed 200 game player.
 
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Thought game 2 for this kid was fantastic against a quality side. Not big numbers but you can see why the club rates him. Did some very clever and clean things with ball in hand and is tough. If he's fit enough leave him in.
Can absolutely see why the club took him where we did in the draft last year. In addition to your comments, seems to have a massive engine as well.
 

John Who

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I like this kid. Has a good mix of toughness and neat skills. Can now see why him and Rachele had contracts extended early this year.
A lot of talk about draft blunders on this forum, and Soligo doesn’t look like one. A potential draft steal, actually.
 
Thought game 2 for this kid was fantastic against a quality side. Not big numbers but you can see why the club rates him. Did some very clever and clean things with ball in hand and is tough. If he's fit enough leave him in.
Completely agree - clever, clean & tough..
Which we need more of.

Another one I would add to the list to get games into asap as looks to gave a good future.
 

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A good decision maker and a tough player. A natural footballer. Wait till he joins up with another good user of the ball Taylor. High hopes for Parnell another terrific user of the ball

We saw tonight how a poor ball user in keays can ruin the momentum of the team by an errant kick from
15m at Half back where he could not hit the target. He tries hard though
 
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