Re: Brett Deledio
tigerdave said:
No garbage about it, he didn't even want to lead the team out in the second half, Ben Cousins had to push him to the front. What does that tell you about Delidio and his mental state, he can't handle it, he's soft.
PRE people are saying he's improved since his chat with Rawlings, Delidio himself has said he's been slack in the past. Anyone who thinks Delidio is either our best player or close to it is kidding themselves. Delidio is however the best player in a very rotten playing list excluding Richo, Cuz and potentially Cotchin.
IMHO I hope he goes somewhere else, we should with any luck get a decent draft pick for him. I don't think Delidio has got the mental toughness required to be an elite player like Ben Cousins, I don't think he is prepared to work as hard as Ben does to achieve what he could achieve if he put his mind to it. People are saying he's worth $500K a year, really is he worth that amount, I don't think so maybe $300K a year, he would have to improve significantly to warrant a better pay deal in my book.
Perhaps its all due to the absolute *smile* poor development programmes that were in place at Richmond when he arrived. Number 1 draft pick, won the NAB Rising Star, big things expected of him, sure you can blame Wallace for playing him all over the place, but at the end of the day it comes down to the man himself and to date Delidio IMHO has not produced a consistent enough onfield effort that says he's our best player or even close to our best.
If Delidio stays at Richmond, hopefully he will work at his game, his fitness and his ability to shake off taggers etc. He's got a gun midfielder sitting with him now in Cousins, if Ben can't get Brett to fire up, then I'd say Delidio for all the hype is done and dusted and will never achieve what he could which would be tragic, but he would not be alone in that, plenty of potential stars of AFL have done the same thing.
