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Pick 29: Shai Bolton
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If we have any notion of what we are doing AT ALL Freo or WC must be bled dry.
No bitterness here - its best for him and best for the club where we are currently at. He is the cherry on the cake, we have no cake. Blair just needs to do his job. All this talk of 2 or 3 first rounders. It depends where in the first round. I would like West Coasts pick 3...
Imagine FOS Draper Jagga all lining up for us next year. Hopper in the twos.
If we were to end up with Smith, Reid, FOS and Travalgia I wouldn’t be against a trade. An icing on top player and it’s obvious he has no leadership qualities.
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Regardless of what you think of him he will be a huge loss. Despite playing for the worst team in the league where an inside 50 is a novelty more than a game plan, and despite playing a reasonable amount of midfield time, he sits 8th on the goal kicking list of players 190cm or shorter, only a goal from being 6th. Often when he is playing midfield, things happen, not because he's a gun midfielder but because he has that pace we sorely lack.
Simply he's not easily replaceable, he's contracted and we need to receive fair to overstated compensation or no deal.
One issue I see is if he does go, and say Rioli went, what happens with our salary cap? Do we pay overs to players for new contracts to get over the minimum payment required or do we trade for a gun young player?
Simply he's not easily replaceable, he's contracted and we need to receive fair to overstated compensation or no deal.
One issue I see is if he does go, and say Rioli went, what happens with our salary cap? Do we pay overs to players for new contracts to get over the minimum payment required or do we trade for a gun young player?
Of the 201 goals our team has kicked in 2024, Bolton has personally kicked 33 or 16.4% of them.
This is a big loss.
This is a big loss.
He may not be immediately replaceable but we're now looking at long term and his trade value is worth more than what he will bring to the table in the next few years as a player who doesn't want to be a Riverland. Thanks for the Memories Shai and good luck hopefully he can find his best football again
Maybe club pressed him for an answer and Ralphy got a whiff of it somehow. Or maybe Ralphy is talking through his you know what.
We've been missing the best of Shai all year. He's been disinterested at best. I'd rather he was gone than continue delivering what he has this season.
For those having a go at Shai he is a young guy about to have two little kids and a partner who’s family is in WA. He is a person as well as being a footballer and maybe looking after a young family is harder than they thought. Wouldn’t be the first ones.
He is also 8 year tiger, life member, has gone close to winning a JDM a couple of times, about to be a Michael Roach medal winner, AA and dual premiership player.
I for one won’t be judging him, I reckon he loves RFC but is supporting his family first.
Thank him for his service to the club, cheer him next weekend and then move on.
He is also 8 year tiger, life member, has gone close to winning a JDM a couple of times, about to be a Michael Roach medal winner, AA and dual premiership player.
I for one won’t be judging him, I reckon he loves RFC but is supporting his family first.
Thank him for his service to the club, cheer him next weekend and then move on.
No, Ralphy the faux Richmond supporter would never do anything like that.
the lack of respect for bolton amongst some richmond supporters is crazy to me.
will be a top 10 player at freo guaranteed. then these same supporters will all be complaining when the kids we take are no where near as good as he is which i doubt they will be.
