Schultz worth more
Thats why the club finished on the bottom as we overate players, sorry Duds.!
Believe it or not young 22 year old key position players who can take a mark and kick a goal are a highly sort after commodity. Certainly more so than HBF receivers.
Selection 28 in a well publicised weak draft is just as much of a gamble as retaining a talented yet underachieving KPP. Given the recent stats on that selection number's likely success, it's an even bigger risk.
It's rapidly running out for Jay but there is still time for him if he can:
a) Get the fitness required to play four quarters of football.
b) Wallace utilises him effectively up forward.
c) Our midfield begins to dominate.
All the talk about Hughes and Riewoldt being better options is completely unproven and pie in the sky stuff. Both whilst younger, look like third tall options to me and unlike Schulz IMO neither are capable of holding down a key position in the seniors
at this stage although admitedly that may change in '08.
The club looked to trade Sarge and have sent a clear message.
He knows that this is his last chance at Richmond, if not the league and now knows exactly where he stands.
Also it has to be remembered that Schulz was contracted. We would have been paying his salary at Port for the next 12 months. If he'd had been a success over there he would have left more egg on our faces than the Rodan situation.
IMO the club did the right thing in keeping him. Time will tell if that's correct.
I hope that they were.