while i dont rate rodan never have, age has nothing to do with it , at 29 if he was up to standard why would you not take him if he improves our list.
this age thing is utter bull dust. the only consideration is cost and if he improves us. we are not trading out of the nd to get mature players so there is no harm.
have said often would have taken moloney at age 29 because he significantly improves an area of our side. depth experience are straight away addressed and the load on inside players tuck and foley is eased.
imo rodan has never really been up to standard imo to many poor decisions for one,
would rather give a high performing state leaguer a try instead.
an example of a short term solution with age is maric. we need a viable back up for him as a short term list managment thing. id do what brisbane did with ben hudson if need be and take a 30 yr old even just to fill the gaping hole for a yr and give some genuine cover while we find a longer term solution.
im hoping we are looking to rookie the likes of kyle martin paul marschall jack hannath tom sundberg sam dwyer and a fair few others. id take em over 18 yr old rookies any day.
have to say it, if we were to take 6 18 yr old rookies id bet we would get more out of rodan than 5 of them. 5 are likely to never play a game.
2 or 3 kids 3 or 4 mature types in the rookie draft for me.
D Rod is a classic example of our garbage from a previous regime(s) who as soon as he went to Port and played in a reasonable side that made the GF albeit losing by 20 goals many starting saying why why why did we give him away.
As far as I am concerned we have worked hard to get our list to where it is and whilst Claw raises some valid points in terms of looking at mature players from state leagues etc, Rodan IMHO will add nothing to our list. In fact I think he'll get in the way of our 2nd and 3rd tier blokes who are starting to show some positive signs.
There is no romance in getting Rodan back to the club. Would be an error of judgement that whilst we may not pay for it greatly in terms of picks, salary etc we may pay for it on the field and the development of the side to this stage and what they have learned is far more imperative than the romance of bring Rodan back to Punt Rd, who clearly after 11 years of footy still makes elementary errors and plays that overuse type of game he has played all his career.
There are other players who have been delisted that can add more value to our list than Rodan.
Let Melbourne "improve" their list with him.
A resounding no from me.
