Shane Edwards [merged]

[lamington]

I used to be a massive critic of Sheds but he has developed into a very handy player for us. He was our leading AFLCA vote getter for a good part of the first half of the 2015 season. His broken fibula was probably causing more trouble than the club was letting on.

Now that he's over come his collarbone and leg injuries, I actually think he has been quite servicable of late.

[Stalin]

I used to be a massive critic of Sheds but he has developed into a very handy player for us. He was our leading AFLCA vote getter for a good part of the first half of the 2015 season. His broken fibula was probably causing more trouble than the club was letting on.

Now that he's over come his collarbone and leg injuries, I actually think he has been quite servicable of late.

Top 10 in afl for some time

[Diocletian]

...which will give him peak currency.....

[WA Tiger]

...which will give him peak currency.....

Won't happen though although I agree to some extent. Could get us one of the guns from GWS, maybe even be involved in the Prestia deal...

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He said Titch is better

[Tigeritis™©®]

Agree - easily our best expendable player.

For comparison, martin kicked so badly in the 1st q he had negative meters gained

How often does he kick that badly? Was still massive in the contests.

Dusty often has patches of games when his kicking goes to crap

We can thank Dumma's game plan of overemphasising the need for controlled possesion with the use methodical ball movement thus the resultant proliferation of the dinky20 metre special.
 I'm fairly certain that Dustys errors are made when his natural inclination to pinpoint a pass to the chest of a teammate 40-60 metres away suddenly collide with the indoctrination of "The Richmond Way".

[Stalin]

Why I am skeptic Edwards is "expendable"

 - Good at crumbling. Richmond, generally terrible at this

 - Skilful,  elusive, silky        "

 - beautiful hands.           "

 -  creative.                "

-  X factor.         "

 -  speed.          "

- can play forward successfully.

[Diocletian]

Which all equals prime trade value*

*providing potential suitors ignore the fumbling, shanks &wormburners, missed tackles, three shyte finals performances, one-sidedness/Heskey turning circle.

[Stalin]

Fumbling? Generally exceptional hands in most aspects of the game IMHO   Greg Williams like ...

Shanks, yes but for mine Is a good kick overall. Good kick for goal too important for a forward

Tackles well at times. Example the first five seconds last match

This no turnin circle business is somewhat exaggerated. Compare with boaty mcboat face troy Chaplin

[Stalin]

Think of the diversity too

[Diocletian]

His good hands are more in relation to his quick hand passing....he often fumbles when trying to gather the ball ...he'll even fumble when just carrying the ball or shaping to kick....gets ahead of himself..... you can't say, on balance, that he's a one touch player...


When Rioli's tearing it up 2-3 years from now with one or two of Prestia/O'Meara/Crouch/Steele/Tomlinson/Hartlett feeding him the ball, no-one will care that we traded Edwards.

[Andyy]

Personally I don't consider Edwards expendable. Absolute keeper and real X-factor player for me...

[lamington]

Our team at worse suffers from a slow, predictable, stagnant brand of football and people want to trade away one of the few fast, creative players on our list?

[camboon]

When he's not in the team we struggle to win (X factor), he is the play maker , Shane can do the unexpected that often leads to a goal. His shanks are often because he trying to pin point a pass in a crowded defensive zone.
To me trading Edwards would be equal with trading Rance

[tony_montana]

Ive been a big shane edwards critic until recent times - what do people think we'd get for him? we wouldnt get a top 10 pick. more likely around the 20 mark which is unders for him, hes  a borderline a grader for us now and that wouldnt be reflected in the compensation we'd receive for a trade  so i say no