Trade Week - Offers and Confirmation

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Shane Wakelin on his former teammate Rhyce Shaw


Shane Wakelin slams Rhyce Shaw attitude | Herald Sun

The Bloods' toughest assignment yet?

Great "team" mate... No wonder he wanted to leave!!

[SimonH]

Why would Port, WC or Freo take a punt on recruiting a player who obviously doesn't want to go there and will leave as soon as he can?

Because he's a very very good player who's a professional; I'm sure that Vespa (among millions of other examples) didn't "want to" go to Sydney if he were given a choice, but once selected to come here, he buckled down and got on with it. And because 'as soon as he can' is at the end of a 3 year contract, which is all the productive time anyone's banking on getting from him anyway.

The alternative is that he leaves Sydney and only demands (and accepts) a 1 year contract in the PSD, meaning that come end 2009 he's a 28 year old trying to flog himself to his 3rd club in 15 months. That doesn't equal a big payday (and an even smaller one if he hasn't shone at his non-desired club in '09).

[connolly]

So he slams Rhys and then defends Didak with barely a pause for breath? What a hypocritical attitude. Reeks of personal issues being poured onto a page.

And recommends the junkie Cousins! Plugger smashed him and Big Beamish should have let him have it. Wakelin is a rat.

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[SimonH]

Leaving aside the pluses and minuses of Rhyce Shaw as a player and bloke, for list balance absolutely the last freakin' thing we need is another 27yo. (27 next week-- happy birthday, Rhyce.) Go through our list-- it's like we're trying to set an all-time record for the highest number of retirements ever in a club, at the end of season 2012.

[cruiser]

Trade week is a farce! All those recruiters getting paid a weeks salary and expenses to achieve almost nothing. Surely they can achieve as little in one day as they do in five.

[Robbo]

Getting Shaw is pretty pointless. Yeah we lack pace but we could easily of picked up a kid with pace in the draft. Now we have yet another 28 year old.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

[UglyDuckling]

He is a quality player for a bargain who averaged over 20 disposals a game we'll get a few good years out of him and it cost us nothing.
As long as we keep giving the kids a game which we did this year it should strenghten us.
It's good for us i would much rather Rhyce Shaw on the ground than Luke Ablett

[Robbo]

Rhyce Shaw is average at best.

I wouldn't class him as being a "quality player".

[UglyDuckling]

Rhyce Shaw is average at best.

I wouldn't class him as being a "quality player".

He averaged over 20 touches in 20 games this year. I would say that would be enough to qualify as a 'quality' player, would you?

[Robbo]

There is more to footy than racking up posessions.

His disposal is ordinary, he tends to turn the ball over a fair bit. That's the last thing we need. In general he just isn't a smart footballer either.

[Donners]

He averaged over 20 touches in 20 games this year. I would say that would be enough to qualify as a 'quality' player, would you?

Simon Arnott did that for Geelong...

[UglyDuckling]

This year averaged 2.8 clangers with and disposal effectiveness of 72% which is with the AFL average being 74% so in terms of statistics that isnt too bad. I know that stats dont say it all but i think you will be suprised he is a quality player for a bargain.
You are being over critical and you will eat your words just like all the doubters of the mighty McVeigh

[Robbo]

McVeigh actually has some football smarts though.

[NMWBloods]

A lot of Shaw's possessions are running around half back and chipping it. His disposal forward is average. The chipping football is how he gets his disposal effectiveness up to a barely adequate 72%.