Question to some of the other Port faithful here.
What's the deal with our talls over the last couple of seasons in Ryan, Goad, and Bracchi?
Not sure if they played on Sunday, but I haven't seen any of them playing over the second half of the season.. Are they playing with their local clubs?
Have Brad Moran and Bonaddio left the side with no more room for any of those three talls?
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I think Goad and Ryan have gone walk abouts, and steve bracchi is playing local footy at blackburn efl div 1. Goad lost interest, and i think Ryan was unhappy with the game time he was getting under Moran
Thanks for the quick reply localboy
I can understand Goad moving on, as he was probably the second ruckman in the two's and his chances of breaking through to the seniors was slim.
This is Bracchi's third year on the list, and I actually thought he had improved a fair bit in the two (?) games I saw him play this early year.
So far my prediction that Ryan would be a state rep is struggling to get up :) Hope he is not lost to the club as I still think he has a future at VFL level (for the Borough).
Seems abit strange to me. Bonnadio is rotating between ones and twos and Moran is the only other ruck? Havnt seen the twos for a month or so, Moran must be doing pretty much all the ruck work.
I saw Ryan play a top game against Sandy last year at there ground when we got flogged and he was always pushing for senior selection. I rate him as a player.
Just on another subject is Josh Rudd carrying an injury or just really struggling for form? He improved out of sight last year and I thought this season he'd be in our top few players
With AFL listed players such as McIntosh, McKernan, Rocca, Jones and Moran who will all get games ahead of VFL listed players, do you blame players such as Ryan, Bracchi and Goad for being disheartened??!!
Am sure Port Melbourne told players at the start of the season that the 12 / 10 rule would give them more opportunity for senior selection so for someone like Tim Ryan, who has only played a handful of Reserve Grade games at the start of the year when Port were 'testing' this rule, as soon as it was scrapped he would have realised he wasn't going a chance to play seniors in front of the tall AFL players from the Kangaroos. Bracchi and Goad couldn't even get a Reserve Grade game when this rule was in.
Am sure Port will be the ones to suffer if the Kangaroos get injuries to their talls and these other players have left the club due to lack of opportunity. If they haven't already left this year, I'm sure they won't be around next season to have to go through the same situation.
Goad came from Qld (or thats what is indicated in the Record) so the transfer fee to get him down here must have been a bit ... expensive player if they let him go without a senior match.