In massive **** you to his owners, Lachie Neale is OUT this week with illness. If only we had the foresight of the Jedi Knight at the start of this season. Neale has been a major let down this year and he certainly wasn't the droid we we were looking for when we forked out top dollar for him in our initial squad. For any coach who avoided him kudos, I paid the price.
So what other malfunctioning Eddies have we had this year? While we all hoped Richmond would go down the tubes we all hoped that Dusty could be a quality DPP option. After smashing out a big score in a non head to head round the rest of his year has been mostly forgettable and to rub it in he broke down when trades were light. Docker superstar Nat Fyfe is a gun make no mistake, but once again he has broken down during the year which should put him on the never again list. Early doors plenty punted on Fyfe but he was not the Droid you're looking for either.
Some punt on breakout years and Shae Bolton was a popular pick. After a couple of very good games he essentially turned into Isaac Heeney who is at least scoring regular 80s now. Patrick Cripps was cheap and those who got sucked in found out why. A dearth of tons over the past few years has seen the battered Blue dropping down the pecking order and that downward trend continued this season.
Any nominations welcome. And good luck to all Semi Finalists except FISH
regards,
REB