{"id":83750,"date":"2022-06-30T04:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/?p=83750"},"modified":"2022-06-29T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T04:41:54","slug":"questions-on-why-dambrosio-overlooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/sport\/questions-on-why-dambrosio-overlooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions on why D&#8217;Ambrosio overlooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">FORMER Collingwood recruiter Matt Rendell was left in awe of Essendon\u2019s Massimo D\u2019Ambrosio\u2019s debut performance, questioning how he was overlooked in last year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">D\u2019Ambrosio, 19, was rock solid as a rebounding defender in the Bomber\u2019s 35-point win over St Kilda in round 14, gathering 15 disposals and four rebound 50s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">His debut in the red and black came less than three weeks after he was selected with pick three in the 2022 mid-season rookie draft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He nominated but was overlooked in the 2021 National Draft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI haven\u2019t spoken to anyone about him yet, I can only assume he must have been injured most of the year last year because he looked like he played 100 games,\u201d Rendell told SEN\u2019s <em>The Sporting Capital<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt was amazing and I haven\u2019t spoken to any of my recruiting mates to find out what the hell happened to him last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe wasn\u2019t in any of the [championship] teams [as a junior]\u2026 I can only assume he didn\u2019t play much, so they [clubs] probably didn\u2019t get a good handle on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSome of those players that play two or three games and look alright, [clubs] get them in through the pre-season supplemental selection period, you can take them before the end of February, but no one even did that with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">D\u2019Ambrosio was in action for the Dons in their round 15 clash with West Coast in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em><strong>&#8211; BY SEB MOTTRAM\/ SEN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORMER Collingwood recruiter Matt Rendell was left in awe of Essendon\u2019s Massimo D\u2019Ambrosio\u2019s debut performance, questioning how he was overlooked in last year\u2019s draft. 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