Good riddance (I hope you had the time of your life).

"If you choose the day that a player of his calibre announces his retirement to bag him, you're a bit of a dickhead."

Well said - very poor form. The guy is an NBL and Wildcats legend. Fitting that both Wortho and Redhage retire in the same season - they had some epic battles.

If he played the way all you Redhage/Perf hating flogs perceive he would have been refereed out of the game a long time ago.
A 384 NBL game legend.

Who would retire from NBL and go play SBL...doesnt make sense.

I'll bag him every and any day of the week. But, you can't help but appreciate what he's done in Perth and how he's contributed to their sustained success.

He is what he is, a hero to 10,000, a villian to the rest.
He goes to sleep each night with a handful of championship rings not giving a toss what anyone on the Eastern seaboard thinks.

I'm expecting to see #42 hanging from the rafters someday soon.

Been an absolute stalwart of the Wildcats.

One season too late. Not sure why he decided to play on when he was clearly done by the end of last season.

In saying that, he has been one of the best players in the NBL in the past decade and was unstoppable back in the day.

I will miss his flopping, but Wagstaff can take over the reigns.

'Who would retire from NBL and go play SBL...doesnt make sense.'

Because retiring players of any sport never go and play a lower level

integrity has nothing to do with heart... just sayin'

Keyboard warriors are out in force and pretty low to saw good riddance will you all say the same when Goulding retires, he's the king of flops. Anyway 3 championships, multiple MVPs for the cats, he's done just fine.

The player I most loved to hate... A great unorthodox scorer in his prime, but also the single most infuriatingly dirty player I've watched over the years.

Please, Hinder doesn't even come close to Redhage when it comes to sheer volume of moments of on-court douchery. It's like comparing Michael Jordan's career point totals to Harold Miner.

"On-Court douchery" - Petrie would own that title.

Yep, Hoops sinking to a new all-time low, with the dickheads out in force.
Have any of you even met Shawn, or listened to anything he's said. I've had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times over the years. He seems to be a legitimately nice guy, who enjoys the community work.

Simple fact is his achievements speak for themselves. He'll retire as the 2nd highest games player, and 6 times MVP for the most successful team. He's won 3 NBL championships, and represented his adopted country at the Olympics.
Despite waning output over the past few years, he's still averaged 18 points across his career, playing mostly as PF often against bigger opponents.

And he would not have achieved any of that, if even half the crap his detractors say was true.

End of the day he will retire as an NBL legend, and the haters will still be sad pathetic losers.

Yeah, no question Hinder found himself involved/featuring in a lot of "incidents" over the years, but Redhage is up to something basically every single possession of the game.

You can dispute his methods, but he was a winner.

Sorry Dazz, I don't care who Redhage is off the court, I'm simply judging him on his capacity as a professional basketballer. My dislike for him only extends that far, too.

Please, "making stuff up"... I don't know how many times I've seen footage of Redhage doing something off the ball and either getting away with it or drawing a foul over the length of his career, but I wish I had a dollar for each of them.

Take care of all your memories. ...
As you cannot relive them.........

I heard that he eats kittens.

I'm simply judging him on his capacity as a professional basketballer. My dislike for him only extends that far, too.

^^ haha i think you mean he prefers Rooster.

Guess what Dazz? People are not obligated to like Redhage. Perth fans love him, good on them. He's been a Champion for them.

Everyone else is allowed to form their own opinion and most see him as a niggling flopper. He is the absolute standard bearer of flopping in the NBL. Goulding, Wagstaff, Sobey etc can only pale in comparison to his decade plus of antics.

Oh and calling people sad pathetic losers because they don't agree with you is kinda sad and pathetic.

It will be interesting to see how many good wishes he get from rival players - I'm tipping not as many as other players.

Congratulations on a successful career - even though I'm not a fan of the way he plays at all.

(Mod: Keep it reasonable please.)

Good to see you being mature as always Dazz. Top effort there.

Yes he flops. Yes he is dirty. Yes he is a Championship player who will get his number retired.

I would love for you to be this rude to my face.

Dazz, are you able to admit even a theoretical capacity for anyone affiliated with, or part of, the Wildcats organisation to do anything wrong?

This thread is all a Little sad really, I cannot think of any Australian Olympic basketball representative who , upon their retirement, has generated such a range of controversy such as this.

Dazz in your list of his achievements you never bother to mention his Australian representative achievement, perhaps you should watch the "in their own words" interview with Damian Martin, ( a truly class act) to get a bit of perspective ( perspective - you know, that 3-D depth thingy that usually comes with having two functioning eyes and its accompanying bi-focal vision)

Yes I asked if he would actually say that stuff to my face, instead of being an internet tough guy. Would anyone accept a stranger saying that to their face? I doubt it.

Dazz has a bee in his bonnet about me for other reasons.

Brett Maher

Dazz, it must be tiring being you.

You get personally offended everytime people don't see your rose tinted view of the world. And the slightest hint of criticism towards Perth you go around calling people dickheads.

It doesn't help that you have a knack of misinterpreting basic posts which sets you off into a perpetual rage.

Nobody said Redhage wasn't a winner or a successful player because he was, but that doesn't change the fact lots of people don't like him for his methods - and that's absolutely fair.

Kings fans admit Garlepp can be a bit suspect, 36ers fans admit Drmic has a tendency to get under the skin of players and I think we all acknowledge Petrie can cause a stir. These are blatantly obvious - Redhage is probably the most blatant of all.

Take the hit and move on.

Classic case of one or two season to many but was a good player in his day.

I'm not convinced he's gone a season too many. He's down the end of the rotation, but he has still played some very meaningful little spells for us.
Regardless, he was an absolute machine in his day and was the prime mover in many years of successful Wildcats seasons, and I agree there's an excellent chance that the #42 will be hanging from the rafters some time soon.

None of which means that the many people who have disliked him for years need to change their opinions today. I'm pretty sure we're not that precious!

So many having a go at Dazz for being sensitive. It's amusing cause the way you're reacting to him having a go is kinda precious too.

Like many of the greats redhage will be loved by his team and despised by those he tormented.

It is however sad when a player of his calibre can't be acknowledged for his contribution to the game without bringing up some of the perceived lesser qualities.

If Joey wins you a title will you talk about his Twitter war and when he threw a punch after a game? Doubtful

What are you on about?

The twitter war is the best thing to happen to the 36ers - from 3-6 before the event to 17-8 after event

The answer to the question is yes though, if Joey wins the 36ers the title, there will be talk of the twitter war and the fans will be bloody happy about it.

I'm sure the wildcats will try to retire his jersey and hoist it up into the rafters at the end of the season. Whether it will stay up there, or just inexplicably and periodically fall down to earth at key moments during future games remains to be seen.

Oh look, another thread derailed by anti Perth sentiment. Don't think the people on here see the irony.

The truth hurts doesn't it!

Where's the anti-Perth sentiment?

People dislike Redhage =/= disliking Perth.

Just an incredible player.

Once he shifted to PF teams around the league had to adjust to the impact he had offensively with his all-around game and defensively with his mobility, elite fitness and intelligent reads.

Credit to him the way he's continued on past his prime and still been a contributor to the team, on the court in patches and no doubt massively off the court.

Greg Hire's tribute to him was fantastic, the guy was the ultimate pro who got the best out of himself and, contrary to unpopular belief, is a really nice bloke too.

https://twitter.com/greg4hire/status/826028678400221184

From @nblfacts:

Most career points by active players
5791- Redhage
4730- Worthington
4286- Forman
3576- Gibson
3517- Penney
3074- Johnson
2891- Abercrombie

Everybody needs a villain! Redhage is Perth's but the exaggeration on his "dirty play" is a bit much.

If half of these comments here had any validity then the guy would of fouled out every game of his career - after all the ref's see what you all see right? But wait he plays for Perth right and there's that whole conspiracy about the NBL looking after Perth and their players - right?

I hate players on other teams also, it's not a bad thing but most the time it's a hate based on respect (Worthington), other times its just cos i need a villain(Petrie, Kickert). Then there's players I hate cos they are dirty elbow swinging flogs(Conklin).

If you want to hate a player - fine - that's your right. But try to show a little bit of class and lay off the character and on-court player assassination of a legend of the game in a thread about his retirement.

Redhage will be in Cairns for the game on Sunday, and I'll have no problem going up to him, shaking his hand and saying thanks for the memories, and for what he's achieved.

Just looking forward to him and Wortho getting it on one last time :)

Who questioned his ability as a pro baller?

They would say he's not really dead, he just flopped.

The Breakers sucked at the time and replaced Redhage (who was just OK) with Timmons in a desperate move that certainly didn't pay off.

Funny thing is they brought Timmons in because they needed another 3pt shooter and he missed something like his first 25 triples for them!