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West Coast great Peter Sumich has explained the rejection of an article he wrote critical of No.1 pick Harley Reid caused him to cut ties with Perth’s major newspaper.

Reid has been the centre of attention in the west since joining the Eagles, more often than not being placed on The West’s backpage no matter what he was doing.

But the Herald Sun reported the dual Eagles premiership player quit his part-time writing gig after they said they would not publish a piece questioning comparisons between the yet-to-debut Victorian and dual Brownlow medallist Chris Judd.

“The West has been pumping this kid up unbelievably and I actually feel for the kid,” Sumich said on SEN’s The Run Home.

“I thought to myself (before writing the article), come on, ‘40 days he’s been there and I reckon 30 days would have been him on the back page’.

I thought, jeez, a ball hasn’t even bounced yet.

“They were comparing him to Chris Judd and I wrote the story about how he’s no Chris Judd.

I was there when Chris Judd got drafted at West Coast, I was there when he played his first game, his second game, his first 30 games and I haven’t seen anyone since play like Chris Judd ever at that age.

“I just said in the article … this kid is no Chris Judd. He’s going to be a very good player, don’t get me wrong, he’s going to be very, very good. But don’t put him in the Chris Judd category.

“He’s still got a bit to learn, he’s still got a bit of puppy fat, he’s a country boy, he’s got to work through that over the first few years of pre-seasons and get fully fit and all that type of tuff, and The West knocked it back. I thought alright, if that’s the case, I’m out of here.