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As much as I'm on this ‘death ride’ with the rest of ya’s, it’s sorta morphed into a Jackson bashing session.  Remember it’s about where Freo finish this season.  Jackson might be dealing personal

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I like this. This is one of the more reasonable posters over in purple land on Bigfooty.      Melbourne laughing at us. Langdon for peanuts now Jackson for 2 firsts (one looking low!) plus

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" We don't need another midfielder (Serong), We need a key forward."

This wins the  Prince Harry award for the thickest comment accompanied by such an authoritative know it all tone

 

Serong is an absolute star of the competition. It's akin to saying no to the fresh water cray thanks me wants fish fingers

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16 minutes ago, Wizard of Koz said:

" We don't need another midfielder (Serong), We need a key forward."

This wins the  Prince Harry award for the thickest comment accompanied by such an authoritative know it all tone

 

Serong is an absolute star of the competition. It's akin to saying no to the fresh water cray thanks me wants fish fingers

It is and ive been guilty of thinking this way for a while as well. But the last 6-8 weeks has shown me that KPF are not the be all and end all.

We need kicking skills in our side desperately. This year using (potentially) two top 10 picks to bring in 2 elite midfielders will provide us an enormous uplift in our ball movement department. If we go by the likes of Norf in securing a player similar to Sheezel, i can see them certainly adding some run off half back for year 1. This then allows us to move Bowey or Salem into HF and Rivers into the middle or a few other options. You can then look at having Oliver, Rivers, Viney, Sparrow, Brayshaw as a midfield group, Trac as a 70/30 forward and our team looks immeasurably different with talent spread more evenly across the ground. 

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If the Hawks can jag one win before the last round and WC gets up in the game with Freo round 24 could see a good old fashioned tanking game between the Hawks and Freo! 
Maybe if we win our next four and lock away a double chance we could rest all our players to throw our round 23 game against the Hawks to improve our draft picks (joking!!! Joking!!! Don’t come at me!)

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3 hours ago, Wizard of Koz said:

" We don't need another midfielder (Serong), We need a key forward."

This wins the  Prince Harry award for the thickest comment accompanied by such an authoritative know it all tone

 

Serong is an absolute star of the competition. It's akin to saying no to the fresh water cray thanks me wants fish fingers

The other thing to consider is that we have a bit of a glut of A and B+ grade mids in something like the 25 - 28 yo age bracket.

We need a few more future A grade mids comming through underneath in the 18 - 20 yo bracket, so we don't end up the Hawthorn/Eagles/Richmond in another 3 or 4 years.

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5 hours ago, adonski said:

All the cool kids are going on about the failure of Gawndy, interestingly i haven't heard much (i must admit i don't listen that closely anymore these days), about the failure of Darcy and Jackson.

Looks like Jacko has the ruck duties for a couple of weeks, i think it will suit him.

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1 minute ago, Cheap Seats said:

All the cool kids are going on about the failure of Gawndy, interestingly i haven't heard much (i must admit i don't listen that closely anymore these days), about the failure of Darcy and Jackson.

Looks like Jacko has the ruck duties for a couple of weeks, i think it will suit him.

Lol that's Sam Darcy (WBD), I copied the wrong tweet, but in other Darcy news, Freo's Sean will miss too

 

 

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10 minutes ago, adonski said:

Lol that's Sam Darcy (WBD), I copied the wrong tweet, but in other Darcy news, Freo's Sean will miss too

 

 

Haha thank you for updating. I completely forgot about Lukes kid

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1 hour ago, layzie said:

I don't think Freo have a lot of excuses personally, I think they really just need to look in the mirror.

They lost some key veterans and placed their hopes in a 21 year old kid who, in my opinion, doesn't deserve the kind of money they are paying (at least not yet, maybe in 3 or 4 more years).

Makes me happy to see all the failures/mistakes from Peter Bell 

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10 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

They lost some key veterans and placed their hopes in a 21 year old kid who, in my opinion, doesn't deserve the kind of money they are paying (at least not yet, maybe in 3 or 4 more years).

Makes me happy to see all the failures/mistakes from Peter Bell 

There should be just as much talk on the 2 ruck situation at Freo this week as there is around Grundy and Gawn in my opinion. 

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10 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

this is one of the sillier threads - needs to finish.

This is my favourite thread! It means nearly every game has a bearing on our draft hand and therefore creates interest

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This is my favourite thread! It means nearly every game has a bearing on our draft hand and therefore creates interest

And each time it goes in our favour I think of that tiny tiny nonce called Peter [censored]! And laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh,

wipe away a tear or two….

And laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh laugh and laugh and laugh…

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On 7/16/2023 at 6:25 PM, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

There is no incentive for Hawthorn to keep winning games the best pick we will get is 4

Surely you dont believe Hawthorn will lay down against us in a few weeks time?  I give them a chance against Richmond this weekend. Richmond struggled most of the day against a WAFL team .  Martin got a goal on the final siren ( a free?).

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IMO we're already winners. Even if Fremantle win a stack of games from here, they won't make finals, so their first pick is going to be a top 10 pick.

So we got 13 last year, a top 10 this year, and Fremantle's second rounder this year too (at worst, something like 30), for Jackson and last year's 44 and 67. I'm happy with that, all things considered. It's a bonus if Fremantle struggle and stay closer to the bottom 4.

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37 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

this is one of the sillier threads - needs to finish.

The only time this thread lost the plot was on the 1st day of July when posters actually wanted the Dogs to beat Freo which therefore had them equal on points on us in the pursuit of top 4.

Top 4 > a couple of draft picks higher up the board.

I wonder if posters will be cheering Brisbane and Port to beat Freo if top 2 is still a live chance for us?

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