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5 hours ago, Rivers Run Red said:

So.... do we strategically drop games against the bottom 4 to improve our pick?

Odds on we would get done for tanking even if we finished top.

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14 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

As I mentioned above, Alan Richardson was interviewed on SEN over summer and was asked whether the Kozzie speculation had the potential  for the distraction that Jackson did.

Whilst he didn’t say it in so many words, he absolutely implied that Jackson deceived the club with his meeting with Freo. He said something like “it was a bit of a surprise to read the headlines that he’d had a meeting with Freo after we let him go and see his family”. This is after Richo thought both parties were in a good place for the majority of the year.

He then also said “I don’t want to go into too much detail” in reference to his disappointment of the way he conducted himself last year on the contract front.

I took that as Jackson stuffing the club around last year.

Can I suggest that it is possibly more likely that Jackson was a bit of a pawn in this, with Freo adopting predatory behaviour and his manager being an accomplice?

From everything I've seen Jackson is a simple fella, just going along with life.

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1 hour ago, deanox said:

Can I suggest that it is possibly more likely that Jackson was a bit of a pawn in this, with Freo adopting predatory behaviour and his manager being an accomplice?

From everything I've seen Jackson is a simple fella, just going along with life.

100% Jackson couldn't plan his way out of a paper bag, hence why he's never been able to replicate his Q3 GF form. It's not that hard. Jump high, spread fast, handball with accuracy. That's it. Do that for 15 years and you're a multi-multi-millionaire.

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I've been dreaming Freo might finish last but after watching North tonight that won't happen. North are us 10 years ago. Really bad.

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5 minutes ago, BDA said:

I've been dreaming Freo might finish last but after watching North tonight that won't happen. North are us 10 years ago. Really bad.

Hawks are better than Freo I reckon! 

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Just now, adonski said:

Hawks are better than Freo I reckon! 

They play in 2 weeks. If the Hawks aren't tanking, they are a definite chance to win.

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3 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Bah … humbug … Melbourne is sabotaging the Freo deathride by destroying North Melbourne. How can we expect them to finish ahead of the Dockers after tonight?

Hopefully we beat Freo by 110 

West Coast have the spoon in the bag for mine. They are putrid and they don’t care. 

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11 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Hopefully we beat Freo by 110 

West Coast have the spoon in the bag for mine. They are putrid and they don’t care. 

They were worse than North tonight 

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8 minutes ago, layzie said:

They were worse than North tonight 

They are genuinely putrid. 
My heart breaks for Hunty 😞

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7 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

They are genuinely putrid. 
My heart breaks for Hunty 😞

One of their better players too. If there was a mid-season trade period I'd almost to a deal to get him back and save him 

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19 hours ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

Build the great man a statue outside of our new complex in Caufield.

I'll even come from Adelaide to unveil it to the masses.

He can have a garden gnome…

 

 

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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 they had some more laughs when they saw it meant we couldn’t afford Acres and Logue and even more laughs when they got a better player in Grundy on the cheap with Collingwood paying a big chunk of his salary. 

Carlton also laughing as they took Cerra and Acres, latter cheap as chips. Forced us to pay high for Henry. Left us with a young undeveloped kid from the draft in exchange for Cerra. In doing so weakened a club that was expected to challenge for a flag at the same time as them. Kudos. 

Well done Belly. You made us worse and strengthened our competitors. 

This from a guy who was drafted by Freo for free on inception, cut, went on to win a flag at North, came back at the cost of picks 6, 8, 37 and Jess Sinclair. The irony is mind blowing. How much can one man cost a club!!!

 

 

(plus Hogan for pick 6 that became Ben King)

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Fremantle were spooked yesterday. Not ready for AFL standard and over handballed. They really don't look like a proper AFL team right now. 

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11 hours ago, adonski said:

Hawks are better than Freo I reckon! 

Jury is out on that one. I just want them to finish down  the ladder, they won’t finish last or second last if we could get pick four through six I would be delighted. Getting the picks we get for Jackson and getting The Bun will have been a great result. Our selection / negotiating team have done a great job again.

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1 hour ago, Allus Monk said:

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 they had some more laughs when they saw it meant we couldn’t afford Acres and Logue and even more laughs when they got a better player in Grundy on the cheap with Collingwood paying a big chunk of his salary. 

Carlton also laughing as they took Cerra and Acres, latter cheap as chips. Forced us to pay high for Henry. Left us with a young undeveloped kid from the draft in exchange for Cerra. In doing so weakened a club that was expected to challenge for a flag at the same time as them. Kudos. 

Well done Belly. You made us worse and strengthened our competitors. 

This from a guy who was drafted by Freo for free on inception, cut, went on to win a flag at North, came back at the cost of picks 6, 8, 37 and Jess Sinclair. The irony is mind blowing. How much can one man cost a club!!!

 

 

(plus Hogan for pick 6 that became Ben King)

He's right, the irony is delicious.


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1 hour ago, Allus Monk said:

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 they had some more laughs when they saw it meant we couldn’t afford Acres and Logue and even more laughs when they got a better player in Grundy on the cheap with Collingwood paying a big chunk of his salary. 

Carlton also laughing as they took Cerra and Acres, latter cheap as chips. Forced us to pay high for Henry. Left us with a young undeveloped kid from the draft in exchange for Cerra. In doing so weakened a club that was expected to challenge for a flag at the same time as them. Kudos. 

Well done Belly. You made us worse and strengthened our competitors. 

This from a guy who was drafted by Freo for free on inception, cut, went on to win a flag at North, came back at the cost of picks 6, 8, 37 and Jess Sinclair. The irony is mind blowing. How much can one man cost a club!!!

 

 

(plus Hogan for pick 6 that became Ben King)

He’s not wrong. Peter bell has been a disaster for freo. 

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14 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Bah … humbug … Melbourne is sabotaging the Freo deathride by destroying North Melbourne. How can we expect them to finish ahead of the Dockers after tonight?

Freo: "Hold my beer"

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13 hours ago, BDA said:

They play in 2 weeks. If the Hawks aren't tanking, they are a definite chance to win.

They are tanking. They will make sure they don’t win that game.

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B:       Logue

HB:   

C:        Acres                     Langdon

HF:     Tucker     Hogan      Hill

F:                        Lobb  

FOLL:     Meek     Neale   Cerra

That's all just in Bell's time, so Weller and Crozier don't make it in. They weren't always screwed on the trade value, but then somehow managed to ruin it for themselves each time (Epic example Lachie Neale for 6 and 19 which became Hogan and Lobb) while also playing such pigheaded 'hardball' on the trades that they've ruined their relationship with several other clubs.

They tried to trade in a rising star winner and premiership-winning ruckman-midfielder-forward unicorn projected to be one of the most potent players in the league, for, they believed, two picks in the mid teens and one in the 30s.

Instead they now have a pretty handy young ruck, for whom they traded picks 5, 13, and 23.

So we hate them for trying to screw us over and we mock them for falling on their faces doing it.

DEATH RIDE!

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Norff and Hawks are a hot mess but Norff beat Freo in Perth recently.

Hawks have to be a chance as one steaming dung heap goes up against another.  Mitchell wont want to finish bottom draft or no draft.

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13 minutes ago, rpfc said:

They are tanking. They will make sure they don’t win that game.

The Harley Reid slow bicycle race is going to be an interesting sub-plot to the season. North were horrible last night and the Eagles are beyond putrid. Hawks have some stiff competition in the tanking stakes.

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