Kozzy Homesick & Wants to Leave?

[Deefender 244]

Kozzie should have a chat to Jeff Farmer about moving to Fremantle from Melbourne.

[Sydee 4,597]

5 minutes ago, Deefender said:

Kozzie should have a chat to Jeff Farmer about moving to Fremantle from Melbourne.

If any of this is true then I’d prefer the club sits him down and makes it clear that if he wants to get to WA then the MFC will deal with whoever offers the best deal for us and it will happen at a time of our choosing while he is still contracted 

And that could very well be WC not Flogmantle 

[Ugottobekidding 1,239]

34 minutes ago, roy11 said:

As in Murphy Reid?
Bring him home and some other pointy end picks?

Nah Harley 

[Ugottobekidding 1,239]

If it is true he is behaving like that, then I wouldn't go out of the way to make it easy. A good deal or no deal. Time the club does what is best for the club and puts the player second.

[58er 6,732]

23 minutes ago, 58er said:

Yes but we have won a flag that’s the silver lining. 

❤️💙🏆👍

[layzie 34,208]

19 minutes ago, Deefender said:

Kozzie should have a chat to Jeff Farmer about moving to Fremantle from Melbourne.

He actually should, Kozzie is the exact age that Jeff was when he left and also had a young family at the time. 

A point of view from someone who went through it before and got the t-shirt can't hurt. 

[GS_1905 55]

9 minutes ago, layzie said:

He actually should, Kozzie is the exact age that Jeff was when he left and also had a young family at the time. 

A point of view from someone who went through it before and got the t-shirt can't hurt. 

I think it’s fair to say Jeff regretted the move in hindsight. 

If family is genuinely his motivation then WCE should be on the cards too. The fact that it’s a named club suggests other reasons (if true) and that being the case he doesn’t hold any cards. 

Is he even an UFA at the end of this contract? Surely he’d be in our top paid few?

[DistrACTION Jackson 9,817]

1 minute ago, GS_1905 said:

I think it’s fair to say Jeff regretted the move in hindsight. 

If family is genuinely his motivation then WCE should be on the cards too. The fact that it’s a named club suggests other reasons (if true) and that being the case he doesn’t hold any cards. 

Is he even an UFA at the end of this contract? Surely he’d be in our top paid few?

No I believe he is a restricted free agent, so we can still match.

[Clintosaurus 7,924]

Whether it's true or not, the media sure have resumed where they left off. Winning the flag will show them.

[layzie 34,208]

2 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

I think it’s fair to say Jeff regretted the move in hindsight. 

If family is genuinely his motivation then WCE should be on the cards too. The fact that it’s a named club suggests other reasons (if true) and that being the case he doesn’t hold any cards. 

Is he even an UFA at the end of this contract? Surely he’d be in our top paid few?

It seemed like it was purely timing with Jeff. Think he might have just had Kobe and it was hurting him being away from family. I might be wrong but I believe his grandmother was ill at the time as well. I do believe that any other time he probably wouldn't have left us. 

I do agree that if getting home is the priority then all options should be open. I don't quite understand the whole nominating of clubs thing, that's always seemed like it should be for free agency. 

Good question on the UFA I'm honestly not sure. 

[dees189227 12,446]

See I don't get excited about kozzie as everyone else does.

Don't get me wrong, when he's on he's exciting to watch, but for me he's to inconsistent, doesn't put enough pressure on the opposition, to undisciplined, I mean he's already going to be unavailable for the first 3 games & the fact he's apparently telling freo he's coming well either hold him to his contract or get the best deal for him.

It's going to be a year of kozzie & trac talk I think.

[Willmoy1947 4,183]

On 27/01/2025 at 20:23, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Ok, that’s fair.

Now point out to me examples of trades where clubs lost a quality player and received a quality player in return.

Where we differ in opinion is that you think it’s fair and just that a gun player like a Young or Brayshaw should come back our way for Kozzie. My contention is that there has been no recent precedence where a gun player was traded for a gun player, and it would therefore be extremely unlikely to occur in a prospective trade between Freo and Melbourne.

One would think that "the quality player in return" is more often than not in the assortment of picks that are traded back?

[Sir Why You Little 37,260]

This is certainly a year where the Club has to set a high benchmark. We simply have to have a good year, otherwise the media are going to rip us to shreds, which will in turn make it that much harder to entice players to play for us…

 

it’s all in Fella’s See you in September 

[Willmoy1947 4,183]

10 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

See I don't get excited about kozzie as everyone else does.

Don't get me wrong, when he's on he's exciting to watch, but for me he's to inconsistent, doesn't put enough pressure on the opposition, to undisciplined, I mean he's already going to be unavailable for the first 3 games & the fact he's apparently telling freo he's coming well either hold him to his contract or get the best deal for him.

It's going to be a year of kozzie & trac talk I think.

Are the "facts" about Kossie the same as the facts about Petracca, Oliver, Viney and every bloody good player we ever have, except for one, who happens to be the best in the business, and probably lays it down how he says....

[Brownie 6,046]

No matter what happens, I just hope he stays in a good head space while he's with us and doesn't become a passenger.

Training reports seem to show he's going hard

He's vitally important for us. I'd put him in our top six. I love watching him play.

We probably need to get better at poaching from other clubs. Probably need to get another flag to help doing that too.

[dees189227 12,446]

I'm sure Tom morris will be working on to find those texts

[roy11 3,920]

1 hour ago, Ugottobekidding said:

Nah Harley 

I think that might be wishful thinking but i like it nonetheless.

Murphy Reid still be worth keeping an eye on though. Melbourne lad, pick 17 in last year's draft. Could form part of the haul in return. 

 

[The Jackson FIX 3,294]

6 hours ago, SthSea22 said:

He was always going to follow wherever Narkle was.

Which is why i said last year that he has given his letter to the FC seeking a trade to Port where Narkle was at the time. 

I took all the wacks and sledges on DL on the chin for making that statement and stayed off here for a while just to cool things down.

Now that Narkle is at Freo, Kozzy has all the intentions of being at that FC in 2026 due to being Brother in laws (Partners are sisters). They are always together in Darwin and spend more time up North as a group more than back in WA/SA.

 

Dear god not this again 

[Demon Disciple 12,416]

14 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

I'm sure Tom morris will be working on to find those texts

Won’t be hearing much from him in the short-term.

Struck down with food poisoning in a hospital in Sri Lanka

[Ethan Tremblay 31,197]

I reckon he was pulling the [censored]. The Fremantle players have messaged him, after the posts by Lindsay were made public. Kozzie has replied, sarcastically. 

[Ethan Tremblay 31,197]

2 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

Won’t be hearing much from him in the short-term.

Struck down with food poisoning in a hospital in Sri Lanka

He does his best work on the bogger. 

[layzie 34,208]

1 hour ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Are the "facts" about Kossie the same as the facts about Petracca, Oliver, Viney and every bloody good player we ever have, except for one, who happens to be the best in the business, and probably lays it down how he says....

I'm sick of facts. People have been providing facts on things for years and look where it's gotten them..

[layzie 34,208]

8 hours ago, Dannyz said:

I do believe Kozzy wants to go BUT 

Petty was telling his golf mates he would end up at Adelaide and we’ve seen how that has played out. 
 

🤞

And then he took out a membership at Huntingdale 😀

[GS_1905 55]

2 hours ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

No I believe he is a restricted free agent, so we can still match.

Perfect. We should get reasonable compensation given the likely contract size that would be offer too. All bases covered so we can go full bluff and be prepared to have it called. 

[hardtack 10,760]

I must say I’m becoming a little dubious as to the veracity of Ralph’s claims in his post on X… as far as I can tell, nothing has yet appeared on the AFL site, and they’re usually all over this kind of thing in a flash.  Could he have gone off a little too quickly on this one, or am I missing something?

Edited 1 hour ago by hardtack