The rewriting of history happens quickly around here. Casting Windsor as a poor trade option and claiming he has been a passenger for two weeks is over the top! He had 21 possessions in round 1 and slotted a lovely goal. Are critics forgetting the nasty hit he took to the shoulder last night. I thought he was done for the evening, but he recovers sufficiently to battle on.

27 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

Or could look at a penalty for “unsportsmanlike behaviour”. Only a [censored] of the highest order would incur this penalty…… enter the F Wit Voss.

For a player who has done SFA in afl his main achievement is his big mouth. Something Freo must be proud of.

Coach seemed cognisant he was 'treading a fine line'. Not a sportsman's bootlace, with behaviour emblematic of stepping in...

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3 hours ago, BDA said:

we got another game into our youngsters

stemmed the bleeding after quarter time. could have got real ugly.

i think a 50 point defeat is about par given where ourselves and Freo are. no need to be disheartened at all

carlton are very beatable. If we get our hands on enough ball i reckon we can turn them over

It's also just the start and flying that far after 6 days would have zapped a few of their energy perhaps. Given the real temp at 7.30 according to the BOM was around 25 Celsius with 82% humidity. We certainly looked slow at times.

Although Max who barely had time to scratch his nose against the Saints was a dynamo.

I wonder if we hooked a turbine up to his bicycle we could solve all our energy issues.

1 hour ago, Maldonboy38 said:

I feel sorry for our defenders being burnt by constant turnovers n the middle

Fair point. It was coming in at breakneck speed at times and faster than it was repelled. Plus no Disco or Bowser.

Underestimate Freo this year and you've made a mistake. Despite some really doubtful umpiring you often see at fortress kardinia, Freo almost won.

Next week will give us more of an insight to the season. I think we have the talent. But is it mature enough and our some older guys fading away?

King certainly has some challenges but I'm glad we changed coaches and moved a few players on. Could have swung the axe a little harder.

Sparrow isn't really my favourite. I think he gives us 100 % ( 12 tackles yesterday) but hes just not a ball winner. Yet he's in every single week. That needs to change. Hes 25 with a myriad of games under his belt. If he hasnt really performed yet, hes not going to improve.

And while his tackle count may have earnt him another game, I don't want players gifted them. I think we saw quite a bit of this under Goody. Maybe from lack of depth and or injury but successful clubs have at least half a dozen pushing for selection each week. Selection was often a common and robust discussion here in 2021

Do we currently have this sort of talent? Not to the same extent, but at least more so than the last two years?

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34 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

The rewriting of history happens quickly around here. Casting Windsor as a poor trade option and claiming he has been a passenger for two weeks is over the top! He had 21 possessions in round 1 and slotted a lovely goal. Are critics forgetting the nasty hit he took to the shoulder last night. I thought he was done for the evening, but he recovers sufficiently to battle on.

It’s not really a knock on Windsor, he’ll be a good player, but we reached on draft night by 3-4 positions. No one is taking him over Curtin Caddy or O’Sullivan

47 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Everyone saying that we miss May so much, is it the 2021 version or his current reality?

Last year he was slow and immobile. He would struggle with this new game plan given his age and injuries

We were never getting the 22 version of May back in a full time sense once 2023 commenced Dub but he was still able to produce the best version of himself on occasions somewhere through 2024 imv.

To say we could just go out and find a like for like replacement is very nice banter (and i'm not suggesting this is what you are inferring) but no serious football punter genuinely believes in such fairy tales surely?

May at his best was a generational talent for us and the best we can hope for is something akin to his best.

Turner will grow into his role and should improve as the years pass but i'm not expecting him to get to the heady heights that May produced on a consistent basis anyway.

Hopefully we can find another seriously good intercept Marshall / enforcer down back to support the likes of Disco at some point in the near future but i'm not holding my breath.

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The first QTR was really ugly we were lucky we were not 10 goals down . It was Neeld esq.

I was pretty happy after that we dominated 2nd but didn't capitalise and gave them 2 late goals in last 2 mins after barely going inside 50.

We are miles off Freo quality and that's ok. Happy that we didn't roll over. We definitely looked gassed early which is odd as we ran the game out well against Saints after a pretty hot day .

Disco was among our best when we lost him so that hurt.

We were mugged twice at the start of the game and after half time with Fred’s frenetic game that put early and later distance points on the board to leave us too far behind to catch up when they eased up. We were just not prepared. We approached the game with too much confidence this week. Lacking a gorilla forward will also give us grief plenty of times this season. Most players tried had but team work lost shape.