Marty

A chunk of steel that's dragged thru the mud behind a tractor? Fitting.

Great post. As an interstate supporter, most of my games are watched on Fox, as terrible as most of the commentary is, 1 common occurrence was "Max is on the bench, watch (insert team) take advantage at this clearance" said over and over. Which did actually happen quite often. Kitty litter, blood rule, Max stays on, ball doesn't leave our forward 50. As 1 example. Preuss, glaring hole filled!

... at least get 4-5 solid pages of meltdowns in 'is Goodwin the right guy' thread.

Mdf ware?

Must have been written by a Carlton supporter. Far to complimentary.

I'm confused as to how he could possible be confused about Preuss, he is probably still confused as to how West Coast won the GF with 2 ruckmen, or judging by above even more confused as to why they were even in it. Good reason why he doesn't have a job coaching.

Funny that a large portion of Freo supporters are moaning how they paid overs for Hogan yet only a very small portion of Dee's supporters are winging we got unders.

It would have been a double blow for the pies, not only did we secure May but Hogan leaving makes Weids our primary FF and makes their job to lure him so much harder.

It was the feather and Belly boys cap

Time to start the Brayshaw home to Victoria and the Dee's circus!

He maybe back home, but Goodwin vs Ross the Boss? Only time will tell.

I wasn't knocking Jesse for the choices he has made and everything you highlighted is exactly what has bought me to this conclusion. Everybody deals with life differently but I have a pretty good idea how he feels as I lost 2 close friends in a car accident when I was in my teens and then lost my father when I was in my early 20s. And your spot on; sometimes it's just really hard to care about anything, especially an insignificant game of footy. That feeling can appear out of nowhere, at any time. I personally think that Jesse has handled himself magnificently this year. His body language (which so many posters pot him for) has been a massive improvement on last year. Only fools with NFI would be critical of him for that anyway. I was mainly trying to say that going home was his main priority not a premiership. I don't begrudge him for that.

I agree, just the fact that Jesse wanted to go to Freo proves he doesn't have that voracious hunger for a premiership. Freo would have known he was coming home this year or next, we've done quite well!

Only 23, learning from the best and Max obviously gets along well with him. Based on his AFLX comment. We might have a big win.

Way overs, your not suggesting Josh should bend over again?

Dicky knee O'Meara now Scully, hopefully its Hawthorn who are losing the plot, be nice to see them make the 8 again only to have the both of them unavailable thru injury, get knocked straight out and all the hawthorn faithful say "2020 when we have a fit team..."

Which was such a joy to watch!

Bell turns up with his chest puffed out, makes ridiculous demands for Neale tells Melbourne his got a late 1st rounder and some pocket lint for Hogan. Finally does the Neale deal, plays Adelaide and Port against each other for pick 5 pick swaps, finally does a deal with Adelaide. Comes to Mahoney is all his smugness. Mahoney says No deal. Hogan will go to West coast next year, with a premiership under his belt. https://goo.gl/images/SBQoQM

In the last quarter when Gunston got that free for taking out the legs, when they were coming hard at us. He missed the shot but up in the Olympic stand it looked like it went through. A couple of Hawks supporters in front of us jumped up and celebrated turning around really trying to rub all the Melbourne supporters noses in it. You think by the silence they would have worked out that he missed but no they were just loving being complete [censored]. I even had time to say to my sister, "wonder when someone will tell them that he missed" her reply "Let them go, this is Gold" ????

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Bennell was always a risk, injury issues and his other issues were pretty public, even one of his family said it would be a mistake for him to return to WA. Nothing comparable to Jesse. Just crap from Watson.

It seems to be coming to an end, the players just outside the 22 have been baling out for a few years now, salary cap would be close to maxed and onfeild success is waning.

This is all about how players perceive us as a club as well. If a player is looking to come to us and we say we want them it's as good as done, on the other hand what player in their right mind is going to pick Freo after the way they have delt with both Hogan and Neale this year or Adelaide the way they delt with Lever last year. Paying overs for Lever may have some massive rewards down the track.

On one hand you have Goodwin and Mahoney who stays tight lipped and gets deals done to get the players we chase. Or you get Ross the Boss and Bell do everything I can to make a [censored] out of myself. WA would have to be losing some shine.

1 example of this was the Port Game. In the last quarter on the wing Jesse went a 1 handed marking attempt. He got a good piece of it so as a marking option should have gone both hands and clunked it. Can't remember whether the ball was turned over or went out of bounds but the next disposal after that was a port kick down the line and a mark to Westoff and a 60m penalty which he slotted and stole the lead. It just wasn't good enough of an effort, especially at that critical stage in the game.