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That was Mother’s Day 2013 wasn’t it? Still get the shudders remembering that one. I was thinking rd1 2015 when Viney smashed Ablett in Q1 and he was hobbled for the rest of the game.

Right before he gets gang-tackled by our hungry midfielders and dispossessed. He doesn’t have a good record in rd1 games against us at the ‘G

Let’s hope Norm hasn’t read this then...

We haven’t played a game yet. Make no mistake the media are building us up to fail and Goody needs to have some form of insulation from this hype for the playing group.

To be fair most fans would have no objections to the AFL changing either the Dockers or Port’s song unilaterally

Didn’t James Sellar kick 5 in a preseason win against Port in 2013 (a fortnight before they buried us and started that nightmare of a season)? You can never tell with pre-season. Not sure he’ll have it so easy when the real stuff starts and he had a tough one against the Eagles last week.

Didn’t James Sellar do something similar vs Port in 2013 when we beat them pre-season? Kicked 5 iirc and barely got a game when the real season started

So basically he did SFA for 9 years for us because he couldn’t be arsed. Great

Can’t play 4 quarters yet and the Saints made s horrible mistake taking McCartin.

Hmm aren’t Tracc and Brayshaw out of contract this year too? Think next year we may have cap issues when it comes to Hogan’s next contract.

Why shouldn’t we give things a good shake? At stages of the 2017 campaign we were scraping the bottom of the barrel in personnel terms, with the stupid suspensions and the cataclysm of injuries we suffered. Add Lever and Hogan to the line up for most of our season and all things being equal we are a two-goal a game better side, even if we see no improvement in other areas of our game. Brayshaw, Petracca, Oliver and Viney being fed by Gawn will be a formidable midfield for anyone to contend with.

My prediction We'll lose a close game against 'lesser' opposition and the front page will be full of melts for the following week. Oh and Hogan will give the Coleman a red hot crack.

The talk of the AFL community this last month has been Ports trading. I'm not convinced though. Rockliff, Watts and Motlop were moved on by their respective clubs for cultural issues. Looking at Port I'm not sure they are a club with the internal culture to turn around three careers like that. Take Toumpas for instance, he was a high draft pick like Watts and has stagnated in their VFL side (bearing in mind their 2016 side was distinctly average and this year we showed better form for most of the season)- despite this they renewed his contract last week. Watts has better tools but the same attitude, I'm not sure Port can trade their way into contention

Flown under the radar a bit but Ryan would be a good addition to our forward line now Watts has moved on. He won the Bernie Naylor medal with 73 goals, and a quick look at his highlights package shows he can play tall, and would present a decent marking option. He was overlooked at last years draft due to some attitude/professional issues but seems to have cleaned those up this year. An associate of mine knows his family from Geraldton and is of the opinion that an interstate move might suit him better, allowing him to concentrate on developing his game. Would be worth pulling the trigger with a late 2nd rounder, according to the AFL website we're one of 3 clubs with an interest in Ryan, WC and Port are apparently looking at him too.

They bent us over in this trade.

Success? They folded like a cheap deck of cards in the grand final. At full tilt they're a good team the Crows but they seem to be a bit mentally brittle

To be fair to Balic, he (and his fellow youth players at the FFC) didn't get a look in to the senior side until the Dockers got thrashed in their first two games of the year. Lyon has his system and preferred players, and was loath to mix it up even after their 2016 season.

Taberner is rubbish, no way we should go for him when we have Weidemann in the VFL. It speaks volumes to a forwards abilities when they're unable to lock a spot down in the current Freo set up.

Not sure Freo would have room in their cap to fit Hogan in - they've just re-signed Fyfe to a mega deal, and they're currently in the process of re-signing most of their young crew. From a selfish POV it would suit Hogan (if he were to go home) to go to WC where he could play second role KPF to Kennedy for a couple of years instead of being dropped into the [censored] truck forward line of Kersten and MacCarthy

Anyone else think he's a smokey for the Brownlow? He's got to be a contender going by those stats

It's a Noongar word, means strong/great. Jeffy and Nev are both Noongar