Matsuo Basho

Where can I lay a monkey on Ross the Boss first coach sacked in 2019? Money for old rope.

I don’t really care what happens in this trade period now except for a burning desire for Neale to leave Fremantle so that those numnuts have an even weaker midfield to go with their D grade forward line. Threaten to sit out 2019 Lachie!

We may have just fed Barrett the 5 & 23 thing just to make Bell look even more stupid. Uppercut and a right hook on the way out the door.

Either would I. He’d trip over, spill his beer over the table and knock over everyone’s chips!

Also, they (Freo) have failed to grasp the concept that attracting good players to your football club has a snowball effect. Other good players will follow. No wonder they are bottom four material. Nat Fyfe and other senior players must be watching this used car salesman buffoonery from Peter Bell feeling absolutely filthy. That is NOT how you rise up the ladder.

Hilarious on trade radio listening to Dockers fans calling in talking up Cox, Taberner and Lobb as a legit forward line with any hope of success. Delusional! Honestly shocked at what Bell and Rosich have done here, even for a couple of amateurs. Had a 500+ goal career CHF/FF staring at them in the face and they’ve shat themselves at even paying a halfway decent price for him. Unbelievable. Gross negligence in running a footy club.

It’s over. You don’t make a public statement like that and keep a seat at the negotiation table. Freo have acted reprehensibly here. Tapped our player up, destabilised him and got his hopes up, then offered a ridiculous insulting lowball offer to his host club. FFS they have been after him for four years. Bell thinks he can get him on the cheap next year. That’s what’s happened here. Little pric.k.

Bottom four for Freo. Fyfe going to be rapt to be kicking the Sherrin to that no-name hack forward line again. What a joke of a club.

Did not expect that. Amateur hour from Peter Bell. They obviously think they’ll get him next year on the cheap.

Club supporters overrate their own players and undervalue those from other clubs. GWS will demand a first round pick for Lobb. 10 - 16 range.

Correct.

There are other permutations no doubt but it’s pretty clear what Bell is trying to do. Come back to this page next week on Wednesday and I’m confident I’ll have been right. Whether anyone will bother sifting back through 45 pages of our waffle is another matter!

Not yet but you can bet your grandma’s antique collection they will!

It’s coming down to this: 1. Accept pick 5 & 23 from Freo for Hogan 2. Hold out for 5 & 11 and walk away if not met. What will the club do? What should the club do? Going to go down to the wire folks. Real line ball call given all the circumstances. Wednesday it’s Mahoney v Bell with guns drawn outside the OK Corral.

Not necessarily. Hogan can nominate Freo and threaten to walk to the PSD. Does the MFC really want THAT bunfight? I don’t think so.

He comes in for specific ruck match ups against certain clubs ... and to prolong Max’s career. Looking forward to those games where Preussy starts in the centre square and opposition defenders shite themselves as Big Max struts down to the goalsquare!

Like it Trigon. In a fair and equitable world those sums make sense. But do we live in a fair and equitable world?

“Marcel” Preuss

Thanks for your efforts Dom. All the best at North.

Yeah I’m not sure that we do really want to keep Hogan on the list. Gut feel but I reckon the club is over the distraction of this bloke not fully committing to the MFC and would prefer to bite the bullet and accept slight unders than have this circus go in for another year. We get May in, recruit a promising kid with pick 23 and move on with with clear air. I could see why the MFC might choose this option. I’m also on record as stating that I don’t think Jesse will become the star others peg him as. So I won’t be that disappointed personally.

5 does not get Adelaide Lukosius or Rankine. Doubt they’d do it.

Perhaps this is why Bell is holding out for more from Brisbane for Neale. He thinks he can get Lobb and Hogan in AND hold on to pick 11. That would be a huge win for them.

Jesse wants to return home to WA. Rumours of “another club” are very flimsy at this stage. He is worth close to it. Pick 23 would not get Lobb done for them.

There is method to Bell’s seeming madness. His endgame as drdrake mentioned a few posts back us to get both Hogan and Lobb in the door. Freo have close to the worst forward set up in the competition at present and these two coming in will get the Freo fans very excited. This is the real “feather in cap” Bell wants to exit trade week with, not Lachie Neale. The tough talk about keeping Neale is just bluster. The lowball pick 11 and 23 offer for Hogan may have seemed pointless but the tactic there is to frustrate Melbourne and also waste our time, with the aim of softening us up to accept pick 5 & 23 at the death in the final day of trade week. Bell knows we would MUCH prefer picks 5 & 11 for Hogan but he needs to retain pick 11 to secure Lobb from GWS. So he is banking on us growing impatient, getting worried by Wednesday that the whole thing is going to fall through, and just signing off on the 5 & 23 deal. As soon as the Neale domino falls Mahoney is going to be faced with a reasonably hard call to make. Accept 5 & 23 for Hogan or reject it and make Jesse play out the final year of his contract. Not sure what I would do personally, it’s a tough one. Bell is banking on us tiring of the whole Hogan saga and just being happy to move on, get our man May in with pick 5 going out to Gold Coast, and sucking up the fact that we’ve received unders for a forward we - to be honest - haven’t made a huge effort to retain. Pugnacious, annoying little [censored] Peter Bell. But he’s no dill. On the other hand we could completely ruin his life by holding on to Hogan and giving Simmo a call over at the Eagles about a deal for Jesse next year! But would that be in our interests? They will probably have a lot less to offer us than pick 5 & 23. I think Freo might have us snookered here.

No, waste of a list and rookie spot. Rather give a promising under 23yo ruck/forward a go. Plus you mentioned Chris Connolly. Yuck.