Bring-Back-Powell

He also didn't mention McAdam when he was trying to spruik our forward line options.

Spot on. He just hasn't been afforded the continuity that a young player needs in order to cement his spot. Laurie's been sub in 7 of his 11 AFL games. He finally plays a full game against GWS in round 20 (the game where 6 people turned up) with a serviceable 19 possessions and then gets dropped straight away with no opportunity to back it up. Then he comes back for the dead runner against Collingwood and plays 20 or 30 minutes of footy coming on as sub when the game's basically over. With that being said, I doubt he and Woewodin make it the long run.

He also lit up a training session on Aust Day last year. There's something there but he just can't quite put it together at AFL level.

100%. No point burning the track down in January only to then eat a hot dog in the stands for the first 3 games.

Yeah I recall you wrote that we were playing North at Casey on 14th Feb. That date seemed a bit early for the first practice match,

Apparently we're off to Arden Street for a praccy match on potentially Saturday 22 February. https://www.afl.com.au/news/1262861/full-schedule-broadcast-details-tickets-on-sale-for-afl-practice-games-and-match-simulations-ahead-of-2025-season The last time we played North at Arden Street in a practice match, we had a bit of a minor pandemic a couple of weeks later....

Well that's a damn shame. We're not exactly blessed in the small forward department in the early rounds.

I know it was just a praccy match out at Casey but he snagged a couple of beautys in his first appearance to suggest that goal kicking isn’t foreign to Brown.

Fair call. But he was up against it as soon as Moore went off with concussion, in the current climate. Bad things happen when ever we play Collingwood. Retirements, Injuries, suspensions, bad losses etc…bummed we play them twice again this year.

You’d think the plan is that he’ll be here until at least the end of 2026 and then possibly be traded at that point, at peak value, before he becomes a free agent where we’d only get a singular draft pick via compo.

I don’t 100% disagree. Although I’ve seen him be a handy cog in Adelaide’s forward line in previous years. A lot of people blaming Darcy Moore and the supposedly anti Melbourne tribunal for the latest unlucky decision against Kozzie. At the end of the day, since the start of 2023 he will have missed 7 games through suspension including the latest two season openers. When do you stop blaming others and start holding the player accountable for costing his club?

And West Coast have already had Liam Ryan and Rueben Ginbey in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

A Freo supporter on Bigfooty alleges Kozzie had a meeting with Longmuir and he couldn’t have reached for the exit door quick enough. Hopedully there is a semblance of truth to that.

We were absolutely spoilt with training reports before Christmas, both in quality and quantity.

Rather than significant draft capital I really wish we'd demand Josh Treacy (or to a lesser extent Jye Amiss) who looks ready to take the league by storm as potent goal kicking key forward. Freo's season went down the toilet after Treacy went down. Freo need to give up something big in order to receive something big. The price has to be expensive for a contracted player.