ElDiablo14

Free Kick Freo

Are we thinking there's a bit of tampering involved? If I remember correctly his parents were/are well connected with Freo.

On Jackson, are you sure money didn't play even a small part? How much were we offering? Perhaps 700k or 750k, given the limited cap space we had at the time. Meanwhile Freo comes and offers 1 million a year to a 3rd year player. He had the choice to become the heir to Max Gawn but said, nah I'll take the money please. He could have made a similar amount of money with us, if he was willing to wait for his time in 2 or 3 years down the road.

You can say the same about other teams. Freo for example. Jackson 1 million for 7 years. Darcy. Serong and Brayshaw. Their two tall defenders. And they are yet to pay for their key forwards. Carlton even worse. If they can manage, we should be able to manage.

2018, they haven't made a PF. Won't see them in the GF until they can actually make it to a PF. If they make it this year, a more experienced Sydney, Carlton or Brisbane would take them down.

Package both and our second rounder, we might just get lucky 😅 Who would replace Fritsch if we lost him? We are lacking in our fwd line, we need to add not substract.

Would be interesting if we could get a second pick in the first round... Is this year's crop deep? Do we think Salem or Sparrow and a second pick can do it? Even a late first rounder.

Probably Adelaide's season made him think twice

Prepare the last dance for Max, May, TMac?, Melksham? We got a good foundation with our young guns, just need to be smart at trades, get a couple of important players to revamp our list.

For all of Clarrys attributes, being an effective defender is not one of them. I would even say that Petracca is similar defensively, but has improved in the last couple of years.

Now we can focus in our midfield, ruck and potentially a KPF to accompany JVR.

Just please please send him back to the backline.

He said they haven't seen the best of us. I guess they'll have to wait for season 2025.

IMO,He spent his credit last year with back to back straight sets. He'll gain some credits when and if we win a final.

Petty has lost all the mongrel he showed when playing in the backline. He is just not the same physical guy anymore, very meek and non competitive.

If Freo base their hope of finals success on the two games against us, they'll have a very harsh reality check in the finals.

Tank or try? I am starting to come to terms that, even if we somehow make it to the finals, we are not capable of winning even one game. I thinks we all agree that our list needs a significant overhaul, couple of players to retire and delist. Have some cap space to use and we could get a top 6 pick. Get Gawn and Trac fit and ready for season 2025. Last dance for May, Gawn, TMac and Melksham.

Btw we lost 5% today, we lost like 8% in Alice. 13% lost against one single opponent, one of the reasons we are in this current situation.

Weren't we supposed to take every game like an elimination final? We had been doing since the NM game, and suddenly we can't be bothered to try? 5 more "finals" to come, but I doubt the hunger is really there.

See us take the red eye plane tonight and be underdone next week. 😮‍💨

That looked reportable, head hit the ground. But of course 🤐

Freo straight sets mark my words

We can very soft at times, honestly two players tackling that should have ended in a HTB instead they let him dispose of the ball.

What happened to the Sparrow that kicked from outside 50 in the GF? 😮‍💨

I can understand them being better, specially if we don't have Max. But see how we thought Brisbane would smash us and kick 20 on us? Then with dare and effort we almost won it. At least make it a slogfest, low scoring proposition and see what happens. Don't let them kick 7 in a row. Anyway, hopefully we can keep the score as close as possible in the last.