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Very encouraging if his partner wants to stay. That's usually the main motivation for wanting to head home. I firmly believed he was out the door last season and if Bolton hadn't gone to Freo then we would've traded him for all of their firsts. Letting him spend a lot of extra time in WA is really good from the club tbh.

The comments specifically from Gawn is what they're talking about I think. Which is ironic becuase Luke Ryan was on the radio after the Melbourne game talking about Pickett playing for freo soon. Also mentioned that Jackson's camp are [censored] off at Melbourne too cos they reckon all the leaks are coming from here.

That's what it keeps coming back to. I just can't see Freo letting him go unless Kozzy goes back their way. Not while he still has four years and Darcy can't get on the park. Maybe its better to have a look at him a couple years down the track.

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Luke was very non-comittal post game. Gave a general "I don't read into that stuff"...."just focus on playing footy." Yet all the Freo sources and freo connected Journos insist he's told the club it's all bs... Sounds like a Neale to Fremantle situation where there's a commitment to the team he wants to be traded to while hiding it from his current team.

Pretty much what’s been said already. Except makes a point to mention that the position he plays (ie make me number 1 ruck) has more of an influence on his decision than the family issues. Also that Sean Darcy is on 700k which is honestly less than I thought. The dude clearly doesn’t think very well because I’m sure when he came to the club he was told he would be second to Darcy. I wonder if he wants to be Ruck or just around the ball more. Surprised they didn’t play him more as a midfielder when Darcy wasn’t injured.

I mean if you read the full quote Houston never actually lied. They're all carefully crafted statements. Even from Jacksons manager today it all alludes to him staying, but reading the words he actually stops short of saying that explicitly.

Worth noting that Ryan Daniels is famously a Freo propaganda journalist. He says whatever the club tells him to say. His words mean very little in the scheme of things.

So I guess we'll be dealing with this many more times throughout the year... https://www.afl.com.au/news/1320541/contract-calls-loom-for-stars-don-keen-to-play-on-wafl-forward-on-msd-radar

Im sure it will continue to be a distraction wherever he is to be honest. There’s no way we get him without giving up Kozzy, and if Kozzy doesn’t want to leave then Freo have no incentive to trade him to us. I’d much rather keep Kozzy

Hey not my fault his family aired everything out publicly

If he had made that decision by himself then you could say that. Making that decision after dating a girl 10 years his senior for a few months says otherwise though. Cutting off parents is one thing, but when it extends to literally everyone he knew in WA I think it's a bit more concerning. I find it hard to believe that all of a sudden he's realised that everyone he's been close with since he was a child is actually an awful person. You'd surely think he'd have at least a couple people on his side. Either way, it now seems almost inevitable that we're going to swap him for Kozzy so I just hope that off field stuff doesn't become a distraction.

Don't think it matters to him anymore 🤣

I can't see a way this happens without Pickett being involved. We don't have anything to give them.

It could be good now because it leads him back to us, but I think it says more about the type of person he is. The fact that he was influenced by his family and friends to move back to Perth, then within 5 months of dating this girl has been influenced to cut off all ties with almost all his friends/family in WA says that he doesn't really think for himself and we could find ourselves in a similar situation again. And on the other side of things how well can he really play when he has all these off field issues going on in the background? I don't think they'll suddenly dissappear just because he's moved across the country.