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They lost Darcy for 2 and a half quarters, meaning they also lost Jackson from the forward line. On top of that their leading goalkicker going into this game in Walters was also out. It's not a positive that bringing in our two injured players would get us over the line vs another team missing two key players.

did our supporter base actually cheer him or did the freo crowd just over power us. so embarrassing that a side that just lost by 100+ to the bottom team on the ladder can still have 10k more fans rock up than us

Just had a look. They have jaeger on there for 2023 but he definitely signed a 4 year deal. I wonder if they're not making it public because of the scrutiny. Seems very weird to lure over such a high profile, expensive recruit and not know how many years its for. And when they asked him during his press conference and he deflected it onto his management. Just seems very strange.

Think it's mostly because he's a key forward from WA who was a huge dockers supporter. There were rumours of him being a flight risk when he was drafted.

Saw somewhere that fremantle tried very hard to trade up in 2019 to get him. Means they would have missed out on Young and Serong. Now they have all three.

“I wasn’t homesick, but it has been hard to get home with COVID happening. I missed my family because it was hard to get flights. Just really happy to be back home and in a familiar spot.” Wasn't homesick. Covid isn't an excuse anymore. Just say you left bc you got offered crazy money to play for you childhood team

Could've got 8, Cerra --> Jackson, 2nd rounder....

I think if we hadn't won the flag he would've requested the trade last year. That high from winning probably would've been greater than any desire to go home. It was during Christmas time apparently where he had the first talk with his manager where he really started considering going home.

Of course they are. We literally had meetings with Grundy all throughout the season. Literally every club does that.

Need to see who wrote it. I've seen his contract length/salary vary from 750k/5years to $1mil/8 years. Even today they asked him the length and he didn't answer?? Said his manager and the club would say something in the next few days

My favourite thing is how him and have manager have both come out and essentially said he was never going to west Coast, meaning he just said it to make himself look good.

Just listened to a radio interview. "Were you homesick" "Nah not really"

Head of Player Personnel David Walls expects Jackson to be worth Fremantle’s significant investment of draft capital. “Luke has been our number one priority all year and obviously throughout the trade period,” Walls said. [...] “In his draft year, we had him rated at number one in the draft. “Even though we also picked up Hayden Young and Caleb Serong, with Luke being local, we’ve followed him for a long time going back to his juniors. [censored] hell they've been in his year since he stepped foot on a footy field. He was always going to head back sooner or later.

He said "thanks to melb for letting me come home"

Mundy too. Both 350+ game players for the one club.

Sean Darcy was a great ruck from very early on because of Sandilands, who I think is still their ruck coach

No but he did talk about how it's been his dream his whole life to play for freo. Lovely.

Huge dockers man JVR. He'd be hanging around their changerooms after games all of last year.

Trade has been done

The pick will be. But it's not like we're trading him just so that we can facilitate the Jackson deal like some have implied

We're not moving Weid FOR the jackson deal. We're just moving him because he wants to move and we dont want him,

If it's just Acres and Logue going, then that's just 3 of their b22. Acres leaving was club initiated. They didn't see him in their future plans so lowballed him to push him out. Logue I think his forward role is replaceable, and he's not playing in defence when the two players in front of him finished 2nd and 3rd in their b&f. Lobb will be a huge loss. If they want to contend next year they keep him. Anyway I think this is all redundant because they're gameplan got stale and they limped towards the finish line. I fully expect them to regress regardless of personnel. And the extent on regression is probably dependent on if Lobb stays or not.

The fact that they're refusing to give up pick 2 means that they have no effect when it comes to negotiations. Expect the deal to go through today for 13, F1, F2 (freo) --> Jackson, F3 (essendon)

Fyfe actually only lost 2 games this year. Think they were 4-2 with him in the team. If he's healthy next year and playing in the midfield then I think you can guarantee they're making the eight. But I highly doubt thats happening.