Lord Travis

Trac’s set shots are laughably bad for an afl footballer. He’s been good otherwise and has an impact whenever he is near the ball. Time to start getting him up into the midfield instead and play to his strength. Our set shots in general have been poor all year. We don’t seem to have anyone who can reliably kick straight. TMac did last year, but he doesn’t touch the ball anymore... Garlett has been dangerous. He’s generated more opportunities today than all our other forwards combined have all season!

TMac is in horrendous form. He needs to be dropped or it reinforces that you can get a game based on your name and not your output.

Fristchs kicking this year is amongst the worst I’ve ever seen. His kicking skills used to be his strength!

Terrible skill level. No leadership. What has happened to Tom McDonald and Fritsch?! Neither are even VFL standard at present. Staggering drop in form.

Not sure of the science behind this, but my uneducated opinion is that exercises like this and military style stuff for professional athletes are absolute rubbish.

The going price would've been a second rounder two years ago when we last had a crack at him. He'll cost a first rounder now in my opinion. He'd currently be leading Freo's best and fairest and would be All Australian on the season so far. His pace and running power both ways are currently amongst the best in the AFL. His trademark is using his pace to run opponents down from behind. Can't remember the last time a Melbourne player ran that hard defensively for half the field! Ed Langdon 2019 average stats: 28 disposals 4 inside 50s 4 rebound 50s 2 clearances 3 tackles 8 marks 5 score involvements 505 metres gained disposal efficiency of 77% For comparison sake, he's at a similar point in his career to Christian Salem, but was drafted a year later and is performing slightly better. Would you trade Salem for a second rounder? Christian Salem 2019 average stats: 26 disposals 2 inside 50s 6 rebound 50s 1 clearance 3 tackles 4 marks 3 score involvements 464 metres gained disposal efficiency 70%

AFL rules mean we aren't allowed to trade our first round pick this year. We have to use it at draft. Lucky it'll be a good pick so it's worth taking to draft! I'd love to get Ed Langdon across to provide some running power and speed. He'd be perfect on a wing for us. He's put contract talks on hold until the end of the season, and we've been keen on him for years. I wonder how we'd get him across though, being that we can't trade our first rounder. Freo rightfully wouldn't take anything less, so means we'll have to give up a player or give up something to get a pick we can on-trade.

Best of luck to Dec. He's more than earned his chance! I thought he looked good in the JLT this year, showed he's got a great leap and can clunk a mark too. Hopefully he can adjust quickly and make the most of his opportunity. We'd all love for him to establish himself and have an impact!

There's not much we could have done with the Ins, as we have so many injuries and out of form players that the depth at Casey is currently poor. With the Outs however, the club should be making a statement. We are last on the ladder with Mark Neeld era percentage. We came into the season a top 4 team with premiership aspirations. For the quality of the list and after 5-6 years of rebuild #3 (Roos+Goodwin), it's totally unacceptable. The senior players need to stand up and perform and set some standards to lead the way. At present they're coasting with no repercussions and it's (again) set a standard of mediocrity. It's pathetic that every few years we fall back to the yard stick of being "competitive" and having to "buy in". Players like TMac, Hibberd and Lewis are experienced senior players, supposedly leaders, and on decent pay cheques. Their underperformance is the primary reason the club is currently an abject failure. The selection committee need to drop these sorts of non-performers to make a statement that it's not ok to underperform and lower our standards and expectations, no matter how illustrious their career to date has been. A strong club would drop them. We are a weak club, so we haven't. It's cultural. We have the longest premiership drought in the league and are a the butt of many jokes for a reason, and that is because we do no hold any respect or fear because there's no ruthlessness and drive to succeed. Any supporters blindly supporting the club are feeding into the cycle of mediocrity and failure that's plagued us for over half a century. We cannot accept continuous failure. We need to demand more or nothing will change.

Fritsch needs to move onto the wing or forward this week and try to have some sort of impact. His form down back has been poor this year and he currently doesn’t warrant a place in our best 22 on output.

Good to see the selection committee have made a statement dropping an underperforming senior player...oh wait they dropped a kid and let senior blokes continue to coast and set the poor standard! This club is weak. Nothing changes.

Signed a new four year deal with GWS at the beginning of the month.

Battling at Casey. If he can’t get a game in this poor lineup crying out for speed, then he’s set to be delisted you’d think.

0 stats in the first quarter. Not good enough. Needs to step up big time to hold his place.

I too believe he’s more of a natural midfielder, as that’s where he excelled as a junior and he’s definitely not a natural crumber up forward. I rate his smarts as a footballer, but he’s been very poor this year. So far this season he’s averaging: 9 disposals 0 goals 0 behinds 0.5 tackles 1 goal assist You cannot carry a small forward who lays a one tackle every second match and does not score at all. He needs to find form as currently on output he’s not best 22.

Too old for us. Now we’re talking. A midfielder with pace and versatility. Would be a good fit for our current midfield. I still think we should throw everything possible at Coniglio as a free agent. He’s an elite midfielder with all the attributes we require. We need to land talent through free agency and stop wasting high draft picks.

3 years of ongoing foot injuries and multiple foot surgeries have robbed him of any pace and power. He refused to even have a set shot for goal from 40 out last week as he knew he couldn’t kick the journey. Jack could’ve banged it from 50 on the run a few years ago. As said above, he’s been Trengove’d. I don’t think he’ll ever recover those attributes, and as a result we’ve likely seen his best footy already ?

Have a friend who is a coach at Essendon. Can confirm this is one of the tactics they used. Another was his opponent streaming forward of the contest knowing Jones wouldn't/couldn't go with him. If we won the ball and Jones got it, they weren't as concerned about him being damaging compared to what they'd be able to get out of exploiting the match up. They rotated Heppell, Parish and Smith through the wing playing off Jones to great effect. It's a match up that opposition clubs are exploiting, and they would've done the same last year against Tyson. We need to stop playing slow inside mids on the wing and play someone with running stamina and/or pace. Players like Fritsch, Stretch, Hunt, Hibberd are the types we should be playing there now. The wing needs to stop being a grave yard for slow inside mids or retiring players being protected. Not sure what to do with Jones unless we play him inside mid again and start pushing Brayshaw and Oliver to the outside for stints?

Does anyone here have any knowledge of the upcoming draft? We have to use our first round pick this year as per the draft rules of not using one in the draft in the past 4 years. Who are the best hard running and pacy midfielders in the upcoming draft? We need quick mids who have good footskills and run both ways. Ports most recent draft crop of Conner Rozee, Zak Butters and Xavier Duursma gave us headaches in round 1 and look built for the modern game. Butters in particular looks like he will be a very damaging player. Who are the best pacy and agile small forwards? We need quick small forwards who can use speed to harass like Aaron Davey of years gone by and hit the scoreboard too. The likes of Spargo have poor-average pace and offer little to no defensive pressure (see Spargo zero tackles in round 1!). They also do not consistently hit the scoreboard, averaging less than a goal a game.

70,000 is a pipe dream. The club’s lucky they conned enough of us to beat our record and get close to 50,000. The 70,000 talk shows how delusional the higher ups are and how far off the pace we still are.

We have to use our first round pick at draft, so no trading this year. It's free agency or trading low picks and average players. The club should throw the world at Coniglio. Land him as a free agent. Coniglio's a perfectly rounded midfielder. Has pace, agility, tackles like mad, can win ball inside, can do damage on the outside, and can kick multiple goals attacking through the flanks. He's still underrated and IMO is in the top 5-10 midfielders in the game at present. I'd trade anyone on our list for him bar Oliver. Unfortunately he'll likely stay at GWS or head home to WA. If we did acquire extra currency to trade, then Ed Langdon fits the bill for midfield pace. We've been into him for year, so perhaps this is the year we land him. McStay from the Lions would be good. Can play key forward or back, and would add to our tall forward depth.

67% game time is not enough for a midfielder, or any player for that matter. If a player is selected then they are deemed fit. You can’t conpromise a whole team to carry someone not able to pull their weight. Either Jack is fit and he’s not performing (unlikely) or Jack is unfit and should not be selected. I fear it’s going to be the case for the remainder of his career. He’s now spent close to half his career with injury, and there’s no end in sight as his body does not seem to be capable of holding up to play at the highest level.

Source: https://m.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2019-03-18/club-statement?fbclid=IwAR0JrZUK5OiWjnOimotEl-g2XrPtV5GVwx6-s34CdsyYHsxE5QUTDR8H53A&utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app I’m guessing the club knew about this and it contributed to us trading him for what may have seemed unders. Hope he pulls through it ok; he’s had a rough time of it the past few years with his fathers death and his own health battles.

Horrible luck for the kid. It would be really tough going through that before you’ve even played a game and gotten into everything properly. Here’s wishing him a speedy and solid long term recovery.

He was swung forward against the Hawks a few years back and turned the match for us there, so it’s not the worst idea. Personally I’d like to see him settle on the wing. Ideally him and KK own the wings, so we have good running power, elite pace in Hunt and elite kicking in KK.