Lord Travis

Always been a fan. I was very vocal on him not being in the team earlier this year. He’s far from a finished product, but he’s exactly what we need in the back pocket going forward. Quick, tough, aggressive tackler, takes the game on, good kick. With Jetta on his last legs, Lockhart should be a mainstay in the back pocket for the foreseeable future.

Negated Grundy. Good effort tonight by the big nut!

Glad to see Preuss in. Definitely needed for our structure. Disappointed to see Rivers and Hannan out ahead of Jones and Vandenburg. Vanders in particular has been straight up ****house this season. Gives up goals by being a stupid fake tough guy and couldn’t hit the side of a barn with his kicking. How he got a 3 year contract as a fringe player who couldn’t get on the park is the biggest mystery in footy. We just need to win this match. Lose and it’s nearly curtains for 2020. Win and we cling on to the back of the pack. Get it done Dees!

Extended until 2023. Good work by the club and glad Kozzie has settled in well. He's got great attributes and just needs to build consistency and ability to stay involved in the game for longer. Now need to lockdown Jackson and Rivers. West Coast have kept open line of communication with Jacksons manager and will come hard for him in a few years. Need to lock him in long term or I fear we'll lose him.

Have heard this also from a club source. As a 19 year old in his second season he averaged over 22 disposals off half back and finished 2nd in their BnF two votes behind Tom Lynch, and ahead of Steven May, Bennell and Miller. He looked set to become one of the elite back flanks in the league. Such a shame that injury ruined his career. His long term health is the priority at this stage. Concussions are nasty - look at how much it's ruined the life of Paddy McCartin. He basically lives in isolation with constant headaches, susceptible to bright light and randomly loses feeling in his hands. Wish Kade good health!

[censored] news if true. Really buggers up our structure and forces TMac to be number 1 ruckman. Unless they're willing to bring Pruess in ofcourse...

He's basically become what I thought Hunt would become a few years back - a hard two-way running pacy wingman. They look similar too with the long hair, headband and long sleeves! He's been a great pickup for a second rounder. He was an underrated player at Freo. He didn't have the resume or flash of Brad Hill, but performed every bit as well as him. 3-4 years younger and is having a much better season than Hill. We got this trade right for now and future IMO. Before the season started I tipped him to finish top 5 in our BnF and I don't think he's far off.

Yeah he’s been poor recently and just laboring around the ground with minimal impact most weeks. Good time to manage him knowing no Gawn to compete against.

Good player, but probably not worth 800k. Still think we need to target a binaries midfielder or tall goal kicking forward. We’ll probably need a chunk of that money to re-sign some of our guns like Petracca and Oliver too.

Is he a free agent? If not, then hard to see how we’d land him. He’d warrant a first round pick in a trade. He’s a gun half back and also showed he’s a capable midfielder in the second half of 2019. One I’d be keen on from GWS is Caldwell. Reckon he’ll be a good well rounded midfielder, good skills, good run etc. He could get squeezed out and hopefully we pounce if he does.

He must be confused why we bothered to recruit him. We lack quality talls forwards, had injuries, and still didn't play him. He can consider himself unlucky.

He was actually averaging more marks and more contested marks in both 2018 and 2019 than he is this year. In terms of stats, goals is the only thing he's improved on this year. Everything else has gone backwards, though understandable as he's not up around the ball as much playing FF now. Just goes to show he was already capable in years gone by, he just wasn't given a consistent role up forward to play to his strengths and the teams strengths. He was clunking more marks the past two years. We stuffed up his development, but thankfully have corrected the trajectory now.

The mistake wasn't dropping him when he didn't perform, the mistake was not giving him a set role up forward to grow into. We swung him round in the ruck where he played all over the ground and could never settle. Young players need consistency in what they're being asked to do, or they'll never develop properly. Now that he's being played at FF exclusively we are seeing immediate results. Yet another player whose development we got wrong, but he's not lost like others thankfully. Play him at FF in future and we get 40-60 goals out of him. Done.

Langdon has been vastly superior to Hill this year. And he cost us much less! Stats https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=16&playerStatus2=A&tid2=12&type=A&pid1=3671&pid2=4080&fid1=S&fid2=S Even at Freo, they were statistically identical. Langdon just didn't have a premiership and profile like Hill. He's every bit as effective though. Great get by the recruiting department.

Langdon has had a few quieter weeks recently, but he's giving us exactly what we needed - a hard two-way running wingman. He's getting into, and creating, space for us offensively. Defensively he's working back hard and helping to block space. He won't get a stat or recognition for it, but last night he allowed Lever to leave his man and intercept because he worked back so hard to block space. It was brilliant defensive running, and something the rest of our midfield need to get better at. His disposal isn't the best, but he often links up with Salem and other to make sure we have the right kicker going inside 50. Tipping a top 5 BnF finish for him. Definitely a great recruit for us and still only young with more improvement to come!

I've been a vocal supporter of his on here over the years. I really like the way he attacks the ball in the air and I think he straightens us up structurally. The coaching staff made a mistake not playing him earlier this year/periods of last year when uninjured. He's a 40-60 goal a year forward in his current FF position and state of development at less than 40 games. Even if he doesn't improve from here, he'll be top 10 in the Coleman every year until he retires. I was big on playing him at FF and having TMac as a lead up CHF. No more throwing him all over the ground and stuffing up his development, just leave him up forward to do what he does best at FF. I think this has been proven as the right positional setup now, though not sure TMac will necessarily be the CHF, might be Jackson or someone else. Weid is a bit of a confidence player with his kicking, but his actual kicking action is beautiful, amongst the best at the club. I'm not concerned with him missing a few considering he's still kicking 2-3 goals every match and setting up a few too. I'd love to see him have continuity with his body and just stay at FF now. We lost Hogan, but Weids current goal output replaces him and solves a big problem for us.

100% agreed. Vanders at his best was a fringe player. His output since returning to the side has been rubbish. He directly costs us goals every week out of stupidity. He barely touches the ball and when he does he couldn't hit the side of a barn. The game has sped up this past few years, but he has gotten slower due to repeated foot injuries. He reads the game poorly and barely gets to lay any of those big bone crunching tackles because he now can't keep up in the first place. There's a lot of love on here for Vanders, but I'd drop him on form. At 28 and slowing up, I'm not sure he has much of a role to play going forward. The 3 year contract was yet another glaring list management mistake. For this match I'd have the following changes; IN: Gawn, Viney, maybe Lockhart OUT: Jones, Vandenburg, ?? Gawn and Viney straight in if fit. Lockhart had the hip issue, but I'd bring him back if fit also. Think Jones and Vandenburg have been poor this year, moreso Vanders. Harmes has had a poor few weeks, but wouldn't drop him.

Basically proven now that Viney and Brayshaw can’t play midfield together. For whatever reason it just doesn’t work. We need to find roles to maximize both and rotate them. When they’re rotated out of the midfield I’d try Viney up forward for pressure and Gus off back flank streaming forward. Viney can help with defensive pressure and hit the scoreboard. Gus had success off half back flank in his first year and look good when he bursts a few sets before delivering inside 50.

Brayshaw on ball. Jackson in the ruck. Let’s do this boys!

He had a serious leg break last year. Back training/playing now but hasn’t been able to build any decent form. May crack some games soon.

Forced changes have made for a much worse team this week. Tipping Kangas in an arm wrestle.

Brilliant first half of footy to watch. Need to see more footy like that!

It’ll be interesting to see our kick outs now with Gawn out. No more bombing to the flank on repeat. Also interesting to see how our backline holds up without Gawn covering for them. Time for the coaches to come up with some new strategies finally!

We’ve had the best injury run of any club in 2020. No excuses.

Can he play inside midfield? If not, Goodwin won’t be keen.