jnrmac

I love these threads

Yep and Michael Tuck played 50 reserve games.. Really when guys like Terlich, Jones and even guys like Barlow, Podisadly can play straight away we don't have the luxury of more michael newtons.

Jack Watts laid a tackle??? Nah dont believe it

Drafted in 2011 hasn't played or got close to playing. Any other reasons needed?

Anyone have a result?

Great read. And spot on... Kudos.

Ha ha what a cracker. Our first round performances have been shiite for as long as I can remember..... Wake me up in 2015 please.

18 to 10 clearances against....

IN the warm up...

The you should try reading the Census Just sayin.... And hey I spent three weeks in Perth one weekend....Boom tish

Interesting that Bomber said what a basket case the club was when he got there.... just sayin...

No one has addressed the GWS issue from last year? Now we know its Vlads love child so they won't get punished but they clearly tanked to claim the number 1 draft pick Where is the outrage?

The fact there is even a debate about what constitutes tanking means it is a joke. Vlad certainly didn't think we 'tanked' and even congratulated Scwhab for 'staying the course' with our season. Are posters here seriously saying we set out to win no more than four games from round 1? That's crap and there is no evidence of that whatsoever. You are all pointing to the benefit gained - that is also a crap argument. Its like saying we robbed a bank with $10m and someone else robbed a convenience store for $30. There is simply no difference if you don't field your best team for whatever reason it is arguably tanking. What about GWS last season in round 23 resting I think 8 players against Gold Coast?? When the number 1 pick was on the line??

So yet again Freo rest a large number of players in the last round just like GWS last year and Freo did a few years back. Why is this not tanking? Just because there might be a different reason or benefit for/from it it is still the same in principal. No one is claiming the players on the field dont try. This really annoys me.

I say fail but....... his track record at other clubs is very good. Is it his fault that players like Watts won't chase?? No. Is it his fault Trengove runs like Brock Mclean? Probably. Overall though it has to be a fail - our fitness is appalling

From Jon Pieriks article "The ABC's 7.30 revealed a series of text messages between Dank and Bates, mentioning Neil Craig, then the Demons' director of performance but now a caretaker coach, ruckman Mark Jamar and co-captain Jack Trengove. The messages are said to have spanned more than six months from mid 2012 and suggest a supplements program was run. The messages show Dank and Bates discussed several substances, including the anti-obesity drug AOD-9604, cerebrolysin and thymomodulin."

Ess are delusional. "It was only governance issues..." No. You used your young players as guinea pigs. You may have even put their lives in danger. No-one knows what the side effects are of the drugs you claim not to know they have taken. You tried to get an edge and stepped over a very clear line. Fail. You lose. You were warned by the AFL. Warned by the club doctor but you pushed ahead in any case. The penalties are a joke. Chris Connolly would be very pizzed off.

Goddard....

A big file with bad Chris Connolly jokes??

The AFL already have our computer records don't they??

Wouldn't touch him with pick 100

We have a gifted and talented footballer with little application. In fact two. Suggest we don';t add a third.

Watson has admitted he was given AOD9064. Players signed consents to take it. If it is determined it was illegal under WADAs rules then WADA will ban them. No ifs ands or buts. The deal the AFL has done with Ess is separate from my understanding. The AFL can't deal on behalf of WADA.

Why do you say ADavey is being forced? He should be but that is another story. What? Do you think they should play for life even though they are playing below grade football? Bruce wasn't traded. He chose to leave. And for less money. He wanted two years we offered him one. Did nothing at Hawthorn and could not play out two years. Good decision Melbourne. Bruce trashed his own club legacy. Junior. everyone agrees it was a bad decision. Trapper. Good decision. How could you argue it wasn't? Did nothing at Brisbane. And loyalty? Give me a break. Hardly a legend of the club. Robbo Yze and White as Danihers love children played many more games than they were entitled to on form. And you think we should have kept them on?? Not sure at this point what you are smoking. Woey was unfortunate but he was also our highest paid player at $500k a year thanks to Freo trying to poach him in 2001. Did not deserve to be the highest paid by a long way. Did very well out of melbourne. And finally Beemer. Boofy low IQ bloke who loved the club but refused to follow coach's instructions. Made his own bed. Not sure what your point is? That winning a BnF gives you a pension for life? What about the fact our BnF winnners played shiite football after winning the accolade. Not all but certainly Beemer, Bruce, Green, Travis and Davey..

If you guys see any great mids lying around can you please let the club know. We need some and it would be a real help. Thanks,. Or we could put an ad in the paper. Didn't we get a coach that way?? Mids wanted - I can see it now...