Adam The God

So if we don't get Hunter, we'll re-sign Baker.

Yep, I'd take 8 and let them keep 12, and we find another late first rounder or early second.

They clearly didn't because they drafted JVR last year...

Hmm. Maybe Josh Bruce is okay afterall.

Pity the Naughton option fell over.

Oh wow. I had forgotten that. Sliding doors moment.

You realise the irony in this statement, right? You're literally talking about an unknown quantity next year too. Jackson has seen some of his potential unlocked. Next year's draft crop are still in Year 11. And every year people say the same thing. "Oh, next year is meant to be much stronger". I don't think the club will be licking its lips at the prospects of late first rounders for a player we paid pick 3 for. The club may however have to take its medicine and move on.

Reckon we might have done that already mate.

Yes, just saw that rumour on Facebook. I presume we need a new thread about him? 😉

You might have been brought in a time when housing was affordable on a single income. We've now had 31 years of underemployment in Australia (ie Australians needing more than one job to keep up) and a housing boom since the late 80s that has locked out two and a half generations from the housing market. The world isn't as simple as you or your mother portray it. In the words of The Waterboy, "well, mumma's wrong again!"

They're definitely putting LJ in a difficult position by pissing everyone off.

Well, to be fair to Brisbane, they did offer a first rounder and the Bulldogs knocked it back.

I think Bell is a bit of a control freak just quietly. He's not list manager, Robert Walls' son David is, but in the lead up to the trade period, Bell is the only FD member quoted on a list management update on the Freo website. https://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/1221877/list-management-update

He's general manager, so he's head of footy, is my understanding.

You're an intriguing new poster.

Down or up, I would have thought down 10 fold, and what book are you writing?

I think we'll happily take a top 10 pick and move on, but anything less than that is robbery.

Solid username. 👌 It's like one of my lazy passwords.

We also don't know whether something might pop up suddenly after the Jackson trade has been completed. The way Fremantle operate though, this'll probably go down to the wire and there won't be any time post Jackson trade to utilise what we get in any other way.

Seriously. What a bunch of nuffies.

How do you know that?

Nah, he was still predictably behind the ball last year and yet our pressure was up, so they'd kick it to him anyway. One of my good mates' cousin is a Hawthorn backman. He said to his team mates, "at least I didn't kick it to Gawn like the rest of you!"

This is why I'd be [censored] off if I was him. I'd be saying to Freo, just get the [censored] thing done.

I wouldn't put it past Freo to suddenly put a good player up for trade that doesn't want to go. I legitimately don't know how you can target a player like LJ and not be able to get the deal done quickly. It shows a complete detachment from reality/naivety.

That's interesting. Thanks. To my eye he was nowhere near as dominant t this year in the air than previous years. My feeling is we actually manufactured far more opportunities for him to blow his 2021 averages out of the water in 2022, and due to the opposition scragging him and his own soreness, he seemed to drop a hell of a lot of marks he should have taken and was in a position to take this year. I think it's likely with Grundy's inclusion, Max takes more like 5 a game. Be intriguing to see.