DeeSpencer

Making strong contributions for Freo

The battle between Fritsch, Chandler and Disco on who can do less is the real contest

Positives so far are Tracc’s selflessness and the Windsor thing will work if we can get him involved.

Lindsay ok but mostly defensive wing stuff Harvey flashes but not quite there AJ very solid workhorse, hoping for more Sharp - messy Adams - some decent stuff, can get caught flat footed in transition but having a go

Missed Fritsch for an easy out the back kick too, he’s been far from the worst but so uninspiring

Exactly. We’ve changed game plan without enough changes to personnel. Either because we couldn’t land anyone in trades or got scared to ship guys out (or both). But we also aren’t drilling the fundamentals. We have easily enough skill in the backs and mids to execute basic kick it around and find an opening footy. And same goes for quicker counter attacks, if they see space and trust their run and team mates it will open up, but too few have the belief or the coordination to work the hands.

The ball movement just isn’t up to it. And not surprisingly neither is our defensive run because our players never have to train against a side that can move the ball. The skills, the spacing, the coordination, the commitment to run and hit targets just isn’t there. We have a red hot crack, which is nice, but we need more than just Pickett to fix the overall skill and coordination in our ball movement.

Goal kickers: Jefferson 4, George 3, Henderson 2, Verrall, Mentha, Culley, Brown, Fullarton, K Windsor (I made it up)

Nothing on the everything app from Melb/Casey/St K or Sandy

A reasonable idea but I suspect our order of who comes off with be Gawn, Tracc and then perhaps some runners. And Adams had a good 3/4s against north

Injured: McVee, Hore, Melk, Kolt, Kentfield (AmW, McAdam) Spargo apparently playing vfl. Can’t imagine Fullarton’s getting a call up. As per Kev: , Tmac, Campbell, Laurie, Jefferson, Mentha, Brown, Verrall. So that leaves 29 possibly heading west. FB: Howes May Petty HB: Salem Lever Windsor C; Billings Rivers Lindsay HF: Langford Turner Tracc FF: Chandler JVR Fritsch Foll: Gawn Oliver Langdon Int: Bowey, Viney, Sharp, Pickett* S: Sparrow Likely: AJ, Woey Possibly: Adams, Sestan Culley, Henderson Prediction: Henderson is 26th picked to play, Sestan travels, Adams and Culley play at Casey. But we’ll know more when the squad is announced or Casey play.

I agree with what he’s saying but unfortunately the footy media is full of morons and click chasers so the headline is 3 picks. Sadly you can’t really ever say anything interesting in footy.

Probably drove

Your proclamation that Goody loved him - completely made up or a fever dream?

Just don’t mention a price. In fact, don’t even give a concession that we will trade Pickett. ‘We love Kossie, as a player and a person, our focus is always on maintaining the best environment for all players to stay as long as possible. The focus now is having Kossie play a great season of brilliant entertaining football just as he always has in the red and blue. Anything else will be dealt with respectfully and confidentially by our fantastic list management team’

Much better comments in full context, I just would’ve left out any kind of price.

Totally agree, and it’s just adding fuel to a story that should just go away so Pickett can at least play a good year. His value will be determined by how well he plays! Also, not all first round picks are created equally. Geelong stole Jezza Cameron with the worst trio of first rounders you’ll ever see. So if you are setting a price don’t allow wiggle room for a junk platter.

There weren’t many of us there that day but the crowd all being condensed did have a decent atmosphere, and we did get to say we were there for Goodwin’s first (unofficial) game as coach.

Roof isn't closed just for TV though, it creates a nightmare sun situation for the players leading up towards the northern end when the ball dips in and out of the sun and often for about half the fans on the south and eastern side. Honestly they should close the roof when it's sunny and open it for nights and overcast games and if it sprinkles with rain so be it!

He would've had full trust with the guys he worked with for a number of years to be his eyes in the box and also confidence in that flow of information. Now with new guys he needs to see it for himself and establish what everyone is seeing and how the assistants function. Could be he does 6-12 weeks in the box then goes back to the bench once everything is flowing. I do wonder who will lead the way on the bench. Maybe Sam Radford or Choco.

God to give credit to Roosy here, he always coached from the bench and when he was doing his consulting gig at North he coached from Hawaii!

I suspect Langdon’s midfield time will decrease once Pickett is back from suspension, or at least his centre bounce time will. Rivers will be playing plenty of mid unless we rack up more backline injuries. Wait and see on Harvey, I suspect his contested work has a bit of a way to go but I also wonder if he’s really doing smart stuff across half forward. Didn’t learn too much against north, we’ll learn more against Freo.

Glad someone else has been paying attention

Maybe it's just too hypothetical but I was against the Dunstan pick up but after a year of Demons conditioning and game plan work he seemed ready to come in and give us a little bit of something right before he did his knee. Maybe nothing more than just a few games worth of throwing his body around and a fresh midfield look, but that could've been useful. We'll never no I guess. Culley's younger and with a genuine point of difference with his height. He's worth a roll of the dice even if he's just depth.

As long as we aren't terrible it's probably a perfectly fine or even good deal for us. The academy system is so flawed though when you have a guy right towards the pointy end like Kako was you can load up and benefit multiple times from the trade out, the discount and then a guy falling. Say we finish 8th, that can be a nice win for us, if the draft isn't overly compromised and Essendon end up with say pick 15 and take a good player it can be a heist for Essendon after you add in what they paid for Kako and other really solid bonus picks they picked up.