Dee-licious

Hopefully this is another ANB / T Mac situation where he is told to look elsewhere but you are welcome back, and then cements himself in the best 22 and wins a premiership :)

Deakyn Smith?

We had 2 'extra' players because of the injuries opening up mid-season spots. So I think it is only 5. But that is more a question for Lucifer's Hero (or whatever they are known as now - sorry!) as they are on top of it.

Mitch and Riley talking about the Dees out of contract. Basically, they don't know a lot and assume that everyone out of contract will get a year extension. Nothing about trading any players. But they didnt talk with any authority.

I wouldn't be surprised to see him drift. Not past 20 (pipe dream) but something like 18. The reason why is because the top 6 is pretty much agreed upon with the draft watchers (and Andrews isn't in that list) and then there is a list of 10-15 that is the next group. What you might see happen is someone might have Andrew at 6 on their board, but have pick 3. Then others might have him 10-12 and have pick 15, but a player higher on their board is available. There are some years that the first round of the draft looks like it could be done by a computer and you'll still get a good kid. This year isn't one of them and some weird (Max Holmes) things will happen. But the best part. WE DON'T NEED TO WORRY BECAUSE WE ARE PREMIERS!

Named second best. He has had a really consistent finals series by the looks of it. Hopefully it is enough runs on the board to be drafted (seems a given), but not enough exposure to get into the top 30 (so he is cheaper to bid on).

Taj not named for GF day. I'm assuming the reason being is he has a PF the next day as none of the East Freo stars have been named in the WA team.

Good luck to TMac and BBB during the off-season. Weid is going to come hard. Really great interview and just seems so angry about what he hasn't achieved. We say this every year, but maybe next year is the one.

Andy is up on the Herald Sun draft guide (top 70 prospects, but no Taj, bah!). Cant copy and paste, but the gist is 180cm, 73kg. Wingman/Outside mid - smooth mover and uses ball well. break away speed, good agility, good ball user, good around stoppages and spreads to find space. Played against men for the last couple of years.

its just the Lewis quote at the end of the article saying we dont need him. Nothing to see here.

A good time now to revisit that trade to work out if we 'won' it: Brisbane traded: 18 (21 Bowey), 19 (22 Laurie), 2021 second round (33, likely down 3-4 spots) = 2496 points (original value) Melbourne traded: 2021 17 or 18 (likely down 2 spots), 25 (academy bid from Collingwood on Blake Coleman at 24), 68, 69 (pushed up to 48 to take Henry Smith, a ruckman) = 2083 points (value as 17 and 48). If you do a little bit of creative accounting, you can make a call that Brissy wasn't that bent over using draft points as a metric (e.g., 2206 v 1999 with 'final' values) and roughly 21, 22 and 37 for 20, 24 and 48 doesn't look too bad for them, but they would really want to make sure they pick the lights out of this pick they have because we nailed it with Bowey. And we have a Laurie to come!

Oh mama. another 25 touches and 2 goals.

I find it really interesting on Mac this year. 1) serious lack of exposed form. He wasn’t in the system and he hasn’t played a lot of footy in the two years he was. So yes he’s had a big impact in some games and quarters, but recruiters are putting a lot of faith in that. 2) potential, potential, potential. High ceiling. Jackson-like. All of the conversation has been about his raw athletic talent and what he could be. We weren’t overly excited when Taylor was looking at a raw ruckman from WA. And the Dees followed him for years. It is a big call to spend a top 10 pick on a project player (see Lucas Cook). 3) Jackson is the exception, not the rule. Grundy was talked up and dropped. English was talked up and dropped. Jackson was talked up - and went higher than expected. Who knows what camp Mac will fall in too. basically, who knows what is going to happen with this draft. Only Daicos and Horne-Francis have made every post a winner so far. After that, it will be a guessing game until the night. If last year threw up surprises (remember Twoomey got it very wrong), this year is going to be worse. fingers crossed he comes to us, but if we had a pick in the top 10 - would we be wanting Taylor to pick Mac?

Honestly no idea. People are presumably paid a lot of money to work that out. I agree that a) how would we have space to take the 600-750 asking price and b) what would we trade. but it is nice to know we are still trying to improve the list.

Where there is smoke, there is fire. Considering we don’t have draft capital for Cerra, why is our name in every article about him? What are we trying to do? Future first no doubt, but if I was Freo Id want more. I guess Hogan > Cerra and Hogan was 6 & 23.

I watched the first half. Basically think a low possession game from Brayshaw and that is what it is. Playing the defensive wing - running all day. Uses it well when he gets it, dropping back to fill space and go after other people’s man when they lose them. It won’t be a high stats game, but I think our coaching team would be happy with how he is playing.

26 and 2 goals in a best on ground performance. I cannot wait to see him play for WA and see if he is the real deal.

Um is Hore going to play this year?

The most Jayden thing since his video looking for owls...

I did mine and picked the 5 Melbourne players first. Then found it very hard to pick the other 17. There are so many really great players in that 40 and huge that we have 5 of them. Such a great sign because guys like Walsh, Brayshaw, Kings, Anderson look like being greats of the game.

Taj is really interesting. We know that his coaches rate him highly (press clips at the start of the year). We know his team mates do (voted captain). He is getting it done each week in the disposal count (but no indication of DE or CBA). He is good enough to be in the WA squad and WA squad watchers have him in their best 22. But none of the Vic track watchers who we rely on for intel (Cal, Knightmare, Sheehan) have seen him play for 2 years. It’d be great if we could get a read on him for our own interests, but would be one that slips through because we know clubs put less work into F/S and NGA as they know they cannot get them anyway - so enough to know where they are bidding (interviews with club recruiters the last 2 years). id love him to be a jet, but who knows???

Glad I’m not the only one going insane over this.

Teams up - but to save you time - Weid, Hibbo, Chandler, AVB, Jordan, Melk, and maybe Daw must be travelling with us as not named.

We’ve had 17 players play 17-18 games this year. And Petty isn’t one of them. We haven’t really changed it up that much, so I’d be surprised if we have more than 1 change. Highly likely it is 0 Changes. yes, id love to rest a few players, bring in my personal favs, and drop my whipping boys, but we’ve played the same 18 odd players for the better part of 4 years now - I’m not expecting us to change off the back of an ‘ok, not great’ game. 0 changes for me. But if I’m being emotional, I’d love to see Harmes take the week off and love to see Bowey get a run (but that’d mean we’d be dropping pig and I don’t see that happening).

Within the first couple of minutes.