Cranky Franky

Never seen so much love for such an average plodder. Should have been dropped about the middle of last year.

Clearly a great clubman but as a player doesn’t inspire me & I would happily sacrifice him to keep better players. Rarely plays well when the team is struggling but always dominates after we get on top & are cruising.

Dunstan has a solid body of work going back to last year. I reckon he should get 2-3 games on the trot. Sparrow (along with ANB) seems to be a protected species. I like him but he is one of the " second stringers" that always goes missing when we play poorly.

BBB, TMac & Tommo all struggled & at times their fumbles were embarrassing. Given all 3 have struggled to hold down a spot in the last year or so you would think all 3 are at the crossroads.

He was somewhere between solid & good - nowhere near outstanding.

Yes and a real shame he wasn't given any opportunities by our BT in 21 & 22.

Don't think Wayne Gordon won a B&F. Baker certainly did.

Apparently the Council stopped some of the games being played in town due to a range of problems including violence. Instead of threatening to move the game the AFL should talk to the Council & the NT government & local community groups & look at some solutions to the main issue.

You totally missed the point. Which was that Baker was good enough to play AFL in 2022 and if the selectors had rested injured & non performing players & given Baker, Dunstan, Chandler, Bedford & others some well deserved games then maybe we would have done better in 2022.

Just like to take this opportunity to let the armchair experts who canned Baker during Demonland debates know they were wrong. About a quarter of posters felt he should be given more games but the majority whined about his disposal among other things. Picked in the first 5 games & playing ok demonstrates he should have been given a go in 2022 (along with several others).

Yep that is a major part of their problem but they still haven’t woken up to it. Look at the record - Cam McCarthy, Harley Bennell, Jesse Hogan, Des Headland (not a total fail but he was disappointing), now Jackson & Col Sylvia was the icing on the cake. Until Freo learns to target players they actually need they will be a dud side.

To all the "Petty Forward" disciples just want to point out you were wrong. He always was a natural defender.

I think a bit of poetic licence is allowed. Bizzell wasn't the best either but for a couple of seasons he was brilliant. Ditto Ray Biffin & if we'd had Biffin, Ditterich & Carman in the 2000 GF side Dean Wallis wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes.

Fowler May Wight B Lovett Hardeman Bizzell Alves Wilson Flower Davey Lyon Jurrah Farmer Jackovich Neitz Ditterich Petracca Oliver Gawn Biffin Wells Carman

Agree totally. JJ has been well looked after. He probably should have played more games at Casey in 2022 but kept getting picked ahead of Chandler, Bedford, Baker & Dunstan. His weakness was his hesitancy with the ball in hand where he invariably went back & took the safe option rather than taking the game on.

Jeff White was a Victorian.

I thought Petty was ordinary up fwd. No better than Tom McD. Brown did very little as well.

Buckley, Perovic & Sellars Who on earth was Sellars ???????

Sellars ??? Wasn’t he an actor ?

Yep he was impressive. Long may he run out of defence.

Don't like him do you ? Can't believe some of the spiteful comments made about Baker on the site.

Laurie looked mostly clueless today just like he did in the practice game. Not currently up to it by a long long way.

Absolute gobbledygook. Not sure where u dreamed this up from. I watched every Casey game in 2022 & Oskar's disposal was fine. Maybe you have some objective facts about disposal efficiency.

Should have been tried as a small defender to replace Nev Jetta - had pace, aggression & overlap running.

Thats pretty unfair. While his disposal wasn't elite it clearly improved & was as good as several on the senior list. Also the Grand Final was played in shocking wet conditions & almost every player miss kicked the ball that day.