Harley Bennell

[WCE_phil]

Why it part of protocols put in place by the club.
That any players deemed at risk, have to have board approval first to recruit.

As to whether we should recruit him, I think the club is very interested but will in the end
deem him to high risk.

My personal opinion is we should recruit him, I believe we could support him better than any other
club.

WCE_phil and i disagree on him, I know his family reasonalby well and Harley's history often gets confused
with his brothers acts.Lots of rumors about Harley doing things that his brother actually did.

The problem I see with Harley is if he's back in perth im not sure if we can keep him away from his brothers and other influences from the past. We have a great mentoring group within the club and with ties to clontarf, the wirrpanda foundation and phil narkle on board our indigenous relations is on par or better than any other club particularly when you take into account our involvement with the kimberley, pilbara and indigenous communities. However my reservations still remain.

TBF i think he would still cost us our first rounder. You have to be bold to win premierships but i'd much rather we chase other players. Jetta with our second, yep i can see a role for him. Suckling as a free agent? Yep i can see a role. Coniglio with our first rounder? Yep i can definitely see a role for him. Bennell could be a superstar but i just don't see the differential between what he can do and what others can do being worth the risk.

 

[lewigie]

He's an obscenely good footballer. If he wins us a premiership I don't care what drugs he's on.

He's better than O'Meara

 

[Eaglemaniac]

Why it part of protocols put in place by the club.
That any players deemed at risk, have to have board approval first to recruit.

As to whether we should recruit him, I think the club is very interested but will in the end
deem him to high risk.

My personal opinion is we should recruit him, I believe we could support him better than any other
club.

WCE_phil and i disagree on him, I know his family reasonalby well and Harley's history often gets confused
with his brothers acts.Lots of rumors about Harley doing things that his brother actually did.

I just think we wont after everything that went on with Cuz. Our club is very gun-shy on recruiting players that are seen as possibly a bit of bad boy, no matter how good they are as players.

 

[Matera92]

He's an obscenely good footballer. If he wins us a premiership I don't care what drugs he's on.

He's better than O'Meara

Because that attitude has worked out so well for us in the past...

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

Because that attitude has worked out so well for us in the past...

The cup's in the cupboard isn't it?

 

[midorigreenwood]

Worth the risk

Get naitanui to get him hooked on Jesus

The club will have to move on from the past one day and stop being gunshy about picking anything other than sure bets.

 

[midorigreenwood]

Let's not compare ourselves to the NFL. They get four game suspensions for performance enhancing drugs and don't think any have been suspended for coke, They have the softest code of all

Yeah, the players don't even have to admit what they got caught taking

Everyone just says in interviews that they were taking adderall

 

[Johnno22]

The cup's in the cupboard isn't it?

You seem to forget the years of damage control.

 

[Johnno22]

Worth the risk

Get naitanui to get him hooked on Jesus

The club will have to move on from the past one day and stop being gunshy about picking anything other than sure bets.

Under Simpson, we will only recruit players that he believes can buy into the game plan and the present team culture.

Bennell in his fifth year on an AFL list has not shown he has the knowhow or desire to do this.

 

[SpaceClef]

Under Simpson, we will only recruit players that he believes can buy into the game plan and the present team culture.

Bennell in his fifth year on an AFL list has not shown he has the knowhow or desire to do this.

While I agree with your first point about Simpson, he hasn't really ever said anything about culture.

 

[Pat_Footy]

The problem I see with Harley is if he's back in perth im not sure if we can keep him away from his brothers and other influences from the past. We have a great mentoring group within the club and with ties to clontarf, the wirrpanda foundation and phil narkle on board our indigenous relations is on par or better than any other club particularly when you take into account our involvement with the kimberley, pilbara and indigenous communities. However my reservations still remain.

TBF i think he would still cost us our first rounder. You have to be bold to win premierships but i'd much rather we chase other players. Jetta with our second, yep i can see a role for him. Suckling as a free agent? Yep i can see a role. Coniglio with our first rounder? Yep i can definitely see a role for him. Bennell could be a superstar but i just don't see the differential between what he can do and what others can do being worth the risk.

So many LOLs in this post - so clueless.

Bennell is one of the best midfielders going around - your talk about his social circle is pure speculation and is largely irrelevant as you are just pulling it out of nowhere. Suckling is a spud of the highest order. Jetta would be looking for a retirement nest egg - yet he should be put out to pasture now. Coniglio isn't going to be a straight swap for a low first round pick.

 

[WCE_phil]

So many LOLs in this post - so clueless.

Bennell is one of the best midfielders going around - your talk about his social circle is pure speculation and is largely irrelevant as you are just pulling it out of nowhere. Suckling is a spud of the highest order. Jetta would be looking for a retirement nest egg - yet he should be put out to pasture now. Coniglio isn't going to be a straight swap for a low first round pick.

Right so being a close family member of both the head of a universities indigenous relations officer, an indigenous youth worker, brother of a cop, son of a prison officer and stepson of a former health inspector for indigenous communities in the pilbara i know nothing. Not to mention the ties to football. Bennell is a 1 way player of enormous talent, his influences in WA are best summed up as an incurable virus.

Suckling is an amazing kick, good reader of the play who needs to put his head over the ball a bit more. Lewis jetta has just turned 26 and started his AFL career 2 years later than most so as such should have better longevity, he also has a lithe frame and is a light runner so shouldn't lose as much pace as others. Coniglio if he nominates us would cost us our first rounder, worst case is our first rounder plus some steak knives (yes i would consider brown at this stage as steak knives).

Now dickface, please make some more assumptions.

 

[The_Reaper]

Worth the risk

Get naitanui to get him hooked on Jesus

The club will have to move on from the past one day and stop being gunshy about picking anything other than sure bets.

Gazza couldn't do it

 

[mick06]

He's an obscenely good footballer. If he wins us a premiership I don't care what drugs he's on.

He's better than O'Meara

Absolutley no way.
Talent only gets you so far. Omeara and bennel may be equally talented but omearas mentaility and attitude to football is so far ahead. Even with two dodgy knees omeara is and will be twice the player bennell is.

 

[Pat_Footy]

Right so being a close family member of both the head of a universities indigenous relations officer, an indigenous youth worker, brother of a cop, son of a prison officer and stepson of a former health inspector for indigenous communities in the pilbara i know nothing. Not to mention the ties to football. Bennell is a 1 way player of enormous talent, his influences in WA are best summed up as an incurable virus.

Suckling is an amazing kick, good reader of the play who needs to put his head over the ball a bit more. Lewis jetta has just turned 26 and started his AFL career 2 years later than most so as such should have better longevity, he also has a lithe frame and is a light runner so shouldn't lose as much pace as others. Coniglio if he nominates us would cost us our first rounder, worst case is our first rounder plus some steak knives (yes i would consider brown at this stage as steak knives).

Now dickface, please make some more assumptions.

You are NOT the head of a university indigenous officer, youth worker, cop, prison officer or indigenous health inspector. Don't try and leach off these people's specialised knowledge. You may as well be flipping burgers for all I care.

Suckling and Jetta are both ready for the scrapheap. You are living in the past with these two yesteryear players. Jetta has peaked and will continue to decline. Yes he will lose his pace. Don't make ill informed assumptions that he won't lose pace because of his light frame and late start - you also have no background in this area.

Coniglio will only cost a first round pick and steak knifes - Delusion city.

 

[Matera92]

The cup's in the cupboard isn't it?

Imagine how many more we might have had if that group could have kept their s**t together.

Those years we were dragged through the mud because of us turning a blind eye to players off field activities nearly ruined our club.

 

[Dugg]

The cup's in the cupboard isn't it?

We are looking for more than one cup and a self-destruction this time around

 

[Dugg]

So many LOLs in this post - so clueless.

Bennell is one of the best midfielders going around - your talk about his social circle is pure speculation and is largely irrelevant as you are just pulling it out of nowhere.

From my personal experience he pretty much hit the nail on the head.

 

[Pottering]

The Eagles should not even contemplate picking up Bennell if he becomes available. Steer clear! And all the other clubs should do likewise. If he's dumped by GCS then he can prove he's worth another shot by playing in a lesser competition, tearing it up and staying out of trouble. Only then should any club consider if he's worth drafting. I would have done the same with Newman, got rid of him, you just don't need those types at your club. These players have been gifted the chance to play AFL and if they abuse that opportunity it's their call and they risk losing it all. Forget the nonsense that the club/AFL owes them anything, the onus is the other way around.

 

[Eastern Rangers]

I read the "anyway" in Natho 's post to mean that even if Bennell didn't have concerns about his attitude he'd prefer Jetta.

Likewise. Lewis Jetta has a fraction of the game of Harley.

Just a soft uncontested front runner.


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[Here2tellyouwhy]

You seem to forget the years of damage control.

Wow damage control. Isn't that what Freo have been doing for 20+ years?

Just because the AFL were weak and mentioned taking our licence because we had one player that took drugs in his personal time doesn't mean s**t.

Premierships talk nothing else.
If Crowley played in a flag this year and being Freo's first do you think everyone would focus on his mishap or the fact Freo won a flag?

 

[Matera92]

Wow damage control. Isn't that what Freo have been doing for 20+ years?

Just because the AFL were weak and mentioned taking our licence because we had one player that took drugs in his personal time doesn't mean s**t.

Premierships talk nothing else.
If Crowley played in a flag this year and being Freo's first do you think everyone would focus on his mishap or the fact Freo won a flag?

Yes because having a player with PED's in his system wouldn't have everyone assigning an * next to their cup.

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

Imagine how many more we might have had if that group could have kept their s**t together.

Those years we were dragged through the mud because of us turning a blind eye to players off field activities nearly ruined our club.

I agree we could've won another one but nearly ruined our club? WTF?

Ruined, like what Richmond? or St Kilda, Bulldogs?
When did they last finish 9th then push for top 4?
None of them have won an AFL flag, we have 3. That's one for each of those so called Vic 100+ year clubs, plus we have made profit everyone of those years albeit we have an advantage over them.
Our club went through a tough patch but we came out fine. Seriously we were the least likely team to be ruined by something like this.

I dare say those 3 teams deserve to be ruined more than us.
Liberatore is a *in saint? Bulldogs just pulled off the only broken rookie contract in AFL history. Did they say sorry?
Traded their captain in a heartbeat.
St Kilda I have respect for but jezz they just can't seem to get the deal done.
Richmond. Just *in lol.

Let them and the rest cry into their coffee mugs.

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

We are looking for more than one cup and a self-destruction this time around

More than one flag is just being greedy. We can't all play at the G ten times a year.

Everyone is bagging Hawks right now for playing unsociably yet they get the job done.
I don't care how we go about it. If we win two in a row i consider that a success.

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

Yes because having a player with PED's in his system wouldn't have everyone assigning an * next to their cup.

Yeah but they tried that against us in 06 and we have zero positive drug tests of anything on ASADA's list.
Positive drug test or not, Crowley isn't a Bomber or a drug cheat.
Even if Crowley doesn't play and he probally wont, Johnson still has a mark against his name for recreational stuff and no one gives a s**t.

Maybe I'm just a realist and can see the fact that not one AFL club is 100% clean of recreational drugs yet each year one of those clubs wins the flag and the world still goes around.

It's only as big a deal as the media make it and the public allow it to become.