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A recent one- Jason Carter.
Freo players that could of been but fell short
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My memory was a side mirror being ripped off and him being handed a ridiculously excessive 6 week penalty by the club.
edit: nope, it was a side mirror but I'm getting that suspension mixed up with the one when he knocked out a security guard at a nightclub. His wiki page has quite the rap sheet section!
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Other than the obvious Yarran, Morabito etc. I've always wondered why the hell we traded Winston Abraham.
One of my early Freo favourites.
One of my early Freo favourites.
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Andrew Foster, Andrew Browne, Luke Webster.
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And this was right in the thick of all the eagles off field issues. Which were generally going unpunished or some minor token consequence.
Wiz gets drunk at the casino, a side mirror gets broken and whack! the Wiz is suspended by the Club for a month or more.
Always felt to me the club burnt Jeff to make a point we weren’t like the other mob. Because, as has always been the case since 1995, our players are judged very differently by the media.
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Collard is one of the only players I can remember who was taken early in the draft and then delisted after just one season.
Must have had some serious off-field issues to have been impressing so many at training only to be delisted 9 months after having been drafted.
Must have had some serious off-field issues to have been impressing so many at training only to be delisted 9 months after having been drafted.
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Mundy said he was the most naturally talented player he saw at Freo, which is massive wraps.
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I watched Ballas GOTY again recently and while he definitely wasn’t someone who didn’t reach his peak, we didn’t get long enough out of him. Was essential for us to make finals in that stretch from 2010-2015, as important as any other player. Could have been a 400+ goal small forward, but the backend of his career foundered
Whilst I'm fine with 2nd chances didn't the dude with his mates enter and rob a house with a young family inside armed with weapons like knives and star pickets? If that is correct and he still did more stuff later I think the outpouring of sympathy for the guy seems a bit over the top.
Apeness wasn't going to be a star or anything but I thought he should have been a decent honest forward/ruck at this level if he wasn't injured.
Wish we got the Wiz that we saw at Melbourne before he came to us! Seems like when he was in Melbourne everyone loved him and when he came to us, the media put a target on his back even though his antics were the same as when he was in Melbourne. That and having to deal with his responsibilities as a leader in the Noongar community seemed to impact him a little.
I had Scott Chisholm's number on my jumper in 1995. He was exhilarating. Great athlete. Like a lot of promising youngsters back then, they fell out of the AFL quickly.
I had Scott Chisholm's number on my jumper in 1995. He was exhilarating. Great athlete. Like a lot of promising youngsters back then, they fell out of the AFL quickly.
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Mine too! Never enough love for Winnie.
Paul Hogan loved Winnie.
LOL yeah once every six months or so...
The fact we never got to see a rampaging Morabito and Fyfe in the same midfield is a travesty
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Add those 2 would have freed up hilly big time.
Pav would have been frothing in the forward fifty
In another timeline Mora doesn't get injured, we draft Darling and win 3 premierships from 2013-2015Add those 2 would have freed up hilly big time.
Pav would have been frothing in the forward fifty
Based on watching him pre-draft I had Collard down to be the next Jason Akermanis.
Basically if you are a mercurial forward you will be hit with the dockers's curse if you are at Freo, from Abraham, Chisholm, Waterhouse in the beginning, to Simpson, Bennell, Yarran and probably even extending to Sturt and Henry whose junior brilliance seem to being crushed out of them. The only way to avoid it being a electric forward is to be a blue collar, tackle focussed forward.
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What ever happened with Collard? Just couldn't cut it in a professional system?
