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Give him one more year regardless. If his legs can hold up for any length of time, he'll be a positive addition to your side. Worth risking a list spot for.
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I can barely make sense of that but at the end of the season Ross was banging on about how he also has to change as a coach, which we've heard him say before, so hopefully it's not just his way of deflecting attention from himself. He hangs out with enough new agers in Roos and and Kirk to know that self transformation is absolutely necessary if the same mistakes are being made. Hopefully it's not all just hot air.
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Don't hold your breath mate
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Blakely and Weller will be better with a full pre-season under their belt
Giving yourself an uppercut for this sort of appalling nonsense is insufficient so give Dale Kickett a ring;I'm sure there's plenty who's oblige(me included).
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The amount of positional and strategic experimentation that occurred throughout the season looked list assessing mode to me.
I think they were assuring themselves the bottom 20% were exactly that and had no undetected potential.Additionally they have fat confidence in the incoming bunch.
There's obviously something brewing as far as FA,draft picks or trades given what we've done in the last days.
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Fair enough. We do seem be cooking something up. One guy who went up in my estimation is de boer, though. He was probably one of the more consistent players in the last couple of months and I thought had a great game against the Hawks in the final.I rate the football IQ of our club.
Lyon heads it up.
The amount of positional and strategic experimentation that occurred throughout the season looked list assessing mode to me.
I think they were assuring themselves the bottom 20% were exactly that and had no undetected potential.Additionally they have fat confidence in the incoming bunch.
There's obviously something brewing as far as FA,draft picks or trades given what we've done in the last days.
We do not leak and we do do due diligence
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Cool story - so you'd rather he be de-listed now and forever hold your peace?
Are you happy to say "Gee that Mora kid, unlucky bout his knees, could have been anything." for the rest of your Freo-following days?
I'm such a simpleton that I'd rather he didn't do his knee again.
Do you get it??
If not don't bother.
PS it's 'piece'.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/afl/a/29772644/
Fremantle are preparing to keep the faith with Anthony Mora-bito, with the club leaning towards retaining the luckless midfielder on a rookie contract for 2016......
Fremantle are preparing to keep the faith with Anthony Mora-bito, with the club leaning towards retaining the luckless midfielder on a rookie contract for 2016......
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I think he should be given a spot on the main list. If he completes a full preseason and is fit he would be an instant upgrade on Suban, De Boer, Mzungu and Clancee.
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I doubt he will build up the fitness to match the running machines, Ross didn't play Luke Ball because he couldn't cover much ground, Mora is really a long term prospect. Unless he changes to a forward position.
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Would be incredible if he could get back to senior footy........be a dream to inject him, Bennell & McCarthy into the side, then the 3 young mids in Langdon, Weller & Blakely, great upgrade on our bottom six. Blue sky scenario but could happen.
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and he gets all the likes for your joke. I laughed..... and liked.
I'd just be happy at this stage to see him get his life back on track, and if he plays most of the season with Peel? It'll still be great to see him out and about and gelling with the rest of our kids.
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You're probably right. But if he can get a full preseason in he should definitely be getting some games.
In 2015 Suban, De Boer, Clancee and Mzungu played 72 games collectively. IMO in 2016 none of those guys should be playing. Those games should be shared among our up and comers. We could give Blakely, Langdon, Weller, Grey, Mora 10 - 15 games each.
I guess an upgrade mid- season, as I think is allowed by the afl, might be the perfect scenario for Mora. If his knee and body hold up he will have spent a 1/2 season in the wafl and should be in good footy touch and at a high level of fitness.
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*likes*
Can only dream of a scenario like this, but can still see Suban in the team :/
Fyfe, Mundy, Bennell, Hill, Neale, Barlow, Morabito Watch out Brisbane 2001-03 and WCE 2005-06 midfields we're coming for you.
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I tend to agree.
Unless we've got something specific lined up, given how many we've moved on, I find it surprising that Ballard wouldn't be given a short contract, or Moller the same. They're both young and Ballard such a ball winner and big body. I defer to the club which has much more info to go on that we wouldn't know, but I can't see how that 2nd rnd pick in the PSD, or even lower (which we may well need to use) is going to end up being better that Ballard.
With that in mind, I reckon we should just offer Mora a main list spot, try to get him a game this year some time without having to mess with rookie upgrades. Surely it's got to the stage where he either makes it in the next 12 months or it's all over.
If we are going to delist and then rookie him it does give every other club the chance to pick him up and 13 others the chance even with a pick ahead of us in the rookie draft. Would another club stoop that low to trump us just when he might finally get a 2nd crack?
He's had more cracks than a plumber's convention.
That's because of the player he can still become. Give him another year.
I wonder if the AFL would allow Morabito to be moved to the rookie list for our last rookie pick due to te circumstances. This means no club would be able to pick him up
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For a few reasons it's unlikely. For starters previously listed players moving to the rookie list can now set their contract pre-draft which would help deter any poachers. Unless Mora himself wants to go somewhere else, it's not likely to happen - technically possible, but not likely.
As I said above, reckon they should just keep him on the main list anyway.
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