Oppo Camp Former Freo player watch
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The shank for a behind at a clutch moment gave me flashbacks. Lucky he plays for the pies now and got to kick it again from the goal line.
the shot from directly infront then went dead straight, its all in his head
Deluca picked up, hopefully another ex docker success story, seeing a lot lately.
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Surprising to see ol Sutty get another go. Smart move of him to go to Port Magpies and end up at Port Adelaide. Nothing to lose and I'm sure he'll take another game or two as something to savour.
Sutty captained the Magpies I think this year, the port list manager spoke like he could come straight in through knowing their structures, only one from the whole draft who was spoken of like that.
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Thanks for the support bud, Josh has worked very hard at another crack and Carlton is about as good as any landing spot to display his skill set. Hopefully he can impress them.
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Have you ever had the feeling that lachie will be back 1 day ?
So in recent year we've had the following player picked up after being de-listed;
Roberton,*
Menegola,*
Mzungu,
De Boer,*
Barlow,
Silvagni,
Sheridan,*
Collins,*
Clarke,*
Sutcliffe,*
Deluca,*
*Still on a list
Plus a few traded players still running around
Neale,
Weller,
Crozier,
Mayne,
Roberton,*
Menegola,*
Mzungu,
De Boer,*
Barlow,
Silvagni,
Sheridan,*
Collins,*
Clarke,*
Sutcliffe,*
Deluca,*
*Still on a list
Plus a few traded players still running around
Neale,
Weller,
Crozier,
Mayne,
We’d have to rank pretty highly amongst clubs with ex players on other lists.
Hope he has learned how to kick and make compotent decisions while in the SANFL.
He could when he started with. Don’t see why not again in a complementary environment.
If he could, he'd be in front of around 15 of Freo's first 22.
Roberton would’ve been great but that was ages ago and he’s just about finished now due to health concerns. Hope he lives a healthy life after footy.
I’ve said many times I think De Boer and Mayne (and Sutcliffe for that matter) would’ve continued to struggle here. Had enough chances here - 100+ games of them.
I think Collins would’ve eventually ended up requesting a trade after being stuck behind Pearce, Hamling and having Logue there as well. He’s better than getting the five games a year he would’ve got here. Sucks we got nothing for him though.
Menegola is the type of player we need. Not losing any sleep over any of the other delistees tbh. Ultimately though I think if Menegola was on our list for three years and wasn’t good enough to get a single game we’d make the same mistake again and so would 17 other AFL clubs.
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Its funny that we have so many ex players running around on other lists, shows that our team was definitely pretty damn good during our "successful" period.
We also used to lose like maybe 1 player at most and trade in like maybe 1-2 from other clubs.
Now we trade in multiple players every year and lose multiple every year to other clubs, through delistings or trades.
Seems we have gone away from the full on draft approach and are attempting a sort of Hawthorn like approach of starting with the draft and filling out with trades.
We also used to lose like maybe 1 player at most and trade in like maybe 1-2 from other clubs.
Now we trade in multiple players every year and lose multiple every year to other clubs, through delistings or trades.
Seems we have gone away from the full on draft approach and are attempting a sort of Hawthorn like approach of starting with the draft and filling out with trades.
All clubs are doing some variation of that now. We started doing it in 2008. The idea is to keep the bulk of your list within the prime age but have a healthy balance of age demographics represented.
We were lucky in 2008 in that regard.
Pav, Mundy, Sandi, MJ, McPharlin, Tarrant, Grover were experienced enough to draft/debut players. Rebuilding with experienced core is easier then say complete clean out like Carlton doing.
Much more comfortable with what Freo did this time around too. Mature aged recruits but young enough with Brayshaw, Cerra, Tucker, Cox, Pearce, all quite young. B Hill, Hamling, Wilson are that age where you can have a rebuild and still they would be in their prime at the end of it.
Having Fyfe as captain, is about the same as Pavlich captain those years. Absolute professional, best or one of the best in the league and in their prime. That’s important too
I would say we hardly brought in players over that time period though
Only discards or free hits like Sylvia, Pearce and Gumbleton.
Post our success period eg last 4 years, we have been bringing in quality players every season
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I think it shows what a strong culture Fremantle have developed. Most of our players are developed as good team players and solid citizens. This is attractive to other sides
He wouldn't be good enough to knock out any of our current back 6 currently.
Sucks that DeBoer's contract was up when it was and Pearce / Crozier / Sheridan were contracted.
TheAge Real Footy podcast claimed that Freo enquired with DeBoer at the end of last year if he was "possibly" available. It was that flog McClure so take it with a grain of salt.
