Lachie Neale wants to come home to fremantle [or does he?!?]

[Snuffaluphagus]

I'm taking this chance to encourage everyone to vote in the two threads that are more important than spitballing about Neale

If you havent already please vote for the Board MVP and Post Of The year

Board MVP:

Toast - Fremantle Board MVP - Congrats Dale147

Hi Everybody We are excited to officially establish a Freo Board Most Valuable Poster award for the 2021 season. It's something we endeavour to continue as a tradition moving forward as we feel excellent contributions to the board should be celebrated and valued. Winner will get a shiny badge...

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Post of the Year

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Hi all, I'll ask you to cast your minds back to 2017. It was a simpler time back then. Travel was a thing, border closures weren't. There was no Covid and no covfefe, while closer to home the Great Purple Reset had begun. A young Nathan Fyfe assumed captaincy of a club that was Pavlichless...

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[free at last]

Right,now we can concentrate on extracting maximum value for Cerra.

 

[FreoGirl]

Maybe he noticed the lack of enthusiasm.

 

[Bring back Drum]

Mighty effort BF crew, we got to 55 pages, Brisbane turkeys only got to 53!

Moral victory.

 

[FreoRicci]

Interesting re Duff and Quarters, I knew Neale and Kersten didn't see eye to eye, I didn't know Kersten roughed him up and slapped him around in front of his team mates.

Kersten really was an absolute blight on our football club.

Doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. Comes around as a entitled brat. Seen him out a few times.

 

[FreoGirl]

It's not a knock on Neale.

It is just when you have Serong, Brayshaw and Fyfe operating as in and under players ….we need pace on the outside and some forward line marking-goal kicking options.

Lose a young Cerra and bring in an older duplication of a position we already have depth in. I guarantee you Freo would not have done a straight swap of Serong or Brayshaw for Neale.

Neale is a great player and perfect for where Brisbane are at the moment. We take 2 decent picks to the draft and get to group 2 more players around Serong, Brayshaw, Young, Henry, Chapman & Darcy.

Losing Cerra hurts way more than not getting Neale ….way more.

Always the voice of wisdom

 

[GingerDocker]

Doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. Comes around as a entitled brat. Seen him out a few times.

Had a smugger head than Toby Greene.

 

[FreoRicci]

It’s a win win for us. Lose lose for Brisbane. Their top players in their positions are all 30+. Rich, Lyons 30-31. Zorko is 33. Neale 29.
Should’ve milked us, get a few picks and refresh.

 

[FreoRicci]

It's not a knock on Neale.

It is just when you have Serong, Brayshaw and Fyfe operating as in and under players ….we need pace on the outside and some forward line marking-goal kicking options.

Lose a young Cerra and bring in an older duplication of a position we already have depth in. I guarantee you Freo would not have done a straight swap of Serong or Brayshaw for Neale.

Neale is a great player and perfect for where Brisbane are at the moment. We take 2 decent picks to the draft and get to group 2 more players around Serong, Brayshaw, Young, Henry, Chapman & Darcy.

Losing Cerra hurts way more than not getting Neale ….way more.

Signing Banfield throws him a bone. He can fill in the midfield, like the last two games.
JLo, to much surprise, actually did some nice midfield rotations. Switter, Crowden, Banfield. Hungry players can work okay.

 

[raffrox]

Mighty effort BF crew, we got to 55 pages, Brisbane turkeys only got to 53!

Moral victory.

Hopefully the club passes this info onto Lachie for future reference of which is the better club.

 

[jusjoshin]

For info: Breaking on SEN radio...Neale commits to Brisbane.. Sorry for you to hear that.

Why? Nobody here is sorry we didn't throw the farm at an inside mid with 2-3 years at his peak left.

 

[FreoRicci]

For info: Breaking on SEN radio...Neale commits to Brisbane.. Sorry for you to hear that.

He left 3 years, and mentally we ve moved on. Nothing changed really. He’s older, had a few injuries this season. Brisbane’s loss given they could’ve got some draft picks

 

[showemhowtorock]

We arent out of the woods until the trade period is over as far as I'm concerned.

The approach is perfect to get the gutless fu**heads on social media who attack a heavily pregnant lady to turn their attention to the real villains "the media"

He may well stay but I'd be surprised if discussions arent going on behind closed doors.

He'll 100% try to come back next year or the year after

He'll be "30" then, worth way less and our 2021 draftees will have a year of experience in the bag.
Giving picks up for him this year would be a disaster, if we bring him home any other year it mightn't be so bad

 

[Arkhitect]

I just heard Neale is staying at Brisbane...


















Looking forward to hitting the draft this year!

Mark Duffield said it best: Lachie would take us closer to finals, but further away from a premiership.

This is the right decision from a long-term perspective. I don't want to just play finals, I want a premiership and sustained success for our club.

 

[cardamon]

Lol, the reigning Brownlow medallist is a horrendous fit.

Yes, we need (in no particular order) tall forwards, speed, mids with classy kicks, tall forwards, medium skilful forwards that can lead, speed, big bodied hybrid mids, tall forwards, speed and footskills (and tall forwards and speed).

Neale gives us none of that, will cost a boatload, push Serong out of his preferred position. Obviously the brownlow medalist would make any team better; we would get a marginal boost in our midfield for like 3 years and the holes in our list would remain

The fact that you are salty about the decision speaks volumes.

 

[anchor man]

After watching Simon Garlick

Simon Garlick

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49

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Mid

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Last 5

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13.6

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9.4

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4.2

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3.4

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1.7

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9.6

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5.2

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4.4

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2.4

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1.0

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on the news the other night, I got the feeling that Fremantle were not happy to have been thrown under the bus.
I am not sure that the club would even have been prepared to discuss the deal.
It would have been interesting had they said no. Would they have wanted to come "HOME" to the Yellas?

 

[Vimal Anand]

I just heard Neale is staying at Brisbane...


















Looking forward to hitting the draft this year!

Mark Duffield said it best: Lachie would take us closer to finals, but further away from a premiership.

This is the right decision from a long-term perspective. I don't want to just play finals, I want a premiership and sustained success for our club.

Let us celebrate...


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[Dockeroo]

Gossage having a dig at Ryan Daniels on Twitter.
What a cnut this man is

 

[jusjoshin]

Hope not - we've dodged a bullet

The only way I can see a deal getting done is if Julie manages to sneak into WA and tells Lachie she's not coming back to Queensland. If that happens even the Freo board should be able to get a good deal on Lachie.

 

[se17enteen]

What was the cause of the Kersten-Neale altercation?

It was over a basketball game.


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[Ratts]

Cant remember where I found this earlier in the week but credit to that clever person.
Very relevant now

 

[Sweetback]

Oh well, such is life, as famously said by Ben Cousins’s midriff

 

[Van_Dyke]

Gossage having a dig at Ryan Daniels on Twitter.
What a cnut this man is

well said by barich

 

[Ghost Pig]

well said by barich

oh god what an echo chamber of effluent

 

[Ghost Pig]

Very happy with this outcome though, our club showed some intestinal fortitude here.

 

[Freo Shark]

Very happy with this outcome though, our club showed some intestinal fortitude here.

We really dont know what went down. Hope we were professional and upfront with him.It will get around if we mucked him around.