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Don’t know why I do it to myself but was watching a pile of highlights from 2013 and 2014 this morning. We were such a good team back then. Everyone knew their role, strong bodies and players like Ballantyne and mayne looked unstoppable. If we had this team in 2016, 2017 or 2018 I reckon we would have won premiership easy. Hope we can get back to somewhere near this in 2019
 
Danny82 said:
Don’t know why I do it to myself but was watching a pile of highlights from 2013 and 2014 this morning. We were such a good team back then. Everyone knew their role, strong bodies and players like Ballantyne and mayne looked unstoppable. If we had this team in 2016, 2017 or 2018 I reckon we would have won premiership easy. Hope we can get back to somewhere near this in 2019
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Late-2012 was great too. Rolling through. Ran out of gas in the semi final vs Adelaide.
 

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Walkingwounded said:
The whole southern coastline is littered this time of year, consequence of Java, rainfall, littered rivers. No idea if North of Bali is any better...
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After bumming around sanur, candidasa and amed for the best part of the last 3 weeks I can confirm all these beaches are just fine.

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Candidassa, a couple days ago.
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Sanur, 15 minutes ago.
The work I do for a big footy report.
 
Thailand and Vietnam are countries. Bali is one island in Indonesia. Head over to the South gillis or up to Maluku. Incredible diversity in Indonesia. And as Halfbaked is implying, get yourself out of Kuta/Legian/Seminyak (unless your staying at my place), and see what else is going on.
 
My partner is from Thailand and I have done a lot traveling there. She has been showing me pictures of Bangkok totally covered smog for the last 2 weeks. She has family there and is worried.
If you only traveled to Bangkok at the moment you would hate Thailand.
Everyone is different, but hating Bali if you have only been kuta is strange.
 
gaskin said:
Was that our first game under Ross? That was a great game.
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Yep.

Only thing that cost us a prelim spot that year was Pav agrevating his Achilles in that great performance against Geelong at the G.
 

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Clems Knee said:
I’m struggling to remember all of yesterday’s session. I came off my bike on the way home and copped a concussion along with a fractured elbow. Feeling as dense as an Eagles supporter right now. Thanks to all who looked after me and my bike until the ambulance arrived.

I do remember a few things. The umpires split up to adjudicate two training drills at once, then combined for a mini match complete with scoring shown on the screen.

Even so the assistant coaches used a cushion for the ruckmen to go up against I would love to see Sandilands out there; unto a couple of weeks ago, he was looking great.

McCarthy took the pack mark of the game: I could only tell who it was after the pack (against 5 maybe) moved away.
I thought Fyfe was a bit rusty, but Mundy seemed as assured as ever.

I was also pleased to see Wilson run the ball out from a kick in for the first time. The big improver wil probably the team without too many injuries that takes advantage of the new rules.

Apart from the normal crew of watchers whose company i enjoy and probably won’t see again until after the season starts, I met some new people: a bloke who has put a thousand on Freo reaching the finals (good luck with that) and a man and his son from Derby seeing Freo in action for the first time. The son has met Tendai before, so hopefully his dream comes true and he plays for us one day.
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Long time training report reader...first time poster. Wishing you a speedy recovery Clems Knee...your commitment to the cause has been much appreciated and sorry to hear of your accident.

Everyone else - please keep sending reports. I enjoy reading the different perspectives. Say it like you see it and ignore those that are judgemental. We've come this far, let's stick together.

Long Suffering Dockers Fan.

#getwellclems

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FUS_RO_DAH said:
He was amazing that year. Should've won the Coleman.
I'm still fuming he was robbed of an AA spot.
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It was that guy that envies crustaceans for their logic, Luke Darcy, that robbed him - he was influential on the AA selection and said they couldn't give Pav AA full forward because he only played there half the year. Never mind half a year was enough to almost win the Coleman and dominate every fullback he came up against, when those same fullbacks like Lonegan were beating all the other full forwards .
 
Ab comes in for Neale, Blakey hasn’t been apart of the team since before the By last year anyway. I wanna see banfeild play as a playmaker instead of a stopper aswell
 

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LeftFootBanana said:
Valente may fill the inside mid role in the absence of Connor if the match committee believe that he's AFL fit:

http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2018-11-23/draft-pick-32-luke-valente
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Big ask though for a first year player to carry the load of a team's second best midfielder, particularly a team that has any sort of top 8 aspirations. more likely respnsibilities will be spread amongst Valente +North/Conca/Banfield/Walters/Cerra or even someone like Crowden. At least it will be out of promising young blokes and not a sutcliffe/Pearce/Sheridan like years gone by.
 
Righteo said:
Big ask though for a first year player to carry the load of a team's second best midfielder, particularly a team that has any sort of top 8 aspirations. more likely respnsibilities will be spread amongst Valente +North/Conca/Banfield/Walters/Cerra or even someone like Crowden. At least it will be out of promising young blokes and not a sutcliffe/Pearce/Sheridan like years gone by.
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You're right, Valente certainly won't asked to do it solo but I'm not suggesting Connor would have either. Others like those you listed plus Mundy and maybe Bennell were probably always going to be asked to shoulder some of the load.
 
Righteo said:
Big ask though for a first year player to carry the load of a team's second best midfielder, particularly a team that has any sort of top 8 aspirations. more likely respnsibilities will be spread amongst Valente +North/Conca/Banfield/Walters/Cerra or even someone like Crowden. At least it will be out of promising young blokes and not a sutcliffe/Pearce/Sheridan like years gone by.
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Tucker a chance? Hughes?
 
I would have though Bennell who has been training as a midfielder was more likely than any of those guys - the mix being:

Fyfe
Mundy
Bennell
Brayshaw
Conca
Banfield (as a tagger)
Stephen Hill
Walters (not that I want him in there but has been training there)
Cerra (Would be higher up the list if I had my way)
Bewley
Colyer
 
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