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Which players should Fremantle be looking at?

I assume we are going to look at Frawley and Reid to see if either of them are interested. I do not see anyone else we would be interested in due to the strength of our list at the moment.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-06-21/clubs-eye-2014-free-agents
2014 FREE AGENTS
The following are some of the players set to become free agents next year:

Brisbane Lions
Ash McGrath

Carlton
Bryce Gibbs, Kade Simpson, Jarrad Waite, Andrew Walker

Collingwood
Harry O'Brien, Ben Reid, Dane Swan

Essendon
Heath Hocking, Leroy Jetta

Fremantle
Garrick Ibbotson, David Mundy, Luke McPharlin, Matthew Pavlich, Aaron Sandilands

Geelong
Steve Johnson, James Kelly, Trent West

Hawthorn
Luke Hodge, Sam Mitchell

Melbourne
James Frawley

North Melbourne
Todd Goldstein, Lachie Hansen, Lindsay Thomas

Port Adelaide
Travis Boak

St Kilda
Sam Fisher, James Gwilt, Leigh Montagna, Nick Riewoldt

Sydney Swans
Adam Goodes, Ryan O'Keefe, Nick Malceski, Ted Richards

West Coast
Shannon Hurn, Daniel Kerr, Matt Priddis

Western Bulldogs
Matthew Boyd, Shaun Higgins, Will Minson, Robert Murphy, Tom Williams
 
How about we focus on Ibbotson and Mundy first? The other three will take care of themselves and will either be retired or with us in 2015.

Other than James Frawley would surely want to taste a few victories/finals in his career. AFL careers don't last forever.
 
To add to that list Ryan Crowley will be a free agent surely. Arrogant media once again completely ignoring his significance and importance to us. Once again though very much doubt he'll ever leave us.

Is Duffield a free agent? If years on the rookie list count he would be. Anyone know the ruling on this?
 

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Which players should Fremantle be looking at?

I assume we are going to look at Frawley and Reid to see if either of them are interested. I do not see anyone else we would be interested in due to the strength of our list at the moment.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-06-21/clubs-eye-2014-free-agents
2014 FREE AGENTS
The following are some of the players set to become free agents next year:

Brisbane Lions
Ash McGrath

Carlton
Bryce Gibbs, Kade Simpson, Jarrad Waite, Andrew Walker

Collingwood
Harry O'Brien, Ben Reid, Dane Swan

Essendon
Heath Hocking, Leroy Jetta

Fremantle
Garrick Ibbotson, David Mundy, Luke McPharlin, Matthew Pavlich, Aaron Sandilands

Geelong
Steve Johnson, James Kelly, Trent West

Hawthorn
Luke Hodge, Sam Mitchell

Melbourne
James Frawley

North Melbourne
Todd Goldstein, Lachie Hansen, Lindsay Thomas

Port Adelaide
Travis Boak

St Kilda
Sam Fisher, James Gwilt, Leigh Montagna, Nick Riewoldt

Sydney Swans
Adam Goodes, Ryan O'Keefe, Nick Malceski, Ted Richards

West Coast
Shannon Hurn, Daniel Kerr, Matt Priddis

Western Bulldogs
Matthew Boyd, Shaun Higgins, Will Minson, Robert Murphy, Tom Williams

Daniel Kerr has retired.
 
Many of those seem unlikely to come to Fremantle or would fit in our Demos. Frawley is the obvious one. If Melbourne have a semi decent year though rule him out. Maybe Lachie Hansen but we would have to pay overs for him as he seems pretty comfortable at the Roos and doesn't seem like someone keen to move (or challenge himself in any real way).
 

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our modus operandi seems to be one of a "moneyball" type where we identify tier 2 players who we could use.
I was actually hoping for the Pearce move before we did it & I reckon the Sylvia one could be even better.
watch for the fish a bit smaller than the big fish
 

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And if he gets offered $1.5m a year?


Depends on who's offering :) It'd have to be a stupidly large contract to pry him loose - there's a lot of reasons to stay and achieve with this group and the culture is strong. I just don't see him going
 
Right now money would be the only reason anyone who is near our best 22 would leave and I suspect to shift blokes like Mundy, Fyfe, etc it would need to be massive money, as good as he is I can't see another club offering Mundy a million plus purely because he's nearing 30 and he's a midfielder. There's no logical reason to leave a side that is thereabouts as a Premiership chance even to go to another Premiership fancy.
 
I wouldnt be surprised if any Victorian club offered mundy a big 3-4 year deal worth $800,000-$1,000,000 a year.

The only guys I actually want off that list are from Collingwood. Harry O, Ben Reid and Dane Swan would strengthen our squad. I wouldnt mind Steve Johnson at geelong as well.

I wouldnt mind Hodge or Mitchell from the Hawks for 2-3 seasons either. Boak will be a wanted man in 2014.
 
Its time for operation Get Frawley.. thats if we dont already have the wheels in motion. Reid would be the dream, but next to no chance to leave the pies i would think.

The rest are either very meh.. or too old to bother.
 

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