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I noticed several WAFL starts like schloithe and Jye Bolton have been raving about Bailey Rogers for months. Always a good sign when fellow players speak like that.
They were right about Tim Kelly and Pickett.
It’s hard not to think the best player in the WAFL wouldn’t be at the very least competing hard for a spot in freos 22 if he got a decent run of training at the elite level?
 
If our footy department is at least semi professional the planned list profile, strategy and balance it should be Rogers selected. As like for like for Valente, if he is a mid with actual AFL standard skills and fitness is a no brainer. If he’s better than Blakely, Crowden, Banfield would support his decision. Maybe the talls are there to be assessed for mid season.
 
more_of_bito said:
If our footy department is at least semi professional the planned list profile, strategy and balance it should be Rogers selected. As like for like for Valente, if he is a mid with actual AFL standard skills and fitness is a no brainer. If he’s better than Blakely, Crowden, Banfield would support his decision. Maybe the talls are there to be assessed for mid season.
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We already have Brodie, O'Driscoll and Erasmus itching to debut.
 

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Yeah we already have loads of mids and 3 talented youngsters on the sidelines in Odriscoll, Erasmus and Johnson


Brodie and Blakely fill Rogers role of WAFL/VFL guns who may not make it at AFL level, I'd prefer for the above 3 to get a run over them


Schlensog and Polson are competing in a spot we have less depth and you can never have too many talls
 
freo_leo29 said:
Yeah we already have loads of mids and 3 talented youngsters on the sidelines in Odriscoll, Erasmus and Johnson


Brodie and Blakely fill Rogers role of WAFL/VFL guns who may not make it at AFL level, I'd prefer for the above 3 to get a run over them


Schlensog and Polson are competing in a spot we have less depth and you can never have too many talls
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I’ve seen Blakely and Banfield play WAFL a few times over the last 2 years and they are far from guns at that level I can assure you.
We ahould pick the most talented player available. I’d rather a talented player that could actually make an impact in the AFL even if we already have options in that position, than a tall player who is 99% certain to be a spud at AFL level.
Rogers is a goal kicking mid/forward who can play on the wing too. We aren’t exactly loaded down with A list wingers
 
Dockeroo said:
I’ve seen Blakely and Banfield play WAFL a few times over the last 2 years and they are far from guns at that level I can assure you.
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But they were though...

Blakely was a Simpson medallist in Peel's first premiership and was also Peel B&F the year prior.

Banfield was a B&F at both Claremont and Peel.

They've both showed less at WAFL in the past two years but Covid and injuries has meant they've been in and out of Peel, and often they weren't playing the inside mid role (they won their B&Fs doing) because they aren't in the mix for that role at AFL level.

If it shows anything it is that being good at WAFL doesn't mean you'll become anything close to good at AFL - and especially so for inside mids who can rack up big possession numbers in State leagues but the speed and pressure of AFL forces them to need to adapt to play other roles or else sink.

Personally I'd take whoever they think has the greatest chance of making it at AFL level. They'll still have a tiny chance of making it. I'll support whoever we grab but I also won't be expecting them to be better than other options we already have on our list.
 
Retzlaff said:
Great news to have Pav fit and available next week
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The great man might be 40 now, but I’d still back him into kick some bags tbh
 
Van_Dyke said:
The great man might be 40 now, but I’d still back him into kick some bags tbh
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You could be right, one of Pav's greatest attributes was he was quicker to read the flight of the ball off the boot than just about anyone ever, then just stuck his big frame there to protect the drop zone. He just knew the right place to put himself all the time. He probably would not have have lost that innate ability.
 
No harm reminiscing about Pavlich but if we can't figure out a functional forward line out of Taberner, Lobb, Treacy, Amiss, Sturt, Switkowski, Walters, Schultz and Colyer, plus some shock-troopers such as Fyfe, Mundy, Erasmus and Chapman, then we have no hope.
 

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Square Peg said:
You could be right, one of Pav's greatest attributes was he was quicker to read the flight of the ball off the boot than just about anyone ever, then just stuck his big frame there to protect the drop zone. He just knew the right place to put himself all the time. He probably would not have have lost that innate ability.
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Of all the things Pav could do, my absolute favourite was him sinking goals from the edge of the centre square, those 65m bombs were glorious.
 
theGav56 said:
No harm reminiscing about Pavlich but if we can't figure out a functional forward line out of Taberner, Lobb, Treacy, Amiss, Sturt, Switkowski, Walters, Schultz and Colyer, plus some shock-troopers such as Fyfe, Mundy, Erasmus and Chapman, then we have no hope.
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You’d hope with Graham, Lecras & Longmuir who have all had various roles with a pretty potent WC forward line working with the group, there’d be some considerable improvement.
 
Training notes as follows:

1. Pearce lower left leg compression bandage. Luke Ryan lower left leg bandaged. Both did minimal light jogging and then kick to kick with each other.
2. Will Brodie lower right leg with compression bandage but training fully.
3. Crowden left knee lightly strapped but fully trained.
4. Tabs and Benning kicking to each other and doing some 1-1 drills where the players come out, not actually on the field.
5. Fyfe, Walters and Darcy didn't appear on the track.
6. Blake schenslong (not sure of spelling) in brief attendance doing some 1-1 kicking on the boundary with Bailey Rogers and one other in attendance, who had his back turned but a Freo staff member was taking photos so should be up on social media later today. They didn't partake in actual training with the main group.
7. Training was primarily just drills handballing out of congestion and hitting leads - Sam Sturt's kicking to a lead was nothing short of sublime.

Nothing else of significance to report. Light session as predicted.
 

Fremantle Dockers coach Justin Longmuir says 11 defenders will fight for seven spots in practice games​


Fremantle will use two pre-season games against West Coast to identity their preferred back-line for round one, with coach Justin Longmuir saying he has 11 defenders he would be comfortable selecting.

And in an indication the Dockers will be wary of jamming too many tall defenders into the same back seven, Longmuir said rebound was front of mind.

Joel Hamling, who has played just one game in the past two seasons, is ready to launch another comeback but there’s no guarantee both he and Alex Pearce can fit into the line-up to take on Adelaide in Fremantle’s season-opener.

The Dockers have Hamling, Pearce, Brennan Cox and Griffin Logue as options in the key posts, Luke Ryan, Heath Chapman, Hayden Young and Ethan Hughes as mid-sized intercept types and speedy rebounders Jordan Clark, Nathan Wilson and Brandon Walker.

“We’ve got a clear 11 guys that I’d be really comfortable with playing in our back-line round one,” Longmuir said.

“It’s going to be a good problem to have come round one and it’s a good opportunity over the next two weeks for the players to show their wares and put their hand up and earn a spot.

“We need to make sure when we work through that, that we’re really balanced with our back-line and we make sure that we can defend really well, but also get out of our back-line a bit better than what we did last year.

“We got stuck in our back-half and turned the ball over too much in our back 50. So we need to make sure we’ve got some good ball use back there.”
Gold Coast recruit Will Brodie and fringe forward Mitch Crowden will get golden opportunities to press their claims when they are handed key on-ball roles against the Eagles at Mineral Resources Park on Friday due to some big-name absences.

Longmuir said injuries to Nat Fyfe, David Mundy and Caleb Serong over the summer had helped deepen the Dockers’ on-ball reserves.
“We still think Fyfe, Mundy, Serong, (Andrew) Brayshaw and (Sean) Darcy will be our core midfielders. It’s just how we probably complement them guys,” he told TABradio.

“We’re still trying to work out how we fill the wing roles.”

Longmuir declared the squad the best it had looked in his time in charge.

“I think we’re in a better position than what we have been in the last couple of years,” he said.

“I think we’ve got a lot more work into our players. I think our players can be really satisfied that they’re fitter and stronger than they’ve been in the past.

“We’re definitely at the stage now where we need to play against someone else to see where we’re at.”

Meanwhile, Fremantle are implementing stringent COVID testing procedures – with a special focus on monitoring players and coaches with school-aged children – in an effort to keep the virus out of the playing group for as long as possible.

Longmuir said he had been RAT testing daily since his own children returned to school.

“It is taking hold and we have to be really careful in club land with the physical training we do together and the meetings and that type of thing,” he said.

“We’ve been probably more cautious than most clubs from an early time. We’ve been identifying people at higher risk and those people with kids.

“So far, so good. We’ve managed to dodge it. We’ve made sure our players are staying away from probably the more high-risk areas.

“We’re just trying to take every precaution we can. The risk of it getting into our club and costing players games and training sessions and spreading across the club is just too high of a risk to take.”
 

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Fremantle Dockers training notes: Train-ons Luke Polson, Lachie Cullen on deck as key players sit out​


New kids on the block

Fremantle’s four train-ons were on deck for day one of their two-week training block ahead of the March 9 Pre-Season Supplemental Selection Period (SSP) deadline.

Peel Thunder pair Luke Polson and Lachie Cullen took part in main training, while Claremont’s Sandover medallist Bailey Rogers and South Fremantle swingman Blake Schlensog watched on from the sidelines after undergoing medicals.

Polson, a hulking 18-year-old key-position player, and Cullen, a 22-year-old classy small forward, are no strangers to Cockburn, having spent several sessions there this summer as part of the Dockers’ WAFL alignment with the Thunder.

Fremantle had also shown interest in Bulldogs premiership utility Zac Strom and Peel recruit Wade Derksen but they were refused permission by the AFL for them to train because they hadn’t met the criteria of nominating for the 2021 national draft.

There’s one available spot on the Dockers list after luckless midfielder Luke Valente’s recent retirement.

Missing again

For the second day in a row, ruckman Sean Darcy didn’t take part in training.

The Doig medallist looks unlikely to feature in Friday’s scratch match against West Coast at Mineral Resources Park due to a thumb injury.

Darcy was seen with a brace on his left thumb on Wednesday but wasn’t sighted at all on Thursday while the session was open to the media.

It leaves Lloyd Meek and versatile tall Rory Lobb as the two fit ruckmen for the Eagles clash.

Easy does it

Defensive duo Alex Pearce and Luke Ryan were on light duties with matching calf strapping, one day out from Fremantle’s first pre-season scratch match.

Former Gold Coast Sun Will Brodie had some lighter calf bandaging but at least took part in main training in a promising sign.

Key forward Matt Taberner was on the other side of the dugout alongside draftees Eric ‘Roy’ Benning (managed), Jye Amiss (quad) and Matt Johnson (foot).
 
wayToGo_ said:
www.fremantlefc.com.au

Fremantle name 26 to face West Coast

Fremantle have named a 26-player squad to take on West Coast in a practice game on Friday afternoon at Mineral Resources Park
www.fremantlefc.com.au www.fremantlefc.com.au
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Erasmus seems like the glaring omission that isn't explained by the article - managing his load or is he too far down the midfield pecking order? At the very least I'd be giving him a run across half forward.
 
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