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[Joao]

The injury excuse annoys me.

Every club has injury issues, and sure it affects the ability to perform, but not to the extent we have witnessed in the last two seasons.

I've watched us win 12 out of our previous 44 games. It's not acceptable and the manner of some of those losses has been truly awful.

Do you really think another year with multiple 100 point floggings will be tolerated?

Remembering the premiers got belted twice this year, we will tolerate a couple (and we will get them). 4+ and some heat will come on.

It is not an excuse it is a reason. In 2016 (especially) and 2017 we had a lot of our B22 injured for long periods.

Every club does have injuries and when you have large portions of your B22 out and only kids to replace them as we do, they are not going to consistently perform against good sides. No amount of being disappointed with winning 12/44 changes that. You just have to be patient because our list demographic is not one that will allow 22/22 competitive games. If we kept our best 15 players fit then maybe. Even then I would expect a couple of off days. We had them even in our top 4 years (Saints).

I get that it is easy to just say it is all Ross' fault, and certainly it partly is but a lot of it is completely out of his hands. See super coach Clarko getting belted this season multiple times.

 

[purplerunsdeep]

Final Position: 10th

B&F: Fyfe

Best first year: Brayshaw

Retirees: Johnson (mid-season due to injury) / Mundy / ballas / Pearce / Spurr

Delistings: apeness (injury) / Sutcliffe

Leading goal kicker: McCarthy (44)

Surprise packet: Tucker

Premiership: Adelaide

Runner up: GWS

Wooden spoon: Gold Coast

WAFL premiership: Peel

WCE finish position: 15th

First coach to be sacked: Bolton

Brownlow: Fyfe


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[Freomaniac]

That’s a bit harsh. If we have another poor start, and given our fixture, it’s not a huge stretch. You can almost be sure that the media will be kicking up a fuss about Ross’ tenure. We won’t fire him, but for this particular thread, I don’t see an issue with somebody putting it out there.

We could easily be 3 and 10 like in 2016. Only difference is, we wont be 0-10 after 10 rounds, more likely to be 3-7 or 2-8 at the worst

 

[Clems Knee]

I predict a first or second year player will be elevated to the leadership group in 2018.

Geelong will finish on top of the ladder and go out in straight sets.

St. Kilda will finally get a good player to want to go to them.

Nathan Fyfe will have a run of four or five games where he monsters the opposition and gets maximum Brownlow votes for those games.

 

[FreoMonocle]

That's just a list of excuses and an apparent swipe at our list management.

Rubbish, I know what I said. You might get lucky and get someone like Fyfe with pick #20, but the best players are more likely to come from the first handful of picks. Our first draft picks were (apologies for errors if I missed the original draft number because it was swapped in trades)

2010 #20
2011 #16
2012 #17
2013 #17
2014 #13
2015 #16

6 years of poor picks, hell, I'll add in 2009 and make that 7 years as we effectively lost that pick #4 - Morabito who the footy gods cruelly took from us, so effectively our 2009 pick was #20 (and an astute/lucky that he was still available by then, pick by the list managers). The numbers above are actually worse when the best youngsters weren't even available due to the special minidrafts given exclusively to the expansion teams.

You can only put on the field the players that you have. If you have a list filled with guns and can't do much with it - e.g. Gold Coast, then that is a coaching fault, but if your list has deteriorated because you have been successful - that is a good thing, the coach has coached well. I'm not going to swap all of those years of making the finals, going to the MCG for a shot at the GF, to eliminate a few beltings in 2017 - and if you would, then frankly, you are a muppet.

Ironically, being successful which in turn ran down our list, is giving us the talent to have another crack at the finals in the coming years.

<Postscript> Realised subsequently that this is just derailing the OP. Will stop.

 

[sherrif]

Final Position: 10th

B&F: Fyfe

Best first year: Brayshaw

Retirees: Johnson (mid-season due to injury) / Mundy / ballas / Pearce / Spurr

Delistings: apeness (injury) / Sutcliffe

Leading goal kicker: McCarthy (44)

Surprise packet: Tucker

Premiership: Adelaide

Runner up: GWS

Wooden spoon: Gold Coast

WAFL premiership: Peel

WCE finish position: 15th

First coach to be sacked: Bolton

Brownlow: Fyfe

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Agree a fair bit with the above
B&F: 1. Fyfe 2. Sandy 3. L.Ryan 4.Walters 5.S.Hill 6.L.Neale 7. Blakely 8.Hamling 9. B.Hill 10. McCarthy
Sandy to have his best ever year.

Freo ladder position 8th

Best first year: Brayshaw

Retirees: Johnson (mid-season due to injury) / Mundy / ballas / D.Pearce / Spurr

Delistings: apeness (injury) / Sutcliffe/

Leading goal kicker: McCarthy (40)

Surprise packets: Tucker and Hughes

Premiership: Port Adelaide

Runner up: GWS

Wooden spoon: Gold Coast

WAFL premiership: Peel

WCE finish position: 14th (With Gold Coast using the pick WC traded away for Ian Hill)

No coach to be sacked

Brownlow: Isaac Heeney

 

[Okinakashi]

Fyfe will win the Brownlow next year.

We'll finish about 8th and get pretty badly rolled in the final.

The new stadium will be awesome and there will still be complaints about it.

 

[Sweetback]

Baby Dockers

 

[Tonga Bob]

My boy the Great McCarthy will win the Coleman

 

[Sweetback]

Sean Darcy RS

 

[Paracleet]

So which of the regular trolls is Bigtrev41? Based on the double line spacing and the Lyon hating I'm going to say Clay.

 

[Taylor]

So which of the regular trolls is Bigtrev41? Based on the double line spacing and the Lyon hating I'm going to say Clay.

The system shows a few matches back a way.

Righteo

 

[mightymouse75]

Premiership 2018'

 

[Righteo]

So which of the regular trolls is Bigtrev41? Based on the double line spacing and the Lyon hating I'm going to say Clay.

its pav

 

[Righteo]

Fyfe will win the Brownlow next year.

We'll finish about 8th and get pretty badly rolled in the final.

The new stadium will be awesome and there will still be complaints about it.

I'm not sure any of those are actually all that bold.

 

[G Mus]

LDU to pip Witherden for the rising star and some of the biggest melts to happen here, calls for bias+regret at not taking him

 

[Okinakashi]

I'm not sure any of those are actually all that bold.

You're probably right.

Tommy Sheridan and Darcy Tucker to win the two Glendinning Medals?

 

[PurpleReign]

Fyfe will win the Brownlow next year.

We'll finish about 8th and get pretty badly rolled in the final.

The new stadium will be awesome and there will still be complaints about it.

I'm not sure any of those are actually all that bold.

EFA

 

[masai]

Sean Darcy wipes out Luke Shuey on field and then shh's him while hes down

I'm going duck hunting !!!!.

 

[Silversurfer]

Sandilands to win the Norm...Coleman..Brownlow and Doig

 

[sportsmaniac89]

That we will actually grasp the concept of scoring and have 22 games where we score over 10 goals a game (one can only dream).

Sadly after the second half of 2017, I'm aiming low because expecting too much just leads to disappointment.

 

[greatgatsby]

That we will actually grasp the concept of scoring and have 22 games where we score over 10 goals a game (one can only dream).

Sadly after the second half of 2017, I'm aiming low because expecting too much just leads to disappointment.

The main board is probably the place for unoriginal griping and club bashing; this one’s for supporters.

 

[eastfreo75]

Taberner, Apeness and Walters to combine for 150 goals as the most lethal forward line for the year!

Ross Lyon to be criticized for playing a boring defensive game.

The bolded text isn't bold.

 

[eastfreo75]

We beat WCE twice and Simpson to be sacked.

 

[IAMJUNGLEMUFFIN]

I predict that bigtrev41 will rustle a few jimmies.

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