Prediction Changes v Fremantle (Round 4)

[seaweed]

Croft named on the extended bench alongside Arty and Poulter

 

[TheScriptorWL]

Crofty is IN!! Praise Bevo and the match committee for this gracious gift.

Not sure how much time we can afford to give him, but it was definitely time to give the Kid something.

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[Doggies7]

Crofty is IN!! Praise Bevo and the match committee for this gracious gift

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He's not playing unfortunately

 

[TheScriptorWL]

He's not playing unfortunately

Damn, was told by a colleague. Should have double checked the actual line up before getting excited.

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[Golden_6]

I can’t imagine there will be any changes this week. Freo are very tall up front.

 

[glenashley]

No debut video for Croft ..??

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Freo fans have every right to hate Lobb. Signed a big contract, tried half the time and then asked for a trade every off-season.

We've been lucky to have the good Lobb. Even that only started when he moved back

 

[seaweed]

No debut video for Croft ..??

Not confirmed yet that he’ll actually be playing, that usually happens I think tomorrow (correct me if I’m wrong)

 

[Snarls Barkley]

No debut video for Croft ..??

Its only a Sunday extended squad, not final 23. He'll be emergency again Im guessing

 

[MaxiBont]

Not confirmed yet that he’ll actually be playing, that usually happens I think tomorrow (correct me if I’m wrong)

Correct, but highly unlikely he’ll play due to being on extended bench

 

[glenashley]

Correct, but highly unlikely he’ll play due to being on extended bench

Yeh. They normally announce they'll play by now so unlikely I reckon.

 

[Doggies7]

Freo have some pretty important outs this week still too so evens the ledger a bit with who we have missing. Walker, Young, Fyfe, Darcy, Switkowski are all important players when fit so not catching them at the worst time.

 

[doggiesin08]

I was more thinking of the case where the player wants out. Say his amount is $1 for 4 years. His contract states $1.5M in years 1 and two and $500k for the last two. After year 2 player says I want out and want to go to Pies. Is our only option to force him to stay for the last two years when he doesn’t want to be there?

Yep but you get “overs” in a trade to make up for it. It’s to opposite of the Bowes deal essentially. If you can keep a $1m quality player only consuming $500k in the cap then you’re not going to move them on for only “fair value”.

 

[JohnnySteel]

Surprised that Croft would be travelling emergency, you’d think they would want him to get game time in VFL.

 

[Golden_6]

Surprised that Croft would be travelling emergency, you’d think they would want him to get game time in VFL.

Do we know that he is?

I’d say Arty is a certainty to be the travelling emergency to give him time to see his family.

 

[Mantis Toboggan]

Do we know that he is?

I’d say Arty is a certainty to be the travelling emergency to give him time to see his family.

I’d hope there’s some footballing consideration involved and not just who has family in the area.

 

[Mojorisin]

Do we know that he is?

I’d say Arty is a certainty to be the travelling emergency to give him time to see his family.

Likely we fly over with 25.

 

[TiAn_]

Freo fans have every right to hate Lobb. Signed a big contract, tried half the time and then asked for a trade every off-season.

We've been lucky to have the good Lobb. Even that only started when he moved back

Their fault for playing him out of position.

 

[_Cerberus_]

Man the freo board really hate Rory Lobb.

They poached him from GWS $$$$ = It's okay. Another club poached him = bad. Hypocrisy at its finest.

 

[Dogsman16]

I’d hope there’s some footballing consideration involved and not just who has family in the area.

Surely we would have taken buss if family was the sole consideration.

 

[Mantis Toboggan]

Surely we would have taken buss if family was the sole consideration.

No, I think they’d still take a plane

 

[bobs head soup]

Surely we would have taken buss if family was the sole consideration.

Whoever goes over misses a VFL match. Most important think for Buss is game time.

 

[Testekill]

No changes is about right, unless there's someone injured ready to come back then we don't really have the luxury to drop for form.

 

[dogwatch]

 

[bobs head soup]

The Jordan Croft situation this week really highlights how poor the VFL setup is as a second tier to the AFL.

As a young player on the verge of senior selection, the experience of traveling to Perth with the senior team and participating in the preparations is no doubt valuable, but it sucks that it costs him another game of competitive experience.

It wouldn't be so bad, but as the AFL season enters R5, it'll leave a fit, healthy Croft with 1 game played for the season, against poor opposition.

There's got to be a better system for developing AFL listed players to be getting invaluable competitive experience early in seasons in real games.