Game Day Essendon vs Freo @ 11:10 WST

[freo1997]

Taberner should get his contract. He has done his job, increased his confidence and when he came in, he has been serviceable and taking key marks.

Says it all really, when Kersten was useless as he was yet Tabs was still competing for every kick.

Cox and tabs cant be in the same team imo. Yeah both great marks, but both dont have great speed or agility and their kicking especially cox is terrible. Their lack of defensive pressure is a worry too. I'd go with cox personally as he's younger and try get a 3rd rounder for tabs. You'd expect to get some interest from a carlton/bulldogs team

 

[Scham]

Agree with this. This is the year you aim to finish 8th not 7th. I know who I'd rather play out of Port and Sydney...

He nailed it though and went at 80% today. Did a good job on Tippa too.

 

[apuchar]

Who can freo get , Matera will score lot in his cameo few matches and get injured for longer period than playing .

Agree. We can't get rid of all our depth in one year.
plus there isn't that much depth in the draft this year

 

[jerms]

Cox and tabs cant be in the same team imo. Yeah both great marks, but both dont have great speed or agility and their kicking especially cox is terrible. Their lack of defensive pressure is a worry too. I'd go with cox personally as he's younger and try get a 3rd rounder for tabs. You'd expect to get some interest from a carlton/bulldogs team

What genuine KPFs do we have for depth in this scenario?

 

[FreoRicci]

McCarthy and Kersten both to have a massive pre season. Worst two players in both games. Disappointing.

 

[Steinfreo]

Taberner should get his contract. He has done his job, increased his confidence and when he came in, he has been serviceable and taking key marks.

Says it all really, when Kersten was useless as he was yet Tabs was still competing for every kick.

Yeah resigned to the idea of tabs until we get something proper.

 

[DaveLister]

Cox has absolute buckets, but his aerobic capacity and stab kicking lets him down.

Not sure why Collins went forward and kersten back? Was Collins lack of speed an issue so they threw shane back?

because they were both being s**t in their own roles

 

[Winky]

Frustrating but good effort boys.

Screwed again by the maggots but the club will do SFA about it.

You can't fault the boys for effort though. Great young talent you have but Freo have some hard decisions to make on their list as do the Eagles. Johnson may have played his last

 

[yakka man]

Cox and tabs cant be in the same team imo. Yeah both great marks, but both dont have great speed or agility and their kicking especially cox is terrible. Their lack of defensive pressure is a worry too. I'd go with cox personally as he's younger and try get a 3rd rounder for tabs. You'd expect to get some interest from a carlton/bulldogs team

Huh? They took seven contested marks between them (3 & 4) and Cox is a 19 year old. They could be a good duo I think.

 

[Redgum]

Who can freo get , Matera will score lot in his cameo few matches and get injured for longer period than playing . A club like GC don't even fight hard to keep him or asking for hight draft pick from him like bennell or o Meara.

Liam Ryan, it's a no brainer, btw he kicked 6 goals yesterday

 

[Joao]

He nailed it though and went at 80% today. Did a good job on Tippa too.

Re: Sutty I am guessing? Sorry moved it to the autopsy thread. But yes he did.

 

[freo1997]

Huh? They took seven contested marks between them (3 & 4) and Cox is a 19 year old. They could be a good duo I think.

Both a touch slow to be in the same fwd 50 together.

 

[Freo Shark]

Nice Harley cameo. Going to cause alot of excitement next year. fingers crossed.

 

[Freo Quokkas]

5 goals, 3 behinds in the last quarter.
A surprise to discover Sutcliffe at Half Forward and less so Suban at Forward.

 

[yakka man]

Both a touch slow to be in the same fwd 50 together.

Cox has very good speed, just needs to improve his aerobic capacity.

 

[apuchar]

Huh? They took seven contested marks between them (3 & 4) and Cox is a 19 year old. They could be a good duo I think.

Cox is quite impressive and takes a good grab but I would like to see him show a few more 2nd efforts . Fitness might be part of the problem.

 

[Freo16]

Pretty happy with that

A real 4 quarter effort and some real positives

As for the likes of Ballantyne, Suban etc I'd happily keep them all as they've shown enough even if it is as depth players (everyone tends to forget that if we get rid of these guys our depth is non existent)

Looking forward to 2018 and a return to finals

 

[simpsonwillo]

If we'd have had Sandi,Sonny,Blakely ,A Pearce in the team today we would have won.

 

[simpsonwillo]

Add Hodor to that list.

 

[scon]

If we'd had umps who didn't cheat we would have.

 

[Deathly]

Add Hodor to that list.

APearce, Walters, Blakely, Langdon, Logue, Sandilands, Darcy + #5 slotting in next year Round 1 should make the list look juicy.