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Kennedy's pretty much the same height as both McCarthy and Hamling and he goes alright.
Traded Joel Hamling [traded to Fremantle with picks 40 and 63 for picks 35, 43 and 61]
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Kennedy's pretty much the same height as both McCarthy and Hamling and he goes alright.
Agree on all aspects. It's just the most we've ever done for a while so people are happy. We've really thrown out our old "B" players and injected new younger "B" players who have the potential to get better but may not. Worth the risk.
The draft period and how it rates players is much like the preseason for every team, everything gets completely overrated (For the most part, mitchell and dangerfield excepted)...
- Apr 10, 2010
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IMO thats kind of why Freo fans are hoping he could be great recruit for Freo. Lyon's teams tend to be very good at team football and playing to structure, even though this year has been an absolute mess. With a bit of luck A.Pearce continues to come on, Johnson has another year left in him to help with transition and Collins at the very least provides a big body option (personally think he's a lot of improvement to come).
Again lots of ifs and buts but Hamling could find himself in another solid backline with plenty of support and a clear role to do. Most importantly Freo so far haven't traded out of the first round, this year or next and so can keep trying to bring in that real top level talent.
Same with Bulldogs a lot will come down to a quality midfield taking some of the pressure off the backline and our biggest ifs there are likely to be getting Fyfe + Bennell back on the park rather than needing to bring in lots of new options.
Congrats to Joel on getting a sweet contract, plus now has a premiership medal. Always thought he was a bit unlucky to be delisted so swiftly by us, we drafted a skinny project player and then axed him for being a skinny project player. Kudos to the Doggies for mature trading too.
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He could be our memegola
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Looks like he may have looked better than he actually was in the Bulldogs defence
* off. Alex Rance would look s**t at Freo.
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Looks like he may have looked better than he actually was in the Bulldogs defence
Will be interesting to see how he goes this week.
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Looks like he may have looked better than he actually was in the Bulldogs defence
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Happy to stand by this, though he's only played 25 career games. The sooner Freo can get Hamling, Collins and Pearce all on the park together the better.
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Rance looks great at the Tigers but they still conceded 98 a game last year.
Your prone to turn into s**t when your partner in crime is Zac Dawson.
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Drags his fellow defenders down to his level, rather than the opposition....
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Looks like he may have looked better than he actually was in the Bulldogs defence
Played 12 games last year and was only in the team due to injuries.
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True. Though he did have a very good september. But yet to be seen whether it was just a flash in the pan.
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What did Freo really give up though? They basically gave up pick 35 for Hamling and then swapped pick 43 for 40.
Doggies shouldn't get too cocky just yet. If one of Roberts or Adams goes down, who is their backup tall defender?
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Collins. Or we could just go small like during last season.
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Hamling. Oh.
Morris and Roughead are still out, and they have Collins who is young. Between Adams, Roberts, Cordy, Wood, Murphy etc. they should be able to cobble together a defence over the course of the season. Adams was the best performed key defender at the Bulldogs last year and didn't play after Rd 15.
We lost Mackenzie when he was very good and Brown when he was as good as he ever was within 5 minutes of a season starting then made the GF with a defence built around a guy who had played 13 games and a bunch of mid-sizers.
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Cordy's better than them all IMO.
None of Morris, Cordy, Wood and Murphy are KPD, really. And surely the Doggies' best structure has Roughead in the ruck?
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Last year we had Adams & Morris playing as our only tall defenders at times which means having Roberts, Cordy (both playing AFL at the moment) and Collins gives us some depth at least.
Correct re: Roughy, hasn't played back since Bevo arrived.
Wood is 185cm, not a KPD but his ability to chop out and nullify opposition talls is first rate.
We also have Lewis Young although I doubt we'd throw him to the wolves as he was only drafted last year.
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Morris can play as a KPD or a small defender, hes just so versatile. I would say Cordy is a KPD too.
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That's a pretty slow backline, no?
