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1st off I live in South Australia. So its difficult for me to watch the training sessions. Of All the rookies that have impressed me so far is Sean Darcy. I seriously thought it was going to take us 3-4 years to find a Sandilands replacement. Considering with most ruckmen, some take a good 3-5 years of development and even then its not certain they will be good. Logue has talent but I still don't know if defence is a good position for him. I want him to have a game up forward or in the middle. He could be anything. Take away the game last week but Ryan got plenty of the ball off the back flank, He reminded me if Ibbotson 5 years ago when he got plenty of marks in the defensive 50.

I am happy with Ross Lyons youf policy so far. Its not like the days of just giving everyone a debut game in the final round of the season. Forward line still needs to be fixed. But we need that tall forward. I cant see us find that elusive 50-60 goal a season key forward yet. We need to find that 200cm tall that can kick 30 goals a season. I am hoping Tabs, Apeness or Strnadica fits that spot.

We have given debuts to 7 guys and all of them have been given at least 3-5 games each to see what they can do.

the best thing is that I think the 7 who debuted this year have all played 5 games for Peel which will also be awesome for their development as they'll hopefully get a WAFL finals series behind them also.

Be great if Peel could get back to back GF's due having a lot for great freo players being eligible...

Gives freo supporters something to look forward to in September

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It upsets me that Ross gets more fired up about innuendo and perceived slight on his credibility. Ross your credibility doesn't hinge on gossip but the performance of a team which has lost 30 of its last 42 games.
Good point, he is very touchy about perceived attacks on his integrity. Was a poor media article though, but all that will happen is the media will bond together to protect themselves.
 
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Danyle Pearce is contracted for another year. Bit Like the Michael Johnson situation last year. Had Johnson been uncontracted last year, Freo would of forced him to retire. Had Danyle pearce been out of contract this year, e would of been out the door too.
Disagree on MJ. Has been way too important to our D50 rebound for Lyon to dare consider moving him last year, Lyon's gameplan has relied too heavily on his creativity to survive without it.

This year, different story with the kids growing around him but he's been in pretty good form after an inauspicious start. I wouldn't be against him going again in 2018 in a managed role.

Danyle gets the Dawson treatment next year. Only way we part ways early there is if Danyle doesn't want to play his career out at Rushton.
 
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One of my mates went to school with Hasleby, reckons he's an absolute bellend.

I just heard him whingeing about Ollie Wines only getting a fine while being okay with Greene deliberately sprigging a bloke in the face, so your mate may be correct. Still rather listen to him than Hagdorn though.
 

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Have you guys forget Abbott already? Or the spineless Turnbull, who has had to forget everything he used to believe in just to apease the boys in the backrow.
Gillard was fine, Abbott was the shit can.
Comparing who is better out of Gillard, Abbott, Rudd, Turnball et al is like comparing who is better out of Kersten, McCarthy, Tabener. Fact is we haven't had a decent big forward since Pav, I mean decent PM since Howard (and again I am not a Liberal voter).
tough man tony abbott will go as one the worst leaders In history. I will remember him for his budgie smugglers. That and he thought he was tougher than Vladimir putin!
 

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While I agree haselby says some dumb shit, I'm glad ex freo players are getting more air time in Perths media.

I hated listening to that meat head jakovich, while Karl has slowly grown on me.

Hearing Pav, McPharlin, Hase and Macca finally gives freo some media presence.
Always quite liked Langdon's commentary of games.
 

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Says a lot of our forward line when we start hailing Taberner as our best forward. It is that bad now.

Taberner is like the Labor Party. You don't realise how bad they are until you give them another go only to replace them at the next opportunity.
Comparing who is better out of Gillard, Abbott, Rudd, Turnball et al is like comparing who is better out of Kersten, McCarthy, Tabener. Fact is we haven't had a decent big forward since Pav, I mean decent PM since Howard (and again I am not a Liberal voter).
Seeing as you started the political tirade, to think John Howard was a good Prime Minister shows that you are a fool.
Howard was appallingly bad. He was Machiavellian in his dealings. He stood with Bush to set the world on fire when only those two nations refused to ratify Kyoto. He lied to get reelected through the children overboard and set Australia back decades with industrial relations and by his encouragement of the racist element. He triggered a housing price boom with the first home owners scheme which has not abated and has now left most young people with no hope of home ownership unless their parents are rich. He lurched a traditionally moderate party to the far right. He worked to force parents into private education by undermining and underfunding the public education system (and he called it choice!). Economically he was lazy, and made no lasting positive reforms as prime minister or treasurer except perhaps what Patrick did to the wharves.
Abbott is a try-hard disciple of Howard and became deeply unpopular in less than a term. His economic management was poor. He is still working to destabilise his party, has outdated and frankly bizarre views on religion, marriage, women, the environment and Australia's place in the world.
Rudd was a selfish prime minister and after losing his first tenure was as destabilising as Abbott is now. The reason he was deposed was that he was a nightmare as a person, and his real persona was beginning to be exposed. The one thing he managed well was to steer Australia through the global financial crisis.
Gillard was also deeply unpopular, but despite having a wafer thin minority government with a stridently misogynist and negative opposition, still manage to get a high number of programs passed by parliament.
Turnbull has had only a short time as prime minister and is still beholden to the extreme right of his party. He has made some positive moves, but the jury is still out and he will do well to perform despite the members of his own party.
From worst to best (or least worse at least): Howard, Abbott, Rudd, Whitlam, Fraser, Turnbull = Gillard, Keating, Hawke. Funnily enough I am also not a Liberal voter.
 

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Budgie Smugglers nudges out Gillard for worst ever PM.
Legislatively, Gillard was hugely productive (highest rate of passing legislation in our our history). Like her or not that's pretty impressive given the parliamentary mix she had to work with. She just didn't know how to play the PR game and subsequently left the door open for Rudd to return. Both her and now Turnbull need(ed) to stop listening to their dumb parties and back their own beliefs. I quite like Turnbull but he seems spineless atm.

I'd have Abbott nudging out Rudd for worst ever. Equal disasters from both a PR and legislative perspective. Rudd only slightly ahead because he did a couple of memorable things. Did Abbott do absolutely anything during his time as PM?
 

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Budgie Smugglers nudges out Gillard for worst ever PM.
Thats just a competition for most shittest.

While neither could ever claim a score even approaching 1/10, at least Abbott didn't hide behind his skirts....just his onions. Still don't rate either of them. Even Costello would have made a far better PM and thats setting the bar pretty low
 

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I couldn't believe what I was watching. Amazing television. Definitely the highlight of his time as PM.
I thought he was the undisputed media gift that kept giving until Trump happened this year and took it to a whole new level. And some find Ross awkward with the media...
 
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Legislatively, Gillard was hugely productive (highest rate of passing legislation in our our history). Like her or not that's pretty impressive given the parliamentary mix she had to work with. She just didn't know how to play the PR game and subsequently left the door open for Rudd to return. Both her and now Turnbull need(ed) to stop listening to their dumb parties and back their own beliefs. I quite like Turnbull but he seems spineless atm.

I'd have Abbott nudging out Rudd for worst ever. Equal disasters from both a PR and legislative perspective. Rudd only slightly ahead because he did a couple of memorable things. Did Abbott do absolutely anything during his time as PM?
 

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Legislatively, Gillard was hugely productive (highest rate of passing legislation in our our history). Like her or not that's pretty impressive given the parliamentary mix she had to work with. She just didn't know how to play the PR game and subsequently left the door open for Rudd to return. Both her and now Turnbull need(ed) to stop listening to their dumb parties and back their own beliefs. I quite like Turnbull but he seems spineless atm.

I'd have Abbott nudging out Rudd for worst ever. Equal disasters from both a PR and legislative perspective. Rudd only slightly ahead because he did a couple of memorable things. Did Abbott do absolutely anything during his time as PM?
Passing lots of legislation is only a good thing if you think we dont already have enough rules.

One of the pieces of legislation she passed cost thousands of people their jobs and permanently harmed an important export industry because someone hit a cow on the head with a stick.

Id prefer politicians spent their time ripping up pages of legislation rather than writing new ones just like Kerry Packer suggested.
 
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