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Wigarus said:
Link? I haven't read that anywhere. Also if you have just been delisted and you are hoping for a rookie spot, training with a club is a good idea.

I don't think Bond has said that.
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You're probably right. there's a chance I dreamt it.
Bond could have said something about us wanting to keep josh and I've misconstrued what was actually said.

Carry on.
 
apuchar said:
No, I won't want to, I recall reading in a couple of places that Freo would consider re-drafting him. The word around the traps is that we won't. If the media got it wrong then go and tell them.
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It is no big deal now anyway; Ryan Lester-Smith seems a reasonable prospect as a replacement for Josh.
Having said that I must admit i was a fan of Mello and disappointed for him with his injury situation last season.
 

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Fred Ziffel said:
It is no big deal now anyway; Ryan Lester-Smith seems a reasonable prospect as a replacement for Josh.
Having said that I must admit i was a fan of Mello and disappointed for him with his injury situation last season.
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I was a big fan of Mellington, but I was very disappointed with his year. I'm not sure he made the improvement expected (even after the injury). I think there are players out there who have probably surpassed him now, but that's something for Freo to decide. They know better than me.
 
apuchar said:
I was a big fan of Mellington, but I was very disappointed with his year. I'm not sure he made the improvement expected (even after the injury). I think there are players out there who have probably surpassed him now, but that's something for Freo to decide. They know better than me.
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there were unsavoury rumours floating around which I ignore. I think you're right about him being leap frogged. He was a casualty of our greatly improved depth.
Truth be known, if he was still on our list he most likely wouldn't be getting a game.
That is the true measure of the improvement in Freo. It could be argued it cost us Viv Michie too.
 

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I really hope we don't take both Mellington and RLS tbh. IMO we already have too many small forwards. We need another key defender and a medium defender for depth.

Maybe throw out the F/S if we plan to take Mellington, we can still take RLS if available if Mellington isn't by our pick.
 
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Wigarus
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What's your point? Apuchar said he had read it somewhere and I disagreed. Brad Lloyd saying we would potentially pick him up last night doesn't change anything.

I have no problem if I'm wrong about predicting we won't pick him up (I still don't think we will btw). People make predictions all the time and are wrong. The fact that he is not training with us and he asked to be traded out makes me think that we won't. Also whenever we have delisted and intended to redraft a player we have mentioned it at the time of their delisting and we didn't do that with Mellington.
 
Wigarus said:
What's your point? Apuchar said he had read it somewhere and I disagreed. Brad Lloyd saying we would potentially pick him up last night doesn't change anything.

I have no problem if I'm wrong about predicting we won't pick him up (I still don't think we will btw). People make predictions all the time and are wrong. The fact that he is not training with us and he asked to be traded out makes me think that we won't. Also whenever we have delisted and intended to redraft a player we have mentioned it at the time of their delisting and we didn't do that with Mellington.
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Predicting? You pretty much ruled it out as an absolute, definitive, no-questions-asked "not gonna happen." You questioned someone's reading skills or simply insinuated they were lying or hadn't read what they had.
 
Fred Ziffel said:
It certainly did and it seems now that with the depth Fremantle has, players will be nervous about missing games due to injury.
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I think we can call this the Mello leason. Don't make noises about going back east unless you are really sure or you may not end up with a team.

Nickos66 said:
Not sure how I feel about this. I love Mello & all, but if he doesn't want to be here - why hold him against his will?
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Not getting a game changes your attitude. Ask Thorp.

Wigarus said:
What's your point? Apuchar said he had read it somewhere and I disagreed. Brad Lloyd saying we would potentially pick him up last night doesn't change anything.

I have no problem if I'm wrong about predicting we won't pick him up (I still don't think we will btw). People make predictions all the time and are wrong. The fact that he is not training with us and he asked to be traded out makes me think that we won't. Also whenever we have delisted and intended to redraft a player we have mentioned it at the time of their delisting and we didn't do that with Mellington.
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Not sure it's the same situation here, he wanted to go to the draft & trade table. Most of the rest we didn't want. But I agree its a bit like your ex asking you out when she called quits last time. IMHO, grovelling should be involved.
 

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