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It was his choice. As I said he had three options. Obviously he had his sights on the Eaagles.If we complained, then Geelong obviously had the same right to complain.
Nothing untoward went on, just his option was them and not us.
But... with what ensued... were we better off? Or could we have stopped what happened!
I don't think we could have done as bad as the Eagles, but not sure we could have stopped it happening.Was happening before he went to the Eagles, they just didn't stop it.
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I think he was only eligible for Fremantle because he was playing WAFL for East Fremantle. Your right that the alignment stuff changed again later after Peel came into the competition.
The problem with Freo when we started is unrealistically we attempted to be competitive with f-all concessions from the AFL and we fielded a mid aged WAFL team…
That’s where we got reamed - if only we had the luxury of being irrelevant for years like the Suns, GWS and the Bears - they saw the stuff up and Port immediately became a powerhouse -
mostly credit to Port who annexed their players and brainwashed them young
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We tried to trade into the first round to get Tholstrup according to Duffield
Read that on Freo website as well. We reportedly had a crack at Curtin as well. Reading ESpN there were numerous teams that did:
WCE (F1), Freo (F1), Melb (F1), North (two picks in teens), Essendon (9 & 31) and of course Adelaide. They wanted to retain and improve position of other picks in current draft.
Interesting from Code- who’s Patrick Voss ?
Fremantle Dockers to make SSP call on former Essendon key position player as Jeremy Sharp news confirmed
The Dockers will look to add size to their attack by turning to a former Bombers rookie in the SSP, writes MARK DUFFIELD and PAUL AMY.
Mark Duffield and Paul Amy
November 22, 2023 8:54 pm
Former Essendon rookie Patrick Voss has emerged as a potential SSP selection for Fremantle and is expected to join the Dockers for summer training.
And the Dockers are set to confirm one of football’s worst kept secrets, with former Sun Jeremy Sharpabout to join them in coming days as an SSP rookie pick.
Voss, a 194 centimetre key position player with natural aggression would add some size and physical maturity to the Dockers attack if he gets the nod. Youngster Jye Amiss had to carry the load in the Dockers attack in 2023, Matt Taberner has had injury issues for much of his career and played just four games in 2023 before having back surgery.
Josh Corbett, who joined the Dockers from Gold Coast after 36 games with the Suns, is set to miss the entire 2024 season after hip surgery and the club has declared the Nathan Fyfe forward experiment over, with the dual Brownlow Medallist expected to play as a hybrid between midfield and attack if he gets his body right for 2024.
Voss kicked 30 goals for Essendon’s VFL team this season.
Meanwhile, Sharp, who was delisted by the Suns after notifying them of his preference to return to Perth, has dodged having to navigate the draft process by reaching agreement with the Dockers on a two-year deal.
The hard-running wingman shapes as cover for the loss of Liam Henry, who left Fremantle to join St Kilda in the 2023 trade period.
He had played 23 games over three seasons until the end of 2022 and almost joined the Dockers via a trade but Fremantle turned their attention to getting Jaeger O’Meara in as cover for the retired David Mundy and the trade fell through.
Sharp fell from favour at the Suns and while he played in their VFL premiership team, filling a variety of roles, he played no AFL football this year.
The Dockers are expected to have a number of players join them for training over summer, with executive football manager Peter Bell saying on Wednesday they were still finalising names but were planning a mix of teenagers overlooked in the draft and mature aged prospects.
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Fremantle Dockers to make SSP call on former Essendon key position player as Jeremy Sharp news confirmed
The Dockers will look to add size to their attack by turning to a former Bombers rookie in the SSP, writes MARK DUFFIELD and PAUL AMY.
Mark Duffield and Paul Amy
November 22, 2023 8:54 pm
Former Essendon rookie Patrick Voss has emerged as a potential SSP selection for Fremantle and is expected to join the Dockers for summer training.
And the Dockers are set to confirm one of football’s worst kept secrets, with former Sun Jeremy Sharpabout to join them in coming days as an SSP rookie pick.
Voss, a 194 centimetre key position player with natural aggression would add some size and physical maturity to the Dockers attack if he gets the nod. Youngster Jye Amiss had to carry the load in the Dockers attack in 2023, Matt Taberner has had injury issues for much of his career and played just four games in 2023 before having back surgery.
Josh Corbett, who joined the Dockers from Gold Coast after 36 games with the Suns, is set to miss the entire 2024 season after hip surgery and the club has declared the Nathan Fyfe forward experiment over, with the dual Brownlow Medallist expected to play as a hybrid between midfield and attack if he gets his body right for 2024.
Voss kicked 30 goals for Essendon’s VFL team this season.
Meanwhile, Sharp, who was delisted by the Suns after notifying them of his preference to return to Perth, has dodged having to navigate the draft process by reaching agreement with the Dockers on a two-year deal.
The hard-running wingman shapes as cover for the loss of Liam Henry, who left Fremantle to join St Kilda in the 2023 trade period.
He had played 23 games over three seasons until the end of 2022 and almost joined the Dockers via a trade but Fremantle turned their attention to getting Jaeger O’Meara in as cover for the retired David Mundy and the trade fell through.
Sharp fell from favour at the Suns and while he played in their VFL premiership team, filling a variety of roles, he played no AFL football this year.
The Dockers are expected to have a number of players join them for training over summer, with executive football manager Peter Bell saying on Wednesday they were still finalising names but were planning a mix of teenagers overlooked in the draft and mature aged prospects.
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Another key forward?
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Maybe we are running short of skinny HBF’s now?
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Get it was his choice, but my question is why WC was given to Ben as an option in the first place given Bryan played for a WAFL club aligned to us and for Geelong. It's like if Nick Daicos said "I know my dad played for Collingwood but I support Carlton so I'm going to play for them instead".
What ensued is a whole other story.
Lol what ?
You ve never stopped complaining we have to many small players on our list…now we have too many tall players!??
Pick a side will ya!
Wouldn’t be surprised if recently delisted GCS forward Brodie McLaughlin is also given opportunity to train with Freo along with slow smaller forwards.
Voss was unlucky to be delisted by the bombers, won their vfl b and f, lead their goalscorers this year.
He is probably more in the mould of Corbett though, not too agile and not really kpf height, McLaughlin seems more of the samish too. I reckon they're probably both better than Corbett though but only slightly
I guess if we want more depth but jeez how many talls do we need?
(Fwiw bombers seemingly picked hunter over him, I would have done the same as the bombers, definitely would've taken hunter if available)
He is probably more in the mould of Corbett though, not too agile and not really kpf height, McLaughlin seems more of the samish too. I reckon they're probably both better than Corbett though but only slightly
I guess if we want more depth but jeez how many talls do we need?
(Fwiw bombers seemingly picked hunter over him, I would have done the same as the bombers, definitely would've taken hunter if available)
Thinking about it a bit more, we are actually almost tall neutral, if you consider we lost Hamling and Benning and picked up Oscar McDonald, Murphy and Jones. Having said that I feel like the Murphy pick was a "taking the guy because we rated him a lot higher" pick, and that is the ultimate difference in the list positions.
He will be out of contract and nobody else will offer more than 2 first round picks, so we have the upper hand. They can let him go to the preseason draft and get nothing
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While I wouldnt count Benning who was basically a walking delisting after his first preseason, Corbett is effectively delisted so makes up that number
Apparently next years draft is full of midfielders and short of KPF’s
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I’m sure we’ll be making calls on all of Tabs, Corbett, Kuek, Reidy. Based on the regularity of injuries (minus Reidy) to date I wouldn’t be surprised each are gone.
Even if Logan McDonald is traded in, we will be in a position to manage the numbers with a few leaving.
They actually did remove the sunset clause. Maurice Rioli Jnr was eligible to us as a South Fremantle father son draftee in 2020, however he choose to play for the team his father actually played for instead.
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so.... they think that fremantle or Peel thunder doesnt exist? lol
I remember the good old days.
West coast eagles always brought up those poxy slogans "the west is ours"
I remember one of you humble Dockers posters edited one of those famous posters.
Instead of the west is ours... it was edited to...
The west is
not suprising, that was made after when the eagles lost a derby. lol
Good times Kram .
No
I know teachers from that school & what they say he did was disgraceful, but I am not going to go into it.
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Please do
You need to be looking at Voss as an oversized flanker. The best, most likely version of him that makes it would be something like Chris Mayne with the physicality and power of Aaron Hamil.
That he happens to be 193/194cm and 94kg I think was his downfall. I think for a lot of guys in this in-between height, life gets too complicated, particularly early in a career and they'd be better off at 188cm. At the shorter height they'd be seen more for what they are than what they could be.
He was a third tall at either end as an 18 yo. He played midfield in his younger days.
He lacks tricks to stand and deliver as a key forward (even though there are quality key forwards at that size and shorter). He's not explosively quick and doesn't have a noteworthy leap. So even though he could score at the lower level you have to query whether he has the game of an AFL KPF.
He went through a patch in the middle of 2023 when he couldn't catch the ball but that was not characteristic of 2022 or his form either side of the bad run in 2023. He's a solid mark but not the type to jump over or stand and deliver in a pack.
He's a former high level junior rugby league player (was tied to GWS academy). It's not that he wasn't a 'footballer', he was playing both sports. I mention the league because when he's not absorbed in trying to be a key forward he does bring a brutal physicality to his game.
He was winning time trials during his first preseason with us. He has good, and possibly very good, running capacity without an explosive burst of speed or great agility.
He's a very nice, long kick of the ball.
I'm convinced there is a player there but that, at least in a first 50 games, that is as a hard working half forward who you could even play as an outnumber up the ground where he'd be really good at throwing his weight around (i.e. the modern version of Aaron Hamill). He may well become a genuine key forward but that is putting the cart before the horse.
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