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If Freo plan on giving Bolton midfield minutes, it might be worth having some midfielders that can rotate forward. Young and Serong both can but they're much more impactful as midfielders imo. Could open the door for Simpson and Reid to break into the 22. Erasmus and Switta are more likely though.

Could have been less that he was disappointed to be drafted to Freo and more that he was disappointed Richmond passed on him so many times.

Whoever these next two players drafted are will be compared against each other for the rest of their careers.

If Berry isn't addressing an area of need (Bolton, Freddy and Switta as the b22 smalls with Simpson, Walters, Narkle? and DeLean either depth or developing) then we should go best available, especially when our two most likely recruiting targets next year play in his position. In order for...

If freo's recruiting team thinks they will be poaching either Warner or Pickett next year, then Berry wouldn't be the top of their list.

First trade period in a while our future 2nd isnt traded off if I'm not mistaken.

Plenty of seafood in Fremantle....

I'm perfectly fine with St Kilda having as many picks before us as they need. With their track record they'll take all the duds off the board leaving us with a much better chance of getting a star.

I wonder if Freo could poach Michael Barlow from North. One of my favorite players and apparently a very good coach.

I would much rather have Pickett or Bolton over Warner at the moment. Our midfield is already elite and will improve next year with O'Driscoll and Erasmus replacing Fyfe and O'Meara. Warner is a star, but we need some small forwards to compliment Amiss, Jackson and Treacy a lot more than another...

I wonder if the NOD contract depends on if we get Baker or not. If Freo have promised the money to Baker then it might push NOD out the door, but if Baker chooses WC then it frees up the money for NOD. Personally, I would prefer Freo back away from Baker and keep NOD if that is the case.

Longmuir rates O'Driscoll. Has played him before when he was out of form (2023). One of the reasons we seemed okay with letting Acres go was because of O'Driscoll. Erasmus and Brodie have been tearing the WAFL apart and he wasn't able to break into Freo's midfield because of how Longmuir likes...

I think Neil Erasmus is more likely to try and get over to WC than O'Driscoll.

If we treat the squiggle outcome predictor as accurate the chances of use making finals is 1 of Carlton, Bulldogs or Hawthorne losing and Freo winning. 1 - 0.9x0.7x0.55 = 65% chance one of them loses. Freo winning is a 53% chance. So, about a 35% chance we make finals according to the squiggle.

Out: Aish, Emmett, Erasmus In: Fyfe, Johnson, Davis I think now would be the time to pull the trigger on the Chapman to the wing experiment. Late last year the move of Young to the midfield gave us a spark late in the year and replicating that would be what we need to push us into finals with...

I'm a bit late to the beer snobyness conversation but my two cents is that the best way to view these sorts of things from the outside is that it is a hobby. Not all of us understand why certain people are interested in collecting model trains, for example, but to certain folk they can have a...

People talking about us finally having an uninjured B22 incurred the wrath of the footy gods.

Jack Martin will be interesting as Freo could set a record for most players with a unique first name starting with J in a team. Joshua Draper, Josh Treacy, Jye Amiss, Jeremy Sharp, Jaeger O'Meara, Jordan Clark, James Aish + Jack Martin all coached by a Justin. Either that or we can debut Jack...

I have full faith Erasmus will become good. The only game I can think of where he has played as a full time mid for us was against Collingwood last year when we got thrashed. He got 26 touches, 10 tackles and led us for fantasy. He may just be the best player currently at WAFL level and is only...

If Sturt, Freddy, Switta and Walters have a big second half of the season then it is definitely on. Key forwards are looking good, best ruck duo in the league, multiple elite midfielders, wing issue fixed by Sharp and backline that's rock solid. Small forwards are the only noticeable weakness...

Ground condition can also play a significant role. Not sure about the MCG is like, but Perth is supposedly a firm surface and their was a lot of talk by the commentators pre game about Treager Park being soggy. Softer ground is harder to run on and would make it more difficult to make up ground...

Imagine if the GF was guaranteed to be played at Perth Stadium and an away game against Freo or WC wasn't played there. Freo don't get many games at the G (only 2 this year) and being familiar with the ground, surface conditions, it's dimensions and such is a slight advantage. Freo, like every...

Out: Emmett, Draper In: Fredrick, Erasmus I think Freo should switch out Emmett for an extra midfielder who's resting forward. Rotate Young, Fyfe, Serong, Switta and whoever else through that position and the midfield. Loved what Wagner brought to the game in the 4th quarter after being subbed...

If Warner was to request a trade Sydney would probably prefer it to be this year. We have 3 first rounders the best 2 of which Sydney could reasonably demand and probably even more. If they hold him to contract and wait a year they will struggle to get 2 first rounders off of us.

I would be curious to see statistics on when players are most likely to get injured. Is it at the start of the game where everyone is going 100% or near the end when everyone is more worn out? My intuition is that players seem to get injured more often in the first half, but that might just be...

Some players can look very flashy in their first season, Jaidyn Stephenson comes to mind. But once oppositions start taking note and putting together strategies to negate their influence they can drop off. Umpires also begin to take note of those who play for frees like Jack Ginnivan. Anyway, we...

Get rid of the goal and point posts. Winner is the team with the ball after 2 hours.

Tasmania is joining the comp in 2028 which give Richmond just a few years to complete their rebuild. They would want to speed up the number of young guns getting onto their list while keeping experienced players that will still be good in 4-5 years time who can show them the ropes. No way are...

Out: Draper (inj), Fyfe (rest), Walters (rest), Johnson (rest) In: Davies, Erasmus (or Brodie), Switkowski, Worner Freo play the Tigers on a Sunday and then have Sydney at home on a Friday. I think our schedule to start this season has to have been one of the most brutal in AFL history. Opening...

Out: Amiss (con), Sturt, Hughes, Erasmus, Walters ("Managed") In: Stanley, Taberner, Simpson, Chapman, Switkowski B: Ryan - Pearce - Chapman HB: Clark - Draper - Walker C: Sharp - Serong - Stanley Fol: Darcy - Fyfe - Brayshaw HF: Simpson - Treacy - Banfield F: Emmett - Taberner - Jackson...