He's without doubt the most underrated Freo player of all time. Maybe even for any team. A lot of it I just put down to Freo fans constantly comparing any forward to Pavlich, something that Tabs could never live up to. But after a slow burn he ended being a genuinely good key forward with the...
Don't know if it's been mentioned, but Shai Bolton's old man Darren played for Fremantle. A grand total of 2 games in 1999. A fellow NSHS boy, we were in the same year.
Mostly interested in him as depth in a position that we have zero depth in (wing). It doesn't turn out well for us when we have to play Aish there. NOD might turn into an inside mid.
Jack Darling was the worst example. A lot of teams, us included, wrote him off because his school reported "disciplinary problems". Turns out all it was that he ****ed his girlfriend on a school camp and her parents cracked the shits. So he slid to 26 (we took Jayden Pitt at 20).
100%, we definitely would have won at least 1, probably 2 of the last 4 games if Treacy and Pearce played. Some injuries are more impactful than others.
Posted this earlier in the thread but my hill is that we win the 2013 GF if we had started Lachie Neale on the field rather than only subbing him on with 10 minutes to go.
We've got a lot to look to look forward to next season.
We found 2 genuine stars in Josh Treacy and Josh Draper this year.
We're only losing Fyfe, Walters and Taberner who had zero impact between them all year.
Throw in Cooper Simpson and Shai Bolton and that's a much more dangerous looking...
None of our key forwards have done anything, because Geelong are just throwing all their players back. All we have to do is hit up the leads but we keep bombing into a nest of Geelong players. Nuffies here bagging Tabs is getting real old.
It was called holding the ball...by one of the umpires. And the other called it dangerous. I am not sure how they work out which call takes precedence.
This was always going to be a weak spot for us with Shultz leaving and Walters near the end. We should be throwing whatever we've got at Kosy Pickett or Shai Bolton in this off season.
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