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People are talking about the pressure that JLo will be under in 2025 given it is his last year under contract. JLo under pressure is a GREAT THING. If the pressure is external to JLo then he should be laughing inside because he knows that the team's performance in 2025 will silence the doubters...

It's a huge plus for Freo that in 2025 we barely need our oldest players - their young replacements are close to, if not already surpassed, what they offer. We also have leadership and footy nous way beyond the age/games played metrics across all lines. Exciting times.

I agree with you that there has to be a better option. If the club admin are doing their job they have already gamed out that scenario and have a list. I don't know that it is in the club's best interests to extend pre-finals. Would we be worried that JLo might be poached?

If we are serious about contending for a premiership in the next 5 years then JLo's pass mark for 2025 cannot be incremental improvement ie simply making finals. IMO a minimum of Top 6 when all is said and done should be our trigger. That means either a Top 4 HnA finish or a 5-8 HnA finish with...

And it's even more of a lottery committing people to surgery before you are sure it is needed. Primum non nocere.

If we boil reasons for optimism down to one simple question: Are we 2 goals a game better in 2025 compared to 2024? Bolton + a better midfield + a better attack has to mean the answer is yes. An extra 2 goals a game changes 2024's 12.5 wins to 18 wins. It also puts us up there with Sydney as...

You've lost ur purple specs.

I'm not worried about our '4th quarter fade-outs' in 2024 as an indicator of anything in 2025 because I think there is an obvious reason for them that is already passing. There is a general view that older teams are fitter and therefore better able to run games out. I don't think that is the...

Premiers: Freo MasterChef Winner: Cox Australian Idol Winner: Darcy Prime Minister: Serong Nobel Peace Prize: Treacy Academy Awards, all of them: Walters Booker Prize: Jackson Archibald Prize: Bolton Hungry Jack's Participation Certificate: Eagles. 2025: Purple Reign

The Purple soars high above the green ie the combination of blue and yellow. Our destinies are written in the stars.

I like your big picture thinking wrt both players and the season.

I wasn't meaning to imply that you rotate 7 every week. Just to shift the mentality for a B23 with all other players viewed as injured/depth/development to a B30 with the expectation that rotating these players thru the team as necessary does not imply that people are being dropped or rested as...

Merry Xmas everyone and thanks for a great year. Cracker Question: Why is Santa's sack so big? No, it's not because he only comes once a year. It's because he's saving himself up to come at Freo in September 3x in the next 10 years. LFG Boys and Girls.

Yes, good observations. Obviously first prize is to play the same 23 week in week out with occasional changes for specific match-ups. The pro-side to that is connection/unity. But the concomitant con-side is rigidity. And it is obviously also impossible - s**t happens. So team flexibility is...

Great picks and discussion thank you. My main difference would be Johnson for Erasmus. Jonno was clearly ahead in 2024 and I don't know what Ras has shown at this stage for him to have topped Jonno. Draper is hard to leave out. TBH Chapman/Cox/Pearce all have above average injury profiles so...

Run's the 200 faster than Bolt Bolt at the same age.

Great post thanks, well considered, lots to think about.

The huge problem with articles like this is the prominence it gives to dumb campaigners' comments. more than likely they love the exposure and it will encourage them to do more and worse. It also completely distorts the impression of the general public. Maybe only 2-3% would agree with these...

From the photos I only counted a field of 13/14 doing the time trials. Is this an unusually low number?

2025 is an inflection point between the old and the young for FFC. I think 2024 was the last year when we had to include old and wise heads substantially because they are old and wise. The players I am thinking of are Walters/Fyfe/O'Meara. Overall in 2024, despite some good games and special...

I intrinsically agree with you. Statistically speaking it is far more likely that a draft could have an small excess of elite players and so be a 'super-draft' rather than getting 30 or so that are substantially better than the norm as 2024 was touted. In principle, the higher the numbers the...

I think Ras's highlights were mostly him playing at a high school level comp...? This is at least a couple of grades below the quality afield at the National U18s. Reid is doing some very smart and slick stuff.

Another Harley angle: Is the other pic Ashton Hams?

Credit where credit is due. The AFL journos have doen an amazing job pairing the picture with the headline: The Carlton draw looks like the GROAT - Greatest Rort OAT.

He could perform consistently at AFL level. 2025 is his year.

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I'm not sure how much the $$ impacts kids choices. I wonder if there are more sports people getting paid >$200K in AFL than any other sport in Oz?