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I assume they meant 2018, but it is ironic that they accidentally picked the draft class where we are most dominant in (and could get more). As well as Serong, Young and Frederick, we've gotten Jackson and Sharp who came from that draft class, and may well get Chad Warner too, also 2019 crop.

Haven't been invited to the national or state combines I believe, so feels unlikely. Never know, but at this stage I'd assume we'd prioritise the Irish guys and/or future NGA products for the Cat B slots.

Idk if this is true generically, but I'd fairly confidently say that this doesn't apply to us. Tall, slow-ish inside mid with iffy skills who has transitioned into being a valuable utility. Isn't that pretty much champagne Banfield? I'd be more interested if he offered more defensively, and...

The 1 thing I worry about in terms of natural attributes is whether Freddy is a bit too "straight line pace" and tall to apply high level pressure and be a real presence at ground level. Some of the elite small fwds in those areas are shorter and have more agility. Not to say he can't improve in...

I'm gonna choose to believe that it's a good sign the article mentioned Emmett but not NOD. Even Matt Clarke on Gettable couldn't be arsed pretending it was a real possibility. With Baker it was "we'd love to get him, he hasn't nominated a club yet, we need that age bracket and leadership"...

Damn I was hoping we'd get the weekly optimistic outside 50 shot from Raz there.

THEY SCORED A GOAL (in 6 1 point instalments)

Probably the best replacement available of the emergencies, but it's a bit wild to see Peel not take the maximum number of 12 Freo players.

Ended up as Stanley and Coops both in, but Murphy misses despite being named on the field in the initial team. Bit strange. Given we haven't announced further delistings yet beyond the 4 + Corbett retirement, I'd assume there's a level of for certain OOC players (particularly Stanley) "You've...

The thing is Carlton are so awful at handing soft tissue concerns that it's hard to tell how much of this is attributable to Carlton being stupid and how much to Jack Martin being cooked. I assume there's ways to ascertain how cooked long-term a player's soft tissues are, which was probably the...

From what I've watched (and draft watchers will obvs have a more refined take on this), he has the feel of a player whose growth spurt is giving him short-term struggles. The "growing your game into your body" sort of stuff. Even in the SWFL, judging by his PlayHQ profile it seems like this...

But the role he played was a role that he played here too pretty much, and a role that earned him a mention in Nat Fyfe's Brownlow speech. Did he play 4 games because he wasn't good enough or because of other, "club politics" type reasons? And we didn't end up using delisting him to develop...

Injuries are a factor here as well in all fairness. Sturt looked awful in the pre-season and in his first few WAFL games this season coz of that knee. And at some point the switch flipped. NOD's been battling his own health demons particularly with knee issues as well, and the switch flipped...

This feels like when people blamed Banfield for Sturt having not re-signed (though he eventually did). Linking the 2 is jumping at shadows. JOM's contract isn't an obstacle financially, and it's difficult to suggest him being there is truly costing NOD a spot when NOD wasn't good enough at WAFL...

I wonder if, in the eyes of certain Freo fans, the Sandover Medal has now become irrelevant because inconveniently the wrong Docker was close to winning it (and probably wins it if he plays full season WAFL). For the record it shouldn't really matter that much either way because WAFL and AFL...

But that's the thing: for there to be such a significant gap, either we'd have to be absolutely disrespecting him in the contract offer or Port would have to be offering him something very risky. Now there were some weird figures thrown around with Port and Joe Richards, so in all fairness maybe...

The "problem" is that he's almost too good a defender for his own good. Like Hayden Young was never really a lockdown guy so freeing him up and eventually moving him up was an easy choice. Conversely, Chapman is someone who has shut down some of the best fwds this season (Fritsch and Cameron in...

Putting aside that Reidy shows 0 signs that he was ever a marking target up fwd nowadays.

If we're "choosing" Reidy over Knobel, I'd have to assume it's not really us making the choice and Knobel is off. Would be quite funny to see what happens if we keep both. You'd hope that we finally play them both WAFL seniors.

"This is no example"

We are probably seeing the upsides and downsides of the current list mgmt strategy which revolves around locking in long-term players that we have a decent amount of belief in. On one hand, these moves are likely contributing to us having more cap room than we should considering some of the...

He's great at it when it matters. On a serious note, I think this is where people have a bit of a misconception about him. Sure this year for Chad the offensive side of his game, the burst, the goals, all that has become magnified at the cost of the contest and pressure side. But that to me has...

I think with the support mid and the "are we too tall?" discussions, you bring up a number of valid problems, but there's enough workarounds to mask or reverse the negatives On the fwds, you can do Triple J with Jackson rotating btwn midfield, 2nd ruck and fwd with Sturt and still be at least...

He was a salary dump because he was being paid an absurd amount, partly due to pay deferrals. There was even a figure out there saying, were it not for the trade, Brodie was due to be paid 600k from Gold Coast the following year. We'd have to be complete lunatics to be paying him anywhere in...

The injury concerns are obviously very real, though I'd suggest that if they were in the realm of "likely to play 0 games", it's an issue that we'd detect and we wouldn't sign him. The 2 seasons before this one he did play a fair amount, and there's a level of Carlton medical team tax. I think...

Differing priorities is the reality. Geelong have the 2nd oldest and the most experienced list, we have the 4th youngest and 2nd least experienced list. Mature agers that maximised 2024's list in Lawson Humphries and Shaun Mannagh made a lot more sense for Geelong to take a pop on than us...

You're trying to make things fit that don't. We didn't just lose Acres: we lost Logue, Lobb, and Mundy from the best 22 plus some squad players that played a fair amount, notably Tucker and Meek. The idea that NOD is lost because The West said that Port are interested in him is taking things a...

Probably borne through understandable frustration about the team losing players over the past however many years that brings on a level of learned pessimism. Also a level of human nature to look for patterns when either they're not there or they're somewhat there but you can't include...

Jesus Christ. I thought that with Sturt signed on we can finally stop crying about a decent squad player in Banfield getting a 2 year deal. Nope, turns out every single decision somehow has to be linked to Banfield. I guess the reason Kozzie ain't coming is because he wants the Sustainability...