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When you look at first round picks we are pretty much stacked. Then we have another two wasting away at Peel. Talent is not the problem, it’s purely a coaching issue and we are a minnow in the coaching box. Then you open Big Footy and another one is gone. Should be on the front foot with the...

Or we could have let him rot at Peel until he saw the light maybe? RL did exactly that with Walters. At worst they could of turned him into a defender like Tarrant.

What about the guys who were let go? You look at Hogan, Lobb and Acres, Meek, the list was actually pretty good😜 Giving up early on Jesse and letting him go for a pick in the fifties? That is one of the worst trade in - trade out deals in our history up there with the Croad fiasco. More proof is...

You are probably a year early but it’s funny how one minute it’s finals or bust and the next is extenuating circumstances? Every team doesn’t have their best 22 all year, add more travel than most and an unbalanced list in age. Great coaches find a way, rest or rotate players and build depth...

You could argue the same thing about Erasmus, the treatment of Brodie and a coach who plays favourites. Reality is that some of the older guys in the team are spent. Does anyone have faith that we will improve next year and take that step up?

I think we are doing well defensively in games. It’s our attacking mindset that is so underwhelming. We’ve had close to a decade of this style of footy, for one finals appearance. At the beginning of the year it was finals or bust, that has now gone out the door. Instead of fixing the problems...

I seriously doubt we will see a squad transformation. A few individuals that are highly driven, most are just happy to ride the gravy train. It starts at the top and this group is missing that killer instinct to win at everything. Then you have to make tough or ruthless decisions on players, if...

I’d also put C Scott in that bracket. The coaching at Freo has always held us back at crucial times. If people think it’s the players, then sure our coaching and development is fine 😜 Reality is that it’s the combination of both that gets the best results and IMO I’d pass ours as B for the...

Sounds exactly how you would describe JLo😜 We need a few extroverts at the club, or people who can perform under pressure. Hardly hear a peep from anyone at the club. There is a reason WC, Geelong had success and Cook, Nisbett were responsible.

Except Jlo doesn’t tag and we never see that preseason where the boys become men. We see it individually like Treacy this year, Young, Serong previously. Team is lacking that bullying, aggressive nature that creates pressure. Even if Pickett came here and played his natural game he would miss...

You’d think we would target only one of those 2, and use the situation to better negotiations between Tigers, Dees. Play one against the other and see which club buckles first. Guaranteed that if it was possible to get both that is would shake another player from our club. Salary cap issues, and...

Doesn’t matter who they buy in, they have tried this model for 30 years, and the only time we were a serious threat was when we tried to fix the coaching. Freo has a soft underbelly, overpays in trades and doesn’t like to fully develop their own. The reason we did well in 2022 is that we added...

Seems ridiculous that we always pay overs rather than market value. Rory Lobb kicked 36 goals in 2022, yet we did the deal to the Bulldogs for I think pick 30 and a future second? So we have the players to fix the forward line, trade them instead of holding them to a contract, or even try to...

Yet Port Adelaide have a contingency plan for a guy who coached them to top 2. Sydney have stated the same with Cox, but we will see how that plays out. It’s pretty obvious that JLo isn’t a master coach, about average and not awful. We either surround him with talented assistants or...

Have a closer look at how other teams have the experience to help out their Head coaches. Sam Mitchell has Brett Ratten in his corner, then look at Freo. It’s across the board yet all we ever hear above is it’s the players that are the problem. Freo are great deflectors, and which next Messiah...

Reidy’s played 2 AFL games and against top 8 teams with both games played like finals. I’d be more worried about Jackson’s game. That and the MC keep playing their favourites with no accountability and loss of form? This argument was probably used on Meek, and others to fit the narrative. Not...

Think you’ll find that most acknowledge that Bolton will cost our first and second rounder. The guys who will retire or be delisted are not getting a game or improve the best 22. So makes sense to add a few classy first rounders that could potentially debut? You don’t sell the farm or add the...

Sounds reasonable to me😜 Our first and a second rounder is better than what they would get from WC.

Give him any role and it’s an upgrade 😜

Well let’s look at some of the previous players that could of stayed if we paid them accordingly. Acres and Lobb, and short term you wonder if Rory is a better footballer than Jackson? Makes Knobel highly prized, and he needs to be a priority.

So many look like triathletes, which is fine if you want to rely on fitness and have a gameplan to use pace and spread. Then you look at others in the group and they look like they haven’t done the work. It starts in the midfield and it’s the one place where we lack true pace or evasiveness...

How would we know? The so called depth players don’t get a game at Freo. Walls has done a great job in finding talent, the issue is pretty obvious that the coaching group felt the outside pressure to make finals and picked a team for Today. Now right at the end of a long season, they are all...

You want finals, you are guaranteed that Scott would be the difference to our list to take that leap. Instead we will have deflection with Bolton, Baker. Etc, that will bring success. No doubt they are important, but that would be patching the cracks in our coaching and development and...

Yeah, but you guys would be terrible at playing poker😜 I definitely want him too, that’s not the issue. We are in a good position to both trade and draft with both outcomes being a win win.

It’s probably best to leave this post alone to the list managers on here who will happily touch their toes. Most of them raved about Hogan and how Freo’s next Messiah pick will lead us to the promised land. It’s all your eggs in one basket and let the rest of the AFL community sit back waiting...

Pick 34 and a future first for Schultz. You will probably get our first and our second rounder with a future first thrown in if we fold. Or unless someone is leaving Freo, those picks will be on the table. Think we will be reasonable but this could backfire similar to the Hogan trade. Some...

Lions gave up pick 12 for Charlie Cameron, who wanted to move for family reasons. He was also contracted. Where you sell the farm for is for a player like Jeremy Cameron, but two thirds of that deal was the picks that they received for Tim Kelly from the eagles. So Geelong lost their 4th best...

Josh Carr probably thought that the Port job would be his by now. Could he be swayed? Otherwise I’d chase Ash Hanson to assist for a year before taking the reins. Crows coach should be axed, and he would be one to offer a lifeline to help assist. C Scott is the ultimate dream to takeover in...

I think his last two years of kicking just over 30 goals a season is his average. Our first and second round pick seems reasonable, especially if he wants to come home. Essentially he replaces Schultz goal output, and his numbers are down at his new club. Was also contracted but Pies came to us...

You could of said the same thing about Draper and Davies.