Mega Thread 2019 List Management, Free Agency & Trade thread

[fnerd]

I certainly wont be disappointed if Kelly chooses wc(pretty much fait accompli in my book anyway ), in fact I’d prefer to go to the draft and hopefully bring in 4 first rounders.

Our Team lacks some notable positional talent still while our overall squads depth is still poor.

That said should he do a complete 180 and decide to come here then you the club will get a deal done.

I’d be offering no more than our first with a swap of seconds with Geelong.
Take it or leave it.

 

[jedi mind tricks]

If Fremantle ends up with the nomination from Kelly then I'd expect to hear how he is earning more than Fyfe next season on a massive up front deal that averages the same as the West Coast offer, or slightly higher.

But he simply doesn't want to go to Freo

 

[Undertaker]

Sokol reminds me a fair bit medhurst. Plays taller and a pretty good lead up forward. First of our picks in the rookie draft for me.

Is a bit like Membury from St.kilda not tall enough for KP and not quite quick enough for pressure forward. Worth a rookie selection.

 

[Carnthedockers]

But he simply doesn't want to go to Freo

What are you basing this off? Don’t believe everything you read. You should know this by now.

 

[Monument Hills]

Is a bit like Membury from St.kilda not tall enough for KP and not quite quick enough for pressure forward. Worth a rookie selection.

Sokol reminds me of LeCras. In the same height range (i.e. not a small forward or tall forward like Membrey too). Not super fast. Just smart, good skills and knows how to manufacture goals.

 

[jedi mind tricks]

What are you basing this off? Don’t believe everything you read. You should know this by now.

I don't

It's cool I'd just be spreading a rumour from a mate who knows him

 

[Carnthedockers]

I don't

It's cool I'd just be spreading a rumour from a mate who knows him

I know people that know him too. I’m not pretending to know better, but o don’t feel it’s cut and dry like everyone’s saying. Reading the signs, he will go to the club with the best offer $. He even distanced himself from the theory he wants to go to one club.

 

[Johnny Dalmas]

If Sokol ends up like Membury that woud be a win for us. Membury has a higher goal per game average than every Freo player except Hogan.

 

[Docker Scott]

Me too we miss out on Kelly,
Go for Brad Crouch will cost cheap picks wise and is a clearance beast pick 6 gets it done.
Or trade a pick 20 from Langdon and Cox something like that

 

[free at last]

Kelly doesn't want to go to Freo so why would he nominate Freo

Has TK unequivocally said I will not go to Freo??

 

[jedi mind tricks]

Has TK unequivocally said I will not go to Freo??

Dont shoot the messenger but a good mate of mine who knows his relatives have told me that he's had issues with Bennell.

This has nothing to do with B Hill

That said no Ross and possibly no Hill and no Bennell might change that

 

[Hazelsnuts]

Dont shoot the messenger but a good mate of mine who knows his relatives have told me that he's had issues with Bennell.

This has nothing to do with B Hill

That said no Ross and possibly no Hill and no Bennell might change that

Seriously- wouldn’t want to spread that rumour??????

 

[FreoRicci]

Dont shoot the messenger but a good mate of mine who knows his relatives have told me that he's had issues with Bennell.

This has nothing to do with B Hill

That said no Ross and possibly no Hill and no Bennell might change that

A new coach, new CEO. Hell its a brand new team. Fyfe as Brownlow captain, vs persona Dangerfield. It’s different now for Kelly

 

[jedi mind tricks]

A new coach, new CEO. Hell its a brand new team. Fyfe as Brownlow captain, vs persona Dangerfield. It’s different now for Kelly

Yeah I totally get that. I heard that like two months ago and things do change and the Freo landscape is much diff all of a sudden

 

[Bring back Drum]

I was snoozing during the news tonight, did I hear that Blakely is definitely not going anywhere despite recent ‘private’ issues?
It seems BF campaigners either like him or don’t rate him. I like him & think under a new coach he will flourish.

 

[jedi mind tricks]

I was snoozing during the news tonight, did I hear that Blakely is definitely not going anywhere despite recent ‘private’ issues?
It seems BF campaigners either like him or don’t rate him. I like him & think under a new coach he will flourish.

Agreed

 

[ilikepotatoes]

I was snoozing during the news tonight, did I hear that Blakely is definitely not going anywhere despite recent ‘private’ issues?
It seems BF campaigners either like him or don’t rate him. I like him & think under a new coach he will flourish.

Indeed you did. Also that we, port, Melbourne and St Kilda (may be off on the saints) are all keen on Sokol.

 

[FreoRicci]

Indeed you did. Also that we, port, Melbourne and St Kilda (may be off on the saints) are all keen on Sokol.

Far out. St Kilda very involved this trade oeriod
Hill, Ryder,
Josh Bruce, Carlisle gone. Still will finished 14th

 

[Taylor]

St Kilda is very much like Fremantle in that we are both pressured by our supporters to improve recent results - even going as far as to change the coach and bring in mature bodies to lift competitiveness.

The difference is that St Kilda don't have the ceiling Fremantle does financially and they have watched our club go through a period of success, drop off and now arguably we are at the same level again. If/when both clubs are doing well, the result of Fremantle doing well will look a lot better on the balance sheet than St Kilda.

 

[eastfreo75]

[/QUOTE]

Indeed you did. Also that we, port, Melbourne and St Kilda (may be off on the saints) are all keen on Sokol.

what pick do you think he will go?

 

[Redgum]

Brad Crouch is a free agent next year, he'll probably want to go back to Melbourne, we could make a play for him,an A grade midfielder always in the top 10 for disposals in the AFL.
Could be plan B if we fail to get Kelly and he's relatively young at 25.
Better still use our top picks ( include Hill's pick) and grab both,WOW

 

[samFFC]

Are you suggesting that the media speculation about him going to Gold Coast is incorrect? Madness!

 

[ilikepotatoes]

Big injury history....

 

[ImperialPurple]

Far out. St Kilda very involved this trade oeriod
Hill, Ryder,
Josh Bruce, Carlisle gone. Still will finished 14th

Ryder will be peanuts - DFA even.

Hill will cost them big, but offloading Bruce and Carlisle will get them a few picks back, possibly in the mid - late 30s.

 

[wayToGo_]

a S&C department that needs but doesn't appear to be getting a revamp

I'm hoping the new CEO and coach will move quickly on this. You just have to look at how Fagan turned it around at Brisbane to know it can be done quickly and well.

Speaking on Tuesday morning ahead of the club's first final in a decade, coach Chris Fagan recalled his very first pre-season session in November 2016.

"There were 37 players there, 25 were in rehab and 12 were doing proper training and I thought "gee, I forgot to ask them that question, how healthy was the list?"

"From that day forward, it was a new medical group and we all started together, that's been addressed and over the course of the last two years we've had a magnificent run with injuries, which I hope continues for the rest of this year and into the future, of course."

Fagan: Precious little luck involved in Lions' charmed injury run

Injury - or the lack of it - has played a significant role in Brisbane's rise but the club has earned its rewards

www.lions.com.au

The Lions have missed fewer games through injury than any other team this year.