Ugh. Was not waiting for this.
Lobb was brilliant, have to admit. His kicking improved out of sight. Needed Tabs and Treacy around him. Shame he took the pessimistic view and opted out. Could’ve been a massive key to making a top 4 push in 2023. Trade to bulldogs makes no sense for him as a footballer. Naughton is their guy with JUH, English and Darcy as genuine young guns. Where does Lobb think he ll fit amongst all that? Eh. He gets paid
I was wondering a bit why the Dogs where so keen on him. They have a lot other tall options up forward. Probably more then most teams...
They needed him to come in when any of those mentioned are injured maybe!!!!
I don't think the article tells us anything new, certainly nothing to justify the headline.
Former Dockers big man Rory Lobb has hit out at Fremantle’s coaching tactics, saying he was pointed in the “wrong direction” at his former club.
Lobb, 29, got his wish to exit Freo and land a trade to the Western Bulldogs over the off-season after a failed attempt to get back to Greater Western Sydney a year prior.
But it was far from a smooth exit for the 207cm forward/ruck. The Dockers initially told Lobb they had no intention of trading him due to his structural importance.
It came after a career-best season where he kicked a career-high 36 goals, including a bag of five against Port Adelaide.
The behind the scenes machinations of Lobb’s trade will again be a central storyline of Show Me The Money II, a feature-length documentary tracking Perth-based player agent Colin Young and his agency Corporate Sports Australia during the trade period.
An excerpt from the film, which also follows Connors Sports Management and Hemisphere Management Group, reveals a conversation with Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge was central to Lobb’s desire to shift east.
“Obviously had a really good connection with ‘Bevo’. Like I feel like he’d really coach me the way I need to be coached and give me that sort of licence to play the way that I should be played,” Lobb says in the documentary.
“At times I feel like I haven’t played to my best of my ability, but I… feel like sometimes the coaching sort of put me the wrong direction.”
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Young also tells Lobb before trade period this year he is a lot more confident a deal will go through despite a failed attempt in 2021.
“Last year we probably had about a one per cent chance of getting this done this year. We’re obviously on the other end with 60 per cent hopefully going forward,” Young said.
Fremantle’s hardline stance on Lobb intensified when out-of-contract utility Griffin Logue sought a move to North Melbourne.
The Dockers said publicly they were prepared to hold Lobb to the final year of his contract given Logue would cost them key position depth.
In a separate conversation with his manager Young and Lobb, Logue joked he was making life hard for key forward.
“I’ve cost him. I’ve cost Lobb,” Logue said.
Logue, 24, also revealed he wanted to stay at Fremantle but Luke Jackson’s impending arrival from Melbourne forced him to assess his options.
“I would have never thought that this time like two years ago, or whatever, I would never thought it would come to this, to be honest,” Logue said.
Logue’s trade to the Kangaroos was one of the first deals ticked off but Lobb had to wait until the final minutes of the trade period.
The documentary will be released in February next year.
Agreed. Was really looking forward to the first one but all it did is make me want the punch the ## out of Young. I haven’t been able to get that bath tub image out of mind.
But then we can hate Colin Young more?
See what GC reaction was to it, see what Sharps reaction and his managers reaction to the news
A poster came on said that Sharp is done with Freo after failing to get the trade done. My mail is that is not the truth and we will run again next year.
That poster was me and was purely based on him unfollowing freo and following wce on instagram (he followed freo and not wce during trade period) which is clearly irrefutable evidence.
He should. And...he should be livid. This highfalutin hangdog ding-dork has meddled with the club and its players and got in their heads so he can have a nice cushdy payday numerous times (doing sweet FA for his money..). Man's a venomous skank and cost us a player that we really probably needed at least one more season whilst others transition - Amiss, Treacy etc. As much as I dislike Lobb, even pre-trade, he was a valuable asset last year - no one can deny that.
