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[theiaofseed]

Fremantle list management has been pretty terrible for my liking, a lot to play out yet but you don’t give up a player like Blake acres

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Blake Acres

Age

29

Ht

193cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.5

4star

K

8.9

3star

HB

8.6

5star

M

3.7

4star

T

3.2

5star

CL

1.9

4star

D

12.7

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

7.7

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.7

4star

CL

1.0

3star

D

8.2

2star

K

3.8

2star

HB

4.4

4star

M

1.2

2star

T

2.4

4star

CL

1.8

4star

coming into his prime for a third round pick and 100k less than he wanted, when you only have these little blokes like Liam Henry and James Aish

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playing on the wing who can’t defend or lay a tackle or take a defensive mark to save their lives

Moving the earth for Jackson, losing Lobb, Logue, Acres, Meek plus Pick 13 and this years first. Is pretty questionable

 

[heh]

Well my tipping has gone down the drain this weekend...

An interesting bunch of results

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Only two games in, but Sheezel is actually doing it better then Daicos was last year.

 

[H00t]

Yeah it seemed to cross before the siren, but if can you award a dribble kick goal after the siren then the rule must allow to call deliberate in that instance too.

AFL will need to comment. No idea how they can say anything but an error. That could cost Freo finals come seasons end. Really poor.

Flip side, that might be the reason we land Reid lol.

The kick stands until it’s out of play. As long as it’s out after the siren there’s no time left to take the kick. Same as if you mark it after the siren. The ball was still live at that point. But instantly becomes game over.

 

[Titch3Votes0MooreAA]

Who isn't getting a game in the worst midfield in the comp.

It was a bad trade. But far from our only one in recent years. Mitchell looks like providing very good value to Collingwood.

We're two games into a season, and the VFL has only just started today. How can it be a bad trade? Wake up, mate. Also, while we may have one of the lesser midfields in the competition at the moment, most of our young midfielders will hopefully grow into stars and lead us back to premiership glory. So while on the surface it may seem easy for Stephens to get a game, it won't be.

 

[Mercy Seat]

Good point.

But I think that's flawed. If you can be awarded a dribble goal after the siren, you should also be penalised a shot on goal if the action was before the siren. Deliberate or on the full.

Well that requires a rule change. As it stands, deliberate or on the full cannot be called until the boundary umpire calls it out of bounds, and out of bounds can’t be called after the siren has gone.

Might be further knock ons. The real anomaly is that you can score outside of the siren which is a great quirk to our game.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Win or lose clarko still has it.

Matchday coaching yes.

Just don't let him have a say in list management decisions.

Or maybe do and we can offer Wingard for LDU or Sheezel.

 

[Hot Cheese Rioli]

Matchday coaching yes.

Just don't let him have a say in list management decisions.

Or maybe do and we can offer Wingard for LDU or Sheezel.

Exactly this.

 

[The hands of stone]

Mate i am a proponent of defense first football have been for a while now. Because it teaches discipline and definitely gives the players focus. Attacking football is great to watch and is very effective if you can defend well. but you can already see that St Kilda and Nth look 10 times better then they were. St kilda missing so many players as well. Having great defensive structures helps u win games. You are organised and you are focussed as a team to defend. It can be a spring board to attack in the modern game on turn over. I think we needed to move on from Clarkson as his time at hawthorn was over but anyone thinking that his time was over might have been pre mature. His strutures hold up in any game

Adds in to why what Sam is doing is fascinating really .
Its the opposite to what pretty much all team sports will do in a rebuild .

 

[The hands of stone]

Seems good, because he seems sh1t, but then you don't want him being replaced with a real coach

His tall forward line has a bit of under 14/16 coaching about it

Damn what should do ????? I know lets whack all of our taller kids up forward and get it in there !

 

[Sturty]

Bevo and Hinkley gone this year

 

[burner1]

Bevo and Hinkley gone this year

and Simpson.

 

[Dewnior]

Is this real life?

Is this just fantasy?

 

[Delecate Des]

Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide?

 

[Sturty]

Caught in a landslide?

No escape from reality?

 

[dreaming of another cyri]

Looks like Bulldogs also tanking to help improve our draft hand. From memory they hold our second and third round picks.

 

[Brishawk]

Adds in to why what Sam is doing is fascinating really .
It’s the opposite to what pretty much all team sports will do in a rebuild .

Given how risk averse coaches generally are, he will prove to be a genius or a sad failure who indulged a fantasy. Don’t see it ending somewhere in the middle of the road!

 

[HawthornHawk]

Even more reason to want us to win tomorrow, really heap the pressure on the dogs.

I find it so hard to get a read on them. They seem to have drafted well, have been kissed on the d with father sons & nga players, Bevo has been their most successful coach of all time, but they're underachieving.

 

[Sixpence]

Only two games in, but Sheezel is actually doing it better then Daicos was last year.

30 touches in your first two games is pretty bloody impressive!

 

[Simon Crawshay]

Given how risk averse coaches generally are, he will prove to be a genius or a sad failure who indulged a fantasy. Don’t see it ending somewhere in the middle of the road!

In finance terms Sam is definetly not seeking to track the index.

Gotta admire his cahonies non matter how it turns out in the end TBH

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Adds in to why what Sam is doing is fascinating really .
Its the opposite to what pretty much all team sports will do in a rebuild .

NBA and NFL teams gut their lists regularly.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

NBA and NFL teams gut their lists regularly.

I think Brishawk is talking about how rebuilding teams will start by focusing on defence first as it's the easier option to get right compared to going all out offence as Sam seems to be doing.

 

[eldorado]

Looks like Bulldogs also tanking to help improve our draft hand. From memory they hold our second and third round picks.

No, Sydney does.

We hold the Doggies...

 

[Billyc]

I find it so hard to get a read on them. They seem to have drafted well, have been kissed on the d with father sons & nga players, Bevo has been their most successful coach of all time, but they're underachieving.

They are the biggest underachievers and there should be scrutiny on Bevo. This list is better than the one they had that won a flag. He won a flag with an average side due to an extraordinary run of momentum, emotion and luck. That was the least talented premiership side i have seen and Bevo does deserve credit for that. But he’s getting poor performance from a talented list now. That premiership has probably bought him a life pass at that club though

 

[PT Bar None]

NBA and NFL teams gut their lists regularly.

"Trust the process!" * clap * * clap * , * clap * * clap * * clap *

Was I think a Philly chant for a time