- May 3, 2007
- 38,882
- 22,700
- AFL Club
- Fremantle
- Other Teams
- Man City, Valencia, Lazio, Panthers
JL has his detractors but surely people see the upsides.
It's incredibly telling that we've brought in players considered delist fodder and turned them into genuine footballers - Jordan Clark, Jeremy Sharp, Corey Wagner, Will Brodie in 2022, James Aish to an extent.
Development of draftees has accelerated at a rate faster than Lyon ever managed, I feel far more confident under JL that a debutant will adapt far quicker to the intensity of AFL than under Lyon.
Then have a look at some of our players who've left and underperformed with other teams.
Good crew of assistants too, just remember 5 years ago we had Anthony Rock, David Hale, Brent Guerra etc. Incomparable to what we have now.
Solid post... Yeah Sharp and Wagner and Will Broadie were delist fodder when they were picked up by Freo. Sharp was forced to rot in the 2nds for a season at the suns before freo traded him. Wagner got games at both Kangaroos and Demons before going to freo. Will Broadie played 25 games in 5 seasons at the suns before going to the dockers.
James Aish as Delist Fodder? Far from it. Played 50 games in 4 seasons at the Pies. He played in all 4 Magpies finals in 2018, that included the 2018 grand final. His last game for Collingwood in 2019 was the narrow prelim final loss to GWS. So he was in magpies best 22. I assumed he was traded as Magpies had to get rid of him for salary cap reasons.
Development of Draftees accelerated faster than Lyon ever managed.... How so? I think its more of a fact that freos 1st round picks from 2016-21 have been wise selections and were lucky too compared to the unlucky 1st rounders Freo has from 2007-14.