Mega Thread Non-Freo AFL Discussion 2024

[Ge3ks]

Finally Sydney. GWS pressure is immense.

 

[freo_leo29]

GWS absolutely blowing this

 

[FreoRicci]

Any trained traing watcher will know, you have a knee injury, you can't run as is needed to maintain fitness.
Grow up yourself. You should know.

Don’t need to run. Swimming, boxing, low gravity treadmill.
There’s no excuses

 

[Firesharter]

Gee it’s going to be pretty exciting for GWS playing a home prelim infront of 10,000 supporters.



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Better than playing no finals at an empty Optus Stadium.

 

[trentjac]

How does a professional miss a goal like that. Athletes not footballers

 

[freo_leo29]

Gee it’s going to be pretty exciting for GWS playing a home prelim infront of 10,000 supporters.



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Did you not watch 2016?


It was exciting, genuinely one of the best, if not the best prelim of all time

 

[Ge3ks]

Toby Greene

4

Toby Greene

Age

30

Ht

182cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

22.7

5star

K

12.5

5star

HB

10.2

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

3.0

5star

G

1.2

4star

D

17.5

4star

K

9.5

4star

HB

8.0

4star

M

4.8

4star

T

1.0

2star

G

2.3

5star

D

26.6

5star

K

12.4

5star

HB

14.2

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

3.6

5star

G

0.0

1star

 

[#1JohnHuttonFan]

Did you not watch 2016?


It was exciting, genuinely one of the best, if not the best prelim of all time

To be honest I can’t remember the game.

They should be doing well they got Hogan for a packet of chips and have had a million draft concessions and top picks. They should be playing in a GF with this list.


Just as long as Carlton or Hawthorn don’t get there I don’t care who wins.

This game is good though better than the other rot this weekend.

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[kuhni]

What do people think of Warner's form back half of the season? Anything remarkable?

 

[Ge3ks]

What do people think of Warner's form back half of the season? Anything remarkable?

He has been underwhelming ever since we played and beat them. Kinda checked out ever since.

 

[freo_leo29]

It's wild how Keefe always weasels himself back into the team for finals time

 

[#1JohnHuttonFan]

He has been underwhelming ever since we played and beat them. Kinda checked out ever since.

Checked out and Freo bound


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[Fat Nyfe]

Remember when we got the only dissent free for the year paid against us.

Now players just remonstrate as much as they like for nothing. Don’t you love how the afl picks and chooses when to enforce rules

 

[Heave Ho Bro]

Don’t need to run. Swimming, boxing, low gravity treadmill.
There’s no excuses

Putting the fork and beers/wine down while inactive also does wonders.

 

[FreoRicci]

It's wild how Keefe always weasels himself back into the team for finals time

Underrated. He actually competes unlike JUH last night. He was freaking awful

 

[noise36]

I've noticed they have just stopped calling stand and players are not manning the mark

 

[mike91]

God Buckley with ball in hand is deplorable.

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[noise36]

What do people think of Warner's form back half of the season? Anything remarkable?

Evidence suggests he is a down hill skier so to speak.

 

[King Huskii]

I've noticed they have just stopped calling stand and players are not manning the mark

Instead of wanting to offer him 1.7mil a season I'd rather both Bolton and Pickett costing slight more with Richmond paying some of Bolton's contract

 

[FreoRicci]

Evidence suggests he is a down hill skier so to speak.

Reminds me of Des Headland

 

[freo_leo29]

Evidence suggests he is a down hill skier so to speak.

Nah, he has been the firestarter for them multiple times

Evidence suggests that Sydney need him playing well

 

[nurries]

What do people think of Warner's form back half of the season? Anything remarkable?

Not strong enough in the contest. Needs more gym work

 

[malpaso]

The game has really evolved to having quality small forwards in recent years.
I think we have been caught behind the 8 ball a bit from a list management point of view on this area, despite all the good work Wallsy has done in the list in general.
Any AFL best 22 will have fringe players and lesser players. That’s not in dispute. Historically the way teams did it was to slot in 2 or 3 of your bottom few players on either the half forward flanks or in the forward pockets.
Put all the premium talent in the key positions or on ball.

Increasingly now though all the good teams have a fleet of dangerous small forwards and linkmen around the HFF that are scorers and creators. Proportionally more goals are being scored by these types than the traditional key forwards.

Collingwood (last year), Geelong, GWS, Hawks are all built around top class smalls in the forward half of the ground.

Belatedly, we are coming to the party it appears, but it’s taken longer than it should have.

Going into next season these are our current listed small forwards or half forward flankers.

• Switkowski, great pressure, generally clean ball handler but poor goalscorer. AFL standard but not elite.
• Frederick, good goal scorer, average to poor ball handler (fumbles way too much), good speed though. AFL standard but not elite.
• Banfield, average at best. Will try not be too harsh but he’s not AFL standard in a premiership contender.
• Walters, was elite once but now not even at AFL standard anymore sadly.
• Emmett, see Banfield above.

Delean and Simpson are kids that right now, as we sit here are unproven and not yet AFL standard.


So we have just two guys for 4 positions that are AFL standard in 2025, Frederick and Switta, and neither are elite.
Clearly Bolton is one that brings in an extra option that’s elite for these positions.
But that’s not enough I dont think. We need a 4th player here that’s ideally better than Switta or Frederick. Pickett would have been great but Baker could be a good alternative. Jack Martin - unlikely.
Maybe we do need Joe Richards.

This offseason for me is all about ensuring we don’t arrive in a finals campaign next September and have to rely on the likes of Banfield, emmet or Switta to convert the half chances that are at such a premium in big finals.
If that happens, it will end it tears, nothing surer.

To be fair the club was trying to fix our lack of talls in the forward line. We need two new starting 22 small forwards in 2025.

 

[anchor man]

You are the one carrying on like a child

I was acknowledging how well Meek has been playing for Hawks. Darcey is consistently injured. I'm not saying he isn't a quality ruckman. He is also costing Freo a big slice of our cap while playing minimal games. So we aren't getting value for money. He and the club needs to solve this constant issue.

Like I said if you have an issue and need to respond like a child to my comment then you need go grow up.

Steady John you will blow a valve.

 

[King Huskii]

Steady John you will blow a valve.

John who