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Braden Quartermaine's article in Sunday Times 10 ten most important players. Ummm no. 7 Adam Cerra looks a LOT like Bailey Banfield...
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Lockdown diaries: A week’s a long time in football
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Hope versus dread: Which feeling will win out at Freo?
With a coaching change, a young list, and injuries to experienced players, there’s a strange mix of feelings as the Dockers prepare to launch a new era.
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Mark Duffield on Fremantle Dockers: High hopes versus an age-old theory
Mark DuffieldThe West Australian
Monday, 16 March 2020 2:00AM
There is a strange mix of hope and dread about the start of the 2020 season at Fremantle.
The hope comes from a new coach, pursuing a new, more attacking game style, with one of the AFL’s youngest lists which is stacked with players who should be getting better.
The dread comes from the second-youngest list in the AFL starting the season without three of the six members of their on field leadership group.
David Mundy, Alex Pearce and Joel Hamling won’t be there for up to a month.
Add the absences of Jesse Hogan, on indefinite leave for mental health issues, and Nathan Wilson, still recovering from a turf toe injury.
Add the departures of wingmen Brad Hill and Ed Langdon, mainstays in the team in the past two seasons, and there are concerns that Justin Longmuir’s young team and his new playing style could get blown out of the water before he gets a chance to bed it down this year.
Yet there is still a feeling of optimism about the camp at Fremantle heading into 2020. Longmuir has set his sights on this team being significantly better at the end of the season than they are at the start.
That alone will make for a refreshing change from the Ross Lyon coached teams of recent years which tended to collapse mid-season and stagger to the end of the home-and-away rounds like a mortally wounded deer in the headlights.
How will they cope with so much experience missing early? It’s not all doom and gloom. Taylin Duman showed promising signs in defence during the pre-season games, keeping his feet and using the ball well, and could fill in for Wilson.
Griffin Logue and Brennan Cox aren’t Pearce and Hamling but neither are they first or second-year defenders. Both are in their fourth seasons this year. Logue was a top-10 draft pick who has had a great summer.
Cox has been used mainly in attack at AFL level but has a defensive background. He was the All-Australian centre half-back at national under-18 level.
While Hill and Langdon were lost, gains Blake Acres and James Aish have had great pre-seasons, before Acres’ injury, and look set for midfield roles.
There is a strange mix of hope and dread about the start of the 2020 season at Fremantle.
The hope comes from a new coach, pursuing a new, more attacking game style, with one of the AFL’s youngest lists which is stacked with players who should be getting better.
The dread comes from the second-youngest list in the AFL starting the season without three of the six members of their on field leadership group.
David Mundy, Alex Pearce and Joel Hamling won’t be there for up to a month.
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Add the absences of Jesse Hogan, on indefinite leave for mental health issues, and Nathan Wilson, still recovering from a turf toe injury.
Add the departures of wingmen Brad Hill and Ed Langdon, mainstays in the team in the past two seasons, and there are concerns that Justin Longmuir’s young team and his new playing style could get blown out of the water before he gets a chance to bed it down this year.
Yet there is still a feeling of optimism about the camp at Fremantle heading into 2020. Longmuir has set his sights on this team being significantly better at the end of the season than they are at the start.
That alone will make for a refreshing change from the Ross Lyon coached teams of recent years which tended to collapse mid-season and stagger to the end of the home-and-away rounds like a mortally wounded deer in the headlights.
How will they cope with so much experience missing early? It’s not all doom and gloom. Taylin Duman showed promising signs in defence during the pre-season games, keeping his feet and using the ball well, and could fill in for Wilson.
Griffin Logue and Brennan Cox aren’t Pearce and Hamling but neither are they first or second-year defenders. Both are in their fourth seasons this year. Logue was a top-10 draft pick who has had a great summer.
Cox has been used mainly in attack at AFL level but has a defensive background. He was the All-Australian centre half-back at national under-18 level.
While Hill and Langdon were lost, gains Blake Acres and James Aish have had great pre-seasons, before Acres’ injury, and look set for midfield roles.
If you add the expected development of third-year top-10 picks Adam Cerra and Andrew Brayshaw, and fifth-year mid Darcy Tucker, the Dockers are slowly putting midfield bodies around senior stars Nathan Fyfe and Michael Walters.
But the big question marks for Fremantle are going to be forward of centre and unfortunately, of all the players set to be absent early, Hogan has the biggest question mark on if and when he returns.
Longmuir has promised an attack that holds its structure more than Lyon’s forward lines but he would love Hogan as a spearhead. Rory Lobb has had a ripping summer but openly prefers the forward/ruck role which requires him to play deep. Matt Taberner has a huge tank and is a strong mark but he lacks Hogan’s nimble ground level skills. Cam McCarthy’s supporters have been crying out for two tall forwards near him to enable him to play a more mobile role.
If he gets alongside Lobb and Taberner he needs to deliver. McCarthy will turn 25 this year and is out of contract at season’s end.
Walters will give them quality at ground level but will also be required midfield. The others — Sam Sturt, Bailey Banfield, Lachie Schultz and Brandon Matera — are all possible but not definite reliable goal sources.
And with the exception of Walters, reliable goal sources at Fremantle have been rarer than hen’s teeth since Matthew Pavlich’s retirement. They went two seasons without a player kicking thirty goals. Only Walters (40) and Matera (30) topped the mark last year.
The good news is their young talent continues to build. Sean Darcy leads the ruck at 21 and top-10 draft pick Caleb Serong looks capable of playing this year. The Dockers also like fellow top tenners Hayden Young and Liam Henry, although Henry will be brought along carefully after a 2019 knee injury.
And they are happy with the improvement in Schultz, Sturt, Logue and Brett Bewley.
The draw? They double up against flag fancy West Coast and two other teams they play twice, Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs, are tipped to improve and play finals. But they also get the Saints twice and they don’t run into Collingwood, GWS and Richmond until the back end of the season.
How far can they climb? It depends on how they cope early and how quickly stars return. They won nine games last year including seven in the first half of the season. You would like to see them at least match that.
Finals are possible, but not likely. Further improvement and development are absolute musts. Longmuir’s appointment sold hope to fans, many of whom felt Lyon’s eight-year reign had gone stale.
Finals or not, he needs performances that keep that hope alive moving into 2021.
Mark DuffieldThe West Australian
Monday, 16 March 2020 2:00AM
There is a strange mix of hope and dread about the start of the 2020 season at Fremantle.
The hope comes from a new coach, pursuing a new, more attacking game style, with one of the AFL’s youngest lists which is stacked with players who should be getting better.
The dread comes from the second-youngest list in the AFL starting the season without three of the six members of their on field leadership group.
David Mundy, Alex Pearce and Joel Hamling won’t be there for up to a month.
Add the absences of Jesse Hogan, on indefinite leave for mental health issues, and Nathan Wilson, still recovering from a turf toe injury.
Add the departures of wingmen Brad Hill and Ed Langdon, mainstays in the team in the past two seasons, and there are concerns that Justin Longmuir’s young team and his new playing style could get blown out of the water before he gets a chance to bed it down this year.
Yet there is still a feeling of optimism about the camp at Fremantle heading into 2020. Longmuir has set his sights on this team being significantly better at the end of the season than they are at the start.
That alone will make for a refreshing change from the Ross Lyon coached teams of recent years which tended to collapse mid-season and stagger to the end of the home-and-away rounds like a mortally wounded deer in the headlights.
How will they cope with so much experience missing early? It’s not all doom and gloom. Taylin Duman showed promising signs in defence during the pre-season games, keeping his feet and using the ball well, and could fill in for Wilson.
Griffin Logue and Brennan Cox aren’t Pearce and Hamling but neither are they first or second-year defenders. Both are in their fourth seasons this year. Logue was a top-10 draft pick who has had a great summer.
Cox has been used mainly in attack at AFL level but has a defensive background. He was the All-Australian centre half-back at national under-18 level.
While Hill and Langdon were lost, gains Blake Acres and James Aish have had great pre-seasons, before Acres’ injury, and look set for midfield roles.
There is a strange mix of hope and dread about the start of the 2020 season at Fremantle.
The hope comes from a new coach, pursuing a new, more attacking game style, with one of the AFL’s youngest lists which is stacked with players who should be getting better.
The dread comes from the second-youngest list in the AFL starting the season without three of the six members of their on field leadership group.
David Mundy, Alex Pearce and Joel Hamling won’t be there for up to a month.
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Add the absences of Jesse Hogan, on indefinite leave for mental health issues, and Nathan Wilson, still recovering from a turf toe injury.
Add the departures of wingmen Brad Hill and Ed Langdon, mainstays in the team in the past two seasons, and there are concerns that Justin Longmuir’s young team and his new playing style could get blown out of the water before he gets a chance to bed it down this year.
Yet there is still a feeling of optimism about the camp at Fremantle heading into 2020. Longmuir has set his sights on this team being significantly better at the end of the season than they are at the start.
That alone will make for a refreshing change from the Ross Lyon coached teams of recent years which tended to collapse mid-season and stagger to the end of the home-and-away rounds like a mortally wounded deer in the headlights.
How will they cope with so much experience missing early? It’s not all doom and gloom. Taylin Duman showed promising signs in defence during the pre-season games, keeping his feet and using the ball well, and could fill in for Wilson.
Griffin Logue and Brennan Cox aren’t Pearce and Hamling but neither are they first or second-year defenders. Both are in their fourth seasons this year. Logue was a top-10 draft pick who has had a great summer.
Cox has been used mainly in attack at AFL level but has a defensive background. He was the All-Australian centre half-back at national under-18 level.
While Hill and Langdon were lost, gains Blake Acres and James Aish have had great pre-seasons, before Acres’ injury, and look set for midfield roles.
If you add the expected development of third-year top-10 picks Adam Cerra and Andrew Brayshaw, and fifth-year mid Darcy Tucker, the Dockers are slowly putting midfield bodies around senior stars Nathan Fyfe and Michael Walters.
But the big question marks for Fremantle are going to be forward of centre and unfortunately, of all the players set to be absent early, Hogan has the biggest question mark on if and when he returns.
Longmuir has promised an attack that holds its structure more than Lyon’s forward lines but he would love Hogan as a spearhead. Rory Lobb has had a ripping summer but openly prefers the forward/ruck role which requires him to play deep. Matt Taberner has a huge tank and is a strong mark but he lacks Hogan’s nimble ground level skills. Cam McCarthy’s supporters have been crying out for two tall forwards near him to enable him to play a more mobile role.
If he gets alongside Lobb and Taberner he needs to deliver. McCarthy will turn 25 this year and is out of contract at season’s end.
Walters will give them quality at ground level but will also be required midfield. The others — Sam Sturt, Bailey Banfield, Lachie Schultz and Brandon Matera — are all possible but not definite reliable goal sources.
And with the exception of Walters, reliable goal sources at Fremantle have been rarer than hen’s teeth since Matthew Pavlich’s retirement. They went two seasons without a player kicking thirty goals. Only Walters (40) and Matera (30) topped the mark last year.
The good news is their young talent continues to build. Sean Darcy leads the ruck at 21 and top-10 draft pick Caleb Serong looks capable of playing this year. The Dockers also like fellow top tenners Hayden Young and Liam Henry, although Henry will be brought along carefully after a 2019 knee injury.
And they are happy with the improvement in Schultz, Sturt, Logue and Brett Bewley.
The draw? They double up against flag fancy West Coast and two other teams they play twice, Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs, are tipped to improve and play finals. But they also get the Saints twice and they don’t run into Collingwood, GWS and Richmond until the back end of the season.
How far can they climb? It depends on how they cope early and how quickly stars return. They won nine games last year including seven in the first half of the season. You would like to see them at least match that.
Finals are possible, but not likely. Further improvement and development are absolute musts. Longmuir’s appointment sold hope to fans, many of whom felt Lyon’s eight-year reign had gone stale.
Finals or not, he needs performances that keep that hope alive moving into 2021.
Pretty accurate reading, and also highlights our lack of developing medium/tall forwards.Mark Duffield on Fremantle Dockers: High hopes versus an age-old theory
Mark DuffieldThe West Australian
Monday, 16 March 2020 2:00AM
There is a strange mix of hope and dread about the start of the 2020 season at Fremantle.
The hope comes from a new coach, pursuing a new, more attacking game style, with one of the AFL’s youngest lists which is stacked with players who should be getting better.
The dread comes from the second-youngest list in the AFL starting the season without three of the six members of their on field leadership group.
David Mundy, Alex Pearce and Joel Hamling won’t be there for up to a month.
Add the absences of Jesse Hogan, on indefinite leave for mental health issues, and Nathan Wilson, still recovering from a turf toe injury.
Add the departures of wingmen Brad Hill and Ed Langdon, mainstays in the team in the past two seasons, and there are concerns that Justin Longmuir’s young team and his new playing style could get blown out of the water before he gets a chance to bed it down this year.
Yet there is still a feeling of optimism about the camp at Fremantle heading into 2020. Longmuir has set his sights on this team being significantly better at the end of the season than they are at the start.
That alone will make for a refreshing change from the Ross Lyon coached teams of recent years which tended to collapse mid-season and stagger to the end of the home-and-away rounds like a mortally wounded deer in the headlights.
How will they cope with so much experience missing early? It’s not all doom and gloom. Taylin Duman showed promising signs in defence during the pre-season games, keeping his feet and using the ball well, and could fill in for Wilson.
Griffin Logue and Brennan Cox aren’t Pearce and Hamling but neither are they first or second-year defenders. Both are in their fourth seasons this year. Logue was a top-10 draft pick who has had a great summer.
Cox has been used mainly in attack at AFL level but has a defensive background. He was the All-Australian centre half-back at national under-18 level.
While Hill and Langdon were lost, gains Blake Acres and James Aish have had great pre-seasons, before Acres’ injury, and look set for midfield roles.
There is a strange mix of hope and dread about the start of the 2020 season at Fremantle.
The hope comes from a new coach, pursuing a new, more attacking game style, with one of the AFL’s youngest lists which is stacked with players who should be getting better.
The dread comes from the second-youngest list in the AFL starting the season without three of the six members of their on field leadership group.
David Mundy, Alex Pearce and Joel Hamling won’t be there for up to a month.
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Add the absences of Jesse Hogan, on indefinite leave for mental health issues, and Nathan Wilson, still recovering from a turf toe injury.
Add the departures of wingmen Brad Hill and Ed Langdon, mainstays in the team in the past two seasons, and there are concerns that Justin Longmuir’s young team and his new playing style could get blown out of the water before he gets a chance to bed it down this year.
Yet there is still a feeling of optimism about the camp at Fremantle heading into 2020. Longmuir has set his sights on this team being significantly better at the end of the season than they are at the start.
That alone will make for a refreshing change from the Ross Lyon coached teams of recent years which tended to collapse mid-season and stagger to the end of the home-and-away rounds like a mortally wounded deer in the headlights.
How will they cope with so much experience missing early? It’s not all doom and gloom. Taylin Duman showed promising signs in defence during the pre-season games, keeping his feet and using the ball well, and could fill in for Wilson.
Griffin Logue and Brennan Cox aren’t Pearce and Hamling but neither are they first or second-year defenders. Both are in their fourth seasons this year. Logue was a top-10 draft pick who has had a great summer.
Cox has been used mainly in attack at AFL level but has a defensive background. He was the All-Australian centre half-back at national under-18 level.
While Hill and Langdon were lost, gains Blake Acres and James Aish have had great pre-seasons, before Acres’ injury, and look set for midfield roles.
If you add the expected development of third-year top-10 picks Adam Cerra and Andrew Brayshaw, and fifth-year mid Darcy Tucker, the Dockers are slowly putting midfield bodies around senior stars Nathan Fyfe and Michael Walters.
But the big question marks for Fremantle are going to be forward of centre and unfortunately, of all the players set to be absent early, Hogan has the biggest question mark on if and when he returns.
Longmuir has promised an attack that holds its structure more than Lyon’s forward lines but he would love Hogan as a spearhead. Rory Lobb has had a ripping summer but openly prefers the forward/ruck role which requires him to play deep. Matt Taberner has a huge tank and is a strong mark but he lacks Hogan’s nimble ground level skills. Cam McCarthy’s supporters have been crying out for two tall forwards near him to enable him to play a more mobile role.
If he gets alongside Lobb and Taberner he needs to deliver. McCarthy will turn 25 this year and is out of contract at season’s end.
Walters will give them quality at ground level but will also be required midfield. The others — Sam Sturt, Bailey Banfield, Lachie Schultz and Brandon Matera — are all possible but not definite reliable goal sources.
And with the exception of Walters, reliable goal sources at Fremantle have been rarer than hen’s teeth since Matthew Pavlich’s retirement. They went two seasons without a player kicking thirty goals. Only Walters (40) and Matera (30) topped the mark last year.
The good news is their young talent continues to build. Sean Darcy leads the ruck at 21 and top-10 draft pick Caleb Serong looks capable of playing this year. The Dockers also like fellow top tenners Hayden Young and Liam Henry, although Henry will be brought along carefully after a 2019 knee injury.
And they are happy with the improvement in Schultz, Sturt, Logue and Brett Bewley.
The draw? They double up against flag fancy West Coast and two other teams they play twice, Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs, are tipped to improve and play finals. But they also get the Saints twice and they don’t run into Collingwood, GWS and Richmond until the back end of the season.
How far can they climb? It depends on how they cope early and how quickly stars return. They won nine games last year including seven in the first half of the season. You would like to see them at least match that.
Finals are possible, but not likely. Further improvement and development are absolute musts. Longmuir’s appointment sold hope to fans, many of whom felt Lyon’s eight-year reign had gone stale.
Finals or not, he needs performances that keep that hope alive moving into 2021.
Not Ross's forte and the trading in and chasing talls is a blight on the club.
Hopefully this will change with Dixon, Sturt, and maybe McDonald to follow?
Team only needs to fix scoreboard pressure and I'm confident that we will see rapid improvement.
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NBL have called off the final games of the GF series.
The West makes this great completely 'unbiased' argument on who should be named champions:
The prospect of the series being called off was flagged in a poll on The West Australian Sport’s Facebook page earlier today, with a whopping 96 per cent of respondents backing the Wildcats as rightful winners.
So I've just gone and polled a bunch of Fremantle supporters and 100% have said Freo deserve to be named AFLW champions if it is to be called off. Just sending it over to AFL HQ right now.
The West makes this great completely 'unbiased' argument on who should be named champions:
The prospect of the series being called off was flagged in a poll on The West Australian Sport’s Facebook page earlier today, with a whopping 96 per cent of respondents backing the Wildcats as rightful winners.
So I've just gone and polled a bunch of Fremantle supporters and 100% have said Freo deserve to be named AFLW champions if it is to be called off. Just sending it over to AFL HQ right now.
Don’t worry, the CEO of the AFLW will backstroke her way out of making a decision.
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Is Gill not the CEO of the women’s league?
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So if the men’s season is cancelled, we’ve probably seen the last of David Mundy.
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I see him at the beach here or there, particularly at Yallingup. I'm sure I'll still see him around
Well aren't you a little ray of sunshine.
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Jesus Christ, how is this bi-line on afl.com.au...
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Lobb got blasted about it on the radio this morning.....
I'm pretty sure that freo aren't the only team to be doing it, what's the point of full isolation if their partners are just going to go out into the world and catch it and bring it back. Makes perfect sense, not surprising that they would spin it into something negative tho
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