was lovely to see you fail this weekend
Haha fair enough. We played pretty bad.
Grats on the win yesterday, it looked a good team effort.
Will Fremantle make the 8?
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Haha fair enough. We played pretty bad.
Grats on the win yesterday, it looked a good team effort.
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Nah the majority just prefer Hogan over Neale, which I agree with. Of course our team would be better with Neale in it currently.
Fair enough. I can't say I've watched Freo enough to tell myself, but I believe you on that one.
I understand. I live in Adelaide and it's exactly the same here.
Whilst I agree, as we did it as well as Geelong fans when Ablett left, I do wonder about the Hawks and losing Buddy. They won three flags after he left.
Sure, they probably wouldn't have lost those flags if he'd remained, but I think Hawthorn were that bloody good that losing Buddy genuinely didn't affect them at all.
It’s actually been referred to as ‘The Buddy Syndrome’ when teams actually step up better and work harder after losing a star.
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Need to win one or both of our next two to have a decent shake at it. Reckon that's achievable though
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Just quietly made a very solid list.
Pearce, Hamling, Ryan, Wilson make a solid defence.
Lobb, Hogan, Taberner give them outs for contested marks. Between the 3 they are very rarely completely beaten in the air.
Fyfe, Mundy, Hill, Walters, Langdon, Tucker is a decent midfield group with Fyfe elite and Walters elevating himself.
Sprinkle in some tidy senior role players who have experience (Conca, Matera), and some genuinely exciting kids (Brayshaw, Cerra, Switkowski) and it's looking very good.
Can they sustain it for 22 rounds, especially with a solid bunch of their best players having reasonable injury histories is the question.
But Lyon has finally been given the chance to rebuild and it looks alright.
Pearce, Hamling, Ryan, Wilson make a solid defence.
Lobb, Hogan, Taberner give them outs for contested marks. Between the 3 they are very rarely completely beaten in the air.
Fyfe, Mundy, Hill, Walters, Langdon, Tucker is a decent midfield group with Fyfe elite and Walters elevating himself.
Sprinkle in some tidy senior role players who have experience (Conca, Matera), and some genuinely exciting kids (Brayshaw, Cerra, Switkowski) and it's looking very good.
Can they sustain it for 22 rounds, especially with a solid bunch of their best players having reasonable injury histories is the question.
But Lyon has finally been given the chance to rebuild and it looks alright.
No depth in the midfield or key backs.
A few injuries in the midfield it will look totally different for the Dockers.
Need to S Hill, Blakely and Sandilands can get fit and not a lot of injuries in the wrong positions, then Freo will make the 8.
History says Freo will be hit with injuries.
I agree. No side is better without a bloke who gets 35 possessions a game.
I think the damage of losing Neale has been somewhat made up in the aggregates. Sure - Freo lose 35 possessions through Neale, but they bring in:
Conca (20 possessions),
Colyer (15 Possessions) and
Tucker improves from a 14 possession utility to 20 possession midfielder/defender.
And, as you correctly point out - without the Picks Freo got for Neale, there's limited currency for Hogan and Lobb. Adding those two has been huge. For mine the value of Hogan isn't just in his stats, but also how he takes the number 1 defender each week. Opposition teams are Hogan-conscious, which frees up others. We've already seen 5 goal games from McCarthy and Matera (and Taberner should have kicked 5). Not exactly big names of the AFL, but they're getting off the leash.
You seem to have taken real exception to a post which gives your club a great chance of doing something no one expected they would achieve this year.
It is my personal opinion that, at the moment, Fremantle are not one of the best 8 sides in the competition. But, it is also my opinion that they could make finals if one of the sides I have above them falters.
6 weeks ago I didn’t have Brisbane there and probably didn’t have Port, Adelaide and Melbourne were there instead. Clearly, my opinion can change. But it’s going to take more than a single poor loss to the best performed side of the season so far for me to drop WC below Freo.
If you wish to try get a changed opinion out of me in the future, I suggest you wait for one of the lower sides in the list I posted to be belted. I put them in rough order from most to least confident.
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I can't really make Freo out. GWS in Canberra was a great win, and you can't complain about thrashing North. Saints win not bad either considering the Saints have started the season pretty well.
On the other hand, losing to gold coast was a real pain and having watched the last quarter I still can't quite work out how it happened. It hasn't been a hard start to the season fixture wise but you couldn't say it has been easy either.
I'd probably say that Freo are like us (Brisbane) and they could finish anywhere from 7th-12th. My best guess at the moment would be just outside the 8 but that's because I'm going to keep holding out hope my team will sneak in ahead of the likes of Freo and the Saints
On the other hand, losing to gold coast was a real pain and having watched the last quarter I still can't quite work out how it happened. It hasn't been a hard start to the season fixture wise but you couldn't say it has been easy either.
I'd probably say that Freo are like us (Brisbane) and they could finish anywhere from 7th-12th. My best guess at the moment would be just outside the 8 but that's because I'm going to keep holding out hope my team will sneak in ahead of the likes of Freo and the Saints
I'd probably say that Freo are like us (Brisbane) and they could finish anywhere from 7th-12th. My best guess at the moment would be just outside the 8 but that's because I'm going to keep holding out hope my team will sneak in ahead of the likes of Freo and the Saints
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Literally no Fremantle supporter I know or who I’ve talked to have said that about Neale. Maybe the odd salty supporter on here.
We knew he was a gun, but when Hogan became available we had to deal. Without Hogan we may have kept him and tried to keep him. Prob a win win for us and you after all.
As for our season, final - who knows. But the team is genuinely exciting when playing well. 12 wins likely get you in, and you’d think we’re a chance of all home games remaining.
I’ll be happy if we keep this % healthy and give the thing a crack
Yes and the "easiest" part of the FUXture was the first 6 rounds. We needed to be at least in this very position 4/2 (exchange GWS win for GCS loss, as most expected) to give this season a real shot.
Make no mistake, this is where it starts for Freo!
Honestly, did you just make that 'line' up?
Can you please show me one person that has said that our midfield is better without Lachie?
Not an answer to you question, but F'me, I really want to see how Sandilands goes with the new ruck rules!
Personally I don’t think Sandilands should play another game, irrespective of his recovery, unless we have a serious injury crisis.
We should be looking for the right combination of Darcy and Lobb and giving games to Sandilands simply has to take them from one of them.
We should be looking for the right combination of Darcy and Lobb and giving games to Sandilands simply has to take them from one of them.
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