dazzledavey36

Yeah 35 plus years ago. How's that worked out since huh? The best ruckman i have ever seen since being a Melbourne supporter was plucked straight from our very own backyard.

Agree with coaching contracts. I immediately think of the Brett Ratten situation at St Kilda where he signed a new deal and then was sacked within months. The AFL should have should have intervened before it was announced. Shocking treatment.

Or the the fact that he also gets paid outside of his salary through his five sponsorship deals he's currently locked in twith Monster Energy Drink, Cotton On, McDonald's, deodorant company in Stuff That Matters and Barry's Drink.. No different to Gawn, Lever and Melksham who own property down Mornington Peninsula.

Saved up his pocket money and brought a bit of land.. What's the issue again?

Meant to say Lindsay instead of Langford.. he's a gun too i suppose.

Dancing with your sister kind of stuff this time of the year. Every club will have footage where they'll show the good stuff and the not so good stuff. Take it with a grain of salt, let's wait for the real stuff. Ps. Langford looks bloody good though..... 🔫

Interesting that there's no info on Spargo..

Yeah you'd think so.. So now that the club has officially announced the reason why he's been missing its a good lesson why we shouldn't jump to conclusions and think of the worst the proper facts come out. Poor kid alright.. pneumonia is a pretty serious illness and I hope he takes all the time in the world.

I'm pretty sure that if it comes out that Kentfield has decided not to pursue a career any further, then the club places him on the inactive list which means this opens up a list spot for us. He can't be off the list completely until he is officially delisted and paperwork is lodged through to the AFL which doesn't happen until the first list lodgement at the end of the year. I could be completely wrong.

He ain't leaving Freo. His brother Hamish is fairly confident of this.

Correct. Signed a contract extension alongside Kynan Brown and AMW back in September last year. I'm not going to jump to conclusions and say he's been delisted as of yet like some have already. Clearly something has happened where perhaps the club has given him some sort of personal leave to deal with whatever is going on in his life. I hope he is okay.

Are we lead to believe Spargo is still a few months off potentially from resuming full time contact training? Whats the go with Kentfield also? Seems like he's been missing for a while?

Because it rarely happens in today's AFL trade landscape that there is a player trade between two clubs, especially gun players as well. Give me examples of when this has happened the last 5 years? If Kozzie leaves at the end of the year and Melbourne use the same ANB home/family treatment then two early first round draft picks is the starting point. Freo then need to get creative.

Saw nothing in the the last few games in Judd McVee that suggest he'll do well as a midfielder. Not everyone needs to be turned into a midfielder. He's a gun half back flanker that's shut down some of the best small forwards in the game in his short career so far. Leave him there.

Well clearly not according to the coaches. Didn't even finish top 10 in the best and fairest.

Will Varrell..

Really disappointing to hear about Brown. Out of all the young first and 2nd year players, i had him down for a break out season. Big big fan of young Kynan..

Knee??

Why the need to look at other codes for talent?

Because they would genuinely suck, and a big waste of club resources and time. Being tall and athletic with no footy IQ doesn't mean they'll make it as a AFL footballer I hope the club has put a complete line in attempting to convert basketballers into try hard footballers. Hopefully we've seen the last of the Farris-Whites and Austin Bradke's of the world.. (no offence to them) There are genuine ruckman and defenders hidden all over the country, we just have to find them. Or if we want to go outside the box, then go down the Irish route which our club started the very first experiment.

Roy George come on down.

We were very interested in small forward Joe Berry from last year's draft who went to Port Adelaide. Jason Taylor and his team made several trips up the border here to Wangaratta to interview over the course of the year. Maybe worth keeping an eye on over the next few years.

I'm sure he is.

Jye Amiss is a true WA boy. No way would he agree to a trade into Victoria. They're building a forward line around him for the next decade.