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Some of you are in deep denial. That interview is like the worst possible version of “contracted player wants trade but can’t openly say it.” him saying he’s contracted doesn’t mean he’s not trying again this year, it literally just means it’s the only thing he can actually say in this situation. Other players have played it much better. Talk about how excited they sure to build and grow with the club/have success etc.

I don't see who that benefits though. Just makes him look very unprofessional. I see Bolton and Narkle have now liked the foxfooty instagram post about this article. So either Kozzy and all his close mates are having a laugh, or he is just trying to say as much as he can publicly without actually saying it to put pressure on the club. I don't think I've ever seen a player this open about trade speculation, especially at this stage of the year. Even Bailey Smith was more towards the end of the year, and he was uncontracted.

From what I've seen, the only teams he follows on sm are Fremantle and Melbourne. Nothing in it. He has liked several Freo posts. Again, nothing in that. He reposted a story of his cousin Isaiah Dudley training on at freo. Again, nothing in that either. But then he's also gone and liked a Fremantle fan page post quoting Twomey saying that he tried to get to fremantle at the end of the trade period. Apparently he also liked a comment on facebook saying something like "Freo are training on Dudley to lure Kozzy to freo" or along the lines of that. That's where the whole social media speculation is coming in, because he's actively feeding into it. You don't like those posts by accident. The way I see it all this is his way of publicly putting pressure on the club to let him go.

Pretty sure Henry was just a matched bid. They took Serong and Young with the picks they had before Kozzy.

Darcy and Jackson on big money. Young with a massive deal. Amiss, Treacy, Cox also all on big money. Serong. Then they go bring in Bolton, going after Warner and Kozzy. And at the same time have a six year deal in front of Brayshaw. Don’t see how they’re affording all of it.

It's pretty obvious where he wants to be. I don't think it's been posted but he liked this post not long ago. Pretty unprofessional behaviour to be doing that knowing it can be publicly seen.

Port is unexpected. You'd think if he was serious about getting it done he would've chosen one of the WA teams who have better picks to work with. Would much rather take WC's future first. Houston aisde, don't Port need picks for Lukosious too?

FWIW I was told that same story about a month ago by one of my freo mates who usually has good info. Story goes that they had caught up and Shai brought up Kozzie joining him at freo. Kozzie's management then contacted freo to gauge their interest but couldn't really commit because of their work on Baker and Warner. No actual trade request was ever put in but I wouldn't rule it out just yet. Don't think we'll trade him even if he does ask though. Same guy also reckons that Freo's Switkowski was going to request a trade here (unrelated to Kozzie stuff) but the Trac stuff gave him cold feet.

If you were really homesick for a couple places you would probably spend your time off in the place you will be less likely to get to during the season.

They lost Darcy for 2 and a half quarters, meaning they also lost Jackson from the forward line. On top of that their leading goalkicker going into this game in Walters was also out. It's not a positive that bringing in our two injured players would get us over the line vs another team missing two key players.

did our supporter base actually cheer him or did the freo crowd just over power us. so embarrassing that a side that just lost by 100+ to the bottom team on the ladder can still have 10k more fans rock up than us

Just had a look. They have jaeger on there for 2023 but he definitely signed a 4 year deal. I wonder if they're not making it public because of the scrutiny. Seems very weird to lure over such a high profile, expensive recruit and not know how many years its for. And when they asked him during his press conference and he deflected it onto his management. Just seems very strange.

Think it's mostly because he's a key forward from WA who was a huge dockers supporter. There were rumours of him being a flight risk when he was drafted.

Saw somewhere that fremantle tried very hard to trade up in 2019 to get him. Means they would have missed out on Young and Serong. Now they have all three.