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http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-03-03/the-2016-free-agent-list?camefrom=EMCL_987573_38913773 Only big names on the list are at the end of their careers, Daniel Rich might get some interest. Also, Jack Watts.
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Solemn Sloth posted:You're a lunatic if you think Hooker isn't the biggest name on that by a mile. Well he's coming to Freo anyway And that Melbourne/Freo game in '08 was when Wonaeamirri run amok wasn't it? I remember being a sad man that afternoon. Mark Harvey, what a coach.
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thepokey posted:Hands off Hooker, you can have Mark Harvey back instead. Here's a short excerpt from Pav's book about Harvey, not particularly positive: http://m.smh.com.au/sport/pssst-mark-harvey-cops-hammering-in-matthew-pavlichs-book-20151007-gk3ezv.html And a longer excerpt if you're interested: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/afl/a/29708513/matthew-pavlich-book-extract/ I only mention Hooker to Freo as there was some article last week about him possibly returning home and apparently Freo talking to his management. With Pav retiring at the end of the year we should have cap space for him.
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Solemn Sloth posted:http://www.hawthornfc.com.au/news/2016-03-01/design-our-alternate-guernsey- I scroll past and think "that's not bad, they've definitely done worse in the past" and then realise it's an MS paint design done in 2 sec. They should probably go with it.
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Solemn Sloth posted:The AFL is adopting the 10 metre protected zone for marks in the regular season this year. Good god, I really hope they police it with some brains or it's going to be loving awful
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Someone asked on the Titus O'Reilly podcast what small rule change would gently caress up footy the best. One suggestion was handball receives becoming a mark. I was thinking you can only take possession if part of your body is grounded.
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Harley Bennell is getting his first run for the Purples on the weekend V the Cats at Subi. Keen to see how he goes and where he plays, I'm expecting changing off the half forward line in the middle with Fyfe/Mundy/Walters
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Mar 10, 2016 08:45
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Well, I dunno, how about not being a high ranking official in a bikie gang.
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Mar 10, 2016 11:32
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gay picnic defence posted:Anyway, I'm pretty sure Dusty's dad is white so he should get his visa back soon enough. He's Maori, so who knows what the government would do with him. (Something not good I'm guessing).
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Mar 10, 2016 11:51
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NTRabbit posted:We'll find out end of 2017, when Fyfe's current contract runs out and he has the option of being a free agent. Well, he is already home... As for footy podcasts, I still miss Mondayitis with Crackers Keenan, but I really enjoy Titus 'n' Paradise, and the new Will Anderson one is pretty good. Junk Time is starting to grate on me, like someone else said, their guest show are worth a listen though.
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gay picnic defence posted:Dunno if the Coodabeens have a podcast but they are easily the best footy program on the radio. The ABC put up their full shows every week, kept me in touch with the footy world while living in the UK years ago.
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Looks like there will be a women's match as a curtain raiser for the first Derby in round 3, Freo have announced their captain: http://m.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2016-03-16/forth-to-captain-freo- And this goes someway to explaining why Mayne might not be the most handsome man on the list: http://m.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2016-03-17/maynes-message Spedman fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Mar 17, 2016 |
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spamman posted:I'm curious, what's with the Freo hype? Aren't they super old this year with no key forwards? The strongest part of the team, the mid-field, got stronger with with addition of Bennell and Neale is continuing to improve, with Fyfe/Mundy/Hill. Sandi is still going strong with Clarke playing some good preseason game games. Bennell played a full WAFL game this weekend picking 23 touches, 4 tackles and 4 goals, his second game since being at Freo. Down back Alex Pearce will step up to fill the hole McPharlin has left, and he was barely held together with sticky tape the last few seasons anyway. And we also got Sam Collins from the Hawks who looks like a good prospect. The utility players that Lyon uses through the mid-field and half back/forward lines, Suban/De Boer/Mzungu/Mayne will get phased out with younger better skilled players drafted over the last few years, Weller/Blakely/Hughes/Smith etc. And then up forward, Pav looked like he hasn't skipped a beat during preseason, Walters is ready to go and hopefully we'll have Ballentyne on the field for most of the season, the scoring dried up when he was out last year. The talk is having Fyfe and Bennell rotating through, Tabaner and Apeness need to really show something this year, and who knows what Yarren will do. tldr: I think Freo are stronger than last year, but I've got purple tinted glasses.
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spamman posted:I like Sam Collins and had completely forgotten Freo took him. He was decent at Box Hill last year although I'm not sure you'd want him playing many games in the AFL this year. Maybe next year. I think he'll be similar to Alex Pearce from last year, no expectations on him but be very solid with what he's asked to do when he gets a run.
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I had every intention of doing the draft, but then completely forgot when sorting out dinner. Go Shamrocks.
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Shmoses posted:I just can't see how you can possibly think this, you're weak in the key positions and it took a ridiculous Fyfe season for you to finish as high as you did We finished top of the ladder while having a garbage second half of a season, I think our list is better this year.  We played poorly when we lost a key part of our forward line structure in Ballentyne, and our backline in Michael Johnson, both of them being very important to setting up play, along with Fyfe hobbling through the back end of the season. You take out the best mid and arguably the most important back and forward of any team and they are going to struggle (unless they're Hawks). Also not doing the excessive summer running might mean we actually have legs at the end of the season, rather than beating sides by halftime in the first 10 games.
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Bugger http://www.theage.com.au/afl/freman...321-gnn68i.html
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http://m.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2016-03-23/richard-walley-is-new-number-one Freo have a new #1 ticket holder, Richard Walley, an indigenous artist who among many other things designed our first indigenous round jumper.
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Carlton looked infinitely better than they did last year, actually had a plan with some direction. Richmond will want Deledio back in their side as soon as possible.
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Hamish giving it to "Stevo" for his dumb comment that football players should be "better" than the general public.
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snaeksikn posted:I think it's a little bit of a myth that the Eagles ran with one key defender last year, Schofield put on about 5kg to push 100kg (hes 196cm tall) and played deep key defender while McGovern played high. Freo's big defender last year was an old man and occasionally a kid, with Johnson being the next sized (still less than 90kg) and then Ibbotson/Spurr/Sutcliffe/Sheridan being the next size mobile defenders. Even with Dawson (who pretty much missed last year) our defence was pretty small, but still only gave up the 2nd least amount of points against.
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Freo's first half was complete poo, especially the first quarter, too many grubber kicks to count, hand balling behind the target, lovely decision making. The news of our demise might be true, ugh. Alistair Clarkson is sitting in the bay to my right by himself furiously writing notes at half time.
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snaeksikn posted:Freo will definitely claw this back if the game ran for another couple of days Test Match footy, best footy. We just look like a bunch of headless chooks out there, really disappointing. But that mark was a ripper.
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Solemn Sloth posted:If we don't hear from you we'll call the police and check the emergency rooms Survived the Clarkson close encounter. I think both teams would have been happy to call full time at the end of the 3rd, pure garbage footy from both sides. We really haven't played well at Etihad for a few years now. Tabener didn't do him self any favours today. But I thought, Weller, Clancy Pearce, Dawson and Neale played pretty well, the less said about the rest the better.
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Testekill posted:Wood's one yesterday was better I saw both live and was also sitting near both, and Wood's was definitely better. Negligent posted:even losing the game, the Hawks shut Geelong's scoring down completely in Q3 I think this is important, when the Hawks turned it on they looked REALLY good.
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aejix posted:Have there been any pectoral tear injuries in afl? I'd never heard of one of those until the last couple of years in the NRL. Maybe a lisfranc injury is the corresponding injury in afl Ballentyne missed a big chunk of last season with a pec tear http://m.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/fremantles-hayden-ballantyne-out-for-home-and-away-season-with-pec-injury-20150720-gig7id.html
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Frogmanv2 posted:Having Sandipants back in will give Freo a big lift imo. There's a reason he won the club best and fairest (Doig medal) over Fyfe last year, he's super important to Freo.
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Sandi, Johnson, Alex Pearce and Ed Langdon are in for Freo this week, really happy about that. Taberner, Z Clarke, Griffen and Mzungu got put out with the bins. The good news being youngsters Weller and Langdon are now forcing De Boer and Mzungu out of the side.
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Testekill posted:Hopefully a young kid will force Barlow out soon. He looked very slow last week and his ball usage was horrendous although Mzungu wasn't much better. There's no shortage of young mid-fielder utility types on the list, Blakley, Hughes etc, who are being trained just to do that. Also there's Bennell to come into the side, with the long odds dream of Morabito.
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thepokey posted:I think Essendon supporters have been feeling that since Lloyd finished too. We got spoiled with the Lloyd-Lucas double act for ages and its been a revolving door of nothingness since. That said, this weekend is Daniher's 50th, I keep forgetting he has still only played that little amount of games so its still to hoping he can live up to at least a fraction of the hype. Freo supporters have been living in fear of that for years, and still are. It's not something I like to think about, so many young guys have been tried up forward but they can never make a go of it. We've just been lucky that Pav has been so durable.
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Doctor Cave posted:It was so frustrating watching him get on a good lead to take the mark then have it bounce off his chest, again and again and again One of my best friends used to play with Q at West Perth, said Q was a good guy but was actually dumber than he looks.
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hiddenmovement posted:WHAT WAS THAT KICK OFF THE GROUND? That was rooool bad. Richmond are lucky they didn't get Sydney in the first week.
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Testekill posted:Cotchin said he is gonna 'sort Treloar out' and he thought that people would actually treat it like a legit statement instead of the pointless bandstanding that it was. I thought Cotchin didn't come of too well from that captains documentary last year, seemed like a nice guy that was doing what he thought he should be doing.
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hiddenmovement posted:That last free was absolutely there under the new interpretation Absolutely, you could see the players knew it
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