'Freo sure know how to lose them': Docker shocker as goalsneak requests trade to reigning premiers

Oh it makes sence to me

Try reading that aloud. It makes no sense.

Yep but finals for other clubs like usual. you defend this mediocre rubble of a club way too much. Behond what is reality. is Don is no good?

What’s with this “Donny” stuff? You seem really insecure with yourself when you need that to add power. Nice little gang you are trying to join; you, Bretto, Frodo…

Anyone who calls out Donny’s nonsense is “trolling” :laughing: . He also called me a troll, for simply challenging his delusions. At the end of the day Freo are heading for the bottom 4 along with Geelong, and bleeding players like no other Club. I predict North will finish above Freo in 2024 …

I understand players leave every club - that is just part of the parcel of footy. But we’ve lost a few good ones - you can go back as far as Neale, Cerra (although that netted Amiss so i still consider it a net gain), but the ones that hurt are Acres and Logue last year and Schultz this year. A Henry type that goes for more opportunities is one thing, but Schultz is a key player. Sonny is getting on, Switta is more injury prone than Schultz and plays a different role further up the field, and Emmett is promising but has played 2 games. We all know it’s going to be Banfield that ends up in his position. I’m sorry I just don’t share your optimism on this one - I obviously rate Schultz higher than you do I guess?

It won’t be Banfield. Along with Sonny and Emmett, we have Switkowski (better than Schultz), Frederick and Sturt. Looks like #19 or low 20s from Collingwood. I’d grab that. We get nothing at the end of next year. Have a look at who’s leaving Melbourne, Essendon, Saints, Port, Pies…the “look” is common to all clubs. The only difference is the Freo pile-on that those without brains do.

We’ve done very well in the draft or with trades in these last 5 years. If Freo matched Brisbane’s offer, Freo probably would have had to part with Serong or Brayshaw after their draft contract expired or they wouldn’t have been able to renew Darcy, Ryan, Pearce, Cox. The salary cap would have reached its peak. So no, it doesn’t hurt. Be nice to have him but there are salary limits. We’d be a very old squad if we kept all of Neale, Hill, Weller, Langdon, Crozier, Hamling, Blakely, Hogan, Mayne. Trades have allowed Brayshaw, Serong, Amiss (via Cerra), Chapman, Clark, Jackson, Brodie, Aish…

Neale is the one that must hurt the most. Only if he stayed Don different circumstances may have resulted in retention of certain players & better team results. Lobbstar 10th in B&F in 22’ one of your leading goal kickers :stoked: sorely missed. (Don’t forget team balance)

Sorry, I have to disagree - he's a top 10 player for us and is our most reliable forward outside of Amiss and Walters. I'm not convinced we do have great cover for him. Emmett does look promising but has played 2 games, Schultz is a proven footballer and personally I'd like both of them in the same forward line instead of someone like Banfield. I don't want 'overs' for him - I'd like us to start keeping quality players. It isn't a good look to see so many walk out the door.

Emmett slips straight in. In our dead patch that rolled us out of finals contention, Schultz went missing a lot. Came good at the end when we played the top 4 and almost beat them all. We have good, solid cover for him and we lose him next year for nothing. We'll get overs for him now...but it sounds like he might be staying anyway.

"Engaging" involves people interacting; you know, responses, likes, interchange of ideas. That's not coming from you or the other bloke. I think you are on the wrong site for what you'retrying to do.

nah it def is very applicable in your case don, as i said its really time u got over it ... those little voices in your head don ? theyre just those nasty tiges living rent free in that tiny little mind of yours

gee and there i was thinking they retired cause after long successful careers they were physically past their peak & it was time to make room for the younger blokes, thats what happens with athletes ..... mcqualter wasnt a senior coach when he walked he was an unsuccessful applicant for the coaching gig, yeah hardwick did walk, u got 1 out 4 right, remarkably way better than your usual strike rate i congratulate u

So when you speak total rubbish you are engaging in footy conversation, but when you are called out on it you are being trolled. Thin skinned much? From now on I'll refrain from commenting on your posts and take them as satire.

I don't think it matters to anyone what your thing is. People engage with me in footy conversation. Your trolling is of interest only to Frodo.

Of your list of outs, only 5 would be regular players. They products of those in are over 12 regular first 23 players when you count current trades and draftees from those trade. Each of those young draftees you have mentioned have extended to 2025 or beyond. You will find every club in the AFL will have lost 14 players or more over the past 6 years. Especially when you start counting retired or deceased players. Port Adelaide, alone, has at least 4 players trading out (Clurey, Duursma, Lycett, Fantasia) That’s 24 in 6 years.

Yep. It's worse than that. They (Cornes and Brad Johnson) are suggesting McCreery AND a FIRST rounder. The thinking of the media...and the trolls; when talking about Freo's forwards last year, Schultz was considered to be nothing. Now he's leaving, it's considered to be the height of devastation for Freo. Some are just given to that line of thinking drivel.

My penchant is to correct you when you speak rot, and to be fair it's virtually a full time job.

When Shultz was at Freo he was the best small forward in the league, but if he moves to Collingwood he's not as good a Ginnivan? Ok then.