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Fremantles best 22 is not a 17th ranked side. But the fact that 6 of their best 22 are ovecoming injuries, and as you say another 3-4 cannot be trusted is where the 17th place comes from … plus you left Hogan out of the best 22, which if he’s fit and in a good space he is one fo the first picked

There were some very positive signs in the game against Carlton as to how they will play this year with attacking precision kicking through the centre.

A backline with Hamling, Pearce, Logue, Ryan, Wilson and Hill will be hard to play against and should rebound the ball very quickly, with some decent kicks in there (plus some average ones in Pearce)

Fully fit and firing I give Freo a 8-12 range.

Injuries left right and centre and its a bottom 5. But their home ground advantage will see them avoid the spoon and 17th position I would think

Another season of getting games into players like Serong, Cerra, Brayshaw, Sturt, Valente, Brayshaw and maybe Henry in the second half.

AFL preview series: West Coast Eagles vs Fremantle Dockers

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I’ve looked at this stat myself and over the past 26-27 seasons I think it is only three times that a team in the bottom five hasn’t made finals.

Three times I think a team from the bottom five has played in the GF – Melbourne in 2000, Port in 2007 and Adelaide in 97 – although this may be more.

Sometimes teams spend a year down due to a catastrophic run of injuries, other times its just the age of the group means the players need a bit more maturing.

The Saints and Dees most likely due to age and experience of their sides.

But it can come down to injuries, especially teams that don’t bat too deep. If Freo lose Fyfe then that will de-rail the season. If Gawn goes down for the Dees they will need to rely on Pruess and his 15 games of experience.

For Freo to make it they need to get Pearce, Hamling, Hill, Wilson, and Hogan back on the park and ensure Taberner, Lobb, Fyfe and Walters stay out there. Those 9 players, plus Mundy are essential to the season being a success and a finals chance

Which team will make the leap in 2020?

Nothing wrong there – bit of a melee, fine at worst

Brawl erupts after Blues co-captain goes berserk on Dockers youngster

My biggest let downs as a Freo supporter are not the trades but the injured players who could have changed the history of this club

Imagine Morabito in the 2013 Grand Final or Clem Michael playing his 200th game. What about the current coach J Lo retiring at 26 or Des Headlands bl**dy knee

Trent Croad did what he was picked to do, increase the exposure of the Dockers who couldn’t sign a sponsor to save their life. That we got 240+ games out of McPharlin was a bonus

Jayden Pitts heart issues, Josh Simpson not being able to adjust to city life and the rigours of a profressional club. Polak’s knee that cut him down, Fewsters knee, Michael Barlows broken leg, Palmers knee at the start of his second season that robbed him of his pace.

He was never the same after that first season.

BTW I love having Cam McCarthy on the list. He’s 24 and seems to have himself together and with a new coach might just be the catalyst for a solid season.

The flawed five: Fremantle's worst recruitment woes

Yep – it’s generally given that when you get into a GF that you’ve had a fairly consistent core for the past 3-4 years

No suprises that Ross didn’t make whosale list changes, he just came in with a game plan that worked with the list that we had.

Harvey, for all his niceness, was not developing a winning brand of footy and would not have coached us to a GF

haha – I am a Stevie J but not the Stevie J …. much to my bank balances disgust

Roberton wanted to go home, Freo wanted him to stay but agreed to trade him for his personal well being. He was a kid just developing and has turned out nicely for the Saints, heart issues aside.

Sometimes life gets in the way of footy, but at least Freo did the right thing by the kid and his then pregnant fiance

Harvey? The bloke who didnt want Fyfe and had to be over ruled so we didnt end up with Bastinac? Yeah … nah

Walters was kicked back to Swans by Lyon for being unfit, turned his career around.

Harvey already had Sandi, Pav, Mundy, Johno, McPharlin in the team when he got it. Nice core to have

I’ll reserve call on those until i see Sturt play, by all reports he’s a gun

And some cod ordinary ones like Drum, Koops, Bandy, Balich, Schell, Hunter, Warnock, Simmonds

Ahhh, I just worked it out, you are an Eagles fan masquerading as a Freo supporter.

Surprised you didn’t have McLeod in there.

Sorry but every year someone writes this exact same article but changes one name. This time around its Hogan

Sandilands was a rookie pick, Johno was a national draft pick, Barlow was a rookie pick, Hayden was a rookie pick, Walters was in the 50s, same with Neale …. every team missed Pavlich in the first year he nominated for the draft

Mundy played 300 games and every other team overlooked him, Freo twice for Dunn and Murphy.

No team gets it right.

Do you know who else Hawthorn picked as part of the Trent Croad deal? Daniel Elstone at pick 19 – 0 games. Stevie J went 5 picks later to the Cats …. swings and roundabouts in footy, suck it up

You’re saying she’s laid close to 1500 tackles already …. geez

Kiara Bowers is a Dockers great

Dunno – ever see Shauny Macs goal from the boundary after being flattened by Wirrapanda in Derby XIII? Not too shabby

Turbo is a jet in the AFLW, probably should be ranked top 5 as far as players go.

But to compare to Doig (100 goals per season in 9 straight seasons), Maurice Rioli, Fyfe, Stephen Michael, or Pavlich is a bit of a stretch.

Maye she should be compared to a McManus or Kickett – the heart and soul of a new club making its mark. McManus is a fitting comparison as he had two knee reco’s as well

Fremantles big question is can they get there big men on the field all together?

Pearce, Taberner, Lobb, Hogan, Darcy and Hamling are all either injured or coming back from injury. If they are all fully fit and available for the majority of the season then Freo will worry a lot of teams

That Longmuir will play the kids is a given, especially since he has the unseen talents of Valente and Sturt from last year and then Youg, Serong and Henry from the most recent draft.

18 questions before the AFL kicks off in 2020

September calls for Hawthorn if Tom Mitchell comes back in?

I would think that the Hawks have bigger issues than one midfielder

Freo’s best 22 for round 1 (all being fit)

Logue – Hamling – Ryan
Wilson – Pearce – S Hill
McCarthy – Brayshaw – Bewley
Hogan – Taberner – Walters
Matera – Lobb – Switta

Darcy – Fyfe – Cerra
Int – Mundy – Conca – Tucker – Blakely

EMERG – Hughes – Duman – Sturt – Acres

Aish and Acres may replace McCarty and Beweley in the team, or maybe one goes in for Hill on the half back line

Fully fit there is a bit of competition about this side with kids like Valente, Sturt, O’Reilly, Carter, Young and Serong all capable of making the seniors and other players like Cox, Hughes, Duman and Crwden with enough senior experience to be good depth

Fremantle 2020: The purple haze is clearing

Freo received zilch from the AFL when they entered. The AFL were fearful of creating another West Coast so they absolutely hamstrung Freo

Freo travel as much s West Coast don’t forget. Freo has played the second most games n the comp in Launceston, and overall 1 more game in Tassie than West Coast

BTW West Coast and Freo alternate each year with who gets the first round game, it has nothing to do with where they ended up last season.

This year Freo plays away to Essendon in round 1, last year they were at home to the Roos

Should the 17 other AFL clubs hold the West Coast Eagles to ransom?

You need a bolder top 8 prediction. One of Sydney, Saints, Dees, Suns or Blues will statistically make the 8 as in the past 25 years only three times has a bottom team not made the 8 the following year.

last year it was the Lions turn to surge.

My money is on the Blues. But the Dees and Swans could possibly jump up as well. The Suns and Saints are the ones most likely to keep fumbling along

Predicting the 2020 AFL season

well with hackdorn coming out last Friday and stating that a Tassie team is on its way in 2022 I guess there are a lot of people in the know who don’t agree with you … but then again the Hack swings and misses more often than not

Martin and four others find new AFL homes in 2019 preseason and rookie drafts

2019

The Tassie govt currently props up 2 AFL teams with sponsorship, gow many games combined do your fantasy sites host a year?

As for the late teens to mid 20s Tassie needs to make a side…. they’ll draft them just like the other sides do….do you understand how the AFL works?

PS if you are a tradie then come to Tassie as there’s heaps of work on as Tassies building and construction is the fastest growing in the country…. maybe second to Halls Creek in your mind though

Looks like youve conceded as you are now sprouting gibberish

Oh – and here’s a quote from a research paper put out by UTAS this year

“The largest age group moving to Tasmania was those aged 25 to 29 years (14.0% of all movers), followed by those aged 20 to 24 (11.8%) and then 30 to 34 (10.3%).”

Wow – look at those retirees just flooding here ….

They deserve a team because they are a football state that produces more than enough champions of the game. They have the population base and they produce more than enough sporting champions in different sports, both men and women. But it is the paternalistic garbage of people with no knowledge of the state that is trying to prevent a team in Tassie of its own rights

They have a state cricket team, the current Test Captain is a Tasmanian, they have a BBL and womens BBL team and Tasmania already hosts 8 AFL games a season, yet for some bizarro world reasoning they can’t host 11 with their own team.

He’s there … its just most people can’t see past the player who’s next to him ….. Fyfe 🙂

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