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Yes it would be nice to hear of some player additions which fill one of our many needs. Regarding Gray i doubt there would be anything we could have offered him which would have trumped what he landed with Freo.

The involvement of all these ex-players will, hopefully, assist greatly in attracting the right players to the club. In time, perhaps sooner rather than later, we will become a desired destination club. 
With no official news on recruits to date, hopefully there will be big news in the not too distant future.

Cesspit wrote:

All of these big “additions” we hear about and yet not one player mentioned. Brady Grey would have been a great start but we must have been asleep again. We could have offered him a senior off field role as well as a key player recruit.

 

Brady would have been offered all that and more at Freo on better money, we can't compete with them and remember he followed Fraser McIness along with Andrew Fisher in that first Covid year when the AFL reserves couldn't play and they were "loaned to us" then the next year they all told WC we want to play for Perth. So we were lucky to have him. Fraser and Fisher have since retired, now he is looking after his career as his playing career is winding down. I bare no animosity towards him.

smokey wrote:

The involvement of all these ex-players will, hopefully, assist greatly in attracting the right players to the club. In time, perhaps sooner rather than later, we will become a desired destination club. 
With no official news on recruits to date, hopefully there will be big news in the not too distant future.

Smokey I think it's all about setting our club up for a better future and I don't think there are going to be any first year miracles under German. It's going to be a slow build. Others have already gotten considerably stronger on the field who were several steps ahead of us already and we have been weakened by some retirements. 

I think we are in a similar position to Subiaco in the early 80's when they made the Bunton appointment though in a better position financially but what they had was great talent coming through the ranks. At the end of the day we can do all the best recruiting, but it is only going to be a band aid approach until we see a fair system in place when it comes to zones. 

And the WAFC needs to get off it's fat arse and give up on it's policy of doing nothing and hoping Perth just folds.

Trent Manzone has signed with Perth. Good luck Trent.

Why would we recruit a 31 year old who has played 152 league games and is going to cost us 10 points?
Winger taking the piss again?

Got me beat. Bit of a worry IMO. He played ressies for half the season including no league finals. 
We need to spend our points very carefully.

I’ve always rated Manzone. He could be a good pick up. Our midfield is very short of depth and he will add some experience and run to that area. The fact he has 152 league games shows he is hardly our usual WAFL reserves player type of recruit. There were quite a few good players who missed out on that WP grand final side including Riddoch, Wilhelm, Manzone and others. 
A good start but keep them coming, we are way behind the eight ball in terms of skill and experience.
 

He is 181/81 and average disposals at league level 27. Hopefully he is seen to be the type of player that we do not have. eg a tough mid-fielder, clearance type or in a run with role. 
 

A 31 yr old 10 pointer not so sure.