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satan311 wrote:

Yes, strange he doesn’t appear on our senior players list on the PFC website. On the wafl players list he is a Perth player though. I’ve never quite understood how that works.

Yes just noticed 👍

65 kg doesn't sound too promising to me. 

that’ll be his colts weight, but yes he is still thin and rangy by the looks of it. He spent most of the year in the Peel ressies, so i’m not expecting he’s immediately in the best 22. If you remember back to when Tendai started, he was super skinny and took a year or two to develop and just got better from there. It’s all potential at this stage, but he looks to be a pretty exciting prospect

You guys are easily pleased. We’ve been down this road so many times- this is a player who won’t get close to a league game at C or PT so he winds up with us. I wish him well and hopefully he surprises but this is likely not even replacing the least of the players we lost. This guy is not a 10 player, is he? 

Said that myself many a time at EF- but one man’s trash is another man’s treasure- at EF:

Lennon Marlin
Michael Tassone
Lachlan Blakiston
Ben McGuire

All discards at other clubs- including yours- all fantastic players in the Blue and White. Time will tell with young Williams- but good enough to get drafted and spent 2 years on a list. I had heard EF were after him as well

Seen his highlights has a very good sidestep knows how to weave his way through traffic and seems to be able to hit targets. Something we are not very good at. I really don't understand the negativity so long as we are still getting some coin for Jaiden because he is proven and only ? mark is getting his body right. If they do they've got a gun.

Williams only turning 20 this month so plenty of upside. He may have requested a trade to Perth knowing he is likely to crack a league game long before he would at Claremont where they probably have 10 like him.

I might be missing something; he's played 6 league games and averages 8 disposals a game.
Good luck to him, not sure he is one of the "A' graders we need.

Demons Forever wrote:

I might be missing something; he's played 6 league games and averages 8 disposals a game.
Good luck to him, not sure he is one of the "A' graders we need.

I don't think anyone is getting carried away. Have you seen our player stats? Quite often half the team average single figure stats and less than 8. Playing in the Fremantle stacked WAFL side he wouldn't be getting big minutes. Don't worry, he'll be better than most 20 year olds at our club.

As well as the key players we have lost (Avery, Thompson, Hunter) so far, there must also be huge doubts about whether Sing or Poole will play next year. They both have had many concussion episodes.
 

Cesspit wrote:

As well as the key players we have lost (Avery, Thompson, Hunter) so far, there must also be huge doubts about whether Sing or Poole will play next year. They both have had many concussion episodes.



 

Joseph Chaplin a pretty big out too. Of those you mentioned - Poole only played 1 or none, Hunter 3 or 4 and Avery 4 or 5.

I seem to believe that Sing is going around again.

So our only massive loss is Thompson and a pretty big loss is Chaplin. 

Johnson has to go another level this year. I believe he can. I have heard Stone speak highly about him. 

Others who can improve 20% on last year are:

Simpson (just through more time on the park)
Constable (just through more time on the park)
Scoble
Gray
Catchard
Hine Baston
Newick
Wills
Ewing
Watson
Hill
Bodle
Edwards
Jye Clarke
Kemp
Hall twins

Byrner/Taylor/Cogs etc will all stay their very reliable selves

Dellamarta could be interesting if his body holds up. Played league round 1 and 2 in 2023 and the last round in 2034. Lets see what he can do with a good run at it.