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30plusyeardrought wrote:
As it stands right now our player losses far outweigh the gains.

Yes we have some work to do but our gains are from outweighed by our losses.

Stark reality there is not much more room than may be 2 10 point players.

Our thinking needs to be tempered with some reality.

Demons Forever wrote:

30plusyeardrought wrote:
As it stands right now our player losses far outweigh the gains.

Yes we have some work to do but our gains are from outweighed by our losses.

Stark reality there is not much more room than may be 2 10 point players.

Our thinking needs to be tempered with some reality.

Our losses to date are Young,Elari,KT,Spaanderman,Davis,Noakes X 2 and probable losses in Rogers??,Zucconi??,Billings??Ali Smith??,have i missed anyone.

Our gains of note...Bateman and Reimers,all other recruits are unknown at WAFL league level.

Thats a lot of huge outs for just 2 big ins!!

Where have all our points gone????

Spaanderman,Young,Noakes X 2 plus those other points players that have left...
Riemers and the young midfielder from over east recruited(his name escapes me)are the only big point players we have recruited(as far as i know),there must be room for more than 2 players at 10 points each??

Reality is if we dont cover our losses with like for like and then recruit to cover deficiencies then we are in for another tough year and probably another bottom 2 finish.

Elari - no input last season
KT - no input last season
Spaanderman - some input need a ruckman
Noakes x 2 had an input at times but hardly huge losses, and are probably coverable
Young - huge loss

Have I missed something?
Davis, Rogers, Zucconi, Billings, Smith - losses - give me a break where did you hear that. In the loo at the pub? All unconfirmed!!!!

What about the other recruits?

Reality is, is you need to review your sources before posting hearsay and innuendo.

We are further from the bottom two than you would give the Club credit for.

Sorry, that's right you don't give the Club any credit.

I did a list of players in November and we had 55 players on the list with a total of 129 points.

Players that are now no longer on that list include Peter Bormolini (2), Aaron Elari (1 point), Ben Fraser (10 points, JKT 1 point, Andrew McDougall 1 point, Ben Noakes 5 points, Tim Noakes 7 points, Liam Smith 1 point, Llane Spaanderman 12 points, Barry Taylor 1 point and Ross Young 5 points.

Matthew Moody has also had his points value reduced from 10 to 5

So when this is taken into account we have freed up 51 points of our list.

We have recruited/now has a points value on the list

Dale Wallman 1 point, Dene White 1 point, Chad Sandilands 1 point, Chance Bateman 1 point, Tyson Rowling 1 point, Harrison Morgan 1 point, Jackson Sketcher 10 points and Kyle Reimers 11 points.

WAFL rules state that you have to have 55 players on your list that come under 130 points in total. You can have more and hence the drama that surrounded Ben Fraser at the start of the season with him being on the list and then off it. Must have beed dissheartening.

So 11 players went off the list of 55 and 8 have gone on. We currently have by my understanding 52 players at a total of 105 points.

This leaves 25 points to go out and get 3 quality WAFL players. Andrew Ruck 7 points would be lovely and then we can go and hopefully get some other players from other clubs that are either on the up with either 26-50 WAFL games experience 5 points or 51-100 games 7 points.

Demons Forever wrote: Elari - no input last season
KT - no input last season
Spaanderman - some input need a ruckman
Noakes x 2 had an input at times but hardly huge losses, and are probably coverable
Young - huge loss

Have I missed something?
Davis, Rogers, Zucconi, Billings, Smith - losses - give me a break where did you hear that. In the loo at the pub? All unconfirmed!!!!

What about the other recruits?

Reality is, is you need to review your sources before posting hearsay and innuendo.

We are further from the bottom two than you would give the Club credit for.

Sorry, that's right you don't give the Club any credit.

A poster here 1 day ago posted the following

A couple of names to scrub of these lists that i have heard over the xmas period from people very close to the club are Busher- apparently slight hiccup is more than the club letting on.
Zucconi/Billings - not playing.
Leon Davis is staying in Northam and will NOT be playing at Perth this year.



So thats why i stated "probable losses".
I didnt see you respond to that poster!!

The other recruits as i have stated are unknown at wafl league level..or have i missed some other big name recruits??
To my knowledge the 2 big ins are Bateman and Reimers.

Why are we further away from the bottom 2 than i think??


KT...no input last season because he was injured how about you refer to his other seasons at the club.
So are you saying Elari is going to be a useless footballer from now until he retires??
The thing about the Noakes boys is the gave depth to the club..league footballers ready to go.

I do give the club credit when it is warrented but you always have worn blinkers when it comes to the PFC!!
No matter what they do,they do no wrong.

not too sure with all this points system lark...but Dale Wallam is a Mullewa boy, played colts with EF and he is listed a 1 pt player/....and Sandilands is a Bullcreek-Leeming lad from EFFC and he is listed as a 1 pt player?....

Dale Wallam is a kid with bucket loads of talent, just didn't seem to interested in coming down to play colts.....about 188cm, skinny, with that x factor to do something unpredictable.....hope he does well at Perth.

30+. Incorrect again. You have no idea what I think about the Club's activities or whether I am happy with what has gone on.

I believe our squad is better than you think.

I do not believe by any stretch of the imagination that we performed to our ability last year and I don't intend to debate in a public forum what or who I believe is to blame for that.

There a lots of positive things happening around the Club and I suspect that these are not obvious to you.

Some of those things probably have something to do with some of departures.

What I believe will emerge is a pretty good squad of committed and more disciplined players to take us forward.

There are some happenings still to emerge.

Where pray tell has this "Zucconi/Billings - not playing.
Leon Davis is staying in Northam and will NOT be playing at Perth this year" been confirmed.

The message being imparted amongst the players is to cut the negativity as it is not to be welcomed around the Club. I happen to agree that success comes from positivity, discipline, committment and hard work.

Some of those ingredients have been missing for far too long.

I can tell you though, Davis will play at the Club next year but only with the right attitude and committment. That I can confirm.

Demons Forever wrote: Where pray tell has this "Zucconi/Billings - not playing.
Leon Davis is staying in Northam and will NOT be playing at Perth this year" been confirmed.

I can tell you though, Davis will play at the Club next year but only with the right attitude and committment. That I can confirm.

It hasnt been confirmed but that poster like you always state with your rumours..."heard from people very close to the club"

I hope its not true and i really hope Davis(and the other 2) play on in 2013 and that Davis can team up with Reimers in our forward line!

Those three will be hard to replace as they are all in the starting 22 and have a combined points value of 3! Hopefully they stay on

Mr AFL wrote: Those three will be hard to replace as they are all in the starting 22 and have a combined points value of 3! Hopefully they stay on

Agreed.