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Freezin wrote: Baseline when you say "requested to play by team rules"....were they McMthat appointed him the s team rules?.....the same fella called McMahon who was recently sacked by the PFC because he was farken useless? Perhaps Max was onto something that took the senior management at your club HOW many years to work out he was farken useless and a few Perth fans on here as well.

All I can remember was BTB endless bitching about McMahons coaching prowess,seems like he was right from the start whilst a lot of certain PFC folk here said he didn't have a clue what he was talking about.....perhaps the Duffy clan might have more footy nous than some of you experts give them credit for!.........why can't you boys stick your hands up and say BTB you were right from day one and we were wrong?........speaks volumes don't you reckon that you can't?

Spot on Freezin. End of story. BTB was right on the money from the get go. I gave McMahon and those that appointed him the benefit of the doubt in his first year which was a pass mark year but when we learned his contract was extended by a year before his second year began we were stunned and we've gone backwards from that moment on, and then still they gave him another year.

With John Dimmer and Brian Cook on the selection panel in the search for the next coach hopefully the next appointment will be the right one.

Demons Forever wrote: BTB why don't just friggin disappear.
You are pain and a twit.
Thank Christ you're no longer at the club.
You are the type of father that should banned.
From life.

He's not Max's dad. He is a fraud. Just don't give him your time. It's actually sad that he continually portrays himself as Max's dad.

DD wrote: With John Dimmer and Brian Cook on the selection panel in the search for the next coach hopefully the next appointment will be the right one.

Its our last chance to pick the right one,get this one wrong and the fans will just start walking...and keep walking.

Hopefully amongst the so called 20 applicants there are 2 or 3 that really standout as worthy applicants.

The last few weeks (on top of the past few decades) hasnt been a good advertisment for a club going anywhere in a hurry!

30plusyeardrought wrote:

DD wrote: With John Dimmer and Brian Cook on the selection panel in the search for the next coach hopefully the next appointment will be the right one.

Its our last chance to pick the right one,get this one wrong and the fans will just start walking...and keep walking.

Hopefully amongst the so called 20 applicants there are 2 or 3 that really standout as worthy applicants.

The last few weeks (on top of the past few decades) hasnt been a good advertisment for a club going anywhere in a hurry!

Obviously I wasn't there on Saturday but Perth could quite easily have won all three games against us this season. With respect to Saturday 16 Freo players out of 22 - obviously the 6 non-aligned players were the difference between Perth winning and Freo winning. Do The West Journalists have ANY credibility at all?

could quite easily have won


aint that the story of perths last few decades..

Will preface this by saying apologies for the length of the post - especially as a first post.

From where i look what needs serious consideration, in addition to the coaching which will always be the big ticket item, is the strength and conditioning areas and the recruiting, two areas that fall under the Football Managers role.

Currently the players out are Morton, Morton, Morton, Hodge, Stack (played reserves after injury), Bevan (susp),Irons, Risol, Leeson, Smith (played reserves after originally being ruled out),Kane, Keast, Boyle, Busher, Richardson, Chrimes, Hunt, Holland and Moore. There is probably more that i cant think of. So of those, 14 play regular league football. If you want to know where the issues lie, i dont care what club you are from, that list is going to destroy your season. The reserves have hardly been able to field a team for the past 6-8 weeks, and on the weekend 3 of the better colts kids were running around for them. Then when you take those 3 out of the colts, the struggle continues down the line. Serious questions need to be asked about what is going on with the injuries - you can now add Leyendekkers who is on crutches before half time, Florio is on one leg from early in the third.

Also, why were Perth not actively recruiting players from East Perth and Peel who were not going to play alot of senior football given the alignments. Guys like Cadwallader, Howlett, Westwood, Hawksley, Green, Lawrence, Garlett who is a Perth boy - why did it take until a week before June 30 to get Tropiano. Points were heavily wasted on guys that, even by looking at them for a few weeks, were going to struggle to have an impact let alone be worth the allocations they cost. Looking locally would have netted a better result with less points

From where i sat, last weeks effort against Swans was perhaps, pound for pound, the best performance of the season, given who was missing. Then more players go out and they come up against a Peel side with what, 15 or so dockers. The Peel reserves side had something like 16 guys who had played either WAFL league or AFL. It doesnt make the result any better and it doesnt excuse performance, but for mine there are reasons behind the scenes that need the same consideration as the coaching

Agree 100% with what you have said there Blueblood.

You can't fault the effort of the boys out there on Saturday but they were completely outclassed at every turn and down to one on the bench by the last quarter.

Time to play the kids now. Daniel Arangio needs to play this week. He played another ripper game in the reserves.

Yep Cruize Garlett, Kelvin Lawrence, Kristian Thornton, Laine Wilkins and James Hawksley would be exactly the type of players we should have been targeting. No speculative plonks from bush leagues in Victoria.

I think the problem with recruiting quality players from EP and Peel was not only the points but the clubs were still forced to pay the maximum transfer fees. Sounds good thinking we or any other clubs could have grabbed 3 or 4 players but would have cost a fortune

Need to be careful with guys like Arangio. Hes not ready yet either but he has ability and he is a decent size. Ive been of the opinion that gifting league games on the back of normal performance in reserves is often part of the problem. He was out with injury only a week ago from memory. Its like Edmonds - he is going to be a beauty in the future but hes not physically ready for league yet. They do however need to find out on some guys who are playing with points in the reserves.

On the weekend the starting middle in the twos was Sandilands, Browne (colt), Tanner (colt) and Edmonds (just turned 19). One of the wings was Cox who is 19. The best player from the week before was Chester 19, who was injured for the game against Peel

We were talking on Saturday about how the entire Perth defence from the start of the year was out - Irons, Risol, Kane, Smith, Morton, Morton - and that forward wise Busher, Morton, Bevan, Stack, Leeson and Boyle were all missing. It really leaves you wide open to get smacked im afraid, which they did

Good post Blueblood, we are severely hampered by injuries which raises qquestions about our strength and conditioning methods. Has been a problem for years. I wasn't too disappointed with Saturdays effort. I picked Peel based on our outs and their ins. The boys are having a crack. The players we picked up from EP are B graders at best. We should be going after their A graders. Tropiano was a very good pick up. More like that please.

Bazza, fuck off you troll.