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If you get both those very good big men back your mob would easily be red hot favs for back to back flags.

The thing that concerns me a bit is the stupid fixtures where we play a full strength Peelmantle team first game every year and always lose that game. We will be 8 points out of the five after one game. Yes, loads of games to make it up, but if they just think they can rock up and win the other games then they may flop spectacularly. No easy games this year. 

We played Peel in the GF and beat them and we have only lost 1 player but gained a couple more. We last won at Peel in 2021 we can win again and who cares about round 1 we will be fine. Our team is good enough and we will be back in the pack in no time. My biggest concern is the ground and how its going to work 

Just curious where are your players training? I think your oval was still available during last season wasn't it? WACA obviously not available to train on during cricket season.

Training at Fremantles  ground and wherever they can get an available oval. Hopefully the oval wont be long until its ready. I bet the players cant wait to get back to the oval

I think your actual oval playing surface might hold you back. Will need time to knit in below the surface. Been a scorching hot summer which probably hasn’t helped. I drove past last week it doesn’t look great. 

Hopefully the ground doesn't inherit that MRP curse for soft tissue and joint injuries DD. Perth and WCE have been hammered with injuries over the last few years.

DD wrote:

Just curious where are your players training? I think your oval was still available during last season wasn't it? WACA obviously not available to train on during cricket season.

Definitely didn’t train at Shark Park last year, DD. I think it was said that they trained at 10 or 12 different ovals over the season. I’d say the same will happen this year until the ground is ready. I went past a few weeks ago as well and it didn’t look great.

EF run out 46 pt winners v WCER in their 1st pre-season hit out with EF kicking. 2.8 in the 3rd quarter to WCER 2 pts. WCER rebounding with 5 goals to EF 1 goal in the last, to enable WCER minimize that loss to just under 8 goals.

Good spread of goalkickers it seems, usual EF way with Lawler leading the way with 3 and host of others kicking 2. Great to see EF give 6 2023 colts boys a run in Campbell, Dunscombe, Petersen, Otto, Vladich and Austin....with Cripps returning from his 2023 illness woes to kick 2.....I see Hagan and Teakle played,  and a number of premiership boys didn't play and no Boekhorst either.

Interesting to see WCER 1st ruck was ex EF boy Jack Williams with ex EF boys in Ruscoe and Spadanuda at his feet. Apparently EF youngsters in Spadanuda and Yeo have been leased out to WCER for the season , to get some league footy into them, which they probably wouldn't get at EF in 2024. Pity Ruscoe didn't come back either, good size and will be a more than handy player at the WAFL level.

Looking at the team list, quite a few missing:

Murdock
Joyce
Meade
H.Marsh
Eardley
Boekhorst
R.McGuire
Bennett
Turner
Jansen
Montauban
O'Reilly
Tassone
Walker
Leggett

Gee, going to be hard to get a game in the 1s at Shark Park!