Reckon he’ll get found out at Port. Their two way running, spread and work rate is 10 times ours.
He will either flourish and become the player we always thought he could be or crumble to nothing very quickly. I think the latter.
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Yeah I think for all the worry about him getting back to his best for another club the opposite seems more likely in that he’d be expected to work/run even harder as pressure fwd in a top side and based on past few years every time he has ramped it up to push himself has broken down
From main training sessions leading into games, early in first quarters of games when should be warmed up etc
No good. Not what I was thinking!
Thankfully I didn’t misspell crutches either or might have been in all sorts
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Raz
Joey
Saad
McKenna
Is so much fun watching these guys play in the red 'n black.
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If he suddenly has no soft tissue injures we can safely say he was half faking at Essendon. Our medical isn’t ‘that’ bad.
that did occur to me too
and jokes aside, Dyson’s struggles with his foot has been crap all round and compounded the injuries from Orazio and Joey.
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Id be gunning for Bonner, or a VIC kid willing to come home.
Marshall
Williams
Bergman
Bryne-Jones
I would take next years second if that was on offer.
It dismays me when fans turn on a player who hasn’t being able to produce due to long term injury. Raz is tough. He’s skinny but matches up against players much bigger. He plays through pain and in a congested forward line you get hit.
The only softness comes from you bitter little snowflakes.
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maybe, i’d bow to your obvious surperior knowledge on what adelaide teams want (i’m being serious, not sarcastic).
would be weird though seeing adelaide announced for everyone that he wanted to go home, but football clubs are weird so who knows anymore.
Do you think that Stringer and Smith are happy that they chose Essendon over Geelong?
The only reason that they did, is because they thought Geelong was about to bottom out and Essendon was about to contend. There is no issue with players wanting to move to immediate success.
That’s a good point about Adelaide announcing that Raz was leaving. Strange move if you’re not that interested.
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it’s the only reason is it ?
they thought a team that made a prelim was going to bottom after adding those 2 players to a team with dangerfield, selwood, hawkins, tarylor etc etc still.
I’d back smith came to us cos of what he said in an interview, that worsfold sold him on “just playing footy” and not worrying about pesky things like structures and that.
Stringer may have picked us cos we seemed to show a willingness to actively try and help with his off field issues, sure geelong may have offered it too who knows.
not to say the thinking we would rise wasn’t a factor, and wasn’t a good selling point, but we hadn’t finished top or second, we still had a fair bit of work to do when they came to the club, and even more work now, ironically.
Raz won’t make it through a full training at Port, let alone a full game.
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It hit home that they are 4 of our top 5 most watchable and exciting players. Gone in one off season 
Tippa remains.
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Well this snowflake turned on him couple years ago when u get sick an tired of watching Fanta on most occasions put little forward line pressure on, inconsistent. By soft I mean not sticking tackles, chasing. Been to plenty of games to. Not just a tv watcher. Just not a fan of him. Supporters are allowed to turn on players. Free world isn’t it
It means you are not a supporter of the team, given that player is picked as part of the team. Supporters turned on Paul Salmon years ago and he states very clearly it was a reason he left. We needed Salmon very badly in the 1999 PF when we were getting murdered by Allen but he was playing very good footy for the hawks by that stage.
Salmon was often injured early in his career but overcame that to be a champ and never deserved that treatment from flaky fans. Fantasia gets injured and plays injured (with full understanding from the coaches) and this courage deserves our support not condemnation.
You use forward pressure as the argument to turn on Fanta, but the reality is, when he was fit he was one of the best small forwards going around - and being amongst the best is not something he needs to apologise for.
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Not fun on the turnover though.
All x factor players that rely on the get and go game. Our game is now gunna be grind the ball forward, and 2 way running. I can see why we didn’t put up too much of a fight to retain a few of these guys
Scott Cummings
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