A fully fit JD and Fanta spreads the opposition key position and small back stocks.
Not only do we get them at their best,it allows others like Tippa,Stringer,Smack,a resting Smith and Langford to get a lesser than defender.And whoever else is in there.
Clarke is in better nick now than at any time during his career at Fremantle. Think about it, here is a bloke willing to leave everything he has here to take up a rookie’s wage in the land of the onion spillers. He’s keen as, bro. Will be a very good addition.
He’s always had talent.
He was dropped for the same reason a lot of talented players are dropped, lack of intensity, doesn’t get to where he’s supposed to be.
If he can fix that then he’ll get more than a year, either with us or somewhere else.
If not, well, he can tap for a season.
Imagine Blitz’s Fark Carlton hate when Coleman got rubbed out and missed the 1951 grand final because of Fark Carlton’s Harry Caspar. The entire bandwidth of the entire world couldn’t have coped with that.
I wasn’t on blitz in 2001.
But the comeback game would have been gold.
As we would have expected to win.
Then been getting smashed
Then greatest comeback of all time.
I think he stepped up this year - if he has a great year next year so will we, but it’s weird predicting a break out year for a 30 yo. But you’re right.