The Freo bashing in the media I've come to expect. The way Freo fans swallow it still bewilders me.
I'm looking at that list and there's 4 player recruiting areas shown.
Freo clearly have the best record in 2 of the 4.
In Rookie Elevation the stats are also good in comparison to the Slime and Hawks.
So that only leaves one area, Trade/Free Agency. We all know Hawthorn have been ultra successful in this area. But that is to be expected for a Melbourne based successful premiership team. It's not like we haven't tried.
So I now look at those Slime players, Cripps is the only one I rate and he's a cousin of Mainwaring so were we ever really a chance with him??? I don't know.
Hill is 26, has battled to get games and was traded for #49 to Western Bulldogs. Freo picked up Lachie Neale with pick #58 in that draft.
Wellingham is 27, couldn't keep his spot in the side in 2014. Collingwood got Brodie Grundy with their draft pick from West Coast.
Ellis, do I need to go there.
Yeo, I believe is very overated. He has a long way to go before he is anywhere near as good as the media makes him out to be. Brisbane Lions drafted Lewis Taylor with their pick, the 2014 Rising Star winner. I raised my thoughts about Yeo earlier in the year when there was that much hype that Slime fans were betting on him to win the Brownlow. He polled 5 votes.