This saviour mentality has followed freo for ever.
Just one more tall forward, one more defender, a gun coach!!!
All good sides get improvement out of their team.
Can we say that as a general rule about our teams over the journey.
The problem is more deep seated.
Hawthorn have valued kicking above anything else and as a rule recruited to a philosophy.
Freo had changed its philosophy with every change in regime.
We as a club have never prioritised skill and we have recruited accordingly.
Our draft success at the top end has been pretty poor since about 2010, and it has been our latter picks that have shown promise albeit as with all lower picks deficiencies ie foot skills , speed etc.
There are no saviours and hopefully treacy gets spared a AFL game until he has a good body of quality work at peel before consideration.
Yes he had a day out against an undersized Claremont defence in a scratchy and shown some good attributes in intractable games.
But seriously, when he played against an Eagles defence in the preseason game he looked well below par. But he is only 18.
