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i feel as though mark harvey is a great coach and love what hes doing. Sure injuries have sped up the involvement of youngsters but we need to look into the future such as 3-4 years time and we will be a top 8 side for sure. It is just a matter of sustaining that consistency and building momentum

what should get get the is matthew panos be handy for us in the forward line help others out

we need a coach that can coach for once??????

Dockers definitely should go the youth route. We need a long term plan. Quick fixes and trading draft picks doesn't work, as our history shows. I think we cant loose with pick 4 this year (Dustin Matin or Moorabito) and from there I hope we pick class players who dispose of the ball well. (Bradley Shepppard pick 20). I then hope we use our third round picks to target three key position players and have a close look at latter developing players like White from Subiaco.

I've been a dockers fan since before I can remember, and after years and years of 'theres always next year' I can finally say that the Fremantle Dockers are on the way up. We have started a solid rebuilding phase which is how you make a premiership team. As you can tell, recruiting players from other teams to achieve short term success DOES NOT WORK and a winning team is a team that has grown & developed together.
I feel that for us to have a successful crack at finals in 2011-2012 our best 22 for next year should be something like this:

FB: Broughton Tarrant Duffield
HB: Mundy McPharlin Dodd
C: Johnson Hasleby Suban
HF: Hill Pavlich Hayden
F: Ballantyne Bradley Mayne
Foll: Sandilands Palmer Crowley
Bench: De Boer Solomon Ibbotson Grover

players like Sibosado, Pearce, Walters & van Berlo still need a bit of polish in the WAFL but they could easily slot into the team in place of players like Bradley, Dodd & Solomon.
throw in a possible Morabito and another key position prospect and I can not see us finishing anywhere lower than 12, maxing at about 9. depending on how the other bottom teams restructure & rebuild

Well done Daz, my thoughts exactly, I remember a few years ago the geelong crowd were spitting on Mark Thompson and his chargers but now hes a god to them because the club gave him a chance. I am a mad freo supporter and wish we were in the finals every year but getting older players is what freo has done in the past and it has never worked. You would not make a great coach Matt, and a true supporter would see what harvey is trying to do for this team and patience is the key. we will have our time at the top with all these great skilled young blokes taking us there.

Fair dinkum Matt,but come on mate surely you must see that the only way to go is with the youth policy,we don,t need any stars coming to our club just to see their careers out.Now is the time to rebuild our club and turn it into a GREAT club ask yourself this question.....WHERE WERE GEELONG 5 SEASONS AGO.We have to give Harvs a real decent chance to build a team and then we will sit back and just maybe, with a little bit of luck and a great deal of hard work from our extremely talented group of young men,we will enjoy a period of dominance in the competition..GO FREO

I have been a massive freo supporter and will remain so, however I feel that the direction that we are continuing on with employing youth needs to be assessed. It is true that our on ballers last year in hill, ballyntyne, Deboer etc were great and were much needed given our year, the fact to that next season with Palmer back in the middle is going to give us even more. But when do we look at winning you say 2012, in fairness us as fans can not live in the 2006 moment for much longer. it may have been bandaid fixes, but I think we needed some genuine AFL senior talent the likes of hall, fev and crew. quit looking 3years down the road because stuff happens start looking at winning flags now.