SEN’s Tom Morris and Kane Cornes have raised the question of why Fremantle have been so quiet to date, as the trade period fast approaches.
After finishing 14th this season in a disappointing year for the Dockers, both believe that they should be one of the busier clubs this off-season to get back on track.
However, this hasn’t been the case yet, with no flagged interest or trade requests coming from them apart from Liam Henry asking to move to St Kilda.
“We don’t speak about the Dockers enough on this side of the country; they finished 14th this year, they conceded, …privately and then publicly a few weeks later, that they cut too deep with their list (and) they went too young,” Morris told SEN Mornings.
“So yes they’re a young list, but they won a final the year before.
“Their draft hand is not good this year – you can’t finish 14th and not have a first-round pick and say that you’re young and you’re developing.
“David Walls is the list manager there, who is highly regarded, he needs to get creative and find a way to get a first-round pick.”
Whilst Morris believes that trading Henry to St Kilda may not get them a much-needed first-round pick, he feels it would kickstart their ability to work into the trade period.
“I’m not sure Liam Henry will get them a first-round pick, … (he’s) probably an early second-rounder,” he said.
“And that will allow them to maybe take a couple of second rounders and move back into the first round.”
Cornes also pondered why Fremantle have been so quiet, believing that trading Sean Darcy may be a great move for the future, even though the club remain adamant that he will stay a Docker.
“The glaring move, the most obvious move for any club to make this whole period is to trade Sean Darcy. I don’t get it,” he said.
“They’re saying that they’re not, … they see his long-term future at the Dockers.
“I just wonder why they wouldn’t get a first-round pick for Darcy, get his money off the books – we’ve seen you can win a premiership with Darcy Cameron and Mason Cox in the ruck, you don’t need two ruckmen on eight to nine hundred thousand dollars a year when you are desperate for a first-round pick.
“What are they doing, and why would they need Sean Darcy and Luke Jackson? It makes no sense to me.”
Dockers fans will be eager to see change at the club in the hopes of shooting them back up into the top eight.