I'll make it really simply for Freo. They don't and won't win a premiership with their current forward half. Their fans over on BF are all focused so hard on Warner they miss the glaringly obvious. They have the worst forward half out of the top 8 and thats funnily enough where they are ranked on scores (8th for points for only marginally in front of the Pies who have had heaps of issues in their forward half this year with injuries). Its the area of the ground they need to improve.
Their defence is very good, they are ranked 1st in the AFL now for points against, their midfield is strong, they dominate stoppages, but they just can't score enough scores, and when you have players like Banfield (who tries hard but is not top line), Emmett (onloy just over half a goal per game) etc in your forward half there is a reason they their scores are that low.
Shai transforms their forward half, but you have muppets over on BF arguing that he's not that good, that he isn't worth what they will be asked to pay, that he is wortrh Pick 7, or Pick 7 and 16 with our 2nd going back (that ones a joke, we might actually get better offers than a future pick 16 on the 2nd night of the draft for that 1st pick).
Everyone on here knows I don't want him to go, I love watching him play, when he goes into the middle he's electric, but I don't think Yze has used him right this year, played him as a small forward for much of the year, how many times have we seen him 20m behind the last defender when the ball is down our defensive half, thats not Shai being lazy, its happened way to often, the plan was to have him out the back to use his pace, but we've largely wasted him. Yze got this wrong from pre-season when he said Dusty would be a pure mid and Shai would be a small forward, we all know Dusty as a pure mid was over after 2022. It was never going to work.
