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Thankful for Freddy’s mother and smother. We’re just being more complimentary efficient than our forward line was! Time to Restump Podcast the lifting of two points off the Tiges.

Still don’t know how Freddy did that. His smother and Chappy’s defensive punch in round one…. pool room material. 

If Richmond was a bank, we got away with the cash drawers but not the vault. To be brutally honest, we lightened Richmond’s burden by lifting two points off them. 

While there were endless bewildering moments throughout the game that led to the result, the ridiculous two final positive and negative unthinkable moment minutes will forever trump the previous seventy eight.

Game saving tackles, holding the ball wins, smothers, shot clock breaches and playing on with all of a second left. It is one for the obscure history books. 

But after all the befuddlement, the reality is we walked away with two points, we lost a Fyfe and we fell out of the top four. 

We should write a song about our defenders because once again we’re singing their praises. Their collective efforts are astounding but in particular Hayden Young continues to astonish.   

But our Achilles heel continues to be our forward line and our mid forward connection. Rory Lobb was sorely missed but the game plan we concocted and the one we executed highly conflicted each other. 

While it is obviously not ideal the reassurance and the consolation are that with the current 12 and a half wins and 50 points we have, we’d have made the finals in all but 4 of 22 seasons since 2000. (minus 2020) Sportsbet have us at $1.005 to make the eight… and  that should calm anyone who has a few nerves. 

There is too much to go through the entire game here so join us on the podcast where we go into detail, unpack the extraordinary Friday night and attempt to make heads and tails of it. 

Having our top 4 destiny in our own hands hasn’t gone well for us in the past but this time it’s different… hopefully! Time to Restump Podcast the Friday night Dockers V Tiges show.

Friday night under lights, under the Marvel roof, on the big stage! We’re desperate to keep our top 4 chances alive while Richmond has a ton of teams wanting their place in the 8. 

Add the above to the fact that every one in three games between Freo and Richmond is decided by 12 points or less and it promises to be a cracking encounter.   

We talk changes and what that means for the match ups. We’ve lost a Lobb but a Henry and a Pearce has dropped in. While at Tigerland there’s no Dusty or Tom Lynch but a Soldo enters the backup ruck arena. 

With the loss of Lobby, its grounds for thinking the inform Lloyd Meek might sneak in to give Darcy a chop out and allow him to go up forward. 

We need a lift across the board from all individuals because if we deliver Friday night what we served up last Saturday… sayonara top 4!

Got to keep Daniel Rioli in check and stop his run, Jayden Short through the middle can hit the scoreboard and God help whoever draws the short straw to play on Shai Bolton. But one in all in, we can get it done as a collective!

We know we shouldn’t but we cover the rubbish Hagdorn and his SEN outrage journos came up with this week, we probably mistakenly wander into the Daisy Pearce saga and as always we chat all things Luke Jackson. 

Cannot wait for Friday night, our season is alive and well, our top four hopes are hanging by a thread…. Its all up to us. Well not us but us as in them, our them or their them or is it they them or they’re our them?…. Oh for crying out loud, you know who!

If you’re into nonsense like that… and why would you be… there’s plenty more where that came from so click play and jump on in, the purple preview listening water is warm. 

Ironically, it’s the heart stopping wins that make you know you’re truly alive! It's the Restump Podcast review of the thrilling win over the Tiges.

Forget for the moment everything else, the season that has been, the disappointing losses, the injuries and the potential finals prospects, yesterday’s win in isolation was simply a moment of pure purple joy. 

No Fyfe life, a Side lined Sonny and no possible Rory Story. Three of our most experienced players absent against the reigning dynastic Tigers was a fearful task going in, despite Richmond’s recent form. The burden rested on the shoulders of the youth. 

Future captain Andy Brayshaw was beyond remarkable. Adam Cerra…. an outstanding performance that sadly must further incentivise opposing clubs to go on the hunt. An uncompromising but composed Caleb Serong and a Young man with devastating skills who goes by the name of Hayden. Each member of that quartet played their vital part in taking down the Tigers yesterday.

The waiting game is over. Its time to get Darcy, Serong, Brayshaw and Young to hold Cerra down, put a pen in his hand and squiggle it on the dotted line! We just can’t allow him to go, we just cant! 

Back to yesterday, the defenders, obviously greatly assisted by the above mentioned mids, did a sterling job. Luke Ryan back to his All-Australian best and Griffin Logue…. this man is just 23 years of age! Tobe chipped in, Walker continues to show glimpses and while he had his precarious moments Nathan Wilson was his serviceable self. 

It wasn’t the purest game with skills from both teams falling short of expectations and errant goal kicking was more contagious than covid! But you only have to kick more than your opponent and when the 100th game milestone man Matty Tabs snapped one of his three from the boundary, you had a feeling there were gods of some sort looking over us.

We need to sort out the forward line structure and greatly improve inside fifty efficiency if we’re going to be a force in the future. Plus a couple of high speed Hayden Young type ball using wingers should be front and centre on the Christmas wish list. 

We’re in the eight, we’ve a host of injuries and, while all our three remaining opponents are not travelling sweetly, it’s still a pretty tough run home. Possession though is nine tenths of the law so its our ladder rung to lose.

We thought the season was over but the universe keeps delivering us opportunity so we continue to dance until the purple music ends. So if you haven’t yet overdosed on purple passion and you’re looking for a fix, this 60 minutes right here could be your Freo fentanyl. However, given the quality of the listening content, we’d suggest you embrace cheap imitations.

Somewhere along the line the Darcy diagnosis was lost in translation. It was all a misunderstanding and he’s good to go against the Tiges! It’s the Restump Podcast’s preview of Sunday's Freo V Richmond clash.

While the season is still mathematically alive, finals are all but gone. It feels like the pressure is off so its time to simply enjoy a game of Freo footy for what it is.

They’ve been named in the squad but do Joel Western and Nathan O’Driscoll make the final cut? Josh Treacy has been largely confirmed so that leaves two remaining positions and a medical sub. With the loss of Alex Pearce, we might need an Ethan Hughes or a Tobe Watson.

We chat contracts, the Cerra announcement getting pulled from channel 7, Reece Conca’s offensive trigger extension clause, Rory Lobb’s manager shopping him around and the sad seemingly end to Stephen Hill.

The ridiculous and competition compromising change in the academy rules has typically screwed us in our endeavours to potentially recruit Jesse Motlop!

However, on that topic, just days after they amended their drafting policy to read “public school  kids need not apply,” it seems the Karma Train may have stopped in at West Coast station as they failed to register Hale School’s Neil Erasmus for their academy. 

Jojo McDonnell loves Retro round and he wants the return of the rock and anchor to be wheeled out to the middle by guys in overalls and he’s calling for the inflatable shipping container tunnel for the players to enter the field. Meanwhile the Chief may be the only Freo supporter who isn’t in love with the green retro guernsey! 

So if you’re looking for something to drown out the noise of the torrential rains, feel free to click play and turn up the volume. You’ll soon learn to appreciate the racket of water hitting your roof again! Finals are virtually off the table but there is always something fascinating for the Freo Folk to figure.   

On Today's Pod we look back over the honourable loss against the Tigers on Wednesday. They were 6/1 underdogs going in but the boys in Purple put in a serviceable shift against the reigning premier. If we had of made the most of our opportunities maybe we get a different result? 

The commentary and presentation of the game on Fox Footy caught our interest so we will go over that and then finally we go around the grounds to see what else is happening in whatever round it is at the moment.

Lets Start Wearing Purple!