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Deals done early, seemingly little conjecture… it kind of feels like there might be something cooking. Time to Restump Podcast Freo’s quiet trade week update.

Sure, Belly said we’re now looking to the draft but Wallsy also said we’re in for a quiet trade week! We’re armed with a rich bag of future picks, are they just keeping their cards close to their chest or is there a twist in the purple trade week tail?

Well Liam Henry is now a Saint and Lachie Schultz a Pie. There was a lot of shouting that we got stooged by the Saints and we took massive unders for Liam. Oddly enough much of the shouting came from the same folk who all year said he wasn’t worth a ham sandwich. 

The Saints future second round pick does seem very compensatory light, but Liam put half a season of big runs on the board. Is that plus potential and improvement worth more than the currency received? Oh and yeah thanks Hawthorn for not giving us some little leverage by not entering the Henry negotiation! We tried to help you out with Brockman…. But no love back the other way?

While we may have gotten clipped on the Henry trade, the roles were reversed in the Lachie Schultz deal. Collingwood parted with their pick 34 this year and their first rounder next year. We’d all prefer Schultzy stayed but that sort of package does soften the blow. In fact, you could almost argue that even if Schultzy wanted to stay and the Pies threw that deal on the table…. you’re having the discussion!

So far this trade period Joel Hamling has headed to Sydney, Liam Henry to the Saints and Lachie Schultz to the Pies. It currently leaves us with picks 34, 46, 60 and 64 in this year’s draft while we’ve got a massive 3 first round picks, one second, one third and one fourth round pick in 2024. 

If this is a quiet trade week in Wallsy world, there wouldn’t be enough trade period days for us if Wallsy said we’re going to be pretty active!

Looks like Brennan Cox got on with the job and with his lovely partner Keah, they have produced us a future father son pick!  

Two days of the overblown, overhyped and dramatically delivered meat market to go. Are we done? Are we now unpacking our draft picks and putting them on the shelves…. Or is Wallsy and co just keeping them warm for one last 2023 hurrah? 

As if there isn’t enough hysterical nonsense in the AFL airways at the moment but we’re believers in that too much hysterical purple nonsense is never enough. So, if you’re a member of that club, by all means join us. And we’re not the gate keepers of opinion so feel free to throw yours in the mix.   

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The only mark we didn’t make on the day was that in the win column. Tough day against a typical Rossco regime. But there’s no panic here, only pragmatism. Time to Restump Podcast review round one.

It was a tough loss to endure. Expectations were high, excitement was in the air and the Sainters had a ton of their best out. There was cause for optimism. Did we mistakenly overlooked the Ross the Boss component and his ability to deliver in spades something we should have seen coming?

Did Collingwood produce a step-by-step plan on how to dismantle us Dockers in last season’s semi-final? Ross mentioned he analytically went to town on that game and, as he has the knack for doing, got his young plucky chargers to reconstruct parts of it.

There is no hiding from the fact we struggled to cope with the defensive running of the Saints. It saw our slow possession play further suffer as we couldn’t get any run and carry going. Our forwards suffered as a result but their own systematic incoherence has to carry some of the blame.

A more measured assessment recalls that Fyfe, Jackson and, to a lesser extent, Treacy are all new components of a forward line that didn’t exactly enjoy great functionality last year. Practice matches and preseason games only reveal so much. Add in a Sam Sturt and possibly a Josh Corbett to the mix and you can see we’re going to remain in experimental mode for a while yet.

With our mids getting demolished, should Fyfe have gotten the tap on the shoulder to venture in there and level up the contest? 

Did the Sean Darcy and Luke Jackson combo, otherwise known as Jackarce, show enough in the debut performance? 

Was Jaegar O’Meara carrying a bit more of an ankle that we may know? 

There is so much to methodically unpack from what was, in context, a demoralising loss. There is no shadow of a doubt failing to bank those four points was an opportunity lost and one we may look back on with further grief come the end of the season. 

But are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Well, babies don’t deserve that treatment and you know…. with water restrictions today….  I think we’ll hang on to both.

Its round one, it might be a simple case of getting stung and taken by surprise. Ross the Boss may have left us with some pain on Sunday but he previously left us with the philosophy that failure is feedback. We get the benefit of the early loss to know what needs improving. Dwell in negativity and you’ll manifest more of it. 

So join us as we dig deep, probably deeper than we dug out there on Sunday, into the wash up and look further into what went wrong, what went right, what was, what wasn’t, what could have been and what needs to be done. 

Will we solve the purple problems? Highly doubtful but we’ll air the grievances, spin the positives and just enjoy having footy back.

Maybe it’s the buildup and we’re over excited and maybe we’re getting carried away… but the Saints are going to need a Sunday prayer! Time to Restump Podcast preview Freo’s round one against Ross.

It is the first time since 2011 we have to face Ross Lyon as an opposing coach but we’d be pretty confident we’ll get a defensive oriented contest. To be fair to the Sainters they’re the walking wounded but that won’t stop a Ross Lyon team making it a hard grind.

Selection talking points surround Brandon Walker being overlooked for the deserving and returning Nathan Wilson and Freddy coming in off a light preseason to replace the unlucky Sammy Sturt. Could Sturty steal Bailey Banfield’s sub vest?

Great to see Josh Treacy command a gig and Liam Henry has been rewarded for his hard work and growth over the preseason. 

With Ross Lyon reuniting with Bradley Hill, could we see the form of our former winger detrimentally return against us? 

The people who thought Blake Acres was a steal and suggested we were crazy for letting him walk for a third rounder might have had a couple of second thoughts. Gotta take the good with the bad with Blakey Acres. 

Despite getting around in the flashy digs on the golf course today, Jojo McDonnell didn’t really commit either way on the pre-game fashion show talk. However, the more practical Chief wants that putridly theatrical initiative knocked on the head quick smart.

Anyway, its almost here. Sunday lunch time our season gets underway as we break bread with and then toast the Saints! For a bit of a more exciteful than insightful preview, use up 40 minutes of waiting time with us.  

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Covid selection casualties, Fyfe breaking injury news on national TV, conflicting revelations… it’s a confusing climate in which to attempt a preview. But it’s time to add to the lack of clarity and Restump Podcast Sunday’s game against the Saints.  

Despite the team being named, it feels as if selections are still very much up in the air. However, one certainty is we’re about to see the eagerly awaited return of Joel Hamling after 372 days on the sidelines. 

No Mundy and no Fyfe leaves our midfield hopes resting on the shoulders of youngsters. Brayshaw, Serong and Brodie will present well but Jack Steel may well have another field day. Does Darcy Tucker step in? Does Sonny Walters finally get the midfield green light? 

Is Sean Darcy really back or is he part of the apparent shenanigans and a bit of a red herring?

The Liam Henry knockers got their wish as he has been dropped but it seems a very odd week to omit him considering who his direct opponent(s) are likely to be.

Josh Treacy has felt the sharp edge of the wedge but his inclusion isn’t yet out of the realms of possibility.

Jojo McDonnell has gone out on a limb and all but declared Nathan “The Disco” O’Driscoll will be running out onto Optus to debut on Sunday. Does he know something we or possibly even The Disco or the club don’t?

It’s a tricky game to assess and predict but…. then again when have our Freo boys ever made that simple?

Fyfe breaking his news on the national television raised our eyebrows, as did JL concealing of our covid protocol players. Are we suffering communication missteps or are there factions on different pages down at Limestone Park? 

We’re thinking about starting a campaign to lobby Fox Footy to give us the Adam Papalia and Will Schofield commentary team for every Freo game. The compromise will be that we never see the Dwayne Russell and Kelly underwood combination ever again! 

Difficult preview this one with all the conflicting and confusing factors but its not like us to make sense of anything anyway so it’s probably business as usual. 40 plus minutes of purple noise right here that we hope you can make heads or tails of…. because we can’t! 

We’re finishing with a bang this season with everyone’s favourite player Lenny Hayes. He shares stories from his amazing career, including THAT Grand Final, and what it was like to play with some of the greatest leaders of the modern era, in Nick Riewoldt and Luke Ball. Great way to finish season two of the Phil Davis Podcast.  

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Today on Triple M's Saturday Rub we're joined by a very happy Dan Hannebery after St Kilda booked their place in the finals; Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin joins us ahead of the Essendon-Demons clash; and Bomber's Captain Dyson Heppell drops bomb when talking about people criticising the club.

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