Not getting ahead of ourselves but surely the $1.11 solves all the inflationary pressures! Time to Restump Podcast Saturday’s walk in the park. It doesn’t really have that Derby feel. In fact, I can’t recall a more lacklustre week leading up to a derby. The build-up has been non-existent as it seems much of this year the Eagles have run with Homer Simpson’s “can’t win, don’t try” philosophy. There’s been no banter, no cheap shots no angst... sure we’ve got bigger fish to fry but there’s room for...
Aug 11, 2022•41 min
Did Lobby ace the interview for his new employer or what! Are we back? Time to Restump Podcast review the top 4 door opening win over the Dogs. What a difference it makes when the forwards function productively and cohesively and your two big targets actually lead to space or at the ball carrier? Oh, and kicking straight always helps. Credit when it’s due… Rory Lobb put on a goal kicking master class. We turned our recent form around but continued our magnificent Victorian form on Saturday, putt...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Despite Freo’s horrific three weeks up forward, we won’t see Sammy Sturt on the Marvel dirt. Time to Restump Podcast review the daunting assignment against Rory Lobb’s future teammates. We’re a bit disappointed this week as its seemingly becoming a bit ground-hog-dayish on selection day. While Sammy Sturt isn’t the second coming of Christ, after three team scores averaging 7 goals a game, it appears we’ve opted not to address or even tinker with the dysfunctional forward structure. However, JL a...
Aug 04, 2022•44 min
Ouch, Freo Dockers! We’re just getting over Friday night and you drop unwanted Mundy news Monday morning on us! Time to therapeutically Restump Podcast all of it. The news hit hard this morning and it really put us off our cornflakes. The great man, the man we thought would still be playing when we all leave this earth, ripped our hearts out and called time on his career. The MundyFourHundy dream is over. After a relentless effort based 35 possession game on Friday night, you got the feeling Dav...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Two Brayshaws would have been handy… but we’re ok running with one and a Jackson. Time to Restump Podcast preview the Brayshaw Bros Friday Night Bout in the Freo V Dees clash. Angus Brayshaw is a big signing for the Dees and congratulations to them. However, interestingly enough the grapevine chatter is suggesting Luke Jackson flew to WA for tomorrow night’s game with a shipping container of luggage! (Disclaimer - We may have put that out on the grapevine) Massive game Friday night and its fair ...
Jul 28, 2022•47 min
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 moment...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 8 min
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 ...
Jul 21, 2022•54 min
After Griff’s game, we need to secure his signature and get him presenting lectures down at Cockburn on adaptability. Time to Restump Podcast our tough to take loss to the Swans. Was there a game at Optus on Saturday night or a Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch concert? Marks everywhere! The Swannies racked up 138 marks for the game, largely with our assistance. After quarter time they took 64 more marks than us… over 20 more per quarter. The warning signs, or should that be Warner signs, started f...
Jul 18, 2022•54 min
Is Budweiser than we think? Freddy said, yes you better beerlieve it. Acres returns and Chappy is back. Time to Restump Podcast what’ll hopefully be our 4th win from 4 games against the Swans at Optus. Given we’re currently sitting a win clear in third heading towards September, we’ve got Acres and Chappy back in the team, the Disco is back up and about and Switta has recommenced running... are we getting ahead of ourselves if we suggest everything is coming up Millhouse? We’re getting as close ...
Jul 14, 2022•45 min
What a luxury it is to have the ‘In case of midfield emergency, break the Fyfe glass’ option. Time to Restump Podcast Saturday’s slaying of the Saints. The Saints gave us a lesson in the first half as they treated our midfielders like purple witches’ hats. In the middle we couldn’t have bought a footy in a clearance sale! When Maxy King goaled from the silver service, Jack Higgins got on the scoreboard and Dan Butler chipped in with one all in that first quarter…. not going to lie, we had flash ...
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 6 min
We’re trying to stay in the top four and the Sainters are trying to get into the eight. Time to Restump Podcast the Sainters and Dockers concert Saturday night. We were ordinary at best in round 2 against the Saints when they bowled us over by 10 points. But we’re a different side now and we’re better equipped to deal with them. We’re looking to defend our top four position while the Saints are just on the wrong side of the edge of the top eight. There is so much up for grabs, so much to play fo...
Jul 07, 2022•45 min
Did Mitch Georgiades relegate Youngy to a Raider Of The Lost Mark? Time to Restump Podcast yesterday’s win that wasn’t for the faint hearted. It was a nostalgic day yesterday as Freo wound back the clock. Late in the game fan’s were calling for the defibrillators to get their purple hearts going again, but it was all part of the emotive four-point banking fun. 40 points up at one stage, did we take the foot off the pedal or did fatigue set in? There are many ways to asses it but the reality is, ...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr 3 min
One minute you’re on the band saw, next minute you’ve got an All Australian jacket and 100 games under your belt. Time to Restump Podcast DJ Luke Ryan’s 100th in the clash against the Power. Big game for Luke Ryan in his 100th as it is for Nathan Wilson in his 150th. But individual accolades will have to wait because we’ve got to somehow turn the Power off while managing to keep our top four faint flickering light on. We’ve got a trick up our sleeve though. We’ll turn the Power of and switch to ...
Jul 01, 2022•48 min
Did we just hit the Wall, up against the Lygon Street Lads? Time to Restump Podcast the end of year tax loss against the calculating Carlton Blues. It’s the end of financial year time and fans are attempting to claim their memberships as tax deductions. So, despite it being a boat load of ridiculousness and making no sense, is it beyond the possibility that we had too many capital win gains and Saturday was the opportunity to bank a strategic capital tax loss prior to the 30th June? A loss that ...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Griff to Charlie, Alex Pearce to McKay and we should be off to the bank with a 4-point deposit. (probably 3-points taking inflation into account) Time to Restump Podcast the Blues bash on Saturday. If we’re a genuine top four finisher and premiership contender we have to put away the defence depleted Blues. Lose this game and suddenly it paints a shifting picture. The Blues have struggled to contain scoring in recent weeks so if we can capitalise on their deficiencies that end of the ground and ...
Jun 23, 2022•47 min
Its official, the bye round stinks and we’re glad it’s over. Time to restart the Freo Freight Train and Restump Podcast the latest news in purple shoes. The bye round probably came at a good time for a few of our momentarily sore soldiers. But other than for those favourable reasons, the bye round can get in the sea! We’re 10 and 3 going into the back end of the season and we need, as a rule of thumb, a minimum of 15 wins to make the top four. Jojo McDonnell has us winning the next three straigh...
Jun 20, 2022•53 min
Maybe getting ahead of ourselves is too much, but how about Hawkish on our prospects. Time to Restump Podcast review the hard-fought win over the Hawks. Hawthorn is a pretty decent 13th placed team! They brought their best and ran us to the wire but 3rd quarters are our specialty, we stuck the fork in the hawk and it was done. Did we overuse the handball? We only had 88 more than Hawthorn so…. yeah just a bit! But everyone got amongst the disposals as we ended up with a record equalling 13 playe...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Us Dockers are lovers and fighters, which is why we’ll love taking down the War Hawks. Time to Restump Podcast Saturday’s Freddyless clash against the once mighty Hawthorn side. Whenever we play the Hawks, instantly the painful memory of the 2013 Grand final resurfaces. To be fair, it probably burns David Mundy more than anyone but maybe it’s been the motivation he has used to solider on. On top of that we have an atrocious record against the once powerful Hawthorn team, being 11 wins and 28 los...
Jun 09, 2022•50 min
Geelong, Melbourne and now Brisbane. Once is a chance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend! Time to Restump Podcast Freo’s eventual taming of the Lions on Sunday. There was something about the Bailey's in that game, Zac Bailey and Bailey Banfield each kicked four but we'll focus on the latter. Straight off the top, you're not human if you weren't thrilled for Bailey Banfield. The serial sub, battling with confidence, got his chance and delivered arguably his career best game when it w...
Jun 07, 2022•56 min
Geez an 85% fit Fyfe would be handy! But you don’t want to go in rushed and underprepared like we did into this difficult Restump Podcast preview of our clash against the Lachie Neale Lions. Jojo wanting to do the preview in between drinks on his swimming pool bar crawl in Bali is probably the time to realise you need to start holding yourself to the same disciplinary account you hold your team’s players to. Sunday’s game is a tricky assignment to assess. Brisbane are 9 wins and 2 losses but the...
Jun 03, 2022•43 min
What about that Freo fans! We might never lose again… unless it rains! Time to Restump Podcast the spectacular win against the Dees! That’s the one in all in team performance we’ve come to know and love. 22 players ironically executing their individual roles as a collective. We can’t even remember the last 2 weeks now! 23 inside fifties for 2 goals 7 behinds in the 1st half. In the second half we racked up 30 inside fifties for 12 goals 3 behinds… and Gloria Estefan reckons she can turn the beat...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Whatever the result, let’s not let a potential crisis go to waste. We usually like our coffee hot but we’ll take it Lukewarm this weekend! It's time to Restump Podcast preview our clash against the Dees at the Gees this Saturday. Three weeks ago this was the blockbuster game the world was looking forward to. The two weeks since, the rain has literally rained on our parade. We’re still quietly eager but we’ve got one eye on the bureau of meteorology’s weather radar! Darcy Tucker got a big feed at...
May 27, 2022•48 min
Are we placing too much credence in wet conditions for our poor performances? Time to dry out and Restump Podcast review yesterday’s hosing at the hands of the Pies. Did we have water logged ears after drowning on the Gold Coast and were unable to hear the instruction? Did the written instruction get smudged by the rain? Is anyone down there aware of these things called weather reports? It’s difficult to ascertain what the reasoning is behind our unpreparedness for wet weather football again. Bu...
May 23, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Sonny Walters and Alex Pearce will proudly represent the collective this Sunday against Collingwood on Sir Doug Nicholls round. Time to Restump Podcast preview the clash. We need after a response to last week. Collingwood won’t be a pushover but if we get back to playing our brand, it should hold us in good stead. If we’re any chance of a top 4 finish, we have to bank 4 points here. You need about 15 wins a season to make the top 4. We’ve got 13 games left meaning we need to win 8 of them. We’ve...
May 20, 2022•45 min
A day later we can see clearly now the rain has gone. Time to Restump Podcast Freo’s rain drops keep falling on my head loss to the Gold Coast Suns. How were we not prepared for the conditions? We’re from a port, we’re Dockers, Dockers work on a wharf! How could water even remotely seem foreign to them? Did they think we all ironically came down in the last shower? Now the angst is out of the way we can look at it in a more measured manner…. yeah measured manner with a rain gauge! The conditions...
May 16, 2022•1 hr
As Freo fans it feels a bit weird ridiculing Gold Coast’s trades. Doesn’t mean we’re not going to do it, but just feels weird. Time to Restump Podcast Sunday’s clash against the Suns. We’ve not got a great recent record at Gold Coast’s home ground Metricon stadium, but then again… with two losses from three games there this year, neither do the Suns. Some expected big ins but a somewhat surprising yet also understandable out with Brandon Walker, having been told to take a spin around the oval wi...
May 13, 2022•43 min
Safe to say North’s rebuild could do with a Jim’s Handyman. Time to Restump Podcast Friday night’s result in which Freo hopped over the Kangas. Six wins on the bounce… who is this purple outfit? As Fremantle fans we know too well what North supporters are going through so there will be no showboating from us. However, it was pleasing to put away a side in the manner we should have, as it is something we have rarely been able to do. It was a methodical, disciplined and systematic performance from...
May 09, 2022•1 hr
The one Jyed Freo supporting Busselton folk are coming! This is a game they would Nev Amiss. Time to Restump Podcast Friday night’s ‘marquee’ game against the Roos. When you hear covid hit and six of your players are out… you immediately do the Sean Darcy umpire remonstrating disguising hands to your head move! But then you realise Chappy, Young and Darcy are three of the ins, you hear Jye Amiss’ name confirmed and Liam Henry is back for another crack at it! Suddenly the blood pressure returns t...
May 05, 2022•50 min
They said we couldn’t do it and they wrote us off. But we prevailed, our mighty Freo Dockers beat Tom Stewart by 3 points! Time to Restump Review Podcast Freo's big win over the Catters. Still haunted by their harrowing defeat in the 2013 qualifying final, we made sure their purple nightmare continued. We’re trying to keep the lid on things but we’re going to need more help. We weren’t going to be able to match them on their advantageous uniquely shaped poxy ground, we were told. Guess what? The...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Could we be about to reignite the vicious Lyon-era rivalry with the Cats? We will have a Clark of the Course to oversee it! Time to Restump Preview Podcast Saturday’s Cat clash. Think of Matty Scarlett only getting the equivalent of a five minute holiday for king hitting Hayden Ballantyne in an unprovoked attack. Yes, Ballas got a couple for knocking Paul Chapman in the same game, but it was a misguided retaliatory self-defensive action, a case of mistaken identity. Think of Steve Johnson and hi...
Apr 28, 2022•57 min
