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 Brand...
Mar 17, 2023•43 min
Just hours until the Saints on Sunday! We’re as nervous as a hot air balloonist in the US. Good nerves though. Time to Restump Podcast the 2023 feasibility of the Freo plan. The real stuff is almost here and we’re beside ourselves. There is just something about this upcoming year that has us up and about with more anticipation than usual. Holistically speaking, are we in the best shape we’ve been in for the start of a season? While there is the odd injury, few seem serious and there aren’t too m...
Mar 14, 2023•48 min
Is Liam Henry about to Wing in the new AFL year? Preseason done and dusted and just a fortnight until the real stuff. Time to Restump Podcast everything remotely purple. It was a handy final hit out Friday against Port. Few things to work on, a few gears to click up but you couldn’t have asked for much more. We look at the highlights, player positions and scoring sources. Were there any areas of concern? Sean Darcy wrapped up his preseason with a wonderful performance, Nat Fyfe is manufacturing ...
Mar 06, 2023•53 min
The Captain Pearce secret didn’t really fly under the Radar. But as captain, do we need to worry about his Klingers… I mean… clangers… by foot? Time to Restump Podcast all the purple happenings. It is pretty much old news now but the captaincy just fits perfectly on Alex Pearce. He’ll lead admirably like he has done his entire career and we’re looking forward to the documentary A Day In the Fyfe Of Alex Pearce in the future! Co-vice captains? It was a bit of a soft and hard taco shell decision i...
Feb 27, 2023•49 min
It’s been a Stop-Sturt career to date. But have we just seen the Summer of Sam? Time to Restump Podcast all the latest Freo Fanfare. Preseason snippets have us hoping Sammy Sturt has found the intensity JL called for. Are we about to see the emergence of a talented forward? Season launch was today and it looks like we’re running with a new slogan “Stop at Nothing”. Given that is potentially open to fanatical interpretation, let’s hope they thought it through and accompanied it with some context....
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr
Did Fyfey faucet and step down or was the tap on the shoulder remnants of the re-plumb and re-pipe era? Time to Restump Podcast all the angles and purple town news. Did Nat Fyfe deserve the opportunity to become Fremantle’s first premiership captain? Or does he believe his best chance at a cup was to relinquish the captaincy responsibility to focus on his game? Was he given a nudge or did he voluntarily step down? If so, who loaded the gun? Is it the right time to change captains? Will it change...
Feb 13, 2023•54 min
Player agents would get someone else to take their bath for them if they could. Apparently, the ridiculousness has kicked off early this year. Well two can play that game so its time to Restump Podcast our own brand of purple nonsense. Colin Young is up and about extra early this year having started his customary chain of shenanigan events. Is there anything in the story or is he strategically concocting, dropping and denying rumours? Our Fremantle Club has a substantial and rare challenge on th...
Feb 06, 2023•51 min
With the 2023 season starting to appear on the horizon, has the magnitude of the previously unthinkable Jackson and Darcy duo reality really dawned on us? Time to Restump Podcast ponder that very question and so many more. While some weren’t, and maybe still aren’t, keen on Luke Jackson and what he has cost, the possibilities of what now lies ahead of us are extremely exciting. Sean Darcy already pretty much an established combative top 3 competition ruckman joined by the 21 year old premiership...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Caleb just Back ended another 4 years in purple for an extra Nickel! We’ll get off the cricket couch for an hour and Restump Podcast all the Christmas / New Year Freo news. There was little to no fear that Caleb Serong would be wearing anything but purple in the foreseeable future but having him lock in on Christmas Day for a further 4 years just made the season a little more festive. Tommy Sheridan had Griff Logue and Darcy Tucker on his podcast and the former Freo folk gave us a little bit of ...
Jan 05, 2023•54 min
When you knock back bigger offers to stay at Freo you get a lot of love for life. It is the silly season which is highly appropriate for this episode of the Restump Podcast. Luke Ryan signing up for life is as good a get as you could ever hope for and it’s testament to the club and it’s culture. No doubt it also says he likes how he is being coached. Fixtures are out. Friday arvo game at Norwood, we’re playing Brisbane, Sydney and Geelong twice… the AFL really put the fix in fixture! Is the term...
Dec 13, 2022•52 min
If Rory Lobb was Peter Garrett the song would be bridges instead of beds that were burning. Time to Restump Podcast the grenades that have been Lobbed our way. Plus all the latest news in purple shoes. It’s difficult to wonder what Rory’s thought process is as he torches the club that provided him $2 million plus. And if he is actually oblivious to his own comments, how has someone close to him not told him to reel it in? Either way, we’re all surely now looking forward to our future clashes wit...
Dec 06, 2022•47 min
Looks like the Freo crew have bet on red. And, going on their recent draft table craft, Hugh could argue with the decisions? Time to Restump Podcast the purple people we plucked from the player pool. Without the rich draft capital at our disposal this year it was always going to be a trickier process. But when the dust settled this morning its difficult to be disappointed. The Freo team filled the needs, punted on some wants, added some development projects and managed to include some insurance....
Nov 30, 2022•51 min
When it comes to AFL Draft knowledge, The West Australian's Jordan McArdle is peerless! Almost without a word of a lie, he is so thorough and dedicated he records birth canal sectional times to identify talent in the maternity ward! For the second year in a row Jordan has been generous with his time and information joining Jojo McDonnell on the Restump podcast for predominantly a WA kid draft preview. So, given we have nothing even slightly resembling a high draft pick in this Monday's draft, tu...
Nov 22, 2022•53 min
"It's been a year-and-a-half I've wanted out, so it was good to get it done, finally.” On this episode of the Restump Podcast…. it’s all about strong relationships, commitment, selflessness and self-awareness. Rory feeling as though he was on the outer is astonishing! Well not that he was on the outer, but the fact he seemingly has no idea why. Given the amount of headshaking in disbelief at Rory’s comments on the way out, chiropractors are about to fill their boots! Ironically, we’re going to b...
Oct 18, 2022•50 min
It’s unconfirmed but upon hearing Jaeger’s deal, apparently David Mundy said, “What am I… chopped liver?” Time to Restump Podcast the wrap up of our big 2022 trade period. Poor old Dave Mundy… he gets the tap on the shoulder and we replace him with a 29-year-old! 29 is actually 42 in Mundy years. But we’ll put our light-hearted nostalgic exaggerations aside for the moment and focus on what seems to be an exceptional trade period play performed by the purple pillagers and plunderers. Had Luke Jac...
Oct 12, 2022•50 min
We don’t want to upset the coach and cop a lecture for getting ahead of ourselves, but is it too early to give Luke Jackson a nudge in the father son direction? Let’s hope he gets on the job in more ways than one. Time to Restump Podcast the news of arguably one Fremantle’s biggest gets. Its not too often you get the chance to secure a 21-year-old Luke Jackson. David Walls, Peter Bell and JL just managed something remarkable and it will help set the club up for the next decade. Understandably ma...
Oct 10, 2022•46 min
At least they were nice enough to leave us a bunch of picks. Could’ve left us a shovel to bury our Griff, Tucker and Acres merchandise! Just kidding… petrol and a match will do the trick! Time to Restump Podcast the day in trade. To be fair, the trio have left us for largely valid reasons. Darcy Tucker just couldn’t get opportunity here; Griffin Logue didn’t have positional certainty and Blakey Acres had to take the money from Carlton that we weren’t offering. We wish them all well… except when ...
Oct 04, 2022•41 min
We were resigned to the fact Griff was gone. Is there a change in the air? Did we catch a whiff, are we back in with a sniff for Griff? There’s plenty going on to fill a Restump Podcast episode cup. We jostled for position on day one of trade week but little eventuated for us purple people. However, there’s still more than enough happening to go through. Trades have been completed, others stalled and pressure is building. With Jason Horne-Francis signalling his intent to leave the Roos, does it ...
Oct 03, 2022•57 min
Well, it’s that time of the year again. On the eve of the meat market silly season, the period otherwise known as trade week, its time to endure the annual Restump Podcast 2022 Buy, Sell, Hold report. It’s the episode where we decide if we’re going to buy sell or hold each player’s stock. We look at the year they have had, the future prospects, their ages and any other defining factor to reach an individual and team oriented financial investment conclusion. Do some players get a reprieve for cre...
Sep 29, 2022•2 hr 7 min
Worth every cent of the Johnny Cash he gets. Brownlow done, Grand Final won and the Cats had the last laugh. Season over but there’s always purple stuff in need of Restump Podcasting. In this episode we go over the Grand Final and ask the question, did Jordan Clark trade himself out of premiership? Has Geelong won everyone over with their actions, their humility and their humour? If so, how can we put a stop to it? We go through the grains of salt we take Colin Young’s commentary with and try to...
Sep 26, 2022•52 min
We’re obviously just not doing it for Griff as he wants to spice things up and play with others. Boatloads going on in the harbour so it is time to Restump Podcast all the news in purple shoes. Apparently, if you listen to the revenue generating click bait media, every Freo player and his dog, or in Rory’s and Acres’ case their emotional support animals, wants out. It’s an ‘exodus’ they tell us! Griffin Logue, Rory Lobb, Blake Acres, Darcy Tucker and Liam Henry are all, let’s say, restless. Whic...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Given the pain of the loss and the realisation we’d seen David Mundy run out in purple for the final time… it wasn’t a Saturday, it was a Sadurday. Time to Restump Podcast Freo’s semi-final loss to the ferocious Pies. We went in high on hope but also unfortunately on next to no experience for such a hostile environment. It showed very early and the intensity the Pies brought and hit us with, we had no answers or replies for. While we had no trouble getting our share of the ball, our disposal was...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 9 min
We won’t interrupt Jimmy Aish, he’s currently occuPied. Time to Restump Podcast preview our ridiculously anticipated semi final against the Maggies at the Gee! What an opportunity and experience awaits us! 90k plus people, predominantly Pie fans, are about to cram into Australia’s Colosseum to create both an electrifying atmosphere and the most hostile of environments. Its one thing to be playing a semi-final. But to be playing a semi-final at the MCG against Collingwood…. some Danny Zuko vibes....
Sep 08, 2022•47 min
You can’t do that! Second career game in an elimination final and Jye was as cool as a Busselton cucumber. Ryan Crowley couldn’t have rattled him! Time to Restump Podcast the unfathomable Freo victory. All we can say is, how? You just can’t do that! 41 points down with a tick over a half of footy to play and we somehow found a way with a team possessing barely a single final of experience between them. We averaged around 68 points per game for our last 6 games and we had to find 41 points in a j...
Sep 05, 2022•55 min
They’ve carried the team for decades so it’s time to return the favour. It’s the Restump Podcast preview of our monstrous do or die elimination final against the dogs! It is true absence often makes the purple heart grow fonder. It’s been 7 years since we’ve seen September action and I don’t know about anyone else, but for yours truly, the anxiety is already building and the nerves are kicking in. Being an elimination final, it increases the pressure knowing it’s ‘do or die’ in terms of our seas...
Sep 01, 2022•53 min
Dangerous weekend off, out of habit we almost shifted into Big Bash mode! Not this year though because it’s time to Restump Podcast awards, finals campaigns and contracts. It’s been a while since there’s been a finals pep in our step and a September glide in our stride. But we’ve earned our place in the eight so we’re shamelessly strutting towards Optus Stadium. On this episode, after the entertaining Ryan Crowley was well received, we’re asking listeners who you’d like to hear from next and why...
Aug 29, 2022•49 min
We got to sit down with one of the all-time Freo fan’s favourites, the great Ryan Crowley, and we had an absolute ball. Given today’s football it’s difficult to think he isn’t truly the last of the Mohicans. In this hour long, somewhat alcohol fuelled, convo we run through his regularly amusing and insightful journey, which constantly left us in stitches of laughter. Given how quickly the hour went and how desperate toilets were required at the end, a lot of content was left on the table. So, wh...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Down back defending, organising, up forward kicking goals in Canberra… the honourable Alex Pearce took on more roles than Scomo! Time to Restump Podcast Freo’s top 5 securing win over the Giants. He assumed the Ministerial roles for defence, for planning, up the ground on the spacious wing he was the minister for parks and recreation. On Jesse Hogan he became the minister for transport and main roads and when he ventured into unfamiliar territory and kicked a goal…. he said give me the minister ...
Aug 22, 2022•53 min
It’s always been Sonny’s house and we're just fortunate he allows us to visit. Time to Restump Podcast preview Sonny’s 200th and the Giant clash against GWS. What a privilege and an absolute joy it has been for us all to ride along with Sonny on his career to date. Coming up for 200 games, he’s kicked 306 goals and many of them have been when we’ve been in dire need. He was born for the big stage and that has been the setting where he has often done his best work. He has sliced, diced and iced g...
Aug 18, 2022•50 min
Did Sean Darcy just tell everyone to stop ‘Medaling’ with his number one ruck position? Time to Restump Podcast review the hotly contested win over the Eags. Well, I for one didn’t see that level of heat coming. While harmless, it created excitement and inserted some electricity into the atmosphere. It wound the clock back a little and showed there is still some feeling in Derbies. The result mattered but it was the hit out we got that was of most benefit. We didn’t want to head into finals on t...
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr
