Death Riding Fremantle 2023 - Feathered Cap Edition

[Bombay Airconditioning 6,217]

10 hours ago, Jibroni said:

Feel for Jackson TBH, the kid seems to be on a hiding to nothing. 

7 years at 7-800K a year isn’t nothing.

[rjay 24,616]

Jackson has played his best footy when Darcy has been out injured or when Darcy has been in injured.

Basically when he gets to carry the ruck load.

...as we know, he's not a forward.

We have the same issue with Max.

[layzie 32,951]

The feathered caps will be on sale if the Swans get over them in two weeks. 

[Fritta and Turner 4,184]

13 hours ago, rpfc said:

With Eeyore Longmuir in charge I would think they will give up and find other hobbies in their life; woodworking or paint-by-numbers…

Can they count?

[layzie 32,951]

13 hours ago, rpfc said:

With Eeyore Longmuir in charge I would think they will give up and find other hobbies in their life; woodworking or paint-by-numbers…

Eeyroreeee. 

Kid's party idea: Pin the tail on the Longmuir.

[Redleg 40,224]

1 hour ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

7 years at 7-800K a year isn’t nothing.

Think it’s closer to $1m a year.

[ElDiablo14 4,933]

1 hour ago, layzie said:

The feathered caps will be on sale if the Swans get over them in two weeks. 

Although I don't really like saying this... I hope Collingwood smashes them next week and kills any fighting spirit left in the Dockers.

Then it becomes a down hill until the end season for them, all the way down to bottom 5 🤞🏻.

[drysdale demon 4,703]

13 hours ago, Jibroni said:

Feel for Jackson TBH, the kid seems to be on a hiding to nothing. 

The kid made his own decision, I have zero sympathy for him if it doesn't work out for him at Freo.

[Deebauched 1,220]

4 minutes ago, drysdale demon said:

The kid made his own decision, I have zero sympathy for him if it doesn't work out for him at Freo.

Yep. He'll retire in his early thirties a multi millionaire. Dont forget Freo might come good in a few years. Why would anyone feel sorry for him. Absurd.

[ElDiablo14 4,933]

5 minutes ago, Deebauched said:

Yep. He'll retire in his early thirties a multi millionaire. Dont forget Freo might come good in a few years. Why would anyone feel sorry for him. Absurd.

If they don't keep losing talent perhaps.

A lot of noise about Darcy leaving to go to Jeelong.

They still need a proper fwd line, I don't think Amiss is a differential player, he may be solid but won't be a Cameron or Hawkins level forward.

[layzie 32,951]

3 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Although I don't really like saying this... I hope Collingwood smashes them next week and kills any fighting spirit left in the Dockers.

Then it becomes a down hill until the end season for them, all the way down to bottom 5 🤞🏻.

I'm good with it. 

[Little Goffy 14,032]

Freo games where Luke Jackson has played well;

7 wins. 3 losses.

rnd 3 - win

Rnd 4 - loss

rnd 5 - win

rn 8 - win

rnd 9 - win

rnd 10 - win

rnd 11 - win

rnd 13 - loss

rnd 14 - loss

rnd 15 - win

Freo games where Luke Jackson has played poorly / not impacted;

Zero wins. 6 losses.

Rnd 1 - loss

rnd 2 - loss

rn6 - loss

rnd 7 - loss

rnd 16 - loss

rnd 17 - loss

[Little Goffy 14,032]

2 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

If they don't keep losing talent perhaps.

A lot of noise about Darcy leaving to go to Jeelong.

They still need a proper fwd line, I don't think Amiss is a differential player, he may be solid but won't be a Cameron or Hawkins level forward.

Amiss is basically Fritsch +8cm. I think it is fair to say that if Fritsch had had those 8cm he would have easily been drafted in his first eligible season and got off to a similar flying start to Amiss. I agree though that even with those extra cms Amiss (or theoretically Fritsch) does not change to become that traditional bully key forward. Both our outstanding players, though and both should be in routine AA third tall discussions for years to come.

[darkhorse72 1,857]

8 hours ago, rjay said:

Jackson has played his best footy when Darcy has been out injured or when Darcy has been in injured.

Basically when he gets to carry the ruck load.

...as we know, he's not a forward.

We have the same issue with Max.

Hence why I believe it was a weird decision to get him in with what they paid for him.

He didn't fit their team balance.  they already lost 1 decent ruck when bringing him in plus other first 22 players. 

As for us losing to them, it was the same as last year when Freo has that purple patch of wins and then dropped away.   We should have won, but didn't. 

Interesting to see what free do at the end of the season.

Even more interesting in the approach they will now take till the end of this season, will they continue to push hard and experiment with new players/setups ready or next year.

 

 

 

 

[ChaserJ 4,715]

Indicative draft order/deathride watch:

https://www.afl.com.au/news/963218/indicative-draft-order-freo-slide-boosts-dees-trade-bounty

[BDA 22,297]

We can’t overtake the pies so I hope they beat the snot out of freo next weekend. 

[adonski 10,897]

 

[Colm 1,948]

https://www.afl.com.au/news/963072

This article has the remaining fixtures for all teams. Having looked at all those team around Freo I expect Swan, Richmond and Carlton to finish well above them.

The two team that concern me the most are the Suns and GWS as both don’t have any easy games in the run in. 
Think it will be between those two and Freo for draft picks 4-6. I’d be happy with any of those picks. But I’ll be death riding hard and hoping we get pick 4. 

[ElDiablo14 4,933]

5 minutes ago, Colm said:

https://www.afl.com.au/news/963072

This article has the remaining fixtures for all teams. Having looked at all those team around Freo I expect Swan, Richmond and Carlton to finish well above them.

The two team that concern me the most are the Suns and GWS as both don’t have any easy games in the run in. 
Think it will be between those two and Freo for draft picks 4-6. I’d be happy with any of those picks. But I’ll be death riding hard and hoping we get pick 4. 

Suns are a certainty to drop off a cliff, they always do in the last part of the season.

[adonski 10,897]

8 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Suns are a certainty to drop off a cliff, they always do in the last part of the season.

Suns play the Saints at home, they should win, but they lose a lot of games they should win

[Clintosaurus 7,568]

Pick 4 would get us into the Harley Reid conversation for sure.

[adonski 10,897]

11 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

Pick 4 would get us into the Harley Reid conversation for sure.

Without knowing how we rate the other highly rated kids vs Reid, I like the idea of focusing on getting as many good first round picks as possible to give the list a bit of a refresh rather than selling the farm for 1 player

[John Crow Batty 8,787]

2 hours ago, BDA said:

We can’t overtake the pies so I hope they beat the snot out of freo next weekend. 

If Collingwood finish top and we finish fourth it’s the same as the other way around. Maintain our position and avoid an interstate first final. Up to us to stay there. No benefit for us in finishing higher. Just hope Port stumble a bit and Collingwood keep cruising.

[BDA 22,297]

3 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

If Collingwood finish top and we finish fourth it’s the same as the other way around. Maintain our position and avoid an interstate first final. Up to us to stay there. No benefit for us in finishing higher. Just hope Port stumble a bit and Collingwood keep cruising.

the preference is the pies at the G for sure but if it comes to it I have no fears of playing Port at AO either. They have [censored] the bed there in finals matches in recent years so we can be confident of beating them.

[layzie 32,951]

2 hours ago, adonski said:

 

Serong but so wrong.