Death Riding Fremantle 2023 - Feathered Cap Edition

[Engorged Onion 10,223]

Just now, Demonstone said:

As much as I have no great desire to see Luke Jackson do well at his new club, I do think that a sample of one game is a little small and way too early to be celebrating his demise.

This thread isn’t a place for considered statements methinks…

[radar 1,865]

So - dreaming - if they win the spoon we get picks 1, 18 and 19? 

[Deebymistake 783]

4 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

As much as I have no great desire to see Luke Jackson do well at his new club, I do think that a sample of one game is a little small and way too early to be celebrating his demise.

Be gone with you.  That comment was far to sensible

[KingDingAling 3,758]

Freo have no forward line.

[adonski 12,427]

2 minutes ago, Deebymistake said:

Be gone with you.  That comment was far to sensible

I hope the administrators deal with him accordingly

[Big Col 1,347]

3 minutes ago, radar said:

So - dreaming - if they win the spoon we get picks 1, 18 and 19? 

Then everyone would hate us and decry how unfair it all was. And we would all laugh and I would be very happy.

[Jaded No More 68,973]

11 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

As much as I have no great desire to see Luke Jackson do well at his new club, I do think that a sample of one game is a little small and way too early to be celebrating his demise.

[darkhorse72 1,925]

So it begins…

 

they did not look good at all. 

[Demons11 7,051]

10 minutes ago, radar said:

So - dreaming - if they win the spoon we get picks 1, 18 and 19? 

The number 1 pick is an absolute freak!!! If this happened we won’t lose a game for 5 years 🤣

[Demonsterative 3,020]

14 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

As much as I have no great desire to see Luke Jackson do well at his new club, I do think that a sample of one game is a little small and way too early to be celebrating his demise.

On a logical way of thinking. The Dockers just wasted $35 000 based on today. They can’t get that back.
 

Possibly more $$$$$…

[biggestred 5,138]

13 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

The number 1 pick is an absolute freak!!! If this happened we won’t lose a game for 5 years 🤣

If we ended up with say, 5, 16 and 23 from freo finishing 13th and us 3rd there's no way we wouldnt be talking to whoever finishes last and seeing if they want to trade 1 for a couple of first rounders.

Edited March 19, 2023 by biggestred

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

How does a supremely talented forward/ruck go through an entire game of footy without taking a mark?

If you look at his highlights reel it is mostly marks.

Somehow in the the last season he went from Jeremy Howe to Chris Dawe.

He needs a rocket put up him but unless Freo bring in Clarkson or Lyon mid season he won't get it.

[Matt 424]

If we win most games, and Freo loose most games, this could be a great year, and offseason, for us

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,878]

11 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

If you look at his highlights reel it is mostly marks.

Somehow in the the last season he went from Jeremy Howe to Chris Dawe.

He needs a rocket put up him but unless Freo bring in Clarkson or Lyon mid season he won't get it.

Or maybe it's harder to take marks when you're not getting the 3rd or 4th key defender?

Kind of hope the good time continue to roll at Freo.

Edited March 19, 2023 by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

[Timothy Reddan-A'Blew 5,274]

3 hours ago, Matt said:

If we win most games, and Freo loose most games, this could be a great year, and offseason, for us

This is why I'm riding this train on its journey around the 2023 AFL season - not the 'LJ Thing' (he's forever in my memory for his part in Bang Bang Bang); rather, it's the draft bounty.

It's just the reality.

[Vipercrunch 2,827]

2 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

This is why I'm riding this train on its journey around the 2023 AFL season - not the 'LJ Thing' (he's forever in my memory for his part in Bang Bang Bang); rather, it's the draft bounty.

It's just the reality.

A bottom 4 finish for Freo with LJ winning their B&F is fine with me too. 

[Demon Jack 6,930]

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Luke Jackson - 2 marks in his last 3 games of footy.

How does a supremely talented forward/ruck go through an entire game of footy without taking a mark?

Jackson certainly wouldn't be the only ruck to go without taking marks for week on end. For all the media plaudits he gets for his ability to take big grabs, Nic Nat has gone through his entire career averaging just over a mark and a half a game. 

Makes you realise how much we take Gawn's around the ground marking prowess for granted.

[ElDiablo14 5,002]

1 hour ago, Garbo said:

Freo have the dream draw going to 2023 first 5 games vs teams that didn’t play finals including the bottom 2 teams they should have been 5-0 to start the year

How can that be !! AFL fixturing is a joke. Freo played in a semi-final last season. Yet they get a bottom 4 type fixture 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Demonsterative 3,020]

22 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

Jackson certainly wouldn't be the only ruck to go without taking marks for week on end. For all the media plaudits he gets for his ability to take big grabs, Nic Nat has gone through his entire career averaging just over a mark and a half a game. 

Makes you realise how much we take Gawn's around the ground marking prowess for granted.

But his main role is KPF, part time ruck. Not sure a KPF who does not mark cuts the grade. 

[adonski 12,427]

Just now, ElDiablo14 said:

How can that be !! AFL fixturing is a joke. Freo played in a semi-final last season. Yet they get a bottom 4 type fixture 🤦🏻‍♂️

I believe they have one of the harder fixtures...it's just their first five or so rounds or considered easy ones 

[Timothy Reddan-A'Blew 5,274]

Took your advice, @BDA and @adonski, and also had consideration for the 'red', @rpfc, and watched only the highlights.

'Twas sufficient...

I did check in on their team song, though (we can afford to be magnanimous regarding Saints/1/66), expecting unbridled joy, but...meh. Our boys, and the team around them, know important wins when they see them.

[The Corridor 119]

Nothing better than two wins for the Dees on one weekend! 

[Little Goffy 14,639]

2 hours ago, AmsterdamDeesFan said:

Jackson against Saints: 0 goals 2 behinds 12 disposals 0 marks 8 hit outs 54 metres gained

Grundy against Dogs: 1 goal 1 behind 17 disposals 1 mark 242 metres gained

Yes, but Jackson could still be contributing that for another ten years.

🦄

[layzie 33,991]

You know what we need? An official death riding mobile. Ideas on my desk by Monday.

[Gawndy the Great 9,011]

2 hours ago, Big Col said:

Then everyone would hate us and decry how unfair it all was. And we would all laugh and I would be very happy.

No one in the media made a peep when the Doggies snared JUH and Sam Darcy (arguably two top 2 picks) in the last 3 years despite playing a GF in 2021 and finals the other years. 

It won’t happen but if it did, they can GAGF. 😂