- Mar 16, 2014
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Fremantle are sorta my second team. When I lived in Perth, they were the antidote to the West Coast, the type of team best thought of as "American Psycho" serial killers in the west: psychopathic suits, pumped full of money, successful in life, and with the ethics of a wall street exec who spends his time torturing puppies. West Coast are just plain evil. So when the Dockers came on the scene it was a relief. Most of my mates immediately started following them.
It helps that they've been hopeless forever. It's hard to hate a loser club. I mean, is there any more of a clownish club? The Suns are terrible, but they never had that bizarre psychedelic anchor jumper. The Dockers' song is based on the Volga batmen's song -- an amazing piece -- and the composer somehow mixed it with the worst 1980s pub rock beat, to turn it into .... what tf is that??!!! Honestly, their players should start wearing clown makeup. It would be consistent.
Anyway. Their midfield is solid, but without Serong and Fyfe, we'll brush it aside. They're forward line young, mobile, but not dominant. Their defence .... bland.
They can't match us anywhere.
So the interest will come for us here: what will we learn about our team? The biggest curiosity is McStay's final return. I don't expect much from him, but that's fine. He'll take a few weeks.
Again, if it were me, I'd be playing a few of the younger fringe players: Ginnivan, Macrae, Harrison, Ruscoe, Bianco, and so on. I'd be giving each a game or two in the next few weeks. But we know that won't happen. I'm thinking of the future, the coaches are thinking of the now.
So we're going with out best team and we'll smack the Dockers. This one will be a flogging. Our midfield will smash theirs and the game will look different to most of our games, with a lot of forward half turnovers. The ball will probably live in our forward 50. That will be a different look. How will our forward line work when we're not bouncing from the back half and pace isn't quite so important? It'll mean more weight on our talls: Cox, Cameron, McStay, Johnson. And more importance on our big bodied midlielders and forwards: McReery, DeGoey, Adams, etc.
The Washup
The Pies by 55 points in the equivalent of the American Psycho torturing puppies!
It helps that they've been hopeless forever. It's hard to hate a loser club. I mean, is there any more of a clownish club? The Suns are terrible, but they never had that bizarre psychedelic anchor jumper. The Dockers' song is based on the Volga batmen's song -- an amazing piece -- and the composer somehow mixed it with the worst 1980s pub rock beat, to turn it into .... what tf is that??!!! Honestly, their players should start wearing clown makeup. It would be consistent.
Anyway. Their midfield is solid, but without Serong and Fyfe, we'll brush it aside. They're forward line young, mobile, but not dominant. Their defence .... bland.
They can't match us anywhere.
So the interest will come for us here: what will we learn about our team? The biggest curiosity is McStay's final return. I don't expect much from him, but that's fine. He'll take a few weeks.
Again, if it were me, I'd be playing a few of the younger fringe players: Ginnivan, Macrae, Harrison, Ruscoe, Bianco, and so on. I'd be giving each a game or two in the next few weeks. But we know that won't happen. I'm thinking of the future, the coaches are thinking of the now.
So we're going with out best team and we'll smack the Dockers. This one will be a flogging. Our midfield will smash theirs and the game will look different to most of our games, with a lot of forward half turnovers. The ball will probably live in our forward 50. That will be a different look. How will our forward line work when we're not bouncing from the back half and pace isn't quite so important? It'll mean more weight on our talls: Cox, Cameron, McStay, Johnson. And more importance on our big bodied midlielders and forwards: McReery, DeGoey, Adams, etc.
The Washup
The Pies by 55 points in the equivalent of the American Psycho torturing puppies!
