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2001

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Yep crap year but I was lucky enough to be at both our wins including a the dome for our unexpected win against the Hawks.....even got bought a congratulatory drink by a carton supporter! One of the freo Cheer squad that day made a few thousand after putting some money on us at half time when we trailed by about 6 goals. I think pav got 4 goals, JLO got 5 and koops 3.
 
Latro said:
At least we had Pavlich and Hasleby as young players. We dont have anyone like that at the moment.
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I actually think we have plenty of players to get excited about. Blakely just had a pretty awesome game just an example, and with him working the inside with Neale and Fyfe is not too shabby. Could easily end up playing more games than Hasleby. And I get really excited about getting access to someone like SP and him running around with Bennell, Hill and Walters. Lordy-lord that will do nicely.
 
Latro said:
At least we had Pavlich and Hasleby as young players. We dont have anyone like that at the moment.
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2001 we were playing experienced crabs that were not up to AFL standard. The light definitely wasn't at the end of the tunnel heading into 2002, really tested whether Freo were even going to be competitive within 5 years. Thankfully 2003 madet he finals, but not without sacrifices in the trade periods.
Definitely a lot brighter this season. At least it's all the young players getting a chance and see what they can do, as well as planning for next season and beyond by pushing the likes of Mzungu, De Boer, Clancee Pearce, Suban to Peel. As much as 6 players will be moved on/delisted so next season will literally be a fresh start for Ross to develop and shape.
 

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FreoRicci said:
2001 we were playing experienced crabs that were not up to AFL standard. The light definitely wasn't at the end of the tunnel heading into 2002, really tested whether Freo were even going to be competitive within 5 years. Thankfully 2003 madet he finals, but not without sacrifices in the trade periods.
Definitely a lot brighter this season. At least it's all the young players getting a chance and see what they can do, as well as planning for next season and beyond by pushing the likes of Mzungu, De Boer, Clancee Pearce, Suban to Peel. As much as 6 players will be moved on/delisted so next season will literally be a fresh start for Ross to develop and shape.
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That still sounds like this year.
 
Yes some of those games in 2001 we got smashed; at the moment we are competitive but not for four quarters. I have a lot more hope now as well than in 2001; Hasleby might have been good but there was literally no one else in the midfield getting excited about (we had cleaned ourselves out of picks for Bell - we drafted Adam McPhee at pick 39 which was our first pick in 2000) - we really had a recycled list. And despite the complaints about woeful drafting, there is still plenty of time for Weller, Blakely and Tucker who are all promising players.

The lesson following that year was that whilst some trades might seem okay in the short term and you might still half cover yourself, longer term you are better off going and drafting if you want to set yourself up. You only have to look at the 2001 draft for that...
 
We wasted draft picks all the time.

Thus season I'm confident we'll get a good player with our first pick but without a pick until the 3rd round we are hardly getting value for comming last
 
We were more competitive and younger in 2001. Only once did our percentage dip below what it is now. We had Longmuir, Brown, Hasleby, Pavlich, and McPhee all younger than Alex Pearce is now - four of that lot would go on to play 200 games, Longmuir only missing out because he was cruelled by injury. The latter four of that llist were all younger than our youngest currently playing.

We now have five players over 30 playing - two extra sitting on the sidelines injured. We have the oldest list in the league.

We paid a lot for Peter Bell in the 2000 trade period, but at the time he was younger than Walters is now.

We were worse off the field in 2001, where simply existing into the next year wasn't guaranteed. That is not the case now.

However, this is the beginning of a very bleak era. We will be in the bottom half of the league for a while.
 
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Sully90 said:
As a young kid, that early season loss to Brisbane was particularly devastating, 15 goal turnaround in the final quarter.
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So many humiliations against Brisbane during our first 10 years or so.
Even in recent games, with them having not won again against us in more than five years, I have sat there waiting for us to implode..
 
I still claim the Lion 3 peat was initiated by that game we handed to them in 2001.. the juggernaut started that day.

Much the same as others, the only game I didn't/couldn't watch that year was the Hawks win because I was sitting on the bench for my u 17's soccer team
 

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clivenator26 said:
Rd 1 - lost to Carlton by under a kick, Glenn Manton tried to be an octopus on Tony Modra and it worked a treat.
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That was ****ing Stephen Silvagni. And then unbelievably then late in the game switches up forward and gets a soft free to get to kick the winning goal...
 
Sully90 said:
As a young kid, that early season loss to Brisbane was particularly devastating, 15 goal turnaround in the final quarter.
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It's one of those "I know what I was doing when that happened" moments wasn't it.

I was working but knocked off around 3 qt time, came out and turned on the radio in the car and was well pleased. By the time I'd got half way home it was all over! And I was only 3 suburbs away from home!
 
All blocked from the memory..not that the memory is that good anyways. I prefer to remember stuff like are 1st finals. The elimination lOSS to the bombers. How loud were dockers supporters after a loss. You could not hear the commentators. Louder than a gran finals win at the g. And Gee we were a passionate lot.
 
We have been getting a little bit precious with all these good years. Used to get excited when farmer kicked 2 goals in a row. Now we are quieter than the Eagles home games. And the cheer squad with the dockers. Clap. Clap. Clap. It's not basketball Ffs. It's frrreeeeeooooooo.
 
estibador said:
And I was playing footy during the away game against Hawthorn too, so I missed both our wins. I remember being out on the field and hearing the cheering from all the people who'd gone into the clubrooms to watch the last qtr, before the word went around the field that we'd won.
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Same, I was playing Ammos that day as well. Oh man it was so funny when we got back into the change rooms after the game and when the news came through the look on the face of our mad Hawthorn supporting captain/coach and how much shit he was copping.

Actually it's weird a maybe a coincidence but I found that a LOT of Ammos players don't support the local teams and support random Victorian clubs compared to the general population. In my grade pretty sure I was about the only guy that went for Freo. There was only like a couple of Eagles as well.

edit - my colts team as a teenager only had 3 Freo guys from memory.
 
Ah 2001, I remember being teased at school almost every week of that season.

I was at home listening to the radio with our first win and then had a family outing in Hastings for our second win.

I think I might need to watch the Hawks game from that year again to be reminded of that winning feeling.
 

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Scham said:
It's one of those "I know what I was doing when that happened" moments wasn't it.

I was working but knocked off around 3 qt time, came out and turned on the radio in the car and was well pleased. By the time I'd got half way home it was all over! And I was only 3 suburbs away from home!
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I couldn't comprehend it at the time. But it gave me a point of reference whenever another bad loss happened since then.
 
Freo_4eva said:
I still claim the Lion 3 peat was initiated by that game we handed to them in 2001.. the juggernaut started that day.
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Brisbane did us in even worse in 1999, when we were slaughtered by 20 goals to two in the first half. Strangely we won the third quarter and only lost the second half by a point. Brisbane could have won by a record score that day had they wanted to.

Even though 1999 and 2001 were poor years (second last and last) we were still competitive in more games those years than we are this year. In no game this year have we looked like winning.
 
I was playing Ammos for Innaloo that year so thankfully didn't have to watch many games.
 
At the start of 2001, the club was 6 years old. There is no excuse for going anywhere close to those dark days at this stage in the club's development and yet here we are. There is nothing to be comfortable about.
 

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