Certified Legendary Thread 2025 Freo Buddy Draft

[Tonga Bob]

I'm getting in before TheInjuryFactory provides a reminding nudge and kicking off the 2025 Fremantle Buddy Draft.

The Buddy Draft is an opportunity to adopt a player from the 2025 squad and become their biggest fan on here (and elsewhere if you like, idk). Some people prefer to be superstars by association and choose the biggest names and highest performers in the team, while others like to root for the underdog and advocate for those considered on the fringes. Underperformers. Scapegoats even. There's no right or wrong selections, it's whoever you would like spend a season being in the corner of.

We'll run it as per, where I ask that whoever wishes to participate in the Draft rely in this thread with a list of five (5) players that they would like to adopt as their official Buddy. The first person on your list is the one you want the most, all the way to the player you want the fifth most. The order in which the replies hit this thread will determine the number you will receive, which will then be plugged into a random number generator and thus the Draft order will be obtained. I will then use this Draft order to allocate Buddies based on the lists provided.

The Draft will take place on Wednesday the 29th of January, so please reply with your lists of preferred Buddies by then. If you miss the Draft but still want a Buddy, then it will be a case of first come first served for any remaining unbuddied players. And should the number of people wanting Buddies exceed the number of players before the Draft date then I will allow two (2) Buddies per player.

Here's the list of players to choose from: https://www.draftguru.com.au/lists/2025/fremantle

Best of luck everyone!


LIST OF BUDDIES

Tonga Bob
Piggy Smalls
Arcassius
freo84
Ge3ks
Vimal Anand
Taylor
MadMundy
Daddoo
DragoDelph
Bastyy
FreoGirl
Grape Bear
King Huskii
TheInjuryFactory
Freo Shark
Sandgroper007
Purpleheart_56
kingswood71
Dump Truck
BeinPurplenGreen
s_wd6
BleedPurple
DockerLoz
Raz
go_the_dockers
Rhufus
Madas​

 

[Tonga Bob]

It's time to fire up the Randomizor!

The list is in, the balls are rolling and your host (me) is on the zeroes and ones. Let's do this thing...

The first number to be drawn is...

12! That means FreoGirl gets her buddy wish of Jordan Clark!

The second selection is number 23. Congrats BleedPurple for getting Brandon Walker!

At number three we have number 9, which of course is Luke Jackson's number. And that's who Daddoo has as a buddy!

Number 18 is the fourth ball to drop. That belongs to Purpleheart_56 who wanted anyone, but when pushed he had Caleb Serong on top of the list so Sebba's yours.

The fifth number is number 24. DockerLoz already has the Sean Darcy avatar and now has the buddy to go with it!​

 

[Tonga Bob]

Number	Player	Buddy
1	Sam Sturt	go_the_dockers
2	Jaeger O'Meara	Sir Deadly
3	Caleb Serong	Purpleheart_56
4	Sean Darcy	DockerLoz
5	Heath Chapman	Dump Truck
6	Jordan Clark	FreoGirl
7	Nathan Fyfe	Ge3ks
8	Andrew Brayshaw	Grape Bear
9	Luke Jackson	Daddoo
10	Michael Walters	Sandgroper007
11	James Aish	BeinPurplenGreen
12	Hugh Davies	serial_thrilla
13	Luke Ryan	2big2strom
14	Jeremy Sharp	Dockernut
15	Shai Bolton	DragoDelph
16	Murphy Reid	Vimal Anand
17	Will Brodie	TheInjuryFactory
18	Liam Reidy	dockerfemme
19	Quinton Narkle	wakojako
20	Patrick Voss	MadMundy
21	Oscar McDonald	Freo Shark
22	Charlie Nicholls	greatgatsby
23	Karl Worner	Rockmelon
24	Jye Amiss	Piggy Smalls
25	Alex Pearce	kingswood71
26	Hayden Young	freo84
27	Odin Jones	Arcassius
28	Neil Erasmus	Randomizor
29	Cooper Simpson	King Huskii
30	Nathan O'Driscoll	Raz
31	Brandon Walker	BleedPurple
32	Michael Frederick	Drizzy
33	Ollie Murphy	Tonys_Ronaldsons
34	Corey Wagner	FreoRicci
35	Josh Treacy	Taylor
36	Brennan Cox	s_wd6
37	Josh Draper	Rhufus
38	Jaren Carr	vidwhal
39	Sam Switkowski	BarbieITFC
40	Jack Delean	Falconista
41	Bailey Banfield	Tonga Bob
42	Aiden Riddle	FD2646
43	Isaiah Dudley	Ghost Pig
44	Matthew Johnson	Bastyy
Coach	Justin Longmuir	Madas

 

[Tonga Bob]

Alright we now have all players hooked up with buddies! Congrats to all!!!

If you missed out there's a couple of things you can still do to get involved:

1) We still have a SSP spot open, which small forward Isaiah Dudley is currently auditioning for. He kicked a couple of goals in the intraclub today, so you can secure the SSP place in the hope that he takes it,
2) Should another spot open up during the season (hope it doesn't though cos that means someone got injured or someone deleted their account) then jump in and take that spot,
3) You can become an Unofficial Buddy of any player and still advocate for them despite not having the Official Buddy title.