Updated Thursday to include Ins and Outs
Last round recap - Round 12 2021
Gold Concession Suns vs Burleigh Heads Bye
The Gold Concessions played at home and clearly played their best game of the year, completely destroying the Bye by having no goals kicked against them at all, a club record. Touk Miller and Brandon Ellis were both best on ground by visiting over 30 night clubs each, and Alex Sexton chipped in with 6 beers just in the last quarter. Lachie Weller was seen carrying the drinks but not on the field himself. The Bye managed to kick two behinds, but looking back at the footage this may have been nightclub bouncers kicking Hugh Greenwood and Sam "Mad Dog" Collins out after causing a ruckus. The Gold Concessions will look to bring the same form over to Perth, where the bars and nightclubs are fully open and there are no covid cases (at time of writing, jinx).
Freo's opposition scouts obtained this critical footage of a Gold Concessions player making his way to the airport to fly over before the game:
Fremantle Dockers vs Western Bulldogs @ Optus
Fremantle's build up to the game seemed like any other week. Mitch Crowden grabbed the paper on his way to training like he would any other day to keep up to date with the live cattle trading prices.
Fyfe returned home from his usual morning beach trip where it had been raining, and let his umbrella dry out. Oh he also got a new pet cat it seems, according to his Insta feed:
Brennan Cox offered to drive Matt Taberner to training but when entering the carpark he accidentally smashed his side mirror. Oops! Be more careful Coxy, were you looking at your hair in the mirror?
Meanwhile Griffin Logue had also cooked up a storm mid-week for himself and teammate Matt Taberner, but knocked over the salt while finishing the perfect reduction. Oh well accidents happen.
Game day came and Freo started ok, they were in the game but...
MY GOD WE ARE CURSED, BURN IT ALL DOWN, BURN IT ALL TO HELL
Freo lost all of Logue, Fyfe, Cox, Darcy and Crowden at various points, and Taberner out before the game.
* sigh *
But we must continue on as always...
Round 13 - Fremantle Dockers vs Gold Concessions @ Optus, Saturday 12 June - 2.15pm WST
Sean Darcy should be ok to play, Taberner hopefully ok to come in, and also Pearce. Treacy with a bit of a breakout game last week, Brayshaw with a very strong performance again. Bulldogs are a much better team than the Gold Concessions so we are a chance at this one ladies and gentleman, if the injury curse stops.
Freo by 0 injuries, 0 black cats, 0 umbrellas opened inside, and 0 walking under ladder incidents. And by 1 or more points.
The Thursday Edit - Ins and Outs
Reece Conca was mowing the lawn yesterday, and noticed some clover had popped up after the recent rains in Perth. How bloody annoying he thought, and was about to reach for the Weed'N'Feed but saw he'd run out, so decided to leave it for another day.
Western was driving to training today with Walker, but they were caught in stormy weather as they neared Cockburn and the road conditions were poor. Geez that was bloody scary he thought as he pulled the car into the Cockburn Arc carpark and looked at the skies.
Ins and Outs:
Fremantle
Out: Fyfe (Cursed), Logue (Damned), Cox (Jinxed), Blakely (Omitted), Wilson (Suspended), Watson (Medical sub)
In: Western (Charmed), Walker (Blessed), Conca (Lucky), Bewley (Fortunate) and Pearce (I'm not gonna say anything to jinx him)
Gold Concessions
In: Rowell, Bowes
Out: Farrar (Omitted), Atkins (Omitted), Corbett (Medical sub)
Clearly the exciting news is that Western and Walker have both been named to debut. Western will provide real speed up forward and along with Henry and Walters working at the feet of Lobb and Treacy, it could be a real headache for the Suns. Walker should slot right into Wilson's spot in defence, Pearce slots in for Logue (and we will all be collectively holding our breathe whenever he's involved), and Ryan will have to play tall with Cox being out. Conca comes in to provide experience and could be effective against Rowell when he pushes forward. Great time to get some games into these first year players to expose them to AFL level, we should set our expectations low but look at how much Frederick improved this year after getting games last year.
It would have been great to see Luke Excellente finally make his debut with Fyfe out, but it seems that Longmuir is going to shuffle some pieces around the board instead. Bewley on the wing will allow Cerra to play more inside with Fyfe out, and with Western in we should see Walters playing more midfield time too. As of Thursday, Darcy and Crowden are still named in the team and are not on the injury list.
For the Gold Concessions, First Round Draft Pick Rowell comes in for his first game since Round 1, and before that he hadn't played since July 2020, so probably won't show the same form that he had at start of 2020.
Fremantle by 4 (leaf-clover) points
Last round recap - Round 12 2021
Gold Concession Suns vs Burleigh Heads Bye
The Gold Concessions played at home and clearly played their best game of the year, completely destroying the Bye by having no goals kicked against them at all, a club record. Touk Miller and Brandon Ellis were both best on ground by visiting over 30 night clubs each, and Alex Sexton chipped in with 6 beers just in the last quarter. Lachie Weller was seen carrying the drinks but not on the field himself. The Bye managed to kick two behinds, but looking back at the footage this may have been nightclub bouncers kicking Hugh Greenwood and Sam "Mad Dog" Collins out after causing a ruckus. The Gold Concessions will look to bring the same form over to Perth, where the bars and nightclubs are fully open and there are no covid cases (at time of writing, jinx).
Freo's opposition scouts obtained this critical footage of a Gold Concessions player making his way to the airport to fly over before the game:
Fremantle Dockers vs Western Bulldogs @ Optus
Fremantle's build up to the game seemed like any other week. Mitch Crowden grabbed the paper on his way to training like he would any other day to keep up to date with the live cattle trading prices.
Fyfe returned home from his usual morning beach trip where it had been raining, and let his umbrella dry out. Oh he also got a new pet cat it seems, according to his Insta feed:
Brennan Cox offered to drive Matt Taberner to training but when entering the carpark he accidentally smashed his side mirror. Oops! Be more careful Coxy, were you looking at your hair in the mirror?
Meanwhile Griffin Logue had also cooked up a storm mid-week for himself and teammate Matt Taberner, but knocked over the salt while finishing the perfect reduction. Oh well accidents happen.
Game day came and Freo started ok, they were in the game but...
MY GOD WE ARE CURSED, BURN IT ALL DOWN, BURN IT ALL TO HELL
Freo lost all of Logue, Fyfe, Cox, Darcy and Crowden at various points, and Taberner out before the game.
* sigh *
But we must continue on as always...
Round 13 - Fremantle Dockers vs Gold Concessions @ Optus, Saturday 12 June - 2.15pm WST
Sean Darcy should be ok to play, Taberner hopefully ok to come in, and also Pearce. Treacy with a bit of a breakout game last week, Brayshaw with a very strong performance again. Bulldogs are a much better team than the Gold Concessions so we are a chance at this one ladies and gentleman, if the injury curse stops.
Freo by 0 injuries, 0 black cats, 0 umbrellas opened inside, and 0 walking under ladder incidents. And by 1 or more points.
The Thursday Edit - Ins and Outs
Reece Conca was mowing the lawn yesterday, and noticed some clover had popped up after the recent rains in Perth. How bloody annoying he thought, and was about to reach for the Weed'N'Feed but saw he'd run out, so decided to leave it for another day.
Western was driving to training today with Walker, but they were caught in stormy weather as they neared Cockburn and the road conditions were poor. Geez that was bloody scary he thought as he pulled the car into the Cockburn Arc carpark and looked at the skies.
Ins and Outs:
Fremantle
Out: Fyfe (Cursed), Logue (Damned), Cox (Jinxed), Blakely (Omitted), Wilson (Suspended), Watson (Medical sub)
In: Western (Charmed), Walker (Blessed), Conca (Lucky), Bewley (Fortunate) and Pearce (I'm not gonna say anything to jinx him)
Gold Concessions
In: Rowell, Bowes
Out: Farrar (Omitted), Atkins (Omitted), Corbett (Medical sub)
Clearly the exciting news is that Western and Walker have both been named to debut. Western will provide real speed up forward and along with Henry and Walters working at the feet of Lobb and Treacy, it could be a real headache for the Suns. Walker should slot right into Wilson's spot in defence, Pearce slots in for Logue (and we will all be collectively holding our breathe whenever he's involved), and Ryan will have to play tall with Cox being out. Conca comes in to provide experience and could be effective against Rowell when he pushes forward. Great time to get some games into these first year players to expose them to AFL level, we should set our expectations low but look at how much Frederick improved this year after getting games last year.
It would have been great to see Luke Excellente finally make his debut with Fyfe out, but it seems that Longmuir is going to shuffle some pieces around the board instead. Bewley on the wing will allow Cerra to play more inside with Fyfe out, and with Western in we should see Walters playing more midfield time too. As of Thursday, Darcy and Crowden are still named in the team and are not on the injury list.
For the Gold Concessions, First Round Draft Pick Rowell comes in for his first game since Round 1, and before that he hadn't played since July 2020, so probably won't show the same form that he had at start of 2020.
Fremantle by 4 (leaf-clover) points
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