Win Prizes Season 2023 Game Previews

[Tonga Bob]

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Greetings wordsmiths, shoopers and avid readers alike,

We're doing the Game Preview thing again!

You should know the drill by now, but if you don't then here's the skinny...

Since 2017 many brave yet foolhardy souls have been the standard bearers for the Fremantle Football Club when it comes to irreverent yet informative previewing. Righteo was the initial architect of the concept, and since then many of us have saluted in the most creative of ways. From the poetic melt of Arcassius in 2017, to the * magpie noises * of 2018, the audio-visual Mayne course provided by Chef TheInjuryFactory in 2019, the frothy inspiration provided by Square Peg in 2021, and the joint triumph of Gekko71 & Piggy Smalls last season, the Freo faithful have collectively given great effort in the pursuit of providing the board with knowledge, wit, creativity and half-arsed prophecy. So it only seems right to run the concept back up the flagpole to see who salutes in 2023.

If you think that you have what it takes to provide your fellow Freo fans with a preview for one of this season's games, or if you've done the needful in the past and thought to yourself "I'm ready to serve my community once again", then now's the time to put your hand up and claim a slice of the 2023 AFL season as your very own to preview.

The criteria for previewing remain the same:

• Reply to this thread to sign up for any match you'd like to preview in the upcoming season. First in, best dressed, so if you want a specific match try and get in early, and I will update the below fixture accordingly;
• There is no criteria to sign up apart from being a Freo board poster, you don't have to have been a poster for a long time or have made a lot of posts, but just make sure you're in a position to write one when it's your week. If you can't do it when the time comes, let me know and I'll probably sort out a suitable punishment and/or replacement;
• Have fun with the preview. Make it interesting, it doesn't have to be written under a certain guideline or include x,y,z- write it the way you want, use pictures, videos, whatever. A good dose of humour never hurts either;
• This is a competition, so previews judged the best by your peers (most liked, how else do you quantify "best" on the internet??) will join Arcassius TheInjuryFactory Square Peg Gekko71 Piggy Smalls and yours truly as official Fremantle Posters of the Year, and will receive a shiny badge that looks like this:
  
  (which one day we'll upgrade to look a bit shinier).

These are the games to choose from:

Round 1 vs St Kilda @ away mattis117

Round 2 vs North Melbourne @ home vidwhal

Round 3 vs WCE @ home King Huskii

Round 4 vs Adelaide @ away theGav56

Round 5 vs Gold Coast at neutral (Gather Round) Square Peg

Round 6 vs Western Bulldogs @ home BeinPurplenGreen

Round 7 vs Brisbane @ away Dump Truck

Round 8 vs Hawthorn @ home Mr Cheese

Round 9 vs Sydney @ away BeinPurplenGreen

Round 10 vs Geelong @ home Tbonefreo

Round 11 vs Melbourne @ away

Round 12 vs Bye Van_Dyke

Round 13 vs Richmond @ home BarbieITFC

Round 14 vs GWS @ away

Round 15 vs Essendon @ home

Round 16 vs Western Bulldogs @ away ubiquitous226

Round 17 vs Carlton @ home dockerfemme

Round 18 vs Collingwood @ away Falconista

Round 19 vs Sydney @ home

Round 20 vs Geelong @ away DragoDelph

Round 21 vs Brisbane @ home

Round 22 vs WCE @ away Snuffaluphagus

Round 23 vs Port Adelaide @ home tonygeeks

Round 24 vs Hawthorn @ away

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So if you wanna get your melon on Mt Postmore with these handsome internet personalities, then pull the rip cord on your imagination and get creating.

Happy previewing everyone!!!

 

[Tonga Bob]

Hi all, I realise that we haven't wrapped this up yet and awarded the PoTY for 2023. I'll get the finalists up in a poll sometime soon.

No really, I will.

 

[Tonga Bob]

OK all, as previously threatened I've got my sh*t into a pile and am ready to open the voting booths for the best game preview of 2023. The winner as we all know will be adjudged as the Fremantle Poster of the Year for 2023. You get a miniature novelty online badge and everything!

First of all, I want to give a HUGE shout out to everybody that provided a game preview this season. You all gave good effort, which is very much appreciated not only by myself and the other mods but with the wider Freo community. The Freo SM team even read them... well at least I asked them to. Thank you mattis117 vidwhal King Huskii theGav56 Square Peg BeinPurplenGreen (x2) Dump Truck Mr Cheese BarbieITFC ubiquitous226 dockerfemme Falconista DragoDelph & Snuffaluphagus for your service, I shall be knocking on your door again next season.

As per tradition, the five previews that received the most reactions progress to the Final Five. I then ask all of you to vote on your favourite, and the one with the most votes wins the whole thing. So without any further ado, here are the Final Five:

Round 1 - away vs St Kilda by mattis117 - Preview - St Kilda Saints vs. Fremantle Dockers, Round 1 2023
Round 13 - home vs Richmond by BarbieITFC - Preview - The Richmond 'Squeaky Bum Time' preview
Round 8 - home vs Hawthorn by Mr Cheese - Game Day - Round 8 - Saturday Night Lights: Freo vs Hawks @ Optus
Round 6 - home vs Western Bulldogs by BeinPurplenGreen - Preview - Round 6 2023 - The Doggies Barking Loud for Lobb?
Round 22 - away vs the Weags by Snuffaluphagus - Preview - Snuff's Memey Rd 22 Preview vs WC

So my ask of you all is to take a look at the Final Five previews, choose your favourite and cast your vote in the poll at the top of this thread. They deserve reward for effort so get voting!

 

[Tonga Bob]

Happy New Year to you all, or happy Hogmanay for yesterday. Or both, what do I know?

I do know that the poll for best game preview of 2023 has closed, and there's a clear winner. So get up off your hungover arses and join me in congratulating BarbieITFC for winning the 2023 Fremantle Poster of the Year badge (badge on its way) and as a result joining the pantheon of greats of Mt Postmore.



We'll do it all again in 2024 so if you missed out last year then don't worry. Get your thinking caps on and come up with an idea to wow us, and maybe your bonce will join the others.