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Way Out West Where The Rain Don’t Fall.
Freo v Carlton at Subiaco, 7.40 Saturday night.
The Blues have been the quiet achievers of footy over the last few years. They’ve featured, without being given much of a chance, in grand-finals and preliminary finals. They’re a good, if unfancied, outfit, often seen as incapable of going that next step.
Fremantle on the other hand are routinely dismissed as crap, a sop to a Western Australian public who are over-Weagled, and an insurance policy on the Weagles developing unchecked into a superclub. I think these criticisms are unfair, not the least exemplified by the Painters and Dockers finishing above the Weagles on the ladder last year. And given the Weagles early form their less fancied crosstown partners could well be WA’s best hope.
Freo can play good footy, they’ve already knocked over Hawthorn this tear, but were insipid against Richmond. They have a quick young side that I think might run the legs off Carlton, especially if the Blue Boys haven’t switched on to season mode.
Certainly Carlton have had their distractions, not the least of which was ‘Pretty’ John Elliott doing the dance of the flaming A’s last weekend. That, and Fevola and Company’s foray into higher education, was described by Blues football manager, Col Kinnear, as a ‘learning experience’ for the club. Quite.
But either way, what do people expect? It’s a football club! I mean, fer chrissakes, Rugby League players throw shit around motel rooms. I think it’s a royal family beat up by some hack trying to be both Woodward AND Bernstein.
The Hickmott-Hamill combination will be a bigger miss than Kouta for the Blues.
Freo are in the dangerous position of having nothing to lose. Their most suspect area, their light midfield, gets a boost with the return of Toia. Dion Woods, a forward/mid-fielder from Perth, is a chance to play his first game against Carlton. Woods won the best player award in the local pre-season competition, and is quite the thing of the future.
The crowds will be fired up, it’s in WA, Freo will play out of their skins and start the year with a bang for mine.
Fremantle by 22 points.
Phil Doyle
Freo v Carlton at Subiaco, 7.40 Saturday night.
The Blues have been the quiet achievers of footy over the last few years. They’ve featured, without being given much of a chance, in grand-finals and preliminary finals. They’re a good, if unfancied, outfit, often seen as incapable of going that next step.
Fremantle on the other hand are routinely dismissed as crap, a sop to a Western Australian public who are over-Weagled, and an insurance policy on the Weagles developing unchecked into a superclub. I think these criticisms are unfair, not the least exemplified by the Painters and Dockers finishing above the Weagles on the ladder last year. And given the Weagles early form their less fancied crosstown partners could well be WA’s best hope.
Freo can play good footy, they’ve already knocked over Hawthorn this tear, but were insipid against Richmond. They have a quick young side that I think might run the legs off Carlton, especially if the Blue Boys haven’t switched on to season mode.
Certainly Carlton have had their distractions, not the least of which was ‘Pretty’ John Elliott doing the dance of the flaming A’s last weekend. That, and Fevola and Company’s foray into higher education, was described by Blues football manager, Col Kinnear, as a ‘learning experience’ for the club. Quite.
But either way, what do people expect? It’s a football club! I mean, fer chrissakes, Rugby League players throw shit around motel rooms. I think it’s a royal family beat up by some hack trying to be both Woodward AND Bernstein.
The Hickmott-Hamill combination will be a bigger miss than Kouta for the Blues.
Freo are in the dangerous position of having nothing to lose. Their most suspect area, their light midfield, gets a boost with the return of Toia. Dion Woods, a forward/mid-fielder from Perth, is a chance to play his first game against Carlton. Woods won the best player award in the local pre-season competition, and is quite the thing of the future.
The crowds will be fired up, it’s in WA, Freo will play out of their skins and start the year with a bang for mine.
Fremantle by 22 points.
Phil Doyle
