The Restump Podcast

Its official, the bye round stinks and we’re glad it’s over. Time to restart the Freo Freight Train and Restump Podcast the latest news in purple shoes. The bye round probably came at a good time for a few of our momentarily sore soldiers. But other than for those favourable reasons, the bye round can get in the sea! We’re 10 and 3 going into the back end of the season and we need, as a rule of th...

Maybe getting ahead of ourselves is too much, but how about Hawkish on our prospects. Time to Restump Podcast review the hard-fought win over the Hawks. Hawthorn is a pretty decent 13th placed team! They brought their best and ran us to the wire but 3rd quarters are our specialty, we stuck the fork in the hawk and it was done.  Did we overuse the handball? We only had 88 more than Hawthorn so…. ye...

Us Dockers are lovers and fighters, which is why we’ll love taking down the War Hawks. Time to Restump Podcast Saturday’s Freddyless clash against the once mighty Hawthorn side. Whenever we play the Hawks, instantly the painful memory of the 2013 Grand final resurfaces. To be fair, it probably burns David Mundy more than anyone but maybe it’s been the motivation he has used to solider on. On top o...

Geelong, Melbourne and now Brisbane. Once is a chance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend! Time to Restump Podcast Freo’s eventual taming of the Lions on Sunday.  There was something about the Bailey's in that game, Zac Bailey and Bailey Banfield each kicked four but we'll focus on the latter.  Straight off the top, you're not human if you weren't thrilled for Baile...

Geez an 85% fit Fyfe would be handy! But you don’t want to go in rushed and underprepared like we did into this difficult Restump Podcast preview of our clash against the Lachie Neale Lions. Jojo wanting to do the preview in between drinks on his swimming pool bar crawl in Bali is probably the time to realise you need to start holding yourself to the same disciplinary account you hold your team’s...

What about that Freo fans! We might never lose again… unless it rains! Time to Restump Podcast the spectacular win against the Dees! That’s the one in all in team performance we’ve come to know and love. 22 players ironically executing their individual roles as a collective. We can’t even remember the last 2 weeks now! 23 inside fifties for 2 goals 7 behinds in the 1st half. In the second half we...

Whatever the result, let’s not let a potential crisis go to waste. We usually like our coffee hot but we’ll take it Lukewarm this weekend! It's time to Restump Podcast preview our clash against the Dees  at the Gees this Saturday. Three weeks ago this was the blockbuster game the world was looking forward to. The two weeks since, the rain has literally rained on our parade. We’re still quietl...

Are  we placing too much credence in wet conditions for our poor performances? Time to dry out and Restump Podcast review yesterday’s hosing at the hands of the Pies.   Did we have water logged ears after drowning on the Gold Coast and were unable to hear the instruction? Did the written instruction get smudged by the rain? Is anyone down there aware of these things called weather reports? It’s di...

Sonny Walters and Alex Pearce will proudly represent the collective this Sunday against Collingwood on Sir Doug Nicholls round. Time to Restump Podcast preview the clash. We need after a response to last week. Collingwood won’t be a pushover but if we get back to playing our brand, it should hold us in good stead. If we’re any chance of a top 4 finish, we have to bank 4 points here. You need about...

A day later we can see clearly now the rain has gone. Time to Restump Podcast Freo’s rain drops keep falling on my head loss to the Gold Coast Suns. How were we not prepared for the conditions? We’re from a port, we’re Dockers, Dockers work on a wharf! How could water even remotely seem foreign to them? Did they think we all ironically came down in the last shower?   Now the angst is out of the wa...

As Freo fans it feels a bit weird ridiculing Gold Coast’s trades. Doesn’t mean we’re not going to do it, but just feels weird. Time to Restump Podcast Sunday’s clash against the Suns.  We’ve not got a great recent record at Gold Coast’s home ground Metricon stadium, but then again… with two losses from three games there this year, neither do the Suns. Some expected big ins but a somewhat surprisin...

Safe to say North’s rebuild could do with a Jim’s Handyman. Time to Restump Podcast Friday night’s result in which Freo hopped over the Kangas.    Six wins on the bounce… who is this purple outfit?  As Fremantle fans we know too well what North supporters are going through so there will be no showboating from us. However, it was pleasing to put away a side in the manner we should have, as it is so...

The one Jyed Freo supporting Busselton folk are coming! This is a game they would Nev  Amiss. Time to Restump Podcast Friday night’s ‘marquee’ game against the Roos.  When you hear covid hit and six of your players are out… you immediately do the Sean Darcy umpire remonstrating disguising hands to your head move! But then you realise Chappy, Young and Darcy are three of the ins, you hear Jye Amiss...

They said we couldn’t do it and they wrote us off. But we prevailed, our mighty Freo Dockers beat Tom Stewart by 3 points! Time to Restump Review Podcast Freo's big win over the Catters. Still haunted by their harrowing defeat in the 2013 qualifying final, we made sure their purple nightmare continued. We’re trying to keep the lid on things but we’re going to need more help. We weren’t going...

Could we be about to reignite the vicious Lyon-era rivalry with the Cats? We will have a Clark of the Course to oversee it! Time to Restump Preview Podcast Saturday’s Cat clash.  Think of Matty Scarlett only getting the equivalent of a five minute holiday for king hitting Hayden Ballantyne in an unprovoked attack. Yes, Ballas got a couple for knocking Paul Chapman in the same game, but it was a mi...

The ground being covered by Acres is a lot. In fact, it’s probably several lots. Time to Restump Review Podcast Freo’s significant victory over the Blues.  That was some performance. A one in all in four quarter role playing display signifying we may well be a serious team. Not counting the chickens just yet because there are tougher tests to come, but mark this win down as a reference point to lo...

In his best Tony Greig voice, Billy Birmingham said “A grudge is nothing more than a place to park your car.” We respectfully disagree. Time to Restump preview podcast Saturday night’s much anticipated grudge match! Yes Ok, there are four points on offer and we don’t want to take our eyes off the bigger picture prize…. but great meaningful entertaining long-term rivalries are built on stubbornly h...

We’re four and one, and second on the ladder with a healthy 141%. The real tests are to come but it’s our best start to a season since 2015. Time to Restump Podcast Sunday’s Purple procession.  Off the top it was good to see Tabs get a bucket load with half a baker’s dozen. He was the first Docker to kick 7 goals in a game since Matthew Pavlich did ten years ago in 2012. It was pretty scratchy for...

It’s a battle with the Bombers so we’re russian Serong back in, while Alex Pearce is in charge of enforcing a No Fly Zone in Peter Wright air space! Time to Restump Podcast Easter Sunday’s clash. We needed to make hay while the sun shone on our favorable first five round draw. Win Sunday in round five and our four wins and one loss will be our best start to a season since 2015 when we won the firs...

Freo did such thorough homework on GWS, it was as if they’d beanstalking the Giants! Yeah Ok.. enough of that, its time to Restump Podcast Saturday’s magnificent victory. Now that was a performance to put a pep in your post game step and a glide in your Monday stride!  We went in with concerns of the Giants’ midfield… but we forgot that where there’s a Will there’s a way. 37 disposals of which 21...

Must have been a tough decision to drop Lloyd after a career best game. He’s on the up, looking for game time… is he entering the sights of the poachers? Time to Restump Podcast preview the Freo V GWS clash and pray for our mids. We’re not taking anything away from the boys for their win last week and you can only beat who you’re up against which they did. However, we’re going to need to go up a l...

What about the Razzamatazz! If we didn’t know and someone told us Erasmus was a debutant, we’d have accused you of smoking whatever West Coast were in 2006! Time to Restump Podcast the Eagle and Eaglet massacre.    Sure, we have to be measured in our true assessment of Sunday’s Derby win and, in time, we will be. But before common sense and rationally creeps in, lets just kick back and enjoy the E...

Players coming and going and now Jamie Graham steps in for JL. Did we just miss an opportunity to be double parked in the coaches box for a Derby? Time to Restump Preview Podcast Derby day… if we can call it a preview!  This current AFL climate is making it near on impossible to preview games in WA with any degree of conviction. There’s a lot of guess work and while Ross won’t, we momentarily have...

We’ve never advocated throwing the baby out with the bathwater… but there is always an exception to the rule. Thankfully rational heads prevailed and we took refuge in the Disco’s highlight. Time to Restump Podcast yesterday’s shemozzle… err we mean game.   It’s safe to say that was one difficult pill to swallow and while we’d like to wrap it up, bury it and forget it ever existed, talking it thro...

Covid selection casualties, Fyfe breaking injury news on national TV, conflicting revelations… it’s a confusing climate in which to attempt a preview. But it’s time to add to the lack of clarity and Restump Podcast Sunday’s game against the Saints.   Despite the team being named, it feels as if selections are still very much up in the air. However, one certainty is we’re about to see the eagerly a...