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Watching The Front Bar last night and the boys mentioned that this weekend will be Neil Erasmus's 50th game in AFL. What a journey this guy has been on, its been a slow and steady one over 4 seasons, been in and out of the team but has proven he is one of the handy players we have got, not to mention an important piece to our 2026 mission.

And along the way he's accomplished a fair bit, being part of the 2024 WAFL Premiers with Peel Thunder, won the historic Simpson Medal for best on ground in the WAFL Grand Final & the Tuckey Medal as Peel Thunder's Best & Fairest that same season.

And now he's a more frequent player featured in our games.

Congratulations Raz on a great milestone.

Hey everyone,

I've been building an app called AFL Sportslog and wanted to share it here first.

You can already download it on the App Store, just search "AFL Sportslog". Android version is coming and I'm looking for testers if anyone's keen.

What you can do in the app:

• Log games and give 3-2-1 votes to build your own Brownlow-style leaderboard for AFL and WAFL
• Predict margins and tip goal scorers
• Compare your tips with the community leaderboard
• Create a historic log of your footy lifetime

Still early days so feedback means a lot. Drop a comment or DM me if you want to get involved or have questions.

After a fun (and successful) road trip last week to the MCG to see Walyalup retain their undefeated streak, I'm looking at driving to Canberra for the Giants v Freo game in July.

Now the next batch of fixtures have been released, does anyone know when the ticket sales will be happening? Atm only up to round 15 tickets are for sale. It only says "buy membership" for round 16 onwards. I already have an interstate membership for a different state so will just need to get GA for Manuka.

Any ideas when we can buy Manuka tickets?

Venues played at by each player.

Venue	Sam Sturt (31 games)	Scott Pendlebury (432 games)
Adelaide Oval		X
Carrara (People's First Stadium)	X	X
Docklands (Marvel Stadium)	X	X
Football Park		X
Gabba	X	X
Kardinia Park (GMHBA Stadium)	X
MCG	X	X
Norwood Oval	X
Perth Stadium (Optus)	X	X
SCG	X	X
Stadium Australia		X
Sydney Showground	X	X
Subiaco		X
Traeger Park	X
York Park	X

Freo eye off a new record of ten consecutive wins, against a certain former coach who loves to rain on our parade.

Some questions:

• How will the dual 5 day breaks (for us and our oppo) change the game style?
• Some pretty abysmal skills (particularly from McVee, and Erasmus). Do the kids get a stay of execution on account of the wet weather, or will we see changes to a winning team?
• Ross is guaranteed to congest our forward line—how do we produce gaps to hit up leads, and not spam long bombs i50?

Permalink to the FremantleFC subreddit Discord.

Match Thread will go up approx. 1hr before game start.

Hi Freo faithful. I'm a West Australian currently living/working in Melbourne. By a bit of luck, I am now going to be in Brisbane on Saturday the 30th for the game against the Brisbane Lions on Ticketmaster. I have never been to a game at the GABBA - is it normal for tickets to be sold out this early? When I go on Ticketmaster, I can only see a couple of single seats available for sale. Anyone know if there will be more made available closer to the game? Or any ideas on how I can procure four seats? I have been regularly checking Ticketmaster and Tixel. Didn't realise a Lions/Dockers game would be so popular! Hoping to see us get a big win in the sunshine state. Any advice would be greatly appreciated - thank you! ⚓️

Honestly, it feels strange for me to be bored watching our wins? Am I that arrogant a fan now?

Like that can't be right can it? But this rewatch was just, "meh".

We did what we needed to do early and then kinda coasted. As was pointed out to me in the post match thread (thanks Nakorite), which I had no idea about until said comment was made, Jackson had 50% TOG in the final quarter.

So i dug a bit deeper on this

Bolton had 3 touches for the second half up until he kicked his second goal, then had a flurry late in the 4th when we coincidentally ended up having a flurry of goals ourselves.

Serong had 60% Tog in the 3rd, and 67% Tog in the 4th. He had 16 touches in the first half, that was halved to 8 in the second half.

Treacy had 9 touches in the first half, and 2 goals and finished the game with 11 touches and 2 goals.

So I don't think it was necessarily Essendon playing better after the half time break, it might seem a bit delusional and bias, but i genuinely just think we were just like 'job done, just get through unscathed'

And that kinda makes sense right? 5 day turnaround for our next game. No need to over do it.

Considering the commentary team keeps talking about how we need to rest our players and not fly them over to specific games (hilariously, the Brisbane game at the Gabba), felt strange that they wouldn't show the times players had been on the bench throughout the game.

One that we didn't feel the need to rest however was Murphy fucking Reid.

His final quarter, with 82% ToG involved 11 disposals, 1 goal and 3 score involvements. And that 3, should have been 5.

You can tell we have partially checked out when Jye and Treacy in their recent marking form are dropping these lace out kicks.

https://reddit.com/link/1tgcpew/video/tt9rjjl8nt1h1/player

Now all of the above is not to say that the effort wasn't there when it was warranted. Especially in defence.

For example, Essendon had 8 kick ins. Of those 8, 5 resulted in turnovers, 2 went out of bounds. We stopped any transition possibility there. The transition from Def. 50 to F50 was absolutely stifled once again. To understand the lines under the numbers, if its to the right youre above the AFL average, if its to the left, you're below the afl average.

https://preview.redd.it/q1d5gmbnpt1h1.png?width=804&format=png&auto=webp&s=0cccc380a9e09783f7426804330b006893f96526

And this is while we are seemingly coasting. Like statistically, that's pretty wild.

Looking at Essendons score sources as well is even more crazy. Of the stats there, 3 of the turnovers were some of the worst turnovers we've done. Clarky in the 4th, chappy in the 1st as an example. The 50m penalty against Jacko in the centre as well, and they're still below the AFL average. We managed to hold them that well defensively, while playing as i've mentioned above, just an average game for our current standards.

https://preview.redd.it/5fj2pk6dqt1h1.png?width=794&format=png&auto=webp&s=b1f571e33918a0ffe3e160a8f5ab6e27e1242f6e

We are still currently ranked number 1 defensively in the comp, and its not even really close in fact there is daylight between us and 2nd place flag contender.....checks notes....Collingwood?

https://preview.redd.it/pl9pqkacst1h1.png?width=1006&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6a5c5d24c2c4e6d2ec978c028b149645bbad5c8

In all seriousness like i said in my review for the collingwood game, they are also very good defensively, they set up really well, defend the corridor well etc etc.

However, we do it all drastically better and more consistently. Defence is quite literally winning us games.

A nice comparison of how we have matured as a group, is how much we now trust that one man near the ball to make the play we need. Rather than having bulk numbers rush to the ball carrier like Essendon do in this clip. Its the sign of a confident team. Unlike in Essendons case where you feel you need to get to the contest to help your man, and it kinda looks a bit like bees to a honeypot.

https://reddit.com/link/1tgcpew/video/d6vu4v1jvt1h1/player

Something that I really like us doing as well, as I pointed it out in my Collingwood review, especially when its wet, is the utilisation of the longer handball options. Usually it means we have way more space to receive it and make the correct decision going forward, but also just looks sexier.

https://reddit.com/link/1tgcpew/video/jiwffejlvt1h1/player

So overall, I do apologise for a somewhat lacklustre review, with not much depth to it, but there just wasn't anything super interesting about this matchup. So there isn't really a hell of a lot for me to really dig deeper on.

The commentary spoke a couple of times about Reid outrunning Merrett, so i was keen to see if this was a genuine matchup, spoiler, it wasn't. Was a few times where Reid just outworked Merrett, and a few times where Merrett outwork Reid/Brayshaw/Serong.

The last thing i can give you all to compare our efforts throughout the parts of the games is this.
Here's our first quarter tallies for a lot of the stats, we are the right side, essendon the left side.

https://preview.redd.it/7q5h9ttqwt1h1.png?width=1224&format=png&auto=webp&s=e667c8c708241e9ee8919e0a23184f8b5c448699

And then compare it to the second half

https://preview.redd.it/46cj1skwwt1h1.png?width=1221&format=png&auto=webp&s=190d8392cc29e8a3c9c5fcfe7807156507ab0ea2

9 on the trot. This is such an exciting feeling.

Onto the next at home.