Fremantle are storming through 2010, ending seasons every second week it seems. They came to the Gabba on Saturday night to break a 15 year hoodoo. They didn’t do it in style, but they did it. Inside 50 Freo were dreadful, but everywhere else they clobbered Brisbane. Michael Voss has drafted and traded for a [Read more]
Round 5: Fremantle v Richmond – Defeat’s not as bad from home
April 29, 2010 by 1 Comment
It’s looking like another grim football season for the Allan household. I decide this as my “other” side of the family watch their under performing Hawks remarkably lose to the predicted cellar dwellars North Melbourne. I can’t help but think back to 2008, when the season ended with my Tigers, finishing just outside the eight, [Read more]
THE TIGERS IN UNACCUSTOMED TERRITORY
April 26, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The Tigers are in unaccustomed territory. A big Anzac day clash on the Sunday night with the focus of an entire state upon the match. As for Fremantle, perhaps it is fitting. After all, Western Australians from the tenth battalion were among the first ashore on that tumultuous morning back in 1915. The Dockers are [Read more]
So many questions in Freo first up win.
April 10, 2010 by 1 Comment
Fremantle VS Adelaide Subiaco Oval 5:10 28th March By Steven Ingham As a football – but not Freo – lover, the Dockers polarise me. When they made a prelim a few years ago and my own team’s season finished by about Round 10, I was well and truly on the bandwagon. Their fall from grace [Read more]
AFL Round 2 – Essendon v Fremantle: High fashion at Docklands
April 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Danni Eid After an hour of rushing around the house with one high heel while trying to get ready to leave to my grandparents house for left over’s from last nights barbie, my uncle rocks up in his Essendon attire and looks at me a little confused. I’m wearing a pretty blue summery dress [Read more]
Feature: A way to go: despondency and expectation in the life of a Freo supporter
April 6, 2010 by 16 Comments
Malcolm Allbrook The life of a Fremantle Dockers supporter, one of perpetual disappointment, of occasional bursts of joy mingled with frustration, gloom, pitying looks and occasional patronizing reassurances from teams confident of their sustained superiority. The team of the colour purple with all its contradictory implications, of the symbolic anchor intended to signify our maritime [Read more]
Freo no Easter bunnies this year.
April 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
On this day a long time ago, Jesus rose again and said “Let Daylight Savings Time end” and it did. And to celebrate this, I, along with a lot of other people around Australia, got an extra hours sleep as we turned the clock back an hour. Oh, and we also get Easter eggs.
AFL Round 1 – Fremantle v Adelaide: Are these the Dockers’ true colours?
March 30, 2010 by 2 Comments
by Josh Barnstable After a slightly uneventful day which saw Port Adelaide withstand a fast-finishing North Melbourne outfit by 14 points and Collingwood surprising everyone, dominating the Bulldogs to win by 36 points. I was feeling a bit down after the Roos lost to the Power, but I looked forward to the prospect of a [Read more]
NAB Cup Semi: St Kilda and hailstorm wreak havoc on an unusual Melbourne day
March 7, 2010 by 110 Comments
By Damian Watson Labour Day weekend was designed to honour those who undertake work and contribute to society with a reward of three days relaxation, although this Saturday was anything but. A significant hailstorm or using footy terminology – Waverley Park weather, hit Melbourne in the early afternoon causing chaos in all quadrants of the [Read more]
NAB Cup, Round 2: Freo beat Roos in a match worthy of the real season
March 2, 2010 by 493 Comments
By Steve Healy I’m on my way to the footy again, for the second week in a row. Last week it was Geelong V North Melbourne, this week, the Roos are up against the Dockers. Both of which, twilight games at Etihad Stadium. Does it matter? I think not. I’m meeting up with Almanacker and [Read more]
NAB Cup, Round 2: It’s hard to find a score in the bathroom
March 1, 2010 by 72 Comments
It has been one of the worst days of my life. After hearing the bad news that I couldn’t make the trip down to Melbourne for a second consecutive week to the footy, I confide myself to listening and watching the game on the internet. As I log onto the computer to check the latest [Read more]
NAB Cup, Round 1: This competition doesn’t mean anything, does it?
February 27, 2010 by 27 Comments
By Steve Healy After an exciting day at the footy with my Almanac Friends (Josh, Damo, Michael and Adam) there is nothing better than coming home to hear the Dees play Freo on the radio. Well, there might be, but on Sunday night it was the best option. I get off the train at Darling [Read more]
Barney’s 2010 AFL Crystal Ball Part 3: Essendon and Fremantle
January 4, 2010 by 20 Comments
by Josh Barnstable Essendon: A tough year for the Bombers finished in an unlikely finals berth that they didn’t deserve, and it showed with a 96-point thumping by the Crows showing them the exit from September. Matthew Lloyd and Scott Lucas are gone, their two goalkicking stars of the past decade. The Bombers don’t have [Read more]
Sometime Freo really do want to make you heave…
October 25, 2009 by 1 Comment
Doig Medal review by Josh Barnstable Freo Heave Ho Freo Heave Ho Give Em All The Old Freo Heave Ho We’re The Rollers We’re The Rockers We’re The Mighty Freo Dockers We’re Gonna Roll Em And We’ll Rock Em We’re Gonna Send Them To The Bottom And If They Get Up We’ll Do It Again [Read more]
AFL Round 20: As a Dees fan, I can’t wait for next season
August 18, 2009 by 9 Comments
I am off to my fourth consecutive 1.10pm Sunday game in a row. The conditions are wet and windy as I make my way to the ground. This is a bad sign for the Dees. According to many one-minded Demon supporters, this is the only game we are allowed to win before season’s end. I [Read more]
AFL Round 17: A Melbourne Derby
July 27, 2009 by 1 Comment
The Rose Hotel in Fitzroy is a long way from Subiaco, but it was full of WA expatriates, mostly rowdy young Freo supporters. Geelong were playing Hawthorn in a thriller in the other bar but nobody in my room cared much about that game. Keen as those supporters were though, it is easy to be [Read more]
AFL Round 15: McLeod and Dangerfield are Crows’ wonderful bookends
July 13, 2009 by 1 Comment
By Michael Sexton Fremantle have gifted Adelaide two geniuses – Andrew McLeod and Bon Scott. When Scott came to Adelaide he grew a beard, wore a kaftan and played the recorder in a hippy band called Fraternity. Later he met the Young brothers and morphed into the dark joker of rock. On the bus to [Read more]
AFL Round 14: Worth the WACA trip to see the Yellows
July 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Barbara Smith Freo was always going to be a danger game for Carlton. Freo gave the Cats a big fright two matches ago, and are scary at home. Plus, after the last few see-sawing weeks, you never know which Carlton team is going to turn up: the hungry one or the one that seems disinterested. [Read more]
Haiku Bob: Round 13 – the lull between goals
July 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
the lull between goals saturday afternoon the full forward rips the ball from the sky Didak props the way the forward line opens up before and after the final siren – Dick’s grin Harry begins the journey back to where he was before the goal [Read more]
AFL Round 13: Collingwood v Fremantle: Pies prey on Pavlich-less Dockers
June 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Paul Fahey PREAMBLE: On the morning of the game I stopped to think about whether there had actually been a memorable game in the Collingwood v Fremantle brief history. There was a game a while back on a Monday night where they beat us but it was a very ordinary game. Round 22 last [Read more]
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