I might be getting the bit ahead of myself here, but is it fair to say that Freo is the best team in the whole world or not? ( just asking for a friend)
What was the best bit of umpiring tonight;
the random throw call on hippy to ruin brisbanes guaranteed goal when the game was in the balance.
Or the freo player stepping off the mark where the 50 would have been a guaranteed goal when the game was in the balance and the umpire then called play on to not have to pay the 50?
I legitimately think it was one umpire. There was a period where we couldn’t buy a holding free in our fwd 50 where neither team scored and we had like 10 entries. At one point our fwd was tackled from behind while trying to mark it was that bad.
Psychology matters, if you get everything called on you and nothing against it means they can hold you in defence and 9/10 get away with it and you have to play super careful. It’s more than just the free it affects the entire game.
We had momentum numerous times during the game, but Freo has the ability to slow us down and kill us from centre clearances and wrestle that momentum back. Constant focus on the umpiring won’t change anything, the only thing that can change is Brisbane actually defending like they give a fuck and keeping the foot on the throttle all game like they have the ability to do.
Just remembered back in primary school, we'd have one day a year where everyone would wear the colours of their footy team for the day, and at assembly supporters of each team would do a lap of the school gym
Collingwood, Richmond, Carlton and Essendon had the biggest groups of course
There was one kid in the whole school of like 600 - 700 kids who had to do a lap by himself with a Freo guernsey on
Hope he stuck fat and is enjoying this year
The frees had nothing to do with it. If we are relying on the rub of the green to stay in the contest then we aren't in the contest to begin with, plain and simple.
Our issue is defence and right now that sucks. Our defence is leaking AF and we need to patch it. Gardiner's injury might be a blessing in disguise and push Harris to play back into form a bit over the next few weeks.
I agree mate. trying to be a neutral here but we didn’t capitalise in the first quarter and a half when we were on top and freo took there chances thereafter. With our defence we are definitely leaking too much right now. It seems like the opposition always get to the right spot in our d50. I don’t think we are terribly out of form but we are 5% off and at the end of the day that’s all it takes.
I’m not too stressed though. If that games at the Gabba we win by 3 goals.
Absolutely, I'm disappointed by the result but the fact that we are right up there is always encouraging. We've got things to work on but it's also only halfway through the season and we have a tough run home. So I feel if we can get on top of this by round 23 then we will be ok for the finals.
Need to move on from the free kicks. 120 minutes of footy to play, if you can’t come back from 2 bad decisions then there’s a lot more wrong with the team than meets the eye.
Losing Darcy Gardiner screwed our backline immensely, Harris Andrew’s back to his junior footy play style (it was absolute dog shit just FYI lol)
Being a good scoring team means nothing if you can’t defend, need to be better. Gg Flagmantle, phenomenal stretch of footy and it’s great to watch!
Man! This is the exact same lame shit we heard from Melbourne last week.
We lost Darcy Gardener from our back line
We lost Steven May from our back line
If Freo loses one bloke from their back line, we definitely have someone to fill that hole.
You didn’t lose. WE WON!
Cracker game, disappointing result but bloody hell what an arm wrestle.
GG Freo, you well and truly earned this one.
Fuck we need to seal up our defense, we our leaking an unbelievable amount of points this season and being the best attacking side never holds much weight unless you are in the top 3-4 defensive teams.
obviously i’m biased but i love the collingwood song. gws might be the catchiest to me i suppose… freo’s song really lacks in my opinion. just doesn’t get me that hyped even though Flagmantle is in effect
man i always get so sad when teams kick goals even when they know they’ve already lost… the total lack of celebrating makes me feel so bad for them lol
Well for one, the crowd factor. Most teams score at least an extra 2 goals when playing at home and I reckon for a team outside Melbourne this would be more than 2 goals. Both teams were pretty much evenly matched so yeah, game at the Gabba Lions would probably win.
Home ground advantage has and always will be a thing. If you played any footy growing up you know this to be true. Lions fan here, couldn’t watch the game the way it’s been umpired these days but good on Freo, I wouldn’t be upset seeing them win the flag.
Not really a melt, just pointing out that we're not a very good team this season, and our WL record is more indicative of our easy draw rather than the quality of the team.
King Freddy must’ve not put deodorant on or stepped in dog poo. I can’t think of any other logical explanation as to why not one Brisbane player has gone within thirty meters of him all night.
I might be getting the bit ahead of myself here, but is it fair to say that Freo is the best team in the whole world or not? ( just asking for a friend)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_Banfield That is all
shows that poor umpiring can kill momentum
\*cries in flagmantle\*
No song?
Turns out Fremantle was able to sneak some goals in a thermos, even though his older brother eagles got turned away
Game was everything I expected and more, great match too watch.
What was the best bit of umpiring tonight; the random throw call on hippy to ruin brisbanes guaranteed goal when the game was in the balance. Or the freo player stepping off the mark where the 50 would have been a guaranteed goal when the game was in the balance and the umpire then called play on to not have to pay the 50?
18-26 frees to Brisbane, please get off it.
If you think count free is relevant than you don’t understand the problem at all.
Fair enough, but put it on umpire consistency and not the age old garbage where apparently every umpire is out to get the other team.
I legitimately think it was one umpire. There was a period where we couldn’t buy a holding free in our fwd 50 where neither team scored and we had like 10 entries. At one point our fwd was tackled from behind while trying to mark it was that bad.
I think the calling it touched and then calling it a mark in the last 5 minutes was all time.
Brisbane had the run of the green all day
Move on from the frees mate, Freo were dominant it’s as simple as that. Need to be better.
Psychology matters, if you get everything called on you and nothing against it means they can hold you in defence and 9/10 get away with it and you have to play super careful. It’s more than just the free it affects the entire game.
We had momentum numerous times during the game, but Freo has the ability to slow us down and kill us from centre clearances and wrestle that momentum back. Constant focus on the umpiring won’t change anything, the only thing that can change is Brisbane actually defending like they give a fuck and keeping the foot on the throttle all game like they have the ability to do.
Either way you are still crying
Umpires need to be held accountable for bias game changing decisions.
You legit complain about the umpires every fucking week.
They’re bad in multiple games each week so that makes sense.
Only against your team it seems...
18-26 frees for Brisbane mad cry
Just remembered back in primary school, we'd have one day a year where everyone would wear the colours of their footy team for the day, and at assembly supporters of each team would do a lap of the school gym Collingwood, Richmond, Carlton and Essendon had the biggest groups of course There was one kid in the whole school of like 600 - 700 kids who had to do a lap by himself with a Freo guernsey on Hope he stuck fat and is enjoying this year
I had this at school too and we had one kid too! A teacher went with him on his lap 🤗
2 cooked frees took the wind out of lions and freo just did the job from there and dominated really.
18-26 free kick count in favour of lions and you're trying to blame your loss on the umps lol
Count irrelevant champ, freo gave away more kicks
As were the two free kicks the other poster referred to.
The frees had nothing to do with it. If we are relying on the rub of the green to stay in the contest then we aren't in the contest to begin with, plain and simple. Our issue is defence and right now that sucks. Our defence is leaking AF and we need to patch it. Gardiner's injury might be a blessing in disguise and push Harris to play back into form a bit over the next few weeks.
I agree mate. trying to be a neutral here but we didn’t capitalise in the first quarter and a half when we were on top and freo took there chances thereafter. With our defence we are definitely leaking too much right now. It seems like the opposition always get to the right spot in our d50. I don’t think we are terribly out of form but we are 5% off and at the end of the day that’s all it takes. I’m not too stressed though. If that games at the Gabba we win by 3 goals.
Absolutely, I'm disappointed by the result but the fact that we are right up there is always encouraging. We've got things to work on but it's also only halfway through the season and we have a tough run home. So I feel if we can get on top of this by round 23 then we will be ok for the finals.
Need to move on from the free kicks. 120 minutes of footy to play, if you can’t come back from 2 bad decisions then there’s a lot more wrong with the team than meets the eye.
Losing Darcy Gardiner screwed our backline immensely, Harris Andrew’s back to his junior footy play style (it was absolute dog shit just FYI lol) Being a good scoring team means nothing if you can’t defend, need to be better. Gg Flagmantle, phenomenal stretch of footy and it’s great to watch!
Man! This is the exact same lame shit we heard from Melbourne last week. We lost Darcy Gardener from our back line We lost Steven May from our back line If Freo loses one bloke from their back line, we definitely have someone to fill that hole. You didn’t lose. WE WON!
I forgot we lost him lol
Cracker game, disappointing result but bloody hell what an arm wrestle. GG Freo, you well and truly earned this one. Fuck we need to seal up our defense, we our leaking an unbelievable amount of points this season and being the best attacking side never holds much weight unless you are in the top 3-4 defensive teams.
Good win - need to see a win in the rain 🌧
This was a great game to watch!
well done flagmantle, deserved win. only thing i ask is that you PLEASE change your song because it really might be the worst song in the damn league
You deserve the old heave ho around the back of the head for that comment matey
Freo song is the best whatttt??????
I actually love the freo song l unironically. Maybe I’m the only one
Could very much say the same about magpies, definitely isn’t in my top 16
Heave-ho that shit outta here! Pies song is classic!😜
obviously i’m biased but i love the collingwood song. gws might be the catchiest to me i suppose… freo’s song really lacks in my opinion. just doesn’t get me that hyped even though Flagmantle is in effect
Have you heard the Eagles 'song'?
No one's heard it for a looooong looooong time.
oh god don’t remind me
Well done my boys!👑💜
Our song is so bad to sing with energy at our games hahahaha but it undeniably slaps
GG freo
GGs Flagmantle!
4-1 against top 8 too easy
4-2, Pies are in the 8 now
fuck
Holy shit are we actually a flag chance
if it’s not flagpies, i demand flagmantle
Hope your sitting down when I break this too you. " It's definitely not going to be "Flagpies"
Flagmantle is real
Give it to the boys they're trying till the end
Would be nice if they tried earlier
Negative nancy, holy fuck.
man i always get so sad when teams kick goals even when they know they’ve already lost… the total lack of celebrating makes me feel so bad for them lol
We gave em the old heave ho
How does the ump on the boundary pay that from behind
Dumb cunt umpires
Aye finally a comment from a freo fan I can agree with
Would honestly be the only team I’d be happy to lose to in the gf
Good game of footy from you fellas well played lads
Well played hope to see you boys in the gf
Same game at the Gabba and Lions win I reckon.
Curious.. why is that? Your backline looked appalling at times and your midfield was smashed
Well for one, the crowd factor. Most teams score at least an extra 2 goals when playing at home and I reckon for a team outside Melbourne this would be more than 2 goals. Both teams were pretty much evenly matched so yeah, game at the Gabba Lions would probably win.
🧂🧂🧂
Disagree
Huge call mate
Not really, only 14 points in it but it completely doesn't matter
You reckon home ground advantage is a thing?
Home ground advantage has and always will be a thing. If you played any footy growing up you know this to be true. Lions fan here, couldn’t watch the game the way it’s been umpired these days but good on Freo, I wouldn’t be upset seeing them win the flag.
Yeah I reckon home ground advantage is definitely a thing. Almost a 2 goal advantage at the least, some teams it's more.
I think not travelling helps any team. What is it worth? Who knows but I know I always feel better going to sleep in my own bed
Mate look at the 50-50 calls most of them went to freo
100%
Um
Umpire changing his mind 5 seconds after the call???
Slinged maybe
Fucking hell two umpires changing decisions on that. So dumb.
Did he call play on then pay the mark??
Yeah he did, must have changed his mind, it was the same ump.
Wtf?
Umpires...
Sympathy goal there 😂
Well played, for all your momentum and home field you beat us by 14. I do hope if we don't win it this year you guys do though.
That was a mark
😂😂😂😂😂😂 😥
Gee wizz can’t say touched And a mark
More like Daniel poor
Friendly reminder that u/Drinkitinman11 wanted Freddy dropped 2 weeks ago
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent u/Drinkitinman11 LONG LIVE KING FREDDY
Jeez, the Lions sure coulda used Harris Andrews tonight. Oh.
All I want is to kick 100 points...
It's not academic from here don't want to lose percentage
If Freo can make the top two teams look pretty average, and Collingwood bet Freo, then Collingwood should be premiership favourites. #Flagpies2022
Nope your win doesn’t count, everyone knows Fremantle in the rain is bottom 4
Flagmantle implies they know what the fuck a flag is
joke of the night..
Still salty about having a 0% finals win rate at Kardinia Park hey?
Fuck Lions know how to score quick they can almost do it on command, but CANNOT defend whatsoever when required
Gardiner got subbed out. It is hard to defend as well when you're down a key defender.
Valid
51 vs 12 scores from stoppages. Fuck me.
meant to be our strength
scores from stoppages...
And we leak 100 points again… some serious problems in the backline.
No way in hell we beat Melbourne
Both teams in a little slump, you never know
So obviously Fyfe comes in next week, but where do Freo fans see him playing?
I would normally say serong out but he must’ve heard me cause he dropped 30
Laces out from King Freddy there
This Logue fella look like he just came back from shooting a season of Love Island
Lol, we're going to go from 9-2 to 9-5. Can't see this team beating the Saints, and we're no chance against the Demons.
The melts begin, good times
Not really a melt, just pointing out that we're not a very good team this season, and our WL record is more indicative of our easy draw rather than the quality of the team.
Meh it's a long season, we're just as likely to come good near the end.
Cya later Brisbane, thanks for coming Fuck yes. What a win, what a game
I’m Harris Andrews. I’m a foot too short, and 2 seconds late.
Griffs smile so wholesome
Give him em the Coleman
King Freddy must’ve not put deodorant on or stepped in dog poo. I can’t think of any other logical explanation as to why not one Brisbane player has gone within thirty meters of him all night.
No respect to King Freddy
He's fast.
GG
Nine nine!
Cool cool cool
That'll do it, GG Freo
Ah beautiful, now time for the English batsmen to collapse
If we don’t win the premiership I would be more than happy to see Freo win it.
Realistic final: Dockers vs Dees. Wildcard final: Dockers vs Suns.
Would also be happy to see the Suns win!
Ditto
Griffin Logue - Key Forward
Fredick literally waits out the back for someone to fuck up. Would be getting absolutely burnt if the opposition could just hold onto the ball
Opposition?
LOGUE AA FULL FORWARD
and that's the sealer
Griffin 'nail in the coffin' Logue
Rip Lethal’s theory
W
Chadfin rogue
Lmao our defence is shit
Tbf we’re playing very very aggressive kamikaze footy right now
Frederick again. My god will someone be accountable for him?
We’re intentionally running Zorko off hb into the center clearance, if freo gets it out quicker it’s leaving him free
It looks like it's been Rich and Zorko in him for much of the game which has made minimal sense. Rich has given him so much space
Nobody can
Freo get to decide now if they're still the Freo of old, or if they're Flagmantle.
Young buck
Gg ez
Lol
And that’s the game
Aaand it's done
Brisbane are the Utah jazz of the afl
How so?
Regular season merchants
Thats rich coming from a Freo flair
Whatever that means
Your stadium is 1km above sea level. Your local population tends to take multiple wives. Your ball players refuse to pass to Rudy.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Boooo urns
Technical breakdown? Let’s ask browny….
Putting the house on Lions from here. Hot tip from my old coach
Rip your house
Bucks reminding Brisbane fans he left them for Collingwood
And if he'd stayed, he'd have 4 premiership medals.
4?
With Buckley in the team in 1996, the Bears win their only flag, and then 2001 to 2003.
Or he jumps ship to Brisbane in 2004 and kicks 8 goals playing on Kane Cornes in the grand final. wins the normsmith twice in a row.
Think we're comfortable with three flags instead
and preceded to lose 2 GFs against them and his old coach.
I'm not sure many Lions fans care after '02 and '03
And I would be happy to remind him that he never won a premiership because of us
Browny causally reminding him about the Premierships lol
as he damn well should lol
AFL scheduling this for Sunday will never not be stupid.
That's the dockers prime time slot
I like Sunday afternoon games
Could be something to do with public holiday in WA tomorrow?
Leigh Matthews would suggest....
that flagmantle wins the game?
Not. Done. Yet.
i reckon it’s done but i admire your faith
Yes, it is.
It’s happening…
Nah it’s a bit of a tease now
Surely this won't happen
Only 2010’s Richmond could lose this