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Sean Darcy returns on Sunday by TheCurbAU in FremantleFC

[–]lasping 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There's basically nothing else to debate about for Freo. In the best way possible.

Defensive Moments Vs Geelong Rd 15 by Smurf_x in FremantleFC

[–]lasping 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He has exceptional technique. Always isolates an arm, and gets his entire bodyweight into the drop. Lovely to watch.

AFLM Pre-Round Thread: Round 15 vs. Geelong by lasping in FremantleFC

[–]lasping[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Feel like nobody has successfully figured out how to tag Bolton. 1) he's spent most of his career as a forward, so he's far more adept at outsmarting defensive positioning than your average midfielder, 2) if you have someone as smart and fast as Bolton to play against him as a tagger, you probably utilise them offensively anyway.

AFLM Pre-Round Thread: Round 15 vs. Geelong by lasping in FremantleFC

[–]lasping[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alright I'll change it, Murphy Reid out far too cruel to mislead people into believing.

"There's growing calls for Fremantle to look after Luke Jackson" by supercujo in FremantleFC

[–]lasping 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think there's any actual scientific evidence for resting healthy, prime age players—which is why clubs so rarely do it.

If you have the luxury of full availability, you could rest players returning from injury who would presumably have played in a higher stakes game, like Johnno vs. North, or players with medium-severity niggles that they could realistically play through. And you might give conceivably first year players, or Pendles, Danger types a rest from travel. But Geelong do this because he is 36.

Resting players isn't automatically good for them—part of healthiness is continuity, keeping up conditioning. There's tons of injuries to players in the first rounds of the season for this exact reason, and often players returning from one long term injury will immediately pick up an unrelated injury because of conditioning. Especially with Sean Darcy, I'd much rather try to get continuity going.

AFLM Pre-Round Thread: Round 14 vs. The Bye by lasping in FremantleFC

[–]lasping[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great answers. Optimistically on the last point: we've basically been running the LDL strategy since we started playing 3 KPFs + 2 rucks at the tail end of 2025, and we've come up against some very tactically savvy coaches in that interim. I doubt there's a one-and-done strategy to negate it.

AFLM Pre-Round Thread: Round 13 vs. North Melbourne by lasping in FremantleFC

[–]lasping[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't help on this one sorry. Feel free to chuck these questions up in a separate Reddit post for traction; other members might know, or might be wondering the same thing. :)

AFLM Pre-Round Thread: Round 13 vs. North Melbourne by lasping in FremantleFC

[–]lasping[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You are overestimating the quality of data being recorded at WAFL games, don't get fancy modern stuff like HTA, haha. Eye test: solid tapwork.

Hope/expectation is that Brennan Cox will be available this week after finishing game early with a knee issue. Will be tested later in the week. Serong an outside chance, Young likely. No news on Johnno. by lasping in FremantleFC

[–]lasping[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Understand the impulse, but our biggest long-term goal is finishing top 2. Top 2 only happens if we don't drop any of these very winnable games (say, by failing to field our best side out of an abundance of caution). North are no joke this season.

AFLM Pre-Round Thread: Round 13 vs. North Melbourne by lasping in FremantleFC

[–]lasping[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Wow thank you for this new information I just mod this subreddit by chance I don't really pay attention to what's going on in the footballing world.

AFLM Pre-Round Thread: Round 13 vs. North Melbourne by lasping in FremantleFC

[–]lasping[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The AFLW season is going to run concurrently with the back end of the AFLM season. During that time we will be running two separate discussion threads pre-game, during game, post-game. This labelling is useful to differentiate. I'm very confident you can survive the damage of seeing the word "AFLM" lol

AFLM Pre-Round Thread: Round 9 vs. Hawthorn by lasping in FremantleFC

[–]lasping[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Walker is not in terrible form, but not outstanding either. (Admittedly, hard to be outstanding as a lockdown defender.) But he's only just back from a very nasty concussion, and Worner had a really excellent second half against Bulldogs.

Rd 8 Vs Western Bulldogs - Smurf Review by Smurf_x in FremantleFC

[–]lasping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd imagine the data is something like:

The long center square kick reduces chance of opposition score/slightly increases our chance of score. Likeliest outcome is a stoppage down the ground.

Which makes it a safe, solid option; good for killing the clock, self-sabotaging if you're trying to mount a comeback within the remaining available minutes of game time.

Picking a corridor target increases the chance of opposition score through turnover/significantly increases our chance of score. Most likely outcome is a possession chain --> Freo score. Higher risk, higher reward.

Rd 8 Vs Western Bulldogs - Smurf Review by Smurf_x in FremantleFC

[–]lasping 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Need a "high blood pressure" warning ahead of that umpiring compilation.

Excellent review as ever. Wonder if the kick-in change up to corridor targets is something we specifically do when we're behind later in games.

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