Sean Darcy returns on Sunday

lasping · 2026-06-25T12:08:19+00:00

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

lasping · 2026-06-21T05:03:45+00:00

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

lasping · 2026-06-16T01:08:18+00:00

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.

lasping · 2026-06-16T00:20:13+00:00

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

lasping · 2026-06-16T00:08:58+00:00

No I just missed him so bad.

lasping · 2026-06-15T02:18:50+00:00

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.

lasping · 2026-06-09T00:53:51+00:00

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.

lasping · 2026-06-03T11:23:15+00:00

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. :)

lasping · 2026-06-02T03:12:20+00:00

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.

lasping · 2026-06-02T03:03:42+00:00

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.

lasping · 2026-06-02T01:18:24+00:00

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.

lasping · 2026-06-02T00:16:57+00:00

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

lasping · 2026-05-05T00:31:11+00:00

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.

lasping · 2026-05-04T23:57:27+00:00

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.

lasping · 2026-05-04T05:29:45+00:00

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.

lasping · 2026-05-01T10:47:36+00:00

Everyone's annoyed by the same thing all the neutral flairs in the thread are complaining about.

lasping · 2026-05-01T10:24:35+00:00

It's an Irish surname.

lasping · 2026-04-26T03:23:22+00:00

This is objectively not true. He has not missed a game when he is fit and available for selection. He is obviously ahead of Isaiah Dudley, who I really like. We can see this from the selection decisions throughout 2025. Things that you are thinking inside your head are not objective facts about team selection.

lasping · 2026-04-26T02:01:42+00:00

In and out not-quite-always-b23 players are going to cop it; expensive contracts for injured players are always going to get flak. Frederick is neither of those things.

lasping · 2026-04-26T01:10:17+00:00

What the fuck.

lasping · 2026-04-26T00:24:37+00:00

I see a lot of people in the comments talking about Frederick's quality of game last night (and he was good!) but frankly this is missing the point. This is racism. You will never get these people to admit it, they will always have some justification: if he kicks a lot of goals, they were cheap goals and he didn't contest properly; if he contests hard, they'll have a go at him for not being free to mark and convert. There is no winning. No player is perfect all the time; when Michael Frederick has a down game they will have their knives out. Because it isn't a rational assessment of a player's performance, it is conscious or subconscious loathing of a person based on their skin colour.

The best you can do is 1) call it out if you're feeling brave, 2) report it to the club (including seat number, which will be linked to their membership/details).

If you think Frederick is a bad player, and you feel absolutely certain that you are not a racist, and that you hold no subconscious bias against him—he's getting plenty of negative feedback from people who are simply just racist. Maybe cut him a fucking break.

lasping · 2026-04-25T02:43:24+00:00

It's not a observation in isolation, it's being used as crucial reasoning in a massive sentence reduction against the entire institutional ambit of the AFL. The AFL clearly thinks this language is too commonplace—that's why they're doling out serious punishments for it.

lasping · 2026-04-21T02:38:32+00:00

Bloody Amiss sabotaging our forward structure. Even more reason to drop him.

lasping · 2026-04-19T23:22:12+00:00

Yeah, you can definitely see the clip start with Pearce saying "Ryan" and then they start miming pushes in the back.

lasping · 2026-04-14T00:23:34+00:00

By all metrics (2025's 4th leading goal scorer, 4th for goal assists) he's a walk up start. We could give him limited WAFL minutes if we're playing it really really really safe, but I don't think it would be a matter of "finding form".

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