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Good summary there Senior. That's the thing I like about our ruck combo they don't win a lot of taps but are so mobile & damaging around the ground & thrive on the greater work load

I had an interesting chat with a Subi bloke at the game and he was astounded the Peel supporters were cheering at every goal as though it was actually Peel players doing the job. Gotta admit I too found it extraordinary that blokes who weren't Peel but Freo players were getting their support. It's weird and a bit sad for mine.

BC -- I think it depends a little bit on the club which has the alignment; it went down very badly at Claremont, and, to a large extent at SF: EP is split between the membership and the board; and, as for Peel, one could understand the alignment having some support given the club's history.

BC wrote: I had an interesting chat with a Subi bloke at the game and he was astounded the Peel supporters were cheering at every goal as though it was actually Peel players doing the job. Gotta admit I too found it extraordinary that blokes who weren't Peel but Freo players were getting their support. It's weird and a bit sad for mine.

BC the reason they were cheering was that they were all in Freo colours, so happy to cheer for their players. I reckon there may have been 10 or 15 people in Peel colours if that, all supporting the 4 peel players that were grudgingly given a gig.

DG wrote: Good summary there Senior. That's the thing I like about our ruck combo they don't win a lot of taps but are so mobile & damaging around the ground & thrive on the greater work load

Like I said in the summary, there was some smart but simple changes made at halftime, primarily the strong focus on negating their massive marking advantage by our boys spoiling at every opportunity to bring the ball to ground where our smalls were doing much better and slowing the game right down in the last when our guys were gassed. Perhaps in the end they were a bit top heavy, plus like East eagles when the going gets tough and the real pressure goes on, they don't have that fanatasism that real wafl clubs have. Claremont showed that on Saturday and WP and Su showed that in those 2 GF's against WART.

Essentially the Chunder faithfull were supporting blokes who don't want to be there. if they're playing for FART it means they're not playing for Freo...so where's the commitment, passion and will to win for your club?

What happened to Bennell?

what happened to him? other than playing 15 minutes of each quarter, picking up 23 possessions, kicking 4 goals and playing pretty well bugger all from what I saw.

BC wrote: Essentially the Chunder faithfull were supporting blokes who don't want to be there. if they're playing for FART it means they're not playing for Freo...so where's the commitment, passion and will to win for your club?

The Peel league team played in the reserves and as expected they beat Subi because those blokes were playing for the Jumper, big difference.

BC wrote: what happened to him? other than playing 15 minutes of each quarter, picking up 23 possessions, kicking 4 goals and playing pretty well bugger all from what I saw.

Bennell is out for up to 4 weeks with a recurrence of the calf injury, must have been when he and Hancock tangled legs early in the last qtr, Hancock got a bad knock to the knee but apparently no structural damage at this stage. I would think he would still go off for a scan to make sure.

Report on the radio that Lyons is "angry" about Bennells injury ..... why angry? He would be understandably disappointed that the boy is injured especially after such a great game. Is lyons angry at Subi, at Hancock at the WAFL at the umpires??? I don't get it, maybe he's so angry he'll force a change in the rules that restricts body contact between WAFL and AFL listed players.