The pre-season is a lot like dancing, or discoing, with your sister. It’s tame and lacking in intensity but it doesn’t mean we’re all Friends. It’s time to Restump Podcast the unpacking, reviewing and burying of Preseason 2022 so we can get to the real stuff.

After a couple of months of intraclub matches and then two games against the same opposition, the monotony kicked in. The enthusiasm was difficult to muster so the real stuff in a couple of weeks will be a sight for sore competitive home and away season desiring eyes.

The reality is, we looked better than we are in game one, but we’re better than we were in game two. The truth lies somewhere in the middle… sort of your 6th to 9th region on the premiership ladder.

The speed we displayed in game one was absent on Sunday as we returned to the stodgy stop start game after quarter time. The connection between the mids and the forwards disappeared and our horrendously inaccurate kicking boots made an unwelcome return.

While its dangerous to talk about positives in this current covid climate, Sonny Walters gave us a sign his head appears to well and truly be back in the game. And if there was a take out from the pre-season, Freddy may well be it. Inaccurate on Sunday, his progress is in the realms of leaps and or bounds. 

Tabs and Mundy will benefit from the run and will be tip top for round one. With little to know full contact in the pre-season does the captain join them?  

Is Neil about to leave Peel? Erasmus has to seriously be in the round one conversation. However, Treacy might have to fight his way in and we haven’t heard a great deal of Aish talk so far. 

We fill our quotas of nonsense, we check in on our old and now former Lygon street dwelling traitorous mate and then we bring it home with another listener’s general advice seeking question in the ever popular, ‘Ask Jojo’ segment. 

There is so much purple water to flow under the round one selection bridge between now and Sunday 20th March so we’ll get the oval shaped symmetrical conversational ball rolling. Press play, have a listen and then feel free to jump right in and join us, the discussion water is welcoming and warm. 

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