A day later we can see clearly now the rain has gone. Time to Restump Podcast Freo’s rain drops keep falling on my head loss to the Gold Coast Suns.

How were we not prepared for the conditions? We’re from a port, we’re Dockers, Dockers work on a wharf! How could water even remotely seem foreign to them? Did they think we all ironically came down in the last shower?  

Now the angst is out of the way we can look at it in a more measured manner…. yeah measured manner with a rain gauge!

The conditions overwhelmingly were the talking point but they shouldn’t be judged as the reason for the performance. It was our bewildering inability to adapt and be prepared for the conditions…. oh and it was also Gold Coast themselves, they brought the heat we didn’t.

Kicking a winning score was always going to be difficult without a Taberner, Walters and Switkowski. When the Suns’ mids got on top and then their forward pressure came… we got hung out to, obviously metaphorically, dry. 

Some positives on a dark day, Griffin Logue’s form continued as he broke the all time Freo record for intercepts with 17. Neil Erasmus showed us signs he’ll be a career mid for the next dozen years and, while part of a beaten midfield, Will Brodie carried on his hard ball getting ways with a game high 17 contested of his 27 possessions.

Anyone who indulges in the ‘old man Malthouse trade Fyfe’ talk got a reality check. We had no one to stop the rot… A big Fyfey would have been handy. 

Darcy uncharacteristically lowered his colours and, despite his best one-handed mark attempts, Lobb had no influence which left all the points with Gold Coast’s Jarrod Witts. But to  be fair, they weren’t on their own. We had few winners out there Sunday. 

Maybe the loss just resets the expectations and brings them back into line with reality. Nothing goes up in a straight line and teams will always throw in an uncharacteristic inexplicable one. Anomalies aren’t trend changers, we’re still on the up.

Maybe, its simply the loss we had to have.

So, join us for a reviewing paddle through Sunday’s waterlogged game as we mop up the spillage and refill the expectation glass to half full. 

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