2023 we widely missed all analyst’s expectations. Is it the regression we had to have? Motivation is waning but we’re putting on our parachute pants and Restump Podcasting what hopefully isn’t Joel Hamling’s last game.

While you want to go out on a high, it must be difficult for both the Hawks and Freo to really get up for this game on Saturday. That said there are positions in both team’s best 22 to be obtained and there are career saving contracts to be won.

Old men Sonny Walters and Joel Hamling return as Bailey Banfield sits out to deal with a shoulder complaint and a calf has stopped Jaegar O’Meara from facing his former team. 

For most rational people it sadly feels as though Liam Henry is playing his last game in purple. While no decision has been made, listening to the rhetoric and reading the telling tea leaves it suggests he will exit the club at seasons end. We hope he has a change of heart and continues his form trajectory on the wing he has made his own. 

Does Nathan Wilson get another one-year deal? Have we seen the last of Trav Colyer?  

The grapevine chatter is that the purple bleeding Sean Darcy has no intentions of playing elsewhere and wants to be a Freo man for life. It might have been more Chinese-whispering than grapevine chatter but lets hope its true.

What is this superpower Bob Murphy believes is obtainable by those who’s sexual preference is anything but straight, if they make their sexual orientation public?

We’re all a bit flat, we’re struggling for genuine motivation, we’re fatiguing and limping to the line. But the off season is long so we’ll dig deep and make the most of our final 2023 appearance on Saturday. 

Our nonsense isn’t going to podcast itself so if your no doubt injured ears can go round the block one more time for the home and away season, tape them up and come along for the conversation. 

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