Geez an 85% fit Fyfe would be handy! But you don’t want to go in rushed and underprepared like we did into this difficult Restump Podcast preview of our clash against the Lachie Neale Lions.

Jojo wanting to do the preview in between drinks on his swimming pool bar crawl in Bali is probably the time to realise you need to start holding yourself to the same disciplinary account you hold your team’s players to.

Sunday’s game is a tricky assignment to assess. Brisbane are 9 wins and 2 losses but they’ve only played 2 top 8 sides, resulting in a win and a loss. We have played 4 top 8 sides for 3 wins and a loss. 

Brisbane is a high scoring side, having kicked 100 points in each of their last 6 games. But we’ve allowed 27 goals less kicked against us than Brisbane has against them. We can probably cover Chappy’s out but no Sonny, Tabs and Switta hurts our scoring ability. Its all over the shop!

Brisbane haven’t been a great travelling team but they’ve won 4 of 6 away this year. Have they improved or has it been the predominantly bottom eight opponents they’ve faced away from home?

Can Schultzy, Freddy, Banfield and co contain Charlie Cameron, Zac Bailey, Linc McCarthy and Cam Rayner who is starting to deliver on his hype? Our old mate Lachie Neale will get plenty of it regardless of pressure applied. 

Daniel Rich, as he so often does, holds one of many meaningful keys to the game. Some level of constant influential negating attention wouldn’t be the worst decision made. Schultzy, Freddy… if you’re listening?

How will our forward line function? With Meek into the side and Taberner out, Darcy should spend big minutes forward. Can Meek go with Oscar McInerny? One thing for sure is we’re going to need the Lobb of last week to show up again this week. 

It would have been nice to see Neil Razzamatazzmus get a gig but, who knows, there could be a late in lifeline.   

We’re asking a lot of questions, we try to make heads and tails of them, but we might just have to wait until Sunday to find out the answers. 

In other news, Sebit Kuek has swaggered in and, while he may be a project player, he looks a decent throw at the stumps. Disco Nathan signed on for a further 2 years but he wasn’t going anywhere, and Will Brodie is apparently Fremantle’s classiest kick while West Coast’s Tim Kelly is the league’s worst. 

The usually reliable Paul Hasleby put in a dodgy one yesterday calling for the club to go after Tex Walker. His logic makes sense and everyone deserves forgiveness for a mistake but we don’t want to disrupt our long-term build or stray from the path we’re on. 

This game is a head scratcher, it’s difficult to work out and the process wasn’t helped by Jojo deciding to take holidays in season! But we scraped through, acknowledging there is plenty of upside. 

So if you’re looking to get rid of 40 precious minutes of your life and you accept the reality you can never get them back, then just remove any listening content standard you may have, recheck you have nothing better to do, and then click play and endure the nonsense.  

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