It’s the first time in our history we’ve less than 5 indigenous players on the list. But that doesn’t mean 3 isn’t good quality company. Time to Restump Podcast the Saturday night scrap against the Saints.

For a club that is known for its adoption and celebration of indigenous culture and its rich history of numerous indigenous players, we have recently seen a sharp decline in numbers down at the purple Port.

For our entire history leading up to the start of 2024, we have averaged over 7 indigenous players per year and, as mentioned, we’ve never had less than five on our list. However, with the departures of Joel Hamling, Liam Henry, Nathan Wilson and Roy Benning at the end of 2023, Sonny Walters, Alex Pearce and Conrad Williams are carrying the indigenous representation load.

Albeit from across the aisle, we reunite with Ross and say hello to Henry Saturday night in a must win game against the Saints. Our former coach has obviously had enough of his team’s wayward form, swinging the axe, making six significant changes.

Out goes Seb Ross, Liam Stocker, Jack Hayes, Hugo Garcia and the two goals a game forward against Freo, Tim Membrey.

While it appears down at Cockburn central we are going in with an unchanged line up, we do have some interesting emergencies. Will Liam Reidy be a late in to make his debut and give Luke Jackson a chop out in the ruck? Whatever the case, let’s hope all the goal kicking radars got a tune up during the week.

Should be a very close game. Both teams are extremely similar in regards to offensive and defensive numbers and its incredibly difficult to get a genuine handle on the form of both clubs.

The Mi Casa Property Boutique Metres Gained Competition is back for the weekend. A $50 spend from 2 Bros Foods is up for grabs or $100 in the ongoing Bailey Banfield special. Check our social medias Friday for the competition post. 

Apparently, the teams that do little to no traveling, think getting across the Nullabor every second week is no big deal because a few guys get to travel in business class. No doubt they’re the same VFL clubs who have complained about having to travel to Marvel stadium!

The remaining fixtures are out and, surprise surprise, we’ve been handed a bunch of dead zone timeslot games beginning WA morning times! 

Anyway, plenty to talk about but let’s focus on the task at hand, which is, in a good-natured way, giving Liam a little lip and showing the Lyon no love. The pod isn’t going to preview itself so let’s get into it and look for a path to the four-point bank. 

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