T'was a carp day at work, and I left too late but in a fit of pique, went home last night, had salad for dinner with beetroot and mashed potato, and pulled up the 2013 prelim final recording.
Apart from the dronings of astonishment from Taylor, Ling and Darcy, by The Maker was it good.
The final 10 weeks of 2017 saw Richmond obliterate all and sundry and stand on the stage with a premiership cup by playing exactly the same footy.
Forget the fire-trucking shiny distraction with lights and cupholders attached, the interest this year is the style of play Freo run with.
Richmond's footskills were meh, their structure was...well...minimal other than a key backline pillar, a marking-while-mobile half-forward, one shite hot goal-kicking midfielder and pretty much chaos everywhere else.
Were they just lucky to run into an Adelaide that pooped themselves whereas Freo ran into the controlled smooth glute muscle clenching Hawthorn? Or does this simple style of footy actually stand up in finals, so long as you "bring it"?
And can Freo revert? Or will The-wannabe-Lyons-while-Lyon-watches-on-from-Harvard over complicate the bejesus out if it. Again.
I'll also put it out there, in the regression of the Healthy Sandilands : Freo Awesomeness relationship, r squared equals 0.9999.
