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Fremantle have unloaded injury prone untility, Chris Tarrant, on an unsuspectng Collingwood in one of the most devious trading deals seen in the AFL since they shipped Daniel Schell to Adelaide. The aging Victorian is likely to push out one of Collingwood's premiership defenders, causing a rift at the club and blocking their development programs, causing Collingwood to plumet down the ladder and go the way of Hawthorn and West Coast after their premierships.
In exchange for derailing the premiers, Fremantle were given pick number 55 - a pick they had earlier traded to the Gold Coast for Peter Faulks, as weel as swapping picks 43 and 44 around, in a move which Chris Bond devised to see if he could get Mick Malthouse to cry.
Reports are that it was succesful, although Mick cries so often nowadays it could have just been a co-incidence.
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Fremantle have dipped their toe back into WA's premier nursery of talent featuring a club with red and a shade in their jumper, taking advantage of the laid back Gold Coast attitude to trading and picking up Perth's Tendai Mzungu and draft pick number 44 in exchange for pick number 36. Mzungu, 24, was Perth's Best and Fairest winner and has been described as Troy Cook if he were fully grown, could kick and wasn't so soft.
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Mums around the country gave out a collective 'awwwwww, that's nice' as the news that the gentleman half back ran down a tiring Aaron Sandilands, brought him to the ground, took the Doig medal from around the big fella's neck - then helped him up, dusted him off and invited him around for a cup of tea and a couple of iced vo vos. Just a few days after committing himself to Fremantle for four more years, David Mundy has won his fist Doig Medal in Fremantle's second most successful season after going to into the midfield and leading the youngsters in their to victory after victory.
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Cooler than the Fonz, tougher than Leather Tuscadero and with better delivery than Ralph Malph, David Mundy has secured Fremantle's 2011 flag by declaring himself a Docker for another 4 years. At 25, Mundy's contract will see him through until the 2014 season when the AFL are expected to be forced into the introduction of a multi-ball rule to try and curb Fremantle's dominance over the competition. Arriving at the club as a laid back youngster, Mundy quickly made a name for himself as a laid back defender but found himself struggling to make the move to laid back senior player. Over the last couple of years however, he has stepped up to become an elite midfielder, laid back though he is, to the point where many in the Fremantle community blame him for stealing crucial votes off of Aaron Sandilands which cost them a good collect for the big fella to be leading at the half way mark of the Brownlow.
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Fremantle have bought Aaron Sandilands a present - a back up ruckman and shoe shiner. The Dockers have traded their 61st draft pick, the one they picked up in the deal to secure Peter Faulks, to Adelaide for their ruckman, Jonathan Griffen. Griffin originally played for East Fremantle and was keen to return home and hop on the FREO Speedwagon. He's 202cm tall, 97kg and he was a member of the 2009 Indigenous All-Stars team. He is a Capricorn and enjoys long walks on the beach. |
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It's not quite the heady days of seeing Trent Croad wake up form an operation to pull on a purple, red, green and white jumper while the paparazzi jostle for position but the more, generic, staid, mono-coloured Fremantle have managed to sneak a trade through in the opening few days of the trade week. Peter Faulks, best known for having a similar name to the bloke who played Columbo, had been pre-selected by the Gold Coast. They must have changed their mind at some point and agreed to trade him to Fremantle, along with pick number 61, for the Dockers' 55th draft selection. Effectively, a set of steak knives for Faulks.
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...because nothing will save the Fremantle administration. A proud club, rich in character, unique in a sea of VFL banality and 1980's nostalgia, one of the most recognisable icons on the Australian sporting landscape. That was the old Fremantle. That Fremantle has been killed off today by an executive who have decided to throw out everything that identified the Fremantle Football Club, hitch their wagon to a marketing company and hope like hell that Matthew Pavlich can lead the team to on field success next year to distract the members from this gross breach of the members trust. A purple, stripy jumper and a logo designed with a free font and a Clip Art anchor will replace the jumper that Fremantle fans have rallied around since it was first unveiled back in 1994. |
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