Ouch, Freo Dockers! We’re just getting over Friday night and you drop unwanted Mundy news Monday morning on us! Time to therapeutically Restump Podcast all of it.
The news hit hard this morning and it really put us off our cornflakes. The great man, the man we thought would still be playing when we all leave this earth, ripped our hearts out and called time on his career. The MundyFourHundy dream is over.
After a relentless effort based 35 possession game on Friday night, you got the feeling Dave Mundy was in deep contemplation mode meditating on the bench late in the game.
Depending on where we finish the home and away season, we’ll possibly only get to see him one last time going around in the flesh in the round 22 Derby. What a way and what an opportunity to send him off.
But before then we have to unpack last Friday night. And given the demolition it was, very little needs unpacking and its more of a picking up the pieces and cleaning up the mess job.
Have teams worked us out? Are they paying us the extra attention and preparing in ways they may not have been doing in the first half of the year? Is our young team fatigued? Or has our effort and commitment fallen off the pace a bit?
Quite simply it seems the majority of the issues are attributed to our eternally dysfunctional forward line. Matty Tabs had one of his worst games we can remember and Rory Lobb… good luck Bulldogs!
Trav Colyer has hit the brick wall of late and hasn’t been his earlier year productive self and Lachie Schultz has been well off the pace for a while now. His frenetic defensive pressure is a vital cog in our forward line wheel and when it’s absent so is any hint of cohesiveness.
We’ve got three games remaining, top four is all but gone but now we desperately need at least one, possibly two wins to ensure we finish the season in the top eight.
It’s been a tough few days for all us Freo folk so lets have a chat about it all and see if we can find some uplifting answers…. and by uplifting we don’t just mean the Bulldogs uplifting and taking Rory Lobb!
I’m sorry… I’m still a bit dark on a few efforts on Friday! If you're keen, click play and let’s get into it.
