Shai Cheese
10/16/24 • 61 min
We had to pony up a bit more cheese than we had hoped, but Shai isn’t the only one smiling now. Time to Restump Podcast the momentous occasion of the second coming of Bolton.
It’s been too long between Bolton drinks at Freo. While he may have only managed two games for the purple in 1999, we can’t undervalue the work Shai’s Dad, Darren, did for Fremantle off the field in 1998!
We’ve struggled to land a true top line forward from many attempts over our thirty-year history, so this is a pretty pivotal moment for the club. It feels like we’ve taken a substantial step towards the promised land, and without playing a game.
It really is starting to feel like we’re getting our ducks, or rather docks, in a row. Obviously one player doesn’t deliver you success, but at this particular time and in this particular team, Shai Bolton does seem a serious piece of the purple premiership puzzle.
There has been the odd speed bump along the way, but the build has been rather methodical. The draft work has been impressive and, despite the abuse the club has copped at times from fans and media, the list management has been superb.
There comes a time when you must pull the trigger, move the chips to middle of the table and go all in. With the window starting to open, landing the versatile Bolton, fulfilling a desperate area of need and, dare we say, putting the finishing touches on the long-term build, is our superbly timed pulling of the trigger.
We all know there are no guarantees, there are only efforts. But we’ve done the hard yards, Lord knows we’ve done the hard yards, so it is time to release the Kraken, take a genuine run at it, hope for a bit of luck and maybe, just maybe, in the near future, we’ll finally get to experience the ultimate success.
We all have our thoughts and opinions on Shai Bolton himself and what we coughed up to get him. It now matters not, because the deal is done, and you’re kidding yourself if you’re not at least even secretly excited about his arrival.
We can agree, we can disagree and we can agree to disagree, but don’t bite off your nose to spite your face if you’re holding a negative position. Don’t do yourself a disservice and be that guy! We’re potentially entering unchartered waters, you only get to win a first premiership once, you want to live it, you want to be immersed in it, so you want to get on board the Bolton Bandwagon and enjoy every enthralling moment.
While not nearly as exciting or entertaining, meanwhile you’re free to join us on the pod as we annotate, celebrate and possibly over-exaggerate the often-balletic Bolton.
We had to pony up a bit more cheese than we had hoped, but Shai isn’t the only one smiling now. Time to Restump Podcast the momentous occasion of the second coming of Bolton.
It’s been too long between Bolton drinks at Freo. While he may have only managed two games for the purple in 1999, we can’t undervalue the work Shai’s Dad, Darren, did for Fremantle off the field in 1998!
We’ve struggled to land a true top line forward from many attempts over our thirty-year history, so this is a pretty pivotal moment for the club. It feels like we’ve taken a substantial step towards the promised land, and without playing a game.
It really is starting to feel like we’re getting our ducks, or rather docks, in a row. Obviously one player doesn’t deliver you success, but at this particular time and in this particular team, Shai Bolton does seem a serious piece of the purple premiership puzzle.
There has been the odd speed bump along the way, but the build has been rather methodical. The draft work has been impressive and, despite the abuse the club has copped at times from fans and media, the list management has been superb.
There comes a time when you must pull the trigger, move the chips to middle of the table and go all in. With the window starting to open, landing the versatile Bolton, fulfilling a desperate area of need and, dare we say, putting the finishing touches on the long-term build, is our superbly timed pulling of the trigger.
We all know there are no guarantees, there are only efforts. But we’ve done the hard yards, Lord knows we’ve done the hard yards, so it is time to release the Kraken, take a genuine run at it, hope for a bit of luck and maybe, just maybe, in the near future, we’ll finally get to experience the ultimate success.
We all have our thoughts and opinions on Shai Bolton himself and what we coughed up to get him. It now matters not, because the deal is done, and you’re kidding yourself if you’re not at least even secretly excited about his arrival.
We can agree, we can disagree and we can agree to disagree, but don’t bite off your nose to spite your face if you’re holding a negative position. Don’t do yourself a disservice and be that guy! We’re potentially entering unchartered waters, you only get to win a first premiership once, you want to live it, you want to be immersed in it, so you want to get on board the Bolton Bandwagon and enjoy every enthralling moment.
While not nearly as exciting or entertaining, meanwhile you’re free to join us on the pod as we annotate, celebrate and possibly over-exaggerate the often-balletic Bolton.
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Tell Em They're Dreaming
In terms of trades over the first five days of trade period... how’s the serenity? But we’re about to get to the nuts and Boltons of it. Time to Restump Podcast the purple appraisals, possibilities and prognostications.
While there has been little movement at the station, it is difficult to believe Shai Bolton won’t be lining up in purple in 2025. The very good, potentially over the odds, offer of pick 10 and 18 will suffice once the theatrical Mexican standoff subsides.
Are two first rounders overs or tote odds? The overwhelming consensus, which Jojo is a part of, is “pay it and get the deal done.” But some of us, on some level the Chief, tend to lean towards a more play hardball, conservative number.
Yes, we’re at the pointy end of the build of which a Shai Bolton adds a shedload of upgrade. There isn’t a Freo fan in their right mind that can’t wait to get him in.
But, from a different perspective, possibly a greedy one, I’m more a roll the dice on Bolton and hope he lands for less, go to the draft with one top end pick and trade the third into 2025 ensuring we’re in an un-out-biddable position for Chad Warner next year.
All we’ve heard all year and particularly post-season from fans and media is, “we’ve got more than enough talent to on the list to be challenging now”. While I agree in part, I think they were a year or two short on the now. Can you have it both ways? If you think we have we got enough talent on the list, but then say throw the two first rounders at Bolton, does your Bolton request cancel out your former claim?
Personally, given we were probably a Josh Treacy and or Alex Pearce injury away from the top, or near the top four, I’d be willing to risk losing Bolton in favour of going to the draft with one high end pick this year and securing Warner next year. I’m a pick 10 and pick 30, take it or leave it Tiges! But that is just me.
Then again what is too much? If Shai Bolton came in and we secured our maiden premiership in 2025, we’ve stolen him! If we have a similar season, make the finals, win one and get knocked out... how will we view it? It’s a gamble now that only hindsight will eventually tell us the answer.
However, having a belief we’re potentially paying overs, not necessarily for the player, but for what it may restrict us doing elsewhere, and being super excited to get that same player in, can co-exist.
Do we entertain taking on a Baker? And how much dough is that going to cost us? I’d suggest Baker is more your bread-and-butter type player that doesn’t add anywhere near enough of an upgrade for what it would cost to bring him in. To be honest, if Freo brought him in it would go against the grain and I doubt they’ll contemplate it. However, as West Coast, albeit momentarily, but ironically baked their deal, Baker suddenly became available so, we thought we butter talk about it. It’s the yeast we could do! Ok enough of that nonsense... wind it up, it’s almost past our bread time!
All beliefs and opinions aren’t wrong until they are, so we stake our claims, we share our sentiments and live in hope until our nonsense is inevitably disproven and it all comes crashing down.
So, if only because too much purple prattle is never enough, while we wait for the imminent Bolton trade to formerly drop, feel free to join us on the podcast for the deep, often off the rails, Docker discussion.
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Buy Sell Hold 2024 - Part 1
As the dust begins to settle on the purple player peddling period and the list starts to take shape, it’s time for the annual bank balance breaking, farm losing, homelessness generating Restump Podcast Buy, Sell, Hold investment strategy report.
Some say the annual Buy Sell Hold Restump Podcast report has become a much-anticipated piece of forward financial planning market analysis, not unlike Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway. Thankfully at the Restump we don’t value accountability whatsoever, so we don’t have to prove beyond fictional hearsay that some people said anything of a sort.
To be brutally honest, if you’re not into consistently averaging down and if you’re not willing to be a patient bottom drawer investor, its debatable if this report is for you. As we always say at the Restump, there are many ways to the poor house, but our Buy Hold Sell report is probably the quickest route.
This year we’re splitting the report into two jumper number parts, part one The Odd Bods and part two The Even Stevens.
It is a loosely researched report in which we place an investment recommendation on individuals. We ponder questions such as, has Sammy Sturt’s persistence paid dividends and what value do we place on his potential upside? In what will surely be his final year, Fyfe is a difficult buy. But does he pull one out of the bag and create one final big value retrieving trade? Is Jimmy Aish at the financial report career crossroads, are buyers and holders going to get opportunity to grow Will Brodie stock and could Oscar McDonald be the bargain buy of the year?
So many scenarios, so many unnecessary opinions, so many needless questions and so few right answers. But it is all fun and games until the administrators are appointed, your liabilities are sold like the tradeable commodity they are and the baseball bat wielding debt collectors knock at your door.
At the end of the day, it’s only money and you can’t take it with you when you leave this spinning space rock. So, join us as we throw around a bunch of Arthur Ash in a feeble attempt to compile something with some semblance of a capital growth and income generating Freo financial future fund.
Truth be known its probably just an excuse to talk Fremantle Dockers.
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