As a Fremantle fan, the season thus far has been humiliating.
In the past, in any of our myriad under-performing seasons, there’s always been a glimmer of hope — or a comical sub plot — to distract we loyal and success starved fans from utter despair. But there’s been very little thrown our way in 2009.
Where once we had Clive, or Winston, or the Prince of Pockets, or Kickett vs. Read or Sirengate or the drafting of Pavlich and Hasleby and Palmer to hang our season’s hat to; in 2009 we’ve been lucky enough to have Cousins and Richmond and Chickengate to distract the spotlight being firmly fixed on an unusually characterless Fremantle outfit.
Until today.
It’s been reported that Fremantle players have been playing dress-ups. Unusual for grown men for sure but the problem is that as Freo’s list development manage Steve Malaxos revealed, in a brain lapse reminiscent of the players he looks after, that the Freo boys like to dress up like … well … the Klu Klux Klan.
So Freo are win-less, anchored to the bottom of the AFL ladder and like to swan around as Klansmen. I’m glad to hear all is well down at South Terrace.
Not a match report in the Sunday Herald Sun
Hopefully this is all a gross misunderstanding and Malaxos, a champion footballer in the 80s and hopefully horribly out of touch with today’s pop culture, meant that Freo players like to dress up as American hip hop band Wu-Tang Clan — which is still strange but much less offensive.
The Wu-Tang Clan...
If Freo are going to dress up — they should dress up as Gary Ablett Jr. Some of it might rub off on them.
