Freo is my second club.
They actually have a great track record in doing the right thing.
When the AFL killed off Fitzroy, they scheduled Fitzroy’s last game in Perth. So the AwFL deliberately gave a big “Fark you” to all the long suffering Fitzroy supporters who could not see their club’s last game.
Fremantle — AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE — put on a very emotional closing ceremony to see out one of the longest serving VFL clubs.
Then when the AwFL was making us the scapegoat for the PED and illegal drug taking of Hawthorn, Geelong, WCE, Collingwood etc, they mobilised all the other clubs to threaten us with disqualification from the league. Gordon of Footscray was a prime mover to get every club to support this. Fremantle was the only club that didn’t toe the party line.
The AwFL responded by a) making sure the maggots “give us the results we need” and Footscray won their grand final; and b) moving Freo’s finals game against Geelong to Geelong. (Is that still the only final played in Geelong over the last 60 years?)
So Freo should be any Essendon supporter’s second team.