Alright, folks.
You should all know the drill by now.
There are 18 teams playing in nine games this weekend, and because nothing in this life is either perfect or complete, we here at Zero Hanger still believe each of these aforesaid combatants still come with a raft of question marks.
So, before the second month of the regular season draws to a close on Sunday evening, we have sought to answer each club's most pressing queries ahead of Round 8 of the AFL season.
Fremantle
Will they be free in September again?
Prior to last week, the purple haze emanating from Perth's port was thick enough to touch.
Following the cessation of their three-game winning streak after a near on ten goal thumping by their arch-rivals, West Coast, this aforesaid fog evaporated quicker than you could say ‘finals'.
FT / Eagles far too good.
⚓️ 11.7 (73) 🦅 20.12 (132)#foreverfreo #RACDerby pic.twitter.com/Jek56X5THh— Fremantle Dockers (@freodockers) May 2, 2021
As the Dockers currently reside outside of the top eight as we enter the final weekend of the season's second month, should we, and their perennially dissatisfied fan base, hold any hopes of them rescaling the ladder's rungs?
According to Stats Insider, if you are holding your breath, you should probably exhale before your capillaries burst, as they give the lumpers a worse than 40% chance of playing finals for the first time since 2015.
Compounding this mathematical dismissal is the fact the league's chief number crunchers, Champion Data, also believe the Dockers to be the owners of the second hardest fixture from this week onwards.
So, although their ship is still pointing in the right direction for the first time in years, it appears it would take one hell of a Fremantle Doctor to propel the Fremantle Dockers back to September this season, as their spinnaker is far from full at the minute.
