Boy, did Gold Coast miss David Swallow on Sunday afternoon. Can you hear my sly sardonic laugh? Ha, ha, ha. There it is again. Bloody David Swallow, I still struggle to make sense of the catastrophic last moments of the 2025 Elimination Final that Freo had all but won, before they … suddenly didn’t. No matter. That was then and this was now, and how times have changed. Admittedly, Damien Harwick’s side was missing ten players from last year’s encounter, but frankly, so careless was his list management, even more would go missing on this wintry afternoon at Optus. Fremantle opened brightly.  None more so than Michael Frederick, either dancing across the turf to…