After The Game With Snaps Truly - Rd 13 2026 V North Melbourne

How do you pronounce Switkowski?

The City of Bunbury, now apparently the Shinboners’ favourite home away from home and when you think about it, they’re probably a perfect match.

Less a preferred destination these days, than something to be negotiated, driven around at speed, and bypassed on the road to somewhere much nicer.

Freo as we know is on that road.

I don’t want to be unkind, but many people outside the Golden West may only know of Bunbury from the time it made national headlines about a decade ago as the methamphetamine capital of WA.

And today, Junior Truly said she couldn’t help thinking there might still be some weird waste water vibes tingling in the septics.

She might have been onto something as North spent most of the game toothless and twitchy and muttering incoherently about how they were once Jack Darling and Luke Parker and could someone please spare five bucks so they could get the bus back to Arden Street.

They were to concede 19 goals in a row today.

Let’s turn that around to give Freo the credit they deserve.

Freo kicked 19 goals in a row today – nearly a dozen of which came from clearances, such was their ‘walk away from the middle’ dominance.

It was magnificent.

To be fair to Bunno, the city turned on a spectacular show. It was a beautiful blue-sky day and Hands Oval, full to overflowing, looked an absolute treat in the wintry sunshine.

Freo got on the board quickly – driving effortlessly through the corridor in a dangerous sign of things to come – as Freddy grabbed the mark and made no mistake.

A mad defensive blunder from North – in another dangerous sign of things to come – handed the ball over to Switta – or as the commentators still like to call him Swistkowski or Sikorsky or sometimes even Cheese Kransky – and he dashed through fifty and banged home a second.

Sam Switkowski – for that is his real name – would kick three goals for the afternoon in another splendid performance.

Then North burst into life with frenetic manic energy that lasted for several minutes.

A nice piece of transitional footy saw Trembath soccer their first and a free kick to Captain Kangaroo gave quite a few blue and white fans something to cheer about. North in front by a point.

They would hold that lead for nearly four minutes, quickly relinquish it but manage back-to-back goals early in the second to trail by just six points.

Inexplicably, they then chose to return to their sleeping bags in a nearby underpass and resume their main task of the afternoon, growling like pirates at nobody in particular.

Freo then kicked 8 goals in 19 minutes, and Patrick Voss was everywhere. I won’t give you a blow by blow – but it will be worth watching the replay to just sit back and enjoy the biggest winning margin in the club’s history.

A 124-point spanking.

And yes, that may still require you to sit through the commentary of Dwayne Russell, who I know means no harm, but does have a habit of drowning audiences with high pressure hose hyperbole.

Take it from me though, it was an absolute procession from midway through the second quarter. A quarter in which Freo kicked nine goals.

They kicked another five in the third.

And another seven to finish.

North Melbourne, perhaps now regretting having sold a real home game to allow Freo to effectively host one of their own – managed just three points after half time.

Who was brilliant? Everyone.

Let’s start with the Three Pillars. Voss and Treacy each kicked four and Amiss two. Each week they combine to kick match winning scores and beyond that, do a power of hard work.

Their desire to share the reward is to their great collective credit and it was pleasing to hear The Prancing Pony acknowledge after the match he was now trying to ‘tone down the chirp’ and just concentrate on crushing opposition bones into powder. He didn’t say the last bit, I did.

Luke Jackson’s mum could have given Freo first use of the footy today, but she stayed at home and let her son completely dominate. Probably best on the ground thanks to three goals as well. If you were a Freo midfielder and you didn’t get a kick, you couldn’t have been trying very hard.

But they all got kicks and the engine room fairly hummed all day.

Freo had not only coasted to their biggest win ever, they made it twelve in a row and with a hefty percentage boost.

Afterwards, a delighted Dogga declared how much the boy’s love an away game.

Cheeky bugger.

Yours Truly,

Snaps Truly

*By our multi-talented and amazingly insightful footy scribe, SNAPS TRULY. Snaps has seen and done it all. He may or may not have been a fringe player at Fremantle. Don’t miss Snaps’ report after each Freo Dockers match here on the Shipping News throughout the 2026 season.

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