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Barlow Suits Up Ball magnet and former VLF pin up boy, Maichael Barlow has won the month long battle for the love of his coach (aka the NAB Cup) and, like Augustus Gloop, has scored the first Purple Ticket (hidden inside of a subway) to earn a spot along side Matthew Pavlich, Aaron Sandilands and Ryan Murphy on the senior list.  After a stunning debut against Melbourne,  Mark Harvey has been scratching his head all summer long (and not just because that new hair cut is itchy) trying to work out how Barlow could have operated under the noses of so many Victorian clubs for so long without any of them even giving him a second glance.
Pre-Season Done and Dusted Exhausted from a huge pre-season travel schedule, Fremantle decided to see out the summer with a quiet one against former premiership side, Geelong at Fremantle Oval on Saturday. Freo looked set for a big, flag odds shortening win after confusing the match for a training run in the first half and the Cats players for very subdued witch's hats. Unfortunately Geelong reanimated themselves at half time and pulled out their A game in the second half causing the Dockers to pull up 5 goals in front of a large crowd of locals.
Queen Gary To Dock to Freo Fremantle will take to the field for the last time this year without any particular purpose, with the pre-season finally coming to an end through a scratch match against Geelong. Both sides will load up for the match, although with the sun expected to be working hard on Saturday most of them are expected to be lining up at the ice cream van. Des Headland and Chris Mayne should give Fremantle a forward line this week with McPharlin and Sandilands wandering down for a run. Geelong are brining Gary Ablett over but only to get him as far away from Guy McKeena as possible.
 

Last Game - Next Game

Last Match

Fremantle 10.5 (65)
Geelong 14.12 (96)
Goals
Bollenhagen 2
van Berlo 1
Sandilands 1
Best
Roger Hayden
Justin Bollenhagen
Nic Suban

 

Next Match

NAB-round3

Ladder

The Ladder

  1 St. Kilda 80   9 Hawthorn 36
  2 Geelong 72   10 Port Adelaide 36
  3 Western Bulldogs 60   11 West Coast 32
  4 Collingwood 60   12 Sydney 32
  5 Adelaide 56   13 North Melbourne 30
  6 Brisbane 54   14 Fremantle 24
  7 Carlton 52   15 Richmond 22
  8 Essendon 42   16 Melbourne 16

Injuries

       
Tim Ruffles
knee ACL
Return: Indefinite
Rhys Palmer
knee ACL
Return: Rnd 1
Dean Solomon
knee injury
Return: Retired
       

Statistics

Disposals

Paul Hasleby 533
Paul Duffield 474
Matthew Pavlich 413
David Mundy 411
Garrick Ibbotson 406

Marks

Antoni Grover 117
Garrick Ibbotson 110
David Mundy 110
Luke McPharlin 102
Paul Duffield 98

Goals

Matthew Pavlich 28
Luke McPharlin 20
David Mundy 15
Brett Peake 14
Des Headland 13

Tackles

Dean Solomon 87
Byron Schammer 79
Paul Duffield 76
Matthew Pavlich 72
David Mundy 69

Radio

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