Geelong may not have a Premiership hangover but most of them will be waking up with a nasty headache after Fremantle threw away the crutches and started dishing out the pain and winning by a cool 4 points in the process. A five goal blitz from Freo started the game, leaving Chris Scott wondering if he'd made the right decision leaving Fremantle for the Cats last year, but Ross Lyon didn't like the inefficiency of being that far in front and made some key moves to keep the game close. A tight, brutal fight to the final siren was what followed, including a vicious, unprovoked attack on Little Hayden Ballantyne. Michael Barlow was subbed on in the second half to kick a match winning goal, while Nat Fyfe and Stephen Hill went freaky awesomeness for freaky awesomeness in what is sure to become the hottest contest of the season as the actual games become quite one sided wins for the Dockers. 

When Fremantle bought themselves a new coach last year, they knew they were getting a dedicated tactician, keen thinker of the game and a man who's emotional range varies between disinterest and aloofness. What they didn't realise was that they were getting a man so versatile, if you twist him just the right way you can use him to put a hole in your belt. Ross Lyon - The Swiss Army Knife of coaches. 

During the week he lost an assistant coach "No worries" said Ross "I can cover for him". The next day, Nat Fyfe's iPod stopped working. "Give us a look" said Ross. A few minutes later he'd opened it up, fiddled about and handed it back as good as new - and with the complete back catalogue of Leonard Cohen installed. The morning of the game, the team bus driver was telling him that he was going to have to miss his cousin's wedding to drive the team "You go and have a good time" said Ross. “I'll hve  crack at driving the bus". Ten minutes into his first game as coach he was being offered the job as Mayor of Fremantle, with promotion opportunities. They completely blitzed the Cats. ....read more