Fremantle barely bothered to break out of a trot against Melbourne and yet they still managed to kick their highest score for the season and win by a comfortable 34 points. It was a slow start from Fremantle, they conceded the opening three goals of the game and let 6 through for the first quarter while Ross Lyon played around with the concept of having no backline for a little while. They steadied themselves after that and set a consistent pace for the rest of the game that an injured and generally sucky Melbourne side couldn’t keep pace with. Freo finally hit the front in the last quarter and then piled on the easy goals to put themselves just out of the 8, on percentage.

Week one of Fremantle's bye month hadn't gone as well as hoped. The scenario was pretty straight forward. Four dud teams lined up back to back for Fremantle to smash, driving their way up the ladder with percentage boosting wins. The first leg, against the Bulldogs, has been more of a routine consolidating win by a team at the top of the ladder, bored that the finals were still weeks away; but week two, against Melbourne, was sure to be Freo's best chance to hand out a humiliating smashing of a once proud club. 

Melbourne's injury list was longer than their membership list, which is still not that long but they were missing a handy player or two, they were down on confidence, down on form and their record at Etihad Stadium was even worse than Fremantle's. They were fish, Etihad was a barrel and Fremantle were the shotgun. ...Read More