Fremantle's bye month has come to a close with the fourth leg, Port Adelaide, given the same treatment as the other useless clubs. Fremantle wrapped the game up at about the 20 minute mark of the first quarter before settling into cruising mode for the rest of the game, where they played a bit of kick to kick with the occasional attempt at goal. Occasionally some of those attempts went through. Nat Fyfe A-Ah was magnificent in his return from leprosy with very few of his limbs falling off again while David Mundy and Mick Barlow continued to slowly run themselves back into form, at least in the middle and back half of the ground. From here, Fremantle expect to use their extensive practice at beating crap football teams to have a win over the Eagles next week while Port Adelaide will roll up their tarpaulins and hope to survive another week without the de-registration letter arriving from AFL House.

It had been a big week in science. Scientists had discovered a way to take some cells from the heart of a rat and turn them into an artificial jellyfish.  It was a great testament to the ability of man to spend vast resources, huge amount of time and a great deal of dedication to achieve something completely pointless and probably a little bit wrong. Which brings us to Port Adelaide. 

The tarpaulins were out in force and a couple of supporters had rocked up too, as Fremantle arrived for the last week of their bye month where they set themselves the task of thumping, not the weakest of their bye month teams but certainly the most pointless of all clubs, The Port Adelaide Power. 

Adelaide had become somewhat of a home away from home for Fremantle in recent years, except with more mullets and less hard aar sounds. So a game there against one of the new franchise blow in teams was really just a question of maximising percentage. 

So it was no surprise when Fremantle starting kicking goals with very little effort. If any.  ....Read More