Pretty Boy Pavlich Swans Back In
Now that Fremantle are assured of a spot in the finals, Matthew Pavlich has decided to come swanning back into the team. Pavlich came down with a sever case of the fast bowler’s limp last week and was hobbling about the place trying to avoid being around when his team missed out on the September action but nothing cures a front runner like Pavlich like a 53 point win over your immediate rivals. Miraculously he’d recovered this week and will take back the highly skilled position of pre-match coin tosser from Luke McPharlin. Matt deBoer is having a week off, deciding it was time he got the doctor to glue his ankle back on. Zac Clarke is out as quickly as he came back in and, after a series of knocks to the head, Kepler Bradley has got a Flowers for Algernon thing going on which has freaked everyone out. Jon Griffin is coming back into the side to fill in the empty ruckman job and Tom Sheridan will get a run, presumably because the game is against Melbourne.
Ross Lyon is new to town, he doesn't know his way around and he's already lost on of his coaching staff; there's never been a better time to shout stuff out to him at the ground and give him some pointers on how to get this coaching caper done. But before you do your duty as a member and hurl advice in the direction of professional coaching staff, make sure you know what you're talking about or they might just right you off as a nutjob and miss out on some choice advice. Work the board, move the magnets around and when you think you've got it sussed, start practising yelling "Hey Ross! Ross! Put Sandilands in the goal square for a rest!"
Numbers...you can't trust them. The Romans knew what numbers were up to and wouldn't have a bar of them. You can put your faith in a nice sturdy X but a 10, it's shifty. The only thing more iffy than a number is a statistic, they'll cut you open and rob you of your kidneys before you can say "aren't you supposed to drug me and put in a bath of ice first?". Unfortunately we're hooked on numbers though, we need them to work out how many kicks David Mundy had this week...and probably some other stuff too. The Dockerland Labs spent the summer pondering the problem and eventually, when the cricket was over, the fridge was empty and the clicker broke in everyone's pen, they came up with a solution - the stats cloud. A quick glance and you'll pretty much know everything about a game of football that there was to know, at least all the boring bits about it. The bigger the player's name, the more kicks, or marks, or tackles he had compared to his teammates. 
Fremantle arrived in Melbourne to prepare for the game of their lives. This was it. The entire season, for many their entire careers, hinged on beating North Melbourne and securing a spot in the finals. From the President to the boot studder and all the way down to Zac Dawson, everyone’s future hung in the balance. To lose was sure to see Fremantle miss the eight after early promises of home finals and grand final parades...in other words, utter humiliation. To win could mean a soft finals run with a home game against the mugs up the road and a firming for the flag. It was the single most important game in the history of the Fremantle Football Club and the pressure was building like button on Michael Walters’ girdle. 
Hopefully the rest of the competition was wearing brown underpants because Fremantle have demolished the once fancied Kangaroos to declare their intentions for the flag - those intentions are to win the bloody thing. Freo took the lead early and held it for most of the day before a late challenge got them angry and they set about not just beating but humiliating and demoralising the North Melbourne Football Club to the tune of 53 points. At the centre of their destruction was a 9 goal last quarter from the Dockers that rocketed them up the ladder and locked them into the finals - the only question now being which team will make the best stepping stone to a grand final. It was a display of football not seen at Fremantle since the heady days of 2010, with Sandilands spoon feeding Barlow and Mundy while a host of players queued up to kick goals. Making the win all the more impressive was that it was achieved without the reasonably handy Pavlich fella up forward. Many are now suggesting Pavlich is a drag on the ticket and will have to force his way back into the team through the WAFL. 
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To save people forking over their hard earned money to the AFL in exchange for a magazine that gets bigger every week, making it harder to get to the only part you actually want - the names of the players, we've introduced the Dockerland Budget.
The the fate of the world resting on the game, Fremantle haven’t set the scene for any silly buggers at the selection table this week, naming a somewhat unchanged lineup after their competent performance against the Tigers last week. The steady Fremantle ship should see Matthew Pavlich and Ryan Crowley sucking it up and playing through a bit of pain while the Kangaroos showed the first sign of weakness by being too gutless to name Daniel Wells. As the game is on a Sunday, the usual suspects are onto the Fremantle bench with Cam Sutcliffe, Dylan Roberton and Zac Clarke getting their names in the paper. 
It was a bold and confrontational statement from Richmond. An exhaustive search, a journey if you will, through the works of history's great thinkers and most passionate philosophers. A mission through time itself to find the answers to mankind's greatest questions. Then, one day, Jack Reiwoldt was hit with an epiphany (and for once he didn't go down grabbing his head). It was so simple - you only live once. His team mates loved the simple elegance of it, so they declared it to the world.