Dockers Fold in Port Strike | Print |
Written by Shane Richmond   

An undermanned Femantle came a cropper after a third quarter blitz by Port Adelaide saw their comfortable lead turned into a train wreck. The Dockers got off to a blinder, running rings around Port but dropped off the pace after that, losing the lead in the third quarter when Port put on 10 goals in one of the luckiest kicking exhibitions ever seen. Fremantle didn't have anything left in the tank to fight back and went down by 3 goals.

 

Scores
Fremantle
8.1
10.4
14.5
16.9
105
Pt Adelaide
3.4
6.6
16.7
19.7
121

 

Goals
Fremantle
  M.Pavlich 5
D.Solomon 2
C.Tarrant 2
P.Duffield 2
J.Carr 1
A.Sandilands 1
R.Hayden 1
P.Hasleby 1
R.Crowley 1
   
   
     
Port Adelaide
  D.Motlop 3
D.Rodan 3
D.Ebert 3
D.White 3
B.Lade 2
J.Surjan 1
D.Pearce 1
N.Krakouer 1
A.Cockshell 1
M.Pettigrew 1
 
 
   



Clinto Wolf Medal Votes
Matthew Pavlich 3
Des Headland 2
Aaron Sandilands 1



Back in October when the AFL commission were sipping their cognac while drawing the 2007 fixtures out of Andrew Demetriou’s top hat, Port Adelaide were drawn to play in Perth in the opening round. Andrew put his monocle on so he could look up where Port Adelaide was in his Atlas, realised it wasn’t it Melbourne and decided it’d be a bit of a lark to abandon the policy of playing night games in WA for the first month of the season, and put them on in the middle of the afternoon.

And that’s how Fremantle supporters were treated a taste of the Caribbean as the Port Adelaide players, dressed teal blue, ran out to their calypso inspired theme song on a thirty degree autumn afternoon. ....more

 



 
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