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Dockerland Budget: West Coast v Fremantle
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.
You Be Ross: West Coast v Fremantle
Ross Lyon has his sights set on the flag this year but he's the sort of bloke who loves to get feedback from the general public, good or bad. So if you really want to be a true supporter of the club, then make sure you 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!"
Jamie Bennell |
Darren Glass |
Eric Mackenzie |
Lachie Neale |
Zac Clarke |
Chris Mayne |
Will Schofield |
Mitchell Brown |
Elliot Yeo |
Hayden Ballantyne |
Matthew Pavlich |
Nat Fyfe |
Jamie Cripps |
Matt Priddis |
Matt Rosa |
David Mundy |
Ryan Crowley |
Paul Duffield |
Mark Hutchings |
Josh Kennedy |
Brad Sheppard |
Clancee Pearce |
Michael Johnson |
Danyle Pearce |
Luke Shuey |
Nic Naitanui |
Jack Darling |
Lee Spurr |
Luke McPharlin |
Zac Dawson |
Dean Cox |
Aaron Sandilands |
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Scott Selwood |
Tendai Mzungu |
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Chris Masten |
Stephen Hill |
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Sharrod Wellingham |
Simon Tunbridge |
Cameron Sutcliffe |
Sam Butler |
Shannon Hurn |
Alex Silvagni |
Jeremy McGovern |
Scott Lycett |
Nick Suban |
Andrew Gaff |
Michael Barlow |
Hayden Crozier |
Jack Hannath |
Tommy Sheridan |
Ballantyne and Barlow But No Morabito
Reports of Fremantle had man Anthony Morabito’s return to the AFL look to have been greatly exaggerated with the bruising Fremantle midfielder not named to play against the Eagles this weekend. Michael Barlow has had his name thrown onto the team show however, although they’ve snuck him onto the extended interchange bench to keep the other mob guessing and the Freo supporters from sending envelopes of white powder to club officials. Fremantle hard man Hayden Ballantyne will be back into the team after serving his week on the sidelines for, well, no has quite been able to explain what it was for yet, while Alex Silvagni and Jack Hannath have beengiven a seat next to Barlow on the bench. Matt de Boer has been given the chop, presumably because it was too much effort finding lowercase letters for his name on the jumper. The Eagles have technically made some changes too but at the end of the day, a witches hat is a witches hat.
StatsCloud: Fremantle v North Melbourne
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.Â