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You Be Ross: Fremantle v Hawthorn

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!"

StatsClouds: Geelong v Fremantle

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. 

Geelong Survive Another Humiliating Defeat

‘Cruel’ is the only way to describe Fremantle’s 2 point loss to Geelong. Fremantle spent the night trying their best to play football against a Geelong side who seemed like they’d been given a note from the umpiring department that free kicks would be payed on request. It was an abomination to the sport but the Dockers won over the football world with their courage and determination to continue playing the football against the tide of Geelong ducking, fainting and mini bouts of epilepsy. They held with Geelong, falling behind a couple of goals at half time and letting that drift out to four in the third quarter but, in a stroke of luck, the umpires put their whistles away in the last quarter and Fremantle were given a fighting chance. And fight they did. Ballantyne and Barlow kicked on early to bring Freo back into the game then youngsters Crozier and Duffy brought Fremantle within the brink of a remarkable victory. As Fremantle pushed home hard in the dying seconds, a sprightly David Mundy flung himself at the football to take a screamer with just 4 seconds to spare and 3 points to make up. As he kicked it, a train drove past the ground, blocking the breeze he’d been counting on and the ball skimmed past the outside of the point to leave Fremantle 2 points shy of folk song inspiring win.

geelong 4.2 7.4 11.6 12.9 81

fremantle 1.4 5.5 7.6 11.13 79

geelong Goals

Bartel 3

Mackie 2

Hawkins 1

Duncan 1

Selwood 1

Motlop 1

Christensen 1

Caddy 1

fremantle Goals

Crozier 3

Fyfe 2

Duffy 2

Sutcliffe 1

Hill 1

Ballantyne 1

Barlow 1

Clinton Wolf Medal Votes

Nathan Fyfe 3Michael Barlow 2Hayden Crozier 1

InjuriesMcPharlin (busted leg), Ballantyne (busted leg), Fyfe (busted arm)

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Rate The Players: Geelong v Fremantle

Have your say on how the Dockers players performed on the weekend by rating each player from zero to five or just pop in and have a look what everyone else had to say about the team.

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