In a night where even the moon seemed to be enjoying itself, Fremantle have stormed home with a thrilling come from behind victory over a gallant, but ultimately sad and pathetic, Carlton. The Dockers started the night keen to win back the love of their supporters after the St Kilda debacle (technically, from a historical perspective that should be ‘the St Kilda debacle [vi]’), refusing to even change jumpers since their loss against the Saints until they had proved themselves. It was a tidy start, although they were still a bit loose down back (which is never a good look when you’re wearing white pants) but Fremantle looked like their old selves again. As you’d expect from Ross Lyon, hey didn’t feel the need to blow Carlton away and seemed intent on accumulating a good lead...that is until they stopped accumulating lead and went for the unusual tactic of standing around scratching their arses - known in football circles as doing a Matthew Carr. Things started to get very shaky towards the end of the third quarter as Freo fell - what’s known in football circles as - behind and the crowd started to turn. They fought back though, took the lead, lost the lead and then Lachie Neale took a shot on goals in the final seconds of the game from what he’s now describing as 89 metres out into a stiff breeze. The goal was a beauty and Fremantle won by 5 points.
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It’s late Thursday afternoon Football in nearly August, which traditionally means that the finals are in view and it’s time to bring out the big guns. So, after naffing about in St Kilda a couple of weeks ago, going on a bit of a holiday for four days and then getting a good dressing down from the coach, Fremantle look ready to hit back and force their way to the top of the ladder using the skulls of Carlton blokes. Hayden Ballantyne, Aaron Sandilands, Garrick Ibbotson and Stephen Hill are the designated cavalry, with Luke McPharlin expected to actually play this week. Anthony Morabito has been heave hoed along with Griffin, Sylvia and Taberner with the club so angry with their performance last week that they couldn’t even bring themselves to make up calf injuries for the four.