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Statscloud: Fremantle v Sydney
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. We're In The Bloody Grand Final!
We’ve been hoodwinked! All this time everyone’s been telling us that Grand Finals are hard to get into but Fremantle have just waltzed into one against Hawthorn, barely raising a sweat to roll the Swans after putting on a clinic in Geelong a couple of weeks before that, with a weekend off in the middle. It turns out it’s harder getting into Sandrino.
The Dockers showed a few nerves early in the game, not so much because they were playing for a spot in the Grand Final but it was quite windy and there are a lot of sharp metal things poorly attached to Subiaco Oval, the result was that Sydney still had hope at quarter time. That didn’t last long. Fremantle had put a fork in the Swans’ season by halftime and locked up a spot in the Grand Final.
Next week they’ll head over to Melbourne for the last game of the season. Apparently the locals like to make a bit of an event of the thing but Fremantle will just fly in, take the bloody cup off them and fly out again.
Rate The Players: Fremantle v Sydney
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.
Dockerland Budget: Fremantle v Sydney
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.