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St Kilda Given Respect They Deserve

There’s probably someone, somewhere who cares what happens this week - presumably the leper clubs that are fighting like tasteless seagulls over Essendon’s spot in the finals - but for the rest of us this week is just a couple of other days to cross off in the countdown to the finals. Ross Lyon has done his best to feign interest in the game on Saturday by sending a team over, although, with the likes of Peter Faulks, Alex Silvagni, Jesse Crichton, Josh Mellington, Alex Forster, Hayden Crozier and Matt Taberne all coming into the same team, he’s going to have some headaches trying to figure out which bloke to play as the sub. Clancee Pearce, Aaron Sandilands and Garrick Ibbotson will also be back for a run but the outs read like a who’s who at Fremantle, and Zac Dawson. Dawson, along with Michael Johnson, David Mundy, Lee Spurr, Hayden Ballantyne, Zac Clarke, Nat Fyfe will be rested while Nik Suban, Stephen HIll and Michael Walters all put in the effort to pretend to be injured.

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You Be Ross: St Kilda 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!"

StasCloud: Fremantle v Port Adelaide

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. 

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Four More Wins and they give us a flag

Fremantle continued to march through the chump teams like the Germans, or anyone else really, through France as they head for September full of confidence and percentage. It was a quick death handed to Port Adelaide, mostly thanks to the benevolence of Freo’s small forwards who had them done by quarter time, with Port Adelaide’s only goal a freakish effort from the arse of Jake Neade. There was more of the same in the second quarter as Fremantle kicked goal after goal while the Power were forced to stand around and watch, ending the first half with just one goal but no pants. Fremantle didn’t let up for the second half, kicking another 11 goals, triggering a Mexican wave from the supporters and leaving Port Adelaide wondering if they should even bother showing up when the finals kick off in two weeks.

fremantle 5.4 10.4 15.7 21.8 134

port adelaide 1.1 1.3 4.4 9.6 60

fremantle Goals

H.Ballantyne 4

M.Pavlich 4

M.Walters 3

Z.Clarke 2

T.Sheridan 2

R.Crowley 1

M.Barlow 1

J.Hannath 1

L.Neale 1

M.Johnson 1

C.Sutcliffe 1

port adelaide Goals

J.Neade 1

C.Wingard 1

B.Ebert 1

J.Schulz 1

A.Monfries 1

K.Mitchell 1

A.Young 1

R.Gray 1

A.Moore 1

Clinton Wolf Medal Votes

Lachie Neale 3Hayden Ballantyne 2David Mundy 1

InjuriesSuban (hamstring), Port Adelaide (hope)

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