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StatsCloud: Fremantle v Brisbane

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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Rate The Players: Fremantle v Brisbane

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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Brisbane Make Futile Changes

It’s safe to go back to the South West again with the Fremantle players heading back to work this weekend to take on the Brisbane Lions at Subiaco Oval. The post-bye match is always a very exciting time of the season when all the players who’ve been lingering on the injury list return to action and give the team a big boost. So it was with much fanfare that the team was announced this week and Alex Silvagni was announced as In while Cam Sutcliffe was announced Out. Brisbane took their post-bye selection a bit more seriously, making 7 changes. Each of them is less significant than the last but at least they made the effort.Leuenberger, Rockliff, Lisle, Rich, Golby, McKeever and Mayes will be donning the once proud Brisbane jumper with Moloney , Polkinghorne, Karnezis, Longer ,Crisp, .Michael, Paparone getting a reprieve from the weekly pantsings.

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You Be Ross: Fremantle v Brisbane

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!"