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You Be Ross: Fremantle v Port Adelaide

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!"

Stats Clouds: Brisbane 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. 

Fyfe and Barlow not missed as Fremantle Smashes Lions

Fremantle have concluded the Away section of the Home & Away season with a routine demolition job on the hapless Brisbane Lions. Even without Nat “Fisticuffs” Fyfe and Mick “Brittle Bones” Barlow, Fremantle’s midfield barely broke into a sweat as they carved up the Gabba to allow the locals to watch Hayden Ballantyne and Michael Walters play a game of Duelling Small Forwards, attempting to out do each other every time the footy headed into the Dockers’ forward line. Matthew Pavlich got out of the way, withdrawing at the last minute due to a “quad” injury (obviously the run of late calf injuries was starting to look suspicious). Fremantle had the game sewn up by the 20 minute mark but fulfilled their contractual obligations to finish off all four quarters, winning by 58 points in what was an inconsequential game in the scheme of the season. Fremantle now have a simple equation in front of them - win next week and they finish in the top 4. Lose and they don’t.

brisbane 0.4 2.5 4.8 6.12 48

fremantle 4.8 9.10 10.13 15.16 106

brisbane Goals

Freeman 2

Green 1

McGrath 1

Adcock 1

Crisp 1

fremantle Goals

Walters 3

Ballantyne 3

Mundy 2

dexBoer 1

Mayne 1

Taberner 1

Clinton Wolf Medal Votes

Michael Walters 3Hayden Ballantyne 2Lachie Neale 1

InjuriesPavlich ("quad")

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Rate The Players: Brisbane 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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