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The last time Fremantle headed to the east coast to play in a final, Heath Black had them driving around the streets of Sydney looking for the Adelaide Oval. Things didn’t go well from that point. Flash forward four years and FREO Speedwagon was once again full to capacity and this time headed for Melbourne. Heath Black doesn’t have a license nowadays so when the team loaded up in the speedwagon, they headed straight for the MCG with no detours.
Most of them hadn’t seen the MCG for a long time, some never at all so it was quite the early success but, once again, things didn’t go well from that point. |
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Gallant though their season was, 2010 is over for Fremantle as they ended the season in something akin to a low budget sequel to Weekend at Bernie's. Their one legged ruckman was leaning so far to the right, Tony Abbot offered him a spot in the Shadow Cabinet, their injury prone full forward injured himself in the opening minute and the young, vibrant bodies that had thrilled everyone a week earlier looked like they wanted nothing more than an Epsom salts bath and a gramophone to play their Harry Secombe records. Geelong took a very early lead, kicking 8 goals to 1 in the opening quarter and the game was all but done. Freo lifted their game after the shaky start but the best they could do was to break even, before Geelong broke them in the last quarter, winning by 69 points and making Fremantle's chances for the premiership this year very slim (you never know - they could all die in a bus accident before the results are lodged).
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It's finals time, Mark Harvey is going to be nervous, it's his first time. We've all had 22 rounds to watch and learn the intricacies of the playing list so he's going to be relying on the supporters in the crowd to give him advice, yell things out to him and generally help him through a stressful time by telling him how to do his job. So make sure you arrive at the game prepared and when you see Mark Harvey walking by, yell out your best ideas at the top of your voice to help him along.
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As expected, Matthew Pavlich has re-signed with Fremantle for another 4 years, making it one of the last few contracts he's likely to sign with Fremantle...as a player. The deal should see Pavlich through to Fremantle's fourth flag as captain and Coleman medal winning centre half forward, at which point he is expected to semi retire and play out his last eight years as a fifty goal a year forward pocket before coaching the club for a period in the mid to late 20's (then again in the 30's, after the league shuts down for the war) .
There has been some speculation that Pavlich would go to the Gold Coast, to Carlton, to Hawthorn, to Collingwood and also that he would make the transition to Rugby in the winter and NFL kicker in the summer, with a short stint on the professional tennis circuit in the off season overlap but the reality is that he's never allowed to leave Fremantle, with provisions being made for him to be buried in Bon Scott's grave (who will be relocated up the back somewhere). Any delays in Pav signing a contract have been put down to a computing error at NASA, who he has on a retainer to do his taxes.
Barring injury, Pavlich will equal the record for the most games played on Grand Final day. |
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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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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.
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They've been described as one of the great sides of the past era and Geelong have shown just how worried they are that that is quickly become a reality, gambling at the section table with injured and inexperienced players over healthy, finals stalwarts by dropping Andrew Mackie and Mark Blake for James Podsiadly and Tom Lonergan. Fremantle on the other hand have stuck with a tried and true finals formula, taking the same team that annihilated Hawthorn last week over to Melbourne where they are being tipping to cause a similar upset and bring to an end the short lived glory days of the Geelong Football Club.
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Geelong never play two games in a row...would you believe three bad games in a row? How about bad 4 games and a round of Hungry Hungry Hippos? Leaving August, there was a strong belief that Geelong were tapering towards the end of the season to get themselves up for a steamrolling finals campaign. St Kilda set everyone straight on the weekend and now the general consensus is that Geelong are a crumbling empire, just waiting for some upstart from across the lands to ride in, cut them down and claim all that was once theirs. In this case, however, the upstarts already cut them down in Round 3 and are merely heading over to finish the job.
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