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Game Detail

Round: 20   Venue: Football Park   Date: Sat, 11-08-2012 1:40 pm   Attendance: 35,027
Adelaide 4.5.29 7.8.50 12.15.87 17.17.119 C:
Fremantle 3.3.21 7.4.46 10.5.65 14.7.91 C:
  AD by 8 AD by 4 AD by 22 AD by 28  
Brownlow Medal 3 Patrick Dangerfield (AD)2 Matthew Wright (AD)1 Daniel Talia (AD)

Match Report

A hard-fought win against Fremantle at AAMI Stadium has allowed Adelaide the consolidate a top-two place on the ladder. With three games against bottom-six teams to come, the win has all but ensured the Crows of a home final and a double chance. In a relatively high-scoring affair (particularly considering Fremantle coach Ross Lyon's focus on defence), the Crows' win was set up on the back of a magnificent shut-down performance on Matthew Pavlich by Daniel Talia. In just his second season, Talia has been a revelation at full-back for the Crows. To keep the Dockers' captain to just two goals was doubly impressive, given the red-hot recent form of Pavlich. Adelaide established an early lead by kicking three of the first four goals of the match. From that point, the two sides went goal-for-goal for much of the remainder of the game, enabling the Crows to maintain a barely comfortable buffer over Fremantle.

The loss left Fremantle out of the top eight on percentage but a favourable draw in their last three matches could yet see the Dockers sneak into the finals. For Adelaide, Patrick Dangerfield was again a star, while Matthew Wright (who, like Talia, is in just his second season) amassed a game-high 37 possessions for the Crows, to go with his two vital last-quarter goals. Matthew de Boer and David Mundy were amongst Fremantle's best, while Michael Walters kept the Dockers in touch in the second half with three goals.

GOALS
Adelaide: Walker 4; Dangerfield, Callinan, Wright 2; Douglas, Johncock, Mackay, Riley, Sloane, Thompson, Vince
Fremantle: Walters 3; Pavlich 2; Ballantyne, Barlow, Bradley, De Boer, Duffield, Hill, Mayne, Neale, Pearce

BEST - ADELAIDE.COM.AU
Adelaide: Dangerfield, Walker, Wright, Sloane, Talia, Johncock, Doughty
Dockers: De Boer, Duffield, Mundy, Barlow, Crowley, Ballantyne

BEST - AFL.COM.AU
Adelaide: Dangerfield, Wright, Talia, Walker, Johncock, Reilly
Fremantle: de Boer, Mundy, Barlow, Duffield, Pearce, Griffin

COACHES' COMMENTS
Brenton Sanderson (Adel): Our second half was probably as good as I've seen this year.

Ross Lyon (Frem): We couldn't maintain the rage over the ball and Dangerfield just tore the game open.

Umpires: McBurney, Margetts, Wenn

Match report by Andrew Gigacz

Player Stats

AdelaideMatch StatsCareer
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
37 Callinan, Ian 9 5 3 12 2 2 0 1 1 2 29y 235d 20 28
32 Dangerfield, Patrick 17 4 17 34 2 0 1 8 1 2 22y 128d 83 88
11 Doughty, Michael 10 5 7 17 0 0 0 4 0 1 33y 6d 225 46
26 Douglas, Richard 13 6 6 19 1 1 0 2 1 0 25y 187d 108 74
24 Jacobs, Sam 7 5 3 10 0 1 33 1 0 0 24y 123d 54 12
20 Jenkins, Josh 6 5 0 6 0 1 5 2 0 0 23y 185d 10 10
18 Johncock, Graham 10 5 4 14 1 2 0 2 1 2 29y 295d 219 109
8 Johnston, Lewis 6 5 1 7 0 0 0 1 1 2 21y 161d 3 1
14 MacKay, David 8 3 9 17 1 0 0 4 0 0 24y 17d 80 24
23 Petrenko, Jared 9 2 7 16 0 3 1 2 3 0 22y 233d 53 29
3 Reilly, Brent 10 4 3 13 0 0 0 2 2 2 28y 273d 175 49
43 Riley, Aidan 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 20y 242d 7 3
25 Rutten, Ben 4 5 8 12 0 0 1 4 0 1 29y 75d 188 8
34 Shaw, Sam 9 4 0 9 0 0 0 2 2 0 21y 128d 9 0
9 Sloane, Rory 13 3 4 17 1 0 1 2 1 1 22y 147d 52 35
33 Smith, Brodie 14 7 6 20 0 1 0 2 0 0 20y 210d 31 5
12 Talia, Daniel 6 2 2 8 0 0 0 4 2 0 20y 314d 28 0
5 Thompson, Scott 7 1 9 16 1 1 0 4 3 1 29y 150d 217 137
7 Van Berlo, Nathan 8 2 5 13 0 1 0 3 0 0 26y 66d 157 51
17 Vince, Bernie 10 3 11 21 1 0 0 2 2 0 26y 314d 103 65
13 Walker, Taylor 10 8 2 12 4 2 0 1 2 0 22y 108d 59 135
47 Wright, Matthew 22 6 15 37 2 0 0 3 1 0 22y 241d 35 31
Rushed           2              
Totals 209 91 123 332 17 17 42 56 23 14 24y 324d 1916 940
FremantleMatch StatsCareer
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
1 Ballantyne, Hayden 5 3 6 11 1 0 0 5 0 1 25y 26d 60 83
21 Barlow, Michael 11 7 10 21 1 0 0 6 0 1 24y 237d 41 27
26 Bradley, Kepler 3 1 3 6 1 0 9 0 1 1 26y 272d 109 79
15 Crowley, Ryan 7 3 0 7 0 0 0 4 0 2 28y 159d 134 97
3 Dawson, Zac 2 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 26y 171d 90 6
40 De Boer, Matthew 11 7 11 22 1 1 0 11 2 2 22y 154d 72 24
41 Duffield, Paul 17 8 3 20 1 0 0 4 1 0 27y 188d 106 23
12 Griffin, Jonathon 4 4 2 6 0 0 27 4 1 0 26y 210d 60 13
32 Hill, Stephen 4 2 7 11 1 1 0 3 0 1 22y 102d 84 52
5 Ibbotson, Garrick 7 2 3 10 0 0 0 2 1 2 24y 149d 97 19
37 Johnson, Michael 11 4 1 12 0 0 0 0 1 0 27y 296d 144 54
23 Mayne, Chris 2 2 4 6 1 0 0 1 0 1 23y 283d 76 93
9 McPhee, Adam 5 3 3 8 0 0 0 1 0 1 29y 310d 218 110
16 Mundy, David 13 3 7 20 0 0 1 3 1 1 27y 22d 159 61
13 Mzungu, Tendai 9 2 2 11 0 0 0 3 0 1 26y 165d 33 20
27 Neale, Lachie 3 1 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 19y 79d 11 4
29 Pavlich, Matthew 6 3 8 14 2 1 0 2 0 2 30y 224d 275 546
46 Pearce, Clancee 13 4 3 16 1 1 0 2 1 0 21y 293d 45 28
24 Roberton, Dylan 6 3 1 7 0 0 0 2 0 1 21y 51d 37 5
34 Spurr, Lee 11 10 4 15 0 0 1 2 2 1 25y 15d 8 0
8 Suban, Nick 8 1 2 10 0 0 0 3 2 2 22y 94d 57 15
38 Walters, Michael 8 4 3 11 3 1 0 2 1 1 21y 217d 16 25
Rushed           2              
Totals 166 78 87 253 14 7 38 60 14 23 25y 19d 1932 1384