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Fremantle vs Sydney

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2PF   Venue: Subiaco Oval   Date: Sat, 21-09-2013 5:45 pm   Crowd: 43,249  
Fremantle 2.9.217.11.5311.12.7814.15.99 C:  Ross Lyon
Sydney 2.1.132.2.145.5.3511.8.74 C:  John Longmire
  FREO by 8FREO by 39FREO by 43FREO by 25  
Weather
min temp  9.5°C      max temp  21.6°C
rainfall  2.0mm    humidity  63%    air pressure  1009.1mb
wind speed 15km/h      wind direction  NNW

Match Report

After 19 years in the AFL, many of those where the club was seen as the league's laughing stock, Fremantle has made it to its first Grand Final after squeezing the life out of reigning premiers Sydney with a ruthless display at Subiaco on Saturday night.

The match did not have the same tension of the previous night’s Preliminary Final between Hawthorn and Geelong but was characterised by the incredibly intense, almost manic, pressure applied by the Dockers on the Swans in the first half. For much of that period, the ball was locked in Fremantle's forward line, as any attempt by a Swans player to manoeuvre into free space was met with a pack of hungry Dockers eager to get their hands on both player and ball.

Sydney, having struggled to cope with a long injury list in the second half of the season, were unable to counter-punch, and it was only because the Dockers missed a number gettable shots at goal in the first term that the difference was only eight points at the first break, with Fremantle 2.9 to Sydney's 2.1.

Fremantle's relentless pressure continued unabated in the second stanza and the Dockers straightened up their kicking for goal to really turn the heat up on Sydney. Goals to skipper Matthew Pavlich, Ryan Crowley, Nat Fyfe, Nick Suban and Paul Duffield enabled the Dockers to establish what proved to be an unassailable 39-point lead by half time.

To a certain extent, the match opened up in the second half, but the Swans could not make any inroads in the third term. The Dockers eased down in the last term but ran out comfortable 25-point winners to set up what will hopefully be a fascinating Grand Final against Hawthorn, who sneaked home against the Cats.

The Dockers onslaught was led by David Mundy, who had 29 disposals, Ryan Crowley (22 touches and a goal) and Nat Fyfe, who had 27 possessions and kicked two goals. For Sydney, Jarrad McVeigh (30 possessions and a goal) played a great match, as did Luke Parker (25 disposals and a goal) and Josh Kennedy (21 possessions).

While Saturday's Grand Final is the first “Big Dance” for Fremantle, it will be the fourth for their coach, Ross Lyon, who fell agonizingly short of achieving premiership success with St Kilda.

GOALS
Fremantle: Walters 3; Pavlich, Fyfe, Suban 2; Crowley, Duffield, Neale, Barlow, Ballantyne
Sydney: Rohan 2; Jetta, Cunningham, Parker, Bolton, McGlynn, Pyke, McVeigh, Hannebery

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Fremantle: Mundy, Crowley, Fyfe, Duffield, Pavlich, Sandilands, Walters
Sydney: McVeigh, Parker, Everitt, Grundy, White

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Fremantle: Mundy, Fyfe, Crowley, Walters, Duffield, Mzungu
Sydney: McVeigh, Kennedy, Parker, Malceski, McGlynn, Mumford

INJURIES
Fremantle: Spurr (cut head), Johnson (calf), Pearce (shin)
Sydney: McGlynn (cut head)

SUBSTITUTES
Fremantle: Lachie Neale replaced Matt de Boer in the third quarter
Sydney: Gary Rohan replaced Craig Bird in the third quarter

UMPIRES: Stevic, Meredith, McInerney

TELEVISION BROADCAST: Seven Network

COMMENTATORS: Brian Taylor, Luke Darcy, Matthew Richardson, Cameron Ling

Source

Match report by Andrew Gigacz

Footnotes

Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.

Match stats

Fremantle Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
1 Ballantyne, Hayden 8 1 5 13 1 2 0 8 2 3 26y 67d 85 131
21 Barlow, Michael 12 6 12 24 1 1 0 8 0 2 25y 277d 69 41
30 Clarke, Zac 4 4 8 12 0 0 19 3 1 1 23y 177d 52 27
15 Crowley, Ryan 12 4 10 22 1 0 0 5 1 2 29y 200d 163 107
3 Dawson, Zac 4 4 6 10 0 0 0 0 0 2 27y 211d 118 6
9 de Boer, Matt 0 1 7 7 0 0 0 3 0 0 23y 195d 100 39
41 Duffield, Paul 26 9 3 29 1 0 0 1 0 1 28y 228d 132 27
7 Fyfe, Nat 13 5 14 27 2 0 0 3 0 1 22y 3d 71 54
32 Hill, Stephen 14 2 7 21 0 0 0 4 0 0 23y 143d 107 65
37 Johnson, Michael 17 8 3 20 0 0 0 1 0 0 28y 336d 171 59
23 Mayne, Chris 5 6 12 17 0 2 0 13 1 1 24y 323d 104 136
18 McPharlin, Luke 11 9 4 15 0 0 0 1 0 2 31y 294d 224 114
16 Mundy, David 14 3 15 29 0 1 0 3 0 2 28y 63d 185 71
13 Mzungu, Tendai 10 2 8 18 0 0 1 5 1 1 27y 205d 62 39
27 Neale, Lachie 5 1 6 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 20y 120d 22 12
29 Pavlich, Matthew 6 5 9 15 2 2 0 3 0 0 31y 264d 290 580
6 Pearce, Danyle 13 3 13 26 0 0 0 2 0 0 27y 167d 178 85
31 Sandilands, Aaron 2 6 11 13 0 0 33 0 1 1 30y 289d 192 75
34 Spurr, Lee 8 5 6 14 0 0 0 2 0 1 26y 56d 35 2
8 Suban, Nick 11 3 3 14 2 1 0 4 2 2 23y 135d 83 34
33 Sutcliffe, Cam 12 5 5 17 0 0 0 0 1 2 21y 121d 22 9
10 Walters, Michael 13 3 1 14 3 2 0 2 3 1 22y 257d 41 80
  Rushed   4  
  Totals 220 95 168 388 14 15 53 71 13 25 26y 55d 2506 1793
Sydney Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
46 Biggs, Shane 6 4 9 15 0 0 0 1 0 1 22y 47d 3 0
14 Bird, Craig 5 0 1 6 0 0 0 4 0 2 24y 243d 110 47
24 Bolton, Jude 2 2 7 9 1 0 0 7 0 0 33y 190d 325 196
7 Cunningham, Harry 5 3 8 13 2 0 0 0 0 0 19y 289d 6 4
13 Everitt, Andrejs 9 5 10 19 0 0 0 1 1 0 24y 192d 79 32
39 Grundy, Heath 12 3 9 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 27y 111d 139 22
4 Hannebery, Dan 9 2 5 14 1 1 0 5 4 1 22y 209d 101 43
15 Jack, Kieren 5 3 6 11 0 0 0 2 2 1 26y 85d 139 102
32 Jetta, Lewis 8 5 2 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 24y 140d 78 71
12 Kennedy, Josh 8 2 16 24 0 0 0 8 0 0 25y 93d 111 67
9 Malceski, Nick 14 5 5 19 0 0 0 3 0 0 29y 37d 151 59
21 McGlynn, Ben 11 1 9 20 1 0 0 7 3 1 28y 46d 125 141
3 McVeigh, Jarrad 16 5 14 30 1 0 0 6 1 0 28y 167d 219 157
41 Mumford, Shane 2 2 9 11 0 0 19 7 1 1 27y 78d 100 39
5 O'Keefe, Ryan 10 3 7 17 0 1 0 4 1 1 32y 240d 282 260
26 Parker, Luke 14 4 11 25 1 2 0 6 1 1 20y 331d 57 35
38 Pyke, Mike 4 2 8 12 1 0 11 3 2 0 29y 181d 71 41
43 Rampe, Dane 8 5 8 16 0 0 0 6 0 1 23y 111d 23 1
25 Richards, Ted 8 1 10 18 0 0 0 2 3 0 30y 253d 206 32
16 Rohan, Gary 5 4 1 6 2 1 0 0 2 0 22y 106d 27 23
40 Smith, Nick 8 2 8 16 0 0 0 2 2 2 25y 101d 98 9
18 White, Jesse 12 9 8 20 0 2 0 2 2 1 25y 255d 71 73
  Rushed   1  
  Totals 181 72 171 352 11 8 30 76 25 13 26y 27d 2521 1454

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.