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Fremantle vs Melbourne

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Round: 23   Venue: Subiaco Oval   Date: Sat, 01-09-2012 5:40 pm   Crowd: 32,687  
Fremantle 3.5.237.7.4911.14.8014.17.101 C:  Ross Lyon
Melbourne 1.3.92.5.174.8.325.10.40 C:  Mark Neeld
  FREO by 14FREO by 32FREO by 48FREO by 61  
Brownlow Medal 3 Nat Fyfe (FREO)2 David Mundy (FREO)1 Aaron Sandilands (FREO)

Match Report

Fremantle warmed up for the finals with a comfortable win over Melbourne at Paterson's Stadium on Saturday night. The Dockers increased their leading margin at each turn, running out winners by 61 points. The win took Fremantle to seventh on the ladder, and they will take on Geelong at the MCG next Saturday in an Elimination Final. A finals berth will be seen by many as justification of the recruitment of Ross Lyon to the Dockers' head coaching position. After the Saints missed the finals by just half a game in his first season as coach of St Kilda, Lyon has coached teams to finals in each of the five years since.

Matthew Pavlich returned from injury to kick two goals, while Nat Fyfe, who has also missed many games this year through injury, was the Dockers' best. Melbourne were well served by Jack Grimes, Colin Sylvia and Jack Trengove. It's been a long and tough season for Mark Neeld in his first season at the helm of the Demons, with his charges singing the victory song only four times throughout 2012. Neeld and all Melbourne fans will be looking for a significant improvement in 2013.

The Dockers will go into their match against Geelong without big defender Luke McPharlin, who injured his hamstring and was expected to miss two or three weeks.

GOALS
Fremantle: Ballantyne 3; Griifin, Mzungu, Pavilich, Sandilands 2; Walters, Mundy, Mayne
Melbourne: Fitzpatrick 2; Blease, Jones, Sellar

BEST - AFL.COM.AU
Fremantle: Mundy, Fyfe, Sandilands, Duffield, Ballantyne, Barlow, Mzungu
Melbourne: Grimes, Sylvia, Trengove, Fitzpatrick

BEST - THE SUNDAY AGE
Fremantle: Fyfe, Mundy, Barlow, Hill, Sandilands, Pearce, Johnson
Melbourne: Grimes, Sylvia, Trengove, McDonald, McKenzie, Nicholson

COACHES' COMMENTS
Ross Lyon (Frem): We're rapt to be in the finals. What's there not to like about going to play at the MCG on Saturday night?

Mark Neeld (Melb): Freo are a good side who deserve to play finals. We've certainly improved our competitiveness in the back half of the yaer.

Umpires: Farmer, Dalgleish, Leppard

Source

match report by Andrew Gigacz

Match stats

Fremantle Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
1 Ballantyne, Hayden 9 5 2 11 3 0 0 4 1 2 25y 47d 63 93
21 Barlow, Michael 16 6 16 32 0 0 1 2 1 0 24y 258d 44 27
15 Crowley, Ryan 9 4 4 13 0 1 1 6 3 2 28y 180d 137 97
3 Dawson, Zac 7 7 5 12 0 1 0 1 0 0 26y 192d 93 6
41 Duffield, Paul 18 9 5 23 0 0 0 5 1 1 27y 209d 109 23
7 Fyfe, Nat 13 9 17 30 0 0 0 3 2 1 20y 349d 48 35
12 Griffin, Jonathon 6 4 2 8 2 0 13 1 0 0 26y 231d 61 15
32 Hill, Stephen 12 4 10 22 0 1 0 3 0 0 22y 123d 87 53
5 Ibbotson, Garrick 11 6 4 15 0 0 0 0 1 0 24y 170d 100 19
37 Johnson, Michael 17 10 7 24 0 0 0 1 2 0 27y 317d 147 54
23 Mayne, Chris 10 5 5 15 1 1 0 3 2 0 23y 304d 79 97
18 McPharlin, Luke 10 8 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 1 30y 275d 209 114
9 McPhee, Adam 15 10 4 19 0 0 0 2 2 1 29y 331d 221 112
16 Mundy, David 20 5 11 31 1 2 0 2 1 1 27y 43d 162 64
13 Mzungu, Tendai 16 7 5 21 2 2 0 4 1 2 26y 186d 36 24
29 Pavlich, Matthew 9 8 6 15 2 3 0 3 1 0 30y 245d 277 551
46 Pearce, Clancee 13 5 10 23 0 0 0 1 2 2 21y 314d 48 28
31 Sandilands, Aaron 6 4 9 15 2 0 34 2 4 0 29y 270d 181 72
11 Sheridan, Tommy 3 1 2 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 18y 309d 1 0
34 Spurr, Lee 6 4 5 11 0 0 0 1 0 0 25y 36d 11 0
8 Suban, Nick 11 4 4 15 0 0 0 5 0 0 22y 115d 60 17
38 Walters, Michael 7 5 9 16 1 2 0 2 1 0 21y 238d 19 31
  Rushed   4  
  Totals 244 130 144 388 14 17 49 52 26 13 25y 215d 2193 1532
Melbourne Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
44 Bail, Rohan 6 2 10 16 0 0 0 3 1 1 24y 67d 36 13
17 Blease, Sam 3 0 2 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 21y 195d 21 19
14 Dunn, Lynden 4 3 6 10 0 0 0 2 0 1 25y 110d 99 87
48 Fitzpatrick, Jack 5 1 3 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 21y 67d 3 3
8 Frawley, James 6 2 4 10 0 0 0 1 1 1 23y 347d 101 3
20 Garland, Colin 6 2 2 8 0 0 0 2 0 2 24y 126d 80 12
16 Grimes, Jack 12 3 11 23 0 1 0 6 1 0 23y 113d 53 4
38 Howe, Jeremy 6 2 6 12 0 1 2 6 1 0 22y 64d 35 37
40 Jamar, Mark 1 2 3 4 0 0 28 3 0 3 29y 23d 124 45
39 Jetta, Neville 7 3 2 9 0 0 0 4 1 1 22y 202d 36 19
2 Jones, Nathan 10 2 7 17 1 1 0 5 2 4 24y 225d 135 68
28 MacDonald, Joel 6 3 8 14 0 0 0 1 1 0 27y 327d 123 6
25 McDonald, Tom 10 7 8 18 0 0 0 1 0 0 19y 349d 22 0
13 McKenzie, Jordie 9 1 9 18 0 0 0 5 4 5 22y 72d 57 7
26 Nicholson, Daniel 10 4 7 17 0 0 0 3 0 2 21y 304d 20 2
27 Rivers, Jared 5 3 5 10 0 0 0 2 1 2 27y 319d 150 18
30 Sellar, James 7 3 4 11 1 0 4 3 0 0 23y 161d 37 12
12 Sylvia, Colin 15 4 10 25 0 1 0 2 0 1 26y 298d 138 120
35 Tapscott, Luke 5 5 4 9 0 1 0 6 0 1 21y 65d 29 4
9 Trengove, Jack 12 6 9 21 0 0 1 5 0 1 20y 365d 59 29
46 Tynan, Josh 1 1 2 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 18y 300d 2 0
4 Watts, Jack 6 5 6 12 0 0 0 0 0 1 21y 159d 55 38
  Rushed   4  
  Totals 152 64 128 280 5 10 35 63 13 26 23y 144d 1415 546

Match highlights

Garrick Ibbotson played his 100th V/AFL game: Fremantle vs. Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)
Jared Rivers played his 150th V/AFL game: Melbourne vs. Fremantle (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)
Tommy Sheridan debuted for Fremantle (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)
Jared Rivers played his last game for Melbourne (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)

Footnotes

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