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Fremantle vs North Melbourne

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Round: 13   Venue: Subiaco Oval   Date: Sun, 23-06-2013 1:20 pm   Crowd: 31,637  
Fremantle 1.3.95.6.367.6.4810.7.67 C:  Ross Lyon
North Melbourne 0.2.21.3.93.5.234.5.29 C:  Brad Scott
  FREO by 7FREO by 27FREO by 25FREO by 38  
Weather
min temp  9.8°C      max temp  21.0°C
rainfall  0mm    humidity  65%    air pressure  1010.0mb
wind speed 17km/h      wind direction  N
Brownlow Medal 3 Nat Fyfe (FREO)2 Michael Barlow (FREO)1 Garrick Ibbotson (FREO)

Match Report

North Melbourne has become the latest victim of a Fremantle "strangulation", kicking just 4.5 (29) in succumbing to the the Dockers by 38 points at a wet Subiaco Oval on Sunday afternoon. The Dockers' highly effective defensive techniques and some heavy first-half rain combined to restrict the Kangaroos to the 17th-lowest score of their 88-year VFL/AFL history.

Despite not managing to kick a goal themselves, the Kangaroos managed to restrict Fremantle to just one in the wet first quarter, and trailed by just seven points at the first change. But the Dockers broke free in the second term, and after North's Aaron Mullett kicked the first goal of the second term, kicked the next four to set up a 27-point half-time lead.

The Kangaroos matched it with Fremantle in the third quarter, and when Aaron Black kicked the first goal of the last term to reduce the margin to 19 points at the four-minute mark, and unlikely Kangaroo victory appeared to be a brief possibility. But brief it was, and Fremantle closed out the game with the last three goals to win by 38 points.

The win leaves Fremantle in third place, half a game clear of Essendon and a game clear of Sydney, who had an unexpected loss to Port Adelaide on Saturday. The Dockers will face Geelong at Kardinia Park next Saturday night. North Melbourne, languishing in 13th spot with just four wins, will take on GWS at Docklands on Sunday.

GOALS
Fremantle: Suban 2; Barlow, Crozier, de Boer, Fyfe, Johnson, Mayne, Hannath, Walters
North Melbourne: Black, Macmillan, Mullett, Harvey

BEST - AFL.COM.AU
Fremantle: Fyfe, Barlow, Crowley, Clarke, Ibbotson, de Boer
North Melbourne: Swallow, Bastinac, Atley, Gibson, Mullett

BEST - THE AGE
Fremantle: Fyfe, Barlow, de Boer, Johnson, Ibbotson, Clarke
North Melbourne: Swallow, Bastinac, Goldstein, Gibson, MacMillan, Grima

COACHES' COMMENTS
Ross Lyon (Frem): I was really nervous coming here today. We see them as an emerging team that's had some bad luck. And then we saw the weather forecast. It's such a big ground, it makes everything really difficult [in wet conditions]. We started quite well; our intensity was up. When they [North] got to within 19 points [at the four-minute mark of the last quarter], the players lifted again and the response was emphatic.

Brad Scott (NM): In the second quarter we probably let some easy goals through - 50 metre penalties, free kicks, coast-to-coast goals. The rest of the game was an arm-wrestle. In tight games when it's wet and slippery early, those cheap goals just kill you.

INJURIES
Fremantle: Mundy (calf) replaced in selected side by Hayden Crozier; Barlow (face)
North Melbourne: Thomas (left hamstring)

SUBSTITUTES
Fremantle: Hayden Crozier replaced Jack Hannath at three-quarter time
North Melbourne: Brad McKenzie replaced Lindsay Thomas during the third quarter

UMPIRES: Rosebury, Stevic, Mollison

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 7 2 4 11 0 0 0 3 3 1 25y 342d 76 111
21 Barlow, Michael 17 3 14 31 1 0 1 7 1 0 25y 187d 58 32
30 Clarke, Zac 11 6 6 17 0 0 28 4 2 1 23y 87d 41 22
15 Crowley, Ryan 6 3 8 14 0 1 0 0 0 3 29y 110d 151 103
17 Crozier, Hayden 7 4 0 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 19y 181d 10 9
3 Dawson, Zac 1 2 6 7 0 0 0 2 1 0 27y 121d 107 6
9 de Boer, Matt 10 3 10 20 1 1 0 11 2 0 23y 105d 88 34
41 Duffield, Paul 12 4 7 19 0 0 0 2 0 0 28y 138d 122 25
7 Fyfe, Nat 22 7 6 28 1 1 3 3 0 3 21y 278d 60 44
38 Hannath, Jack 4 2 1 5 1 0 2 3 1 1 21y 349d 8 5
32 Hill, Stephen 7 0 10 17 0 0 1 3 0 1 23y 53d 97 56
5 Ibbotson, Garrick 16 10 11 27 0 0 0 1 2 1 25y 100d 110 21
37 Johnson, Michael 20 11 2 22 1 1 0 1 1 0 28y 246d 161 58
23 Mayne, Chris 6 4 11 17 1 0 0 6 2 3 24y 233d 93 121
18 McPharlin, Luke 16 13 8 24 0 0 2 0 0 1 31y 204d 220 114
13 Mzungu, Tendai 9 3 8 17 0 0 1 3 2 2 27y 115d 50 30
46 Pearce, Clancee 9 4 3 12 0 0 1 3 0 0 22y 243d 62 31
6 Pearce, Danyle 10 0 5 15 0 1 0 6 1 0 27y 77d 166 81
34 Spurr, Lee 10 5 9 19 0 0 0 3 0 1 25y 331d 25 0
8 Suban, Nick 9 1 5 14 2 0 0 5 2 1 23y 45d 74 28
42 Taberner, Matt 2 1 6 8 0 0 0 6 0 1 20y 6d 1 0
10 Walters, Michael 7 3 5 12 1 0 0 6 0 1 22y 167d 30 56
  Rushed   2  
  Totals 218 91 145 363 10 7 39 78 20 21 24y 335d 1810 987
North Melbourne Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
13 Adams, Leigh 7 4 3 10 0 0 0 4 1 2 25y 78d 74 55
4 Anthony, Liam 5 3 7 12 0 0 0 4 0 0 25y 287d 54 26
18 Atley, Shaun 12 5 8 20 0 0 0 0 1 3 20y 283d 51 7
3 Bastinac, Ryan 15 7 13 28 0 0 0 4 0 0 22y 1d 69 26
35 Black, Aaron 5 4 6 11 1 0 0 3 1 2 22y 206d 12 22
11 Firrito, Michael 10 3 4 14 0 0 0 4 3 1 29y 208d 205 28
43 Gibson, Sam 8 4 16 24 0 0 0 3 1 0 27y 27d 25 12
22 Goldstein, Todd 3 3 6 9 0 0 46 3 1 1 24y 357d 91 41
24 Greenwood, Levi 9 3 12 21 0 0 0 8 0 0 24y 124d 47 9
17 Grima, Nathan 11 5 8 19 0 0 0 5 0 1 27y 322d 66 0
6 Hansen, Lachlan 11 11 7 18 0 0 0 5 0 1 24y 310d 89 74
29 Harvey, Brent 5 6 6 11 1 0 0 2 2 1 35y 40d 352 419
26 Hine, Taylor 6 0 5 11 0 0 0 6 0 0 21y 150d 16 1
34 Macmillan, Jamie 13 5 8 21 1 0 0 2 3 0 21y 273d 48 19
2 McKenzie, Brad 10 5 2 12 0 0 0 1 1 0 20y 25d 3 0
41 Mullett, Aaron 13 5 3 16 1 0 0 0 0 1 21y 120d 21 8
20 Petrie, Drew 8 2 4 12 0 0 6 5 3 0 30y 251d 234 286
9 Swallow, Andrew 22 4 11 33 0 1 0 8 2 2 26y 21d 141 67
12 Thomas, Lindsay 2 2 2 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 25y 114d 122 186
16 Thompson, Scott 8 2 8 16 0 0 0 4 1 3 27y 45d 105 5
8 Wells, Daniel 10 3 5 15 0 1 0 7 1 1 28y 140d 202 124
19 Wright, Sam 4 1 6 10 0 1 0 2 0 1 22y 343d 64 50
  Rushed   2  
  Totals 197 87 150 347 4 5 52 82 21 20 25y 86d 2091 1465

Footnotes

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