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Fremantle vs Gold Coast

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Round: 2   Venue: Subiaco Oval   Date: Sat, 29-03-2014 4:40 pm   Crowd: 35,583  
Fremantle 4.1.255.5.358.9.5712.15.87 C:  Ross Lyon
Gold Coast 2.1.133.5.234.8.325.9.39 C:  Guy McKenna
  FREO by 12FREO by 12FREO by 25FREO by 48  
Weather
min temp  19.6°C      max temp  24.9°C
rainfall  0mm    humidity  77%    air pressure  1007.5mb
wind speed 19km/h      wind direction  NW
Brownlow Medal 3 Michael Barlow (FREO)2 David Mundy (FREO)1 Nat Fyfe (FREO)

Match Report

Fremantle has overcome a tenacious Gold Coast Suns outfit and a very wet Subiaco oval to record its second win of the season and secure a top-two spot on the ladder along with its stablemate West Coast.

Heavy rain and a fast start from Gold Coast seemed to catch the Dockers off guard in the early stages of this match and the Suns took full advantage to kick the game's first two goals via Sam Day and Brandon Matera within the first four minutes. The game at that stage was being played in a relatively open fashion, something that would not have pleased Dockers' coach Ross Lyon.

A goal from Ryan Crowley, who was Gary Ablett's direct opponent seemed to settle Fremantle and their "strangulation" style of play gradually came to the fore. The Suns did not add to their first-quarter goal tally, while Michael Johnson, Tendai Mzungu and Michael Walters added majors to out the Dockers 12 points to the good at the first change.

The Dockers looked set to run away with the game when Michael Barlow kicked the first of the second term at the three-minute mark but the Suns buckled down in the slippery conditions and reduced there margin to just 11 points with a goal to Day after seven minutes. The remainder of the quarter was a wet-weather slog in which no goals were scored and Fremantle took a two-goal advantage into the long break, small but significant in the conditions.

As they had done in the second term, the Dockers kicked the first goal of the third term to open up a three-goal buffer but the Suns continued to "hang tough" and a goal to Aaron Hall kept them within 14 points at the six-minute mark. Another dour period of play ensued until Mzungu broke the deadlock to give Fremantle a 20-point lead at the 16-minute mark. Barlow added the only other goal of the quarter and the Dockers, leading by 27 points at the last change of ends, appeared to have broken the Suns' resistance.

Danyle Pearce put a virtual seal on the match with the first goal of the last quarter and the Dockers kicked three further goals to one for the term, coasting to a 48-point win. The Suns were by no means disgraced, and will head into their round three home encounter against Brisbane with some confidence.

The Dockers face a tough third-round challenge against their 2013 Grand Final vanquishers Hawthorn on Friday night. They will take the Hawks on without the suspended Nat Fyfe and Zav Dawson, and the injured Michael Barlow.

GOALS
Fremantle: Walters, Mzungu, Barlow 2; Crowley, Johnson, Pearce, Hill, Sheridan, Duffield
Gold Coast: Day 2; Hall, Matera, Lynch

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Fremantle: Sandilands, Barlow, Mundy, Duffield, Fyfe, M Walters
Gold Coast: Swallow, Prestia, May, O'Meara, Ablett, McKenzie

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Fremantle: Barlow, Mundy, Sandilands, Fyfe, Walters, Mzungu
Gold Coast: Swallow, Ablett, Prestia, Rischitelli, McKenzie, Day

SUBSTITUTES
Fremantle: Tom Sheridan replaced Jack Hannath during the third quarter.
Gold Coast: Timmy Sumner replaced Matt Shaw during the third quarter.

UMPIRES: Ryan, Kamolins, Fisher

TELEVISION BROADCAST: Fox Footy

COMMENTATORS: Matthew Campbell, Dermott Brereton, Tony Shaw, Ben Dixcon

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 3 5 13 0 1 0 3 1 3 26y 256d 88 134
21 Barlow, Michael 19 7 13 32 2 1 0 4 0 1 26y 101d 72 44
15 Crowley, Ryan 6 0 4 10 1 0 0 4 2 4 30y 24d 166 110
3 Dawson, Zac 3 1 8 11 0 0 1 1 1 1 28y 35d 121 6
9 de Boer, Matt 9 2 8 17 0 0 0 9 0 2 24y 19d 103 39
41 Duffield, Paul 16 7 7 23 1 1 0 4 0 0 29y 52d 135 28
7 Fyfe, Nat 12 4 17 29 0 1 2 4 0 2 22y 192d 74 55
38 Hannath, Jack 3 1 2 5 0 0 6 1 0 1 22y 263d 14 7
32 Hill, Stephen 13 2 10 23 1 0 0 4 1 0 23y 332d 110 67
37 Johnson, Michael 15 6 5 20 1 0 0 2 1 1 29y 160d 174 60
23 Mayne, Chris 4 1 8 12 0 0 0 5 3 1 25y 147d 107 137
18 McPharlin, Luke 8 3 4 12 0 0 0 2 0 1 32y 118d 227 114
16 Mundy, David 24 5 9 33 0 0 2 4 0 0 28y 252d 188 73
13 Mzungu, Tendai 14 2 4 18 2 0 0 3 0 0 28y 29d 65 43
29 Pavlich, Matthew 7 3 5 12 0 1 0 2 1 2 32y 88d 293 584
6 Pearce, Danyle 10 1 6 16 1 0 0 1 1 1 27y 356d 181 89
31 Sandilands, Aaron 3 1 8 11 0 0 58 6 0 2 31y 113d 195 75
11 Sheridan, Tommy 5 1 4 9 1 1 0 2 2 0 20y 152d 13 8
34 Spurr, Lee 14 6 6 20 0 0 0 1 0 0 26y 245d 38 2
8 Suban, Nick 4 1 5 9 0 2 0 3 2 1 23y 324d 85 34
33 Sutcliffe, Cam 7 2 2 9 0 0 0 5 0 1 21y 310d 25 9
10 Walters, Michael 11 4 2 13 2 5 0 5 3 1 23y 81d 44 86
  Rushed   2  
  Totals 215 63 142 357 12 15 69 75 18 25 26y 216d 2518 1804
Gold Coast Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
9 Ablett, Gary 10 0 14 24 0 0 0 6 4 2 29y 319d 255 336
36 Broughton, Greg 8 2 2 10 0 0 0 3 3 2 27y 181d 87 17
27 Cameron, Clay 6 0 5 11 0 0 0 3 1 0 19y 306d 2 0
12 Day, Sam 7 4 5 12 2 0 5 0 1 0 21y 204d 44 28
23 Dixon, Charlie 5 4 3 8 0 2 4 1 1 0 23y 187d 37 29
33 Hall, Aaron 6 1 9 15 1 0 0 4 0 0 23y 140d 32 33
5 Harbrow, Jarrod 13 1 6 19 0 1 0 5 1 2 25y 254d 128 38
28 Kolodjashnij, Kade 10 2 9 19 0 0 0 4 2 0 18y 232d 1 0
40 Lemmens, Sean 10 1 3 13 0 0 0 2 1 0 19y 147d 2 0
19 Lynch, Tom 5 2 6 11 1 0 0 2 0 0 21y 149d 40 38
32 Matera, Brandon 6 1 1 7 1 3 0 7 1 0 22y 18d 41 35
17 May, Steven 13 5 1 14 0 0 0 7 2 2 22y 78d 36 15
18 McKenzie, Trent 16 6 3 19 0 0 0 5 1 2 21y 360d 59 19
22 Nicholls, Tom 7 2 7 14 0 0 10 6 1 1 22y 25d 11 2
1 O'Meara, Jaeger 10 3 3 13 0 0 0 8 0 0 20y 34d 24 17
10 Prestia, Dion 12 4 10 22 0 1 0 4 1 0 21y 168d 53 13
35 Rischitelli, Michael 11 3 10 21 0 1 0 7 0 1 28y 80d 159 69
26 Shaw, Matt 2 1 6 8 0 0 0 2 1 2 22y 52d 54 20
25 Stanley, Danny 7 2 9 16 0 0 0 5 2 2 26y 39d 60 33
3 Sumner, Timmy 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 3 0 2 19y 171d 13 6
24 Swallow, David 15 1 12 27 0 0 0 4 1 0 21y 130d 53 23
16 Thompson, Rory 4 0 2 6 0 0 0 4 1 0 23y 17d 35 7
  Rushed   1  
  Totals 183 45 129 312 5 9 19 92 25 18 22y 282d 1226 778

Footnotes

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