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Round: 7 Venue: Subiaco Oval Date: Sun, 07-05-2017 2:40 pm Crowd: 33,393 | |||||
Fremantle | 2.2.14 | 5.6.36 | 11.10.76 | 17.14.116 | C: Ross Lyon |
Essendon | 4.3.27 | 7.7.49 | 11.12.78 | 11.13.79 | C: John Worsfold |
ESS by 13 | ESS by 13 | ESS by 2 | FREM by 37 |
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Brownlow Medal | 3 Lachie Neale (FREM) | 2 Bradley Hill (FREM) | 1 Connor Blakely (FREM) |
Fremantle has come from behind to record a resounding 37-point win over Essendon to enhance its chances of bouncing back to finals footy after unexpectedly tumbling down the ladder in 2016. The Dockers were behind by 27 points midway through the second quarter and still two points in arrears when the final term began before they blew the Bombers away with six final-quarter goals to nil.
Essendon made the early running and after a behind to Aaron Francis, Dyson Heppell put the Bombers seven points ahead. Matt Taberner had the Dockers back within a point after eight minutes, but Joe Daniher, putting last week's kicking woes behind him, had Essendon back out to a seven-point lead with his first goal a minute later. Lachie Neale cut the margin back to three points with his first goal midway through the term but two in a row from the Bombers via Cale Hooker and Zach Merrett has them ahead by 13 points at quarter time.
Shane Kersten kicked the first goal of the second quarter to bring the Dockers within three points after six minutes, but Essendon took control over the next 15 minutes and goals to Daniher, Hooker and Martin Gleeson saw the Bombers out to a 27-point lead just before time on. Fremantle dominated the time-on period, though, and majors to Hayden Crozier and Taberner had the Dockers back within 13 points at the half.
Nat Fyfe had Fremantle back within seven points when he kicked the first goal of the second half a minute into the third term but Michael Hurley's first major and Daniher's third had the Dons back out to a 19-point lead and threatening to run away with the game five minutes later. But the Dockers dug in and kicked the next three goals on the trot while the Bombers missed three in a row at the other end and the margin was back to just two points after 18 minutes. Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti took Essendon's lead back out to eight but Taberner's second had Fremantle back within a point soon after. Each side added one further major and the Dons held a slender two-point lead at the final change.
The match looked set for a grandstand finish when the final quarter began but after Fremantle kicked the first two goals via Cam McCarthy and Taberner to grab an 11-point lead, the Bombers wilted dramatically and a behind to Josh Green proved to be their only score of the quarter. The Dockers went on their merry way after that and, after misses from Brad Hill and Neale, they finished the match off with consecutive goals to McCarthy, Fyfe, Harley Balic and Brady Grey to win in a canter and move to within percentage of the top eight.
GOALS
Fremantle: Taberner 4; Kersten, McCarthy, Fyfe, Grey 2; Neale, Crozier, Hill, Mundy, Balic
Essendon: Daniher 3; Hooker 2; Heppell, Merrett, Gleeson, Hurley, McDonald-Tipungwuti, Green
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Fremantle: Neale, Fyfe, Taberner, Hill, Walters, Kersten
Essendon: Hurley, Heppell, Daniher, Merrett, Goddard, Hooker
INJURIES
Fremantle: Nil
Essendon: Nil
UMPIRES: Schmitt, Williamson, Pannell
TELEVISION BROADCAST: Fox Footy
COMMENTATORS: Dwayne Russell, Gerard Healy, Matthew Pavlich, Ben Dixon
Fremantle |
Match Stats
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Career
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# |
Player |
K |
M |
H |
D |
G |
B |
HO |
T |
FF |
FA |
Age |
Games |
G |
24 | Balic, Harley | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 20y 122d | 4 | 3 |
19 | Blakely, Connor | 13 | 9 | 16 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21y 66d | 23 | 2 |
17 | Crozier, Hayden | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 23y 134d | 55 | 36 |
7 | Fyfe, Nat | 12 | 3 | 14 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 25y 231d | 124 | 109 |
28 | Grey, Brady | 5 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 21y 291d | 8 | 6 |
21 | Hamling, Joel | 9 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24y 28d | 30 | 0 |
9 | Hill, Bradley | 30 | 16 | 7 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23y 302d | 102 | 62 |
15 | Hughes, Ethan | 12 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22y 151d | 11 | 0 |
5 | Ibbotson, Garrick | 13 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 29y 53d | 174 | 22 |
37 | Johnson, Michael | 12 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 32y 199d | 216 | 65 |
22 | Kersten, Shane | 13 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24y 53d | 44 | 50 |
26 | Langdon, Ed | 8 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21y 95d | 22 | 11 |
23 | McCarthy, Cam | 9 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22y 36d | 28 | 47 |
16 | Mundy, David | 11 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31y 291d | 258 | 104 |
27 | Neale, Lachie | 16 | 4 | 23 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 23y 348d | 99 | 51 |
31 | Sandilands, Aaron | 0 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 34y 152d | 251 | 92 |
34 | Spurr, Lee | 13 | 11 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 29y 284d | 111 | 5 |
33 | Sutcliffe, Cam | 11 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24y 349d | 90 | 16 |
20 | Taberner, Matt | 13 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 23y 324d | 46 | 45 |
18 | Tucker, Darcy | 9 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20y 104d | 17 | 3 |
10 | Walters, Michael | 9 | 4 | 17 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 26y 120d | 101 | 182 |
14 | Weller, Lachie | 12 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 21y 73d | 32 | 14 |
Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 239 | 134 | 176 | 415 | 17 | 14 | 59 | 39 | 21 | 12 | 24y 339d | 1846 | 925 |
Essendon |
Match Stats
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Career
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# |
Player |
K |
M |
H |
D |
G |
B |
HO |
T |
FF |
FA |
Age |
Games |
G |
12 | Baguley, Mark | 5 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 29y 351d | 89 | 3 |
32 | Colyer, Travis | 7 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 25y 256d | 64 | 45 |
6 | Daniher, Joe | 8 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23y 64d | 77 | 124 |
49 | Dea, Matt | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 25y 206d | 54 | 1 |
13 | Fantasia, Orazio | 6 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 21y 235d | 34 | 47 |
10 | Francis, Aaron | 6 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 19y 270d | 5 | 2 |
8 | Gleeson, Martin | 6 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22y 255d | 56 | 5 |
9 | Goddard, Brendon | 10 | 6 | 15 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 31y 352d | 296 | 154 |
15 | Green, Josh | 9 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 24y 256d | 86 | 111 |
36 | Hartley, Michael | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 23y 334d | 22 | 1 |
21 | Heppell, Dyson | 11 | 6 | 12 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 24y 358d | 113 | 38 |
26 | Hooker, Cale | 13 | 10 | 6 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 28y 206d | 140 | 41 |
18 | Hurley, Michael | 17 | 9 | 7 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 26y 340d | 126 | 106 |
47 | Kelly, James | 5 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 33y 129d | 299 | 90 |
22 | Leuenberger, Matthew | 3 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 28y 334d | 132 | 30 |
43 | McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony | 7 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 24y 15d | 28 | 16 |
45 | McKenna, Conor | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 21y 40d | 17 | 5 |
7 | Merrett, Zach | 20 | 6 | 8 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21y 216d | 66 | 24 |
23 | Myers, David | 9 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27y 311d | 86 | 26 |
3 | Parish, Darcy | 7 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19y 286d | 27 | 8 |
5 | Stanton, Brent | 9 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 31y 6d | 254 | 158 |
11 | Zaharakis, David | 9 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 27y 75d | 154 | 105 |
Rushed | 1 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 181 | 92 | 149 | 330 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 66 | 12 | 21 | 25y 239d | 2225 | 1140 |