Adelaide – 19.16 (130)
Fremantle – 1.7 (13)
It was men vs. boys at AAMI Stadium with Adelaide putting in a dominant and professional performance against an extremely inexperienced Fremantle outfit who seemed to make mistake-after mistake-after-mistake.
The 117 point win boosts the Crows percentage to 112%, only 4% behind Collingwood.
Big moment
5 minutes into the game, Byron Schammer marked the ball in the defensive-50, played on and looked up field to see a zone set up by Adelaide that was so hard to pick a target, he kicked a “rushed” point from about 30 meters out from Adelaide’s goal…………
Key Players for the Adelaide
Patrick Dangerfield – He only got the ball 19 times but an amazing 14 of those were contested. He also had 3 goals and 2 assists as well.……(injury permitting)Bank on this kid being a top-10 player in 5 years.
Kurt Tippett – 5.4 and one shank. Continuing his excellent form and did what he needed to do.
Andy Otten – Had 18 first-half possessions and finished with 27 for the day. His disposal was a particular highlight.
Key Players for Fremantle
Greg Broughton – Kept on trying and trying and trying. Finished with 30 possessions and the topped contested possessions count for Freo with 11 for the night.
Paul Duffield – Continued his good season with another good performance in the back half with 7 rebound-50s along with 26 possessions.
Musings from the match
• Another milestone game (250th game for Simon Goodwin), and another Adelaide victory.
• Along with the above 3, the likes of Goodwin, Mackay, Vince,Thompson and Bock were also excellent.
• Only 4 players had less than 15 possessions for Adelaide showing the evenness of the performance.
• Tyson Edwards was one of the 4 with 10 possessions for the night. No Brownlow votes tonight.
• The inside-50 discrepancy between the teams was massive – 58 to 23………..
• With their two best players out with injuries, along with half of their team having played less than 50 games; are you really surprised?
• It was good to see Adelaide do the job as they were expected to.
• Their ball-usage was elite all night long.
• It was Ryan Murphy who kicked the goal for Freo if you care. He looks finished though – only had the 4 possessions.
• After the Saints, they have Port, Geelong and Collingwood in succession so it’s going to be good to see how they go.
SuperCoach news
Thanks to their 112 more possessions and their 82% team-wide disposal efficiency, the Crows dominated in the SuperCoach points haul with and average of 92 points between the 22 players.
8 Adelaide players had 100+pt’s with Dangerfield and Tippett both scoring the game high score of 138pt’s.
Duffield and Broughton as you would expect were the high scorers for Freo with 108pt’s and 124pt’s respectively.
SuperCoach scores and game stats from the SuperFooty match day centre
Tags: Andy Otten, Bernie Vince, Greg Broughton, Kurt Tippett, Nathan Bock, Patrick Dangerfield, Paul Duffield, Ryan Murphy, Scott Thompson, Simon Goodwin
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