Fremantle – 15.10 (100)
Carlton – 16.19 (115)
Whilst Carlton had a relatively poor start to the match kicking 1.4 to Fremantle ’s 6.2, in the first quarter, The Blues managed to fight back in the second quarter and maintain their efforts in the second half to beat Fremantle by 15 points.
Big Moment
The home side leads 9.7 (61) to 7.8 (50) at the long break, with the Blues coming back hard in the second term, kicking six goals to Fremantle’s three.
The Blues were behind by 11 points at the main break. They trailed at the end of every quarter, but were able to kick 4 consecutive goals in the last quarter (3 in the opening five minutes), which saw them overrun the home team by kicking a total of seven goals to two in the final term.
Key Players for Fremantle
Antoni Grover – Had 17 possessions in the first half and zoned off O’hAilpin easily for most of the match. He ended with 26 possessions and took game high 16 marks.
Greg Broughton – Had a solid and consistent match and ended with 31 possessions, whilst running off Sam Fisher. He also took 8 marks.
Byron Schammer – He played the entire match going head to head with Marc Murphy and it was an even match. Had 17 first half possessions and finished with 28 including 8 marks.
Key Players for Carlton
Bryce Gibbs – Had a great match, collecting 17 disposals in the first half and finishing with a total of 33 possessions and additionally took 11 marks and kicked 2 goals.
Chris Judd – Led his team like a captain should. He was tagged by Ibbotson and absolutely dominated him. Judd collected 16 first half touches and ended the day with 35 possessions and 9 tackles.
Andrew Carrazzo – Played a great match collecting 33 possessions, including game high 21 kicks and had 8 inside 50s.
Musing from the Match
• Fremantle have now lost seven straight matches.
• The Blues took the lead for the first time in the match at the five-minute mark of the last quarter, after Gibbs’ second goal.
• It was David Mundy ’s 100th game.
• Fremantle were leading by 34 points early in the second quarter.
• If you watched the game and were wondering why Carlton were wearing yellow coloured Guernseys, shorts and socks it was to raise funds in support of the Lance Armstrong Foundation (Cancer Research).
• Fremantle had overall more kicks (218-189), handballs (169-168) and overall disposals (387-357).
• Fremantle had more hit outs, obviously thanks to Sandilands hands (with 26 individually to him).
• Carlton dominated the tackles 55 – 32.
• Carlton had 19 more inside 50s than Fremantle, but the Dockers had 18 more rebound 50s.
• The Dockers had more contested and uncontested possessions.
SuperCoach News
I said in the Preview for this match that you would LOVE having Aaron Sandilands in your team because of the amount of hit outs he has been and high scores, but he seemed to be struggling after half time with hamstring/groin problems, so keep an eye on him.
Bryce Gibbs (139 points) and Chris Judd (165 points) both had another outstanding game.
Fremantle youngster Greg Broughton had a great game for the Dockers scoring 159 points and is constantly building his game and price.
Hayden Ballantyne kicked 3 goals for the Dockers and scored 72 points.
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