Fremantle will put their 2012 Premiership campaign on hold so that they can focus their energies on going for the real prize, the 2013 Premiership. Things went spectacularly well for Fremantle in their game against Adelaide as they shot out to a three goal lead and had the Crows on toast by quarter time. It turns out they eat toast for breakfast over that way and the Crows ground their way back into the contest, shut down Fremantle’s run and then took advantage of some very travel weary legs to do a number on Freo in the last quarter. Pavlich struggled to get into the game after carrying the side for the past month and SCOS was outgunned on a rampaging Taylor Walker up the other end to drag Adelaide over the line by just 10 points. Fremantle will now gain a crucial couple of weeks start on the other likely teams making a tilt at the 2013 flag and are now hot favourites to have a swag of premierships by 2015.
It had become the stuff of legends. The story went that, on the plane back from Adelaide a few weeks back, Matthew Pavlich grabbed himself a notepad, borrowed a packet of Textas from Hayden Ballantyne and started working on a Uma Thurman style kill list.
As he carefully wrote out each of the teams on his kill list, Pavlich would stylistically flash back to events that tore him apart inside, mostly in memories ripped off from Italian and Japanese cinema.
First on the list was the West Coast Eagles. He didn’t really need a reason to want to kill the Eagles but they’d embarrassed him and his boys earlier in the season and it stung. It stung bad. They were to be his first target and a few days later he ripped them to shreds, kicking 8 goals and sending their supporters scurrying back under rocks or into Channel 7 studios.
Next on the list was Geelong. The Cats had killed of Fremantle’s previous tilt at a flag in less than flattering style so when Pav was given a second crack at Geelong in a final at the MCG, he single handedly tore them limb from limb - best on ground with a lazy 6 goals.
Adelaide came in at number three on his list. Fremantle were destined for a flag in 2006, there were very few things that could have stopped them but it turned out getting the worst finals draw in history and starting off with a match in Adelaide against Adelaide was one of them. Tonight he was going to make amends for that. The Crows were about to get a taste of revenge, Matthew Pavlich style. ... Read More