The Dockers moved another week closer to winning the flag, handing out another shellacking to one of the leper teams the AFL keep around to sell tv ads. The Dees weren’t afforded the swift, clean death that was afforded to Greater Western Sydney last week, however with Fremantle opting for a slow painful death for their one time rival. Merely a shell of a football club, many people expected Fremantle to take on a more benevolent attitude towards Melbourne, entertaining the long suffering Melbourne supporters with their fancy skills and exciting goals from the half back line but, instead, Fremantle took their time, chipped away at the Demons until their cries for mercy were finally met and the Dockers kicked on to a 95 point win. Ballantyne and Pavlich kicked a lazy 4 goals each while most of the Fremantle players just used the game as a chance to get a look at the G before the finals. Aaron Sandilands copped a bit of a knock to the head and was subbed out early, mainly because there wasn’t enough gauze to wrap his head up to stop the bleeding. Hayden Ballantyne copped a bit of a knock to the arm and wasn’t happy, but they’ll just pull a replacement out of the toy box and swap it out of it gives him any trouble.
