A business like Fremantle will return to Perth with the 4 points and the top of the ladder secured after a routine ten goal win against another middle of the road Victorian team. Despite losing both Matthew Pavlich and Michael Walters to concussions in the first half, presumably caused by the local seagulls because the umpires were not concerned, Fremantle never looked troubled against the Demons who, despite their "much improved" tag, showed all the indications on a side making up the numbers when matched up against the best team in the league. It was a fairly low key affair for most of the Dockers, with little on offer to challenge them but Chris Mayne did stand out as someone who relished the wide open spaces of the MCG forward line, particularly when it was cleared of his weak skulled team mates, with 4 goals and more tackles than Pavlich and Walters could count to. The win keeps Fremantle a game clear and percentage on top of the ladder with the bottom eight and recently cleared of drug cheating Essendon coming up on Saturday night at the Subiaco Oval.