Fremantle have taken a big step to being able to show their faces again in public, after last week's debacle against the mob up the road, by shooting the proverbial fish in the barrel that the Essendon Football Club have become. Fremantle cruised home to win by 37 points but for a while there it looked like the fish had the better of them. The Dockers spent most of the first half coming out on the wrong side of mediocrity. They dropped marks, they kicked to the wrong team, they handballed to a player who was a football length away from them and still managed to lose possession of the ball; and when they got most of it right, they sprayed the shot at goal. You know the stuff. They played it last week. Maybe it was the unseasonably warm weather, or they mistaken drank from the Essendon water bottles but after half time a different team emerged from the changerooms - a good one. They were quick and decisive. They led hard, they kicked it to the right team. Goals were flying from all directions and many of them going through. Fremantle brought the margin back to 2 points in the third quarter before going all out berserk mode in the last term, kicking 6 unanswerable goals to win the game and once again send John Worsfold home with his pants down.
Fremantle won by 37 points.
Fremantle
2.2
5.6
11.10
17.14
116
Essendon
4.3
7.7
11.12
11.13
79
Fremantle Goals
Matt Taberner
4
Brady Grey
2
Cam McCarthy
2
Nat Fyfe
2
Shane Kersten
2
Bradley Hill
1
Lachie Neale
1
Hayden Crozier
1
David Mundy
1
Harley Balic
1
Essendon Goals
Joe Daniher
3
Cale Hooker
2
Zach Merrett
1
Josh Green
1
Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti
1
Martin Gleeson
1
Dyson Heppell
1
Michael Hurley
1
Clinton Wolf Medal Votes
Matt Taberner 3
Brad Hill 2
David Mundy 1
Injuries
None
Reports
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