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Fremantle
9.10.64
West Coast
17.8.110
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Fremantle
West Coast
Q1
3.2.20
2.2.14

    Fremantle Events

  • 3 mins - Goal, S.Yarran
  • 11 mins - Behind, C.Mayne
  • 19 mins - Goal, M.Apeness
  • 27 mins - Behind, D.Tucker
  • 29 mins - Goal, T.Sheridan

    Fremantle and West Coast Events

  • 5 mins - Behind, M.Hutchings
  • 7 mins - Goal, J.Kennedy
  • 14 mins - Goal, J.Kennedy
  • 25 mins - Rushed Behind
Q2
5.6.36
7.5.47

    Fremantle Events

  • 3 mins - Goal, T.Sheridan
  • 5 mins - Goal, S.Yarran
  • 8 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 9 mins - Behind, C.Mayne
  • 11 mins - Behind, M.Pavlich
  • 27 mins - Behind, S.Yarran

    Fremantle and West Coast Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, S.Hurn
  • 14 mins - Behind, J.Kennedy
  • 16 mins - Goal, N.Naitanui
  • 18 mins - Behind, J.Kennedy
  • 21 mins - Goal, J.Hill
  • 25 mins - Behind, M.LeCras
  • 26 mins - Goal, J.Hill
  • 29 mins - Goal, J.Kennedy
Q3
7.7.49
12.7.79

    Fremantle Events

  • 1 mins - Goal, H.Ballantyne
  • 24 mins - Behind, S.Yarran
  • 30 mins - Goal, M.Pavlich

    Fremantle and West Coast Events

  • 3 mins - Goal, J.Kennedy
  • 12 mins - Behind, J.Darling
  • 16 mins - Goal, J.Kennedy
  • 18 mins - Goal, J.Kennedy
  • 24 mins - Behind, J.Cripps
  • 26 mins - Goal, J.Hill
  • 28 mins - Goal, M.LeCras
Q4
9.10.64
17.8.110

    Fremantle Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, M.Pavlich
  • 5 mins - Behind, M.Walters
  • 6 mins - Goal, M.Walters
  • 18 mins - Behind, L.Weller
  • 20 mins - Rushed Behind

    Fremantle and West Coast Events

  • 4 mins - Goal, S.Tunbridge
  • 8 mins - Goal, M.LeCras
  • 12 mins - Behind, M.LeCras
  • 12 mins - Goal, A.Gaff
  • 21 mins - Goal, J.Kennedy
  • 23 mins - Goal, M.LeCras

Scorers

Fremantle
West Coast
Goal Scorers Fremantle West Coast
Goals and Behinds Yarran (2.2), Pavlich (2.1), Sheridan (2.0), Walters (1.1), Apeness (1.0), Ballantyne (1.0), Mayne (0.2), Tucker (0.1), Weller (0.1) Kennedy (7.2), LeCras (3.2), Hill (3.0), Gaff (1.0), Hurn (1.0), Naitanui (1.0), Tunbridge (1.0), Cripps (0.1), Darling (0.1), Hutchings (0.1)

Team Statistics

Fremantle
West Coast

Statistics

Fremantle West Coast
Goals 9 17
Behinds 10 8
Scoring shots 21 30
Goals/scoring shots 43 57
Disposals 369 378
FremantleGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
M.Apeness 7 3 4 4 6 1 0 0 0 0
H.Ballantyne 8 6 1 2 3 5 1 0 0 1
Z.Clarke 10 1 4 9 3 1 0 1 11 1
S.Collins 10 7 5 3 4 1 0 1 0 1
H.Crozier 14 11 6 3 1 2 0 0 0 0
S.Hill 30 20 2 10 10 4 0 2 0 4
E.Hughes 16 10 7 6 3 2 1 0 0 1
G.Ibbotson 14 11 5 3 8 1 2 0 0 1
E.Langdon 20 8 5 12 4 3 0 0 0 1
C.Mayne 22 12 6 10 9 4 2 0 0 0
D.Mundy 23 15 2 8 14 7 2 1 2 10
L.Neale 29 11 3 18 10 4 0 1 0 8
M.Pavlich 11 8 6 3 5 4 0 1 0 0
D.Pearce 25 16 2 9 6 1 1 0 0 4
A.Sandilands 12 2 4 10 8 2 0 3 23 2
T.Sheridan 16 8 1 8 7 3 1 1 0 2
A.Silvagni 16 12 6 4 6 3 2 1 0 0
L.Spurr 22 12 10 10 3 3 2 0 0 0
D.Tucker 17 12 5 5 4 1 1 0 0 2
M.Walters 14 6 5 8 7 0 1 2 0 0
L.Weller 15 6 3 9 4 0 1 0 0 1
S.Yarran 18 12 5 6 6 0 1 1 0 0
West CoastGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
T.Barrass 11 7 6 4 4 1 0 1 0 0
J.Cripps 20 14 6 6 4 3 0 0 0 1
J.Darling 18 6 8 12 9 4 0 1 0 2
A.Gaff 19 12 1 7 4 0 1 1 0 0
J.Hill 9 6 2 3 3 5 0 0 0 0
S.Hurn 23 16 6 7 5 3 2 0 0 0
M.Hutchings 13 8 2 5 5 7 1 1 0 3
J.Kennedy 13 11 8 2 5 3 1 2 0 0
M.LeCras 18 16 9 2 5 2 0 0 0 1
S.Lycett 10 5 6 5 5 3 2 0 13 2
C.Masten 33 20 8 13 4 2 1 1 0 1
J.McGovern 20 18 7 2 6 1 1 0 0 0
N.Naitanui 7 3 0 4 7 2 4 2 26 3
J.Nelson 16 9 5 7 5 4 0 1 0 2
M.Priddis 33 11 4 22 18 4 1 0 0 5
W.Schofield 14 9 6 5 2 2 0 0 0 0
D.Sheed 12 5 2 7 4 0 0 0 0 1
B.Sheppard 18 11 7 7 5 0 0 0 0 0
L.Shuey 23 8 2 15 12 10 1 3 0 6
S.Tunbridge 10 7 3 3 3 3 0 1 0 1
S.Wellingham 24 14 6 10 10 1 0 1 0 0
E.Yeo 14 6 4 8 7 6 0 3 0 3

Match Details

Fremantle
West Coast
START TIME
4:40PM
WEATHER
Showers increasing
VENUE
Domain Stadium
Umpires
Dean Margetts, Chris Kamolins, Craig Fleer

AFL 2016: West Coast Eagles close on top eight lock with win over Fremantle Dockers

FREMANTLE 3.2 5.6 7.7 9.10 (64)

WEST COAST 2.2 7.5 12.7 17.8 (110)

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Kennedy stands tall

Seven goals from Josh Kennedy has inspired West Coast to a 46-point win over Fremantle.

GOALS

Fremantle: Yarran 2, Sheridan 2, Pavlich 2, Ballantyne, Apeness, Walters

Skin in the game: Luke Shuey and Josh Kennedy celebrate a West Coast goal.
Skin in the game: Luke Shuey and Josh Kennedy celebrate a West Coast goal. Photo: Daniel Carson/AFL Media

West Coast: Kennedy 7, Hill 3, LeCras 3, Hurn, Naitanui, Tunbridge, Gaff.

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West Coast: Kennedy, Priddis, Hurn, Masten, Shuey, McGovern.

Fremantle: Sheridan, Hill, Mundy, Silvagni, Neale, Mayne.

Matt finish: West Coast's Brownlow medal winner handpasses his way out of trouble.
Matt finish: West Coast's Brownlow medal winner handpasses his way out of trouble. Photo: Daniel Carson/AFL Media

UMPIRES: Margetts, Kamolins, Fleer.

CROWD: 36,215 at Domain Stadium

Tapout: Eagles' ruck Nic Naitanui contests a boundary throw in against  Aaron Sandilands of the Dockers.
Tapout: Eagles' ruck Nic Naitanui contests a boundary throw in against Aaron Sandilands of the Dockers. Photo: Daniel Carson/AFL Media

Josh Kennedy's seven goals in West Coast's 46-point win over Fremantle at Domain Stadium has all-but sealed the Eagles a place in the top eight.

It may also have earned him consecutive Coleman Medal victories. The West Coast forward started the day on 60 goals for the season, one goal behind Sydney's Lance Franklin and the Gold Coast's Tom Lynch.

He joined level with the pack after just six minutes, and took the lead seven minutes later.

Those two goals kept his side in the contest while the Dockers had momentum. Then his four goals - from just before half-time to the half-way point of the third term - were pivotal in the Eagles getting over the Dockers and remaining in sixth spot on the AFL ladder, where they started the weekend.

They are three wins ahead of the ninth-placed St Kilda with three rounds to go. And although the Eagles have a tough run home, they also have an advantage of more than 30 per cent over the Saints, that will surely be enough.

However, the Eagles need to find something extra over the remaining three weeks if they are to have an impact this September.

The 17.8 (110) to 9.10 (64) result against the Dockers may have been their sixth win in seven games, but they have been far from impressive for a long time.

A tough run home for West Coast includes games against top-four sides GWS, Hawthorn and Adelaide - keeping in mind that fact that eighth-placed North Melbourne remains the only side in the eight that West Coast has beaten this season (in round 16).

For the first quarter and a half against the 16th-placed Dockers on Sunday, they looked the second best side on the ground, as Fremantle opened up a 15-point lead on the back of some fiere contested possession work.

They managed to stop the run of Andrew Gaff, with a tag by Tim Sheridan, and Alex Silvagni led a defence that was able to limit the influence of Eagles forwards Jack Darling and Mark LeCras.

Fremantle has only itself to blame for not getting further ahead.

West Coast captain Shannon Hurn kicked the first goal of the second term courtesy of a 50m penalty from Michael Walters, who pointed at and abused an umpire when called for "holding the ball" when he clearly thought he should have been awarded the free kick.

Chris Maybe and Matthew Pavlich then both missed very kickable shots on goals and ruckman Zac Clarke failed to score anything after receiving a handball in the goal square.

True to form, West Coast then gained momentum and kicked 4.3 to 0.1 in the remainder of the half to lead by 11 points at the main break.

In the second half, the Eagles were able to settle and slowly build their lead. They limited Fremantle's scoring opportunities and kicked 10 goals to the Dockers four after half-time.

Matt Priddis was again outstanding, with 33 possessions, while Chris Masten had one of his better games for the season, also with 33.

Nic Naiutanui also played in his first game since round 12 because of Achilles issues and while he spent a lot of the game on the sidelines, seemed to have gotten through unscathed.

His ability to get through the final three rounds and gain some match fitness, will be crucial to the Eagles chances of progressing through the finals.

Fremantle ruckman Aaron Sandilands also had a successful return to action on Sunday, for his first game since the last Derby, in round three, when he broke two ribs and punched a lung in a marking contest with Naitanui.

There remains some goal-kicking interest for the Dockers this season, with Matthew Pavlich able to become just the third player to reach 350 games and 700 goals in a career when he retires at the end of the season. Bernie Quinlan and Kevin Bartlett are the other two to have achieved the feat.

The Dockers veteran booted two on Sunday to take his career total to 697 goals. He has three games left to kick three goals, with some doubt as to whether he will travel to Spotless Stadium in round 22 to play GWS.