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St Kilda
15.11.101
Fremantle
10.7.67
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St Kilda
Fremantle
Q1
5.4.34
3.0.18

    St Kilda Events

  • 3 mins - Goal, J.Newnes
  • 5 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 6 mins - Goal, D.Armitage
  • 8 mins - Goal, T.Membrey
  • 11 mins - Goal, P.McCartin
  • 14 mins - Behind, L.Dunstan
  • 15 mins - Behind, N.Riewoldt
  • 23 mins - Goal, B.Murdoch
  • 26 mins - Rushed Behind

    St Kilda and Fremantle Events

  • 18 mins - Goal, M.Taberner
  • 27 mins - Goal, L.Weller
  • 31 mins - Goal, M.Walters
Q2
6.8.44
7.1.43

    St Kilda Events

  • 9 mins - Behind, T.Membrey
  • 14 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 15 mins - Goal, J.Steven
  • 18 mins - Behind, T.Membrey
  • 21 mins - Rushed Behind

    St Kilda and Fremantle Events

  • 6 mins - Goal, M.Pavlich
  • 10 mins - Behind, L.Spurr
  • 24 mins - Goal, L.Weller
  • 27 mins - Goal, E.Langdon
  • 28 mins - Goal, E.Langdon
Q3
7.9.51
10.4.64

    St Kilda Events

  • 25 mins - Behind, J.Bruce
  • 26 mins - Goal, P.McCartin

    St Kilda and Fremantle Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, L.Neale
  • 7 mins - Behind, N.Suban
  • 13 mins - Goal, T.Sheridan
  • 17 mins - Goal, M.Taberner
  • 19 mins - Behind, M.Walters
  • 28 mins - Behind, L.Weller
Q4
15.11.101
10.7.67

    St Kilda Events

  • 3 mins - Behind, J.Bruce
  • 5 mins - Goal, T.Membrey
  • 6 mins - Goal, N.Riewoldt
  • 12 mins - Goal, M.Weller
  • 17 mins - Goal, T.Membrey
  • 22 mins - Goal, J.Bruce
  • 24 mins - Goal, J.Bruce
  • 28 mins - Goal, N.Riewoldt
  • 31 mins - Goal, J.Gresham
  • 32 mins - Behind, N.Riewoldt

    St Kilda and Fremantle Events

  • 13 mins - Behind, T.Sheridan
  • 20 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 23 mins - Behind, M.Taberner

Scorers

St Kilda
Fremantle
Goal Scorers St Kilda Fremantle
Goals and Behinds Membrey (3.2), Bruce (2.2), Riewoldt (2.2), McCartin (2.0), Armitage (1.0), Gresham (1.0), Murdoch (1.0), Newnes (1.0), Steven (1.0), Weller (1.0), Dunstan (0.1) Taberner (2.1), Weller (2.1), Langdon (2.0), Sheridan (1.1), Walters (1.1), Neale (1.0), Pavlich (1.0), Spurr (0.1), Suban (0.1)

Team Statistics

St Kilda
Fremantle

Statistics

St Kilda Fremantle
Goals 15 10
Behinds 11 7
Scoring shots 24 20
Goals/scoring shots 63 50
Disposals 387 360
St KildaGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
D.Armitage 28 16 3 12 14 17 3 0 0 7
J.Bruce 10 8 4 2 3 2 0 1 1 0
S.Dempster 14 9 7 5 2 1 0 0 0 0
L.Dunstan 15 9 5 6 7 6 0 2 0 1
S.Fisher 14 10 6 4 6 0 1 2 0 0
J.Geary 18 10 3 8 5 3 0 0 0 0
S.Gilbert 16 5 4 11 9 6 1 0 2 1
J.Gresham 13 6 4 7 4 7 1 0 0 0
T.Hickey 12 5 3 7 7 3 1 1 41 5
P.McCartin 9 7 5 2 5 0 0 1 0 0
D.McKenzie 11 4 3 7 2 4 0 1 0 0
T.Membrey 15 9 6 6 7 4 1 0 0 1
L.Montagna 25 15 11 10 2 7 0 1 0 0
B.Murdoch 13 9 5 4 2 3 0 0 0 0
J.Newnes 19 13 9 6 5 6 0 1 1 2
N.Riewoldt 24 17 11 7 5 6 2 1 1 0
D.Roberton 29 12 6 17 10 1 2 0 0 1
S.Ross 24 12 1 12 10 5 1 1 1 5
S.Savage 22 12 5 10 3 4 1 1 0 0
J.Sinclair 9 2 3 7 2 4 0 0 0 1
J.Steven 32 15 5 17 14 9 2 1 0 6
M.Weller 15 5 2 10 3 3 0 0 0 1
FremantleGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
H.Ballantyne 6 4 4 2 1 5 0 0 0 1
M.Barlow 24 13 2 11 13 6 0 1 0 6
C.Blakely 25 13 3 12 14 2 3 0 3 5
S.Collins 12 8 7 4 4 1 1 0 0 0
H.Crozier 24 16 10 8 5 0 0 2 0 1
Z.Dawson 8 4 3 4 4 2 1 1 4 0
M.de Boer 16 2 1 14 9 5 0 0 0 4
J.Griffin 11 3 3 8 7 2 2 2 35 2
S.Hill 26 14 0 12 11 3 1 2 0 8
G.Ibbotson 15 10 9 5 3 1 0 1 0 0
E.Langdon 11 2 1 9 4 4 0 1 0 0
C.Mayne 14 5 6 9 8 4 1 1 1 0
L.Neale 31 11 3 20 19 4 0 0 0 9
M.Pavlich 8 3 1 5 3 8 2 0 0 0
D.Pearce 23 15 2 8 5 2 0 0 0 2
T.Sheridan 18 11 4 7 2 4 0 0 0 0
L.Spurr 18 12 5 6 2 3 0 1 0 1
N.Suban 15 9 2 6 7 4 2 2 0 2
C.Sutcliffe 11 8 7 3 1 3 0 1 0 0
M.Taberner 13 9 5 4 6 1 0 0 5 1
M.Walters 20 10 4 10 6 1 1 0 0 1
L.Weller 11 4 1 7 4 5 0 1 0 1

Match Details

St Kilda
Fremantle
START TIME
4:35PM
WEATHER
Shower or two
VENUE
Etihad Stadium
Umpires
Jack Edwards, Andrew Stephens, Chris Donlon

St Kilda v Fremantle: Saints add to Freo's growing woes

ST KILDA 5.4  6.8  7.9  15.11 (101)
FREMANTLE
3.0  7.1  10.4  10.7 (67)
Goals: St Kilda:
T Membrey 3 J Bruce 2 N Riewoldt 2 P McCartin 2 B Murdoch D Armitage J Gresham J Newnes J Steven M Weller. Fremantle: E Langdon 2 L Weller 2 M Taberner 2 L Neale M Pavlich M Walters T Sheridan
Best: St Kilda: Armitage, Steven, Riewoldt, Ross, Roberton, Montagna. Fremantle: Neale, Hill, Walters, Blakely, Barlow.
Umpires: Chris Donlon, Andrew Stephens, Jack Edwards.
Official Crowd: 17,927 at Etihad Stadium

And so Fremantle created the sort of record any team would want to avoid, equalling the greatest fall from grace of any top-four team in history.

Saints v Dockers
Getting a grip: Daniel McKenzie of the Saints gets his handball away. Photo: Getty Images

Footscray had lost the first 10 games of 1939 after making the finals the previous year. Now, 77 years later, it was the Dockers' turn.

Unlike other losses this wretched season, this one actually looked likely for a considerable period to be the ice-breaker. Yet the result ultimately was the same. A loss. By five-goals-plus. And another long trip home.

Saints v Dockers
Saint Sean Dempster soars over the top. Photo: Getty Images

St Kilda had already stolen a march in this game after just 10 minutes, by which time they'd  booted four goals. Jack Newnes kicked the first. David Armitage had the second after Freo defender Garrick Ibbotson got himself in an awful tangle playing on near goal and was nailed holding the ball.

Tim Membrey posted the third from another free kick, and Paddy McCartin the fourth after a brilliant one-handed mark in between two defenders.

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But the flying start was no more than the Saints deserved. They'd looked the hungrier side from the start, and a very lopsided tackle count of 14-3 after a tick over 12 minutes proved it.

Freo couldn't win a hard ball, and turned it over when they did. Their attack looked cumbersome with Matthew Pavlich struggling against Sam Fisher, and even ball magnet Lachie Neale couldn't get warm early, still with just one possession late in the first term.

It took a suicidal attempt to centre the ball in front of his defensive goal from St Kilda's Jarryn Geary for Freo to finally get on the board. But what's that old saying about never giving a sucker an even break? Because to say the game turned from that moment would be an understatement.

Two more goals to Lachie Weller and Michael Walters before quarter-time had reduced the gap to only 16 points, Freo coach Ross Lyon still unhappy enough to give his side a fearful bake at the huddle. But that seemed to pay dividends, too.

It was the Dockers who dominated the early going in the second term. In fact, by about three minutes into the quarter, they'd had the last 11 inside 50 entries. And if it took some time for that to be felt on the scoreboard, it was certainly evident on the stats sheet. Freo posted only nine tackles in the first quarter. They'd racked up that many 10 minutes into the second.

And gradually, the goals came. To Pavlich. Another to Weller. Two in a row to Ed Langdon. By which time, half-time, it was just one point the difference.

Now it was Freo dominating the hardness indicators. The Dockers won 11 clearances to three in the second term. Neale went from virtually statless to leading the possession count at the long break. Stephen Hill and Michael Walters caused plenty of grief for the Saints with telling possessions in a game riddled with mistakes as fundamental as kicking into an opponent.

By the time Matt Taberner had his second goal midway through the third term, Fremantle had kicked 10 of the past 12 goals, led by 18 points, and looked destined not only to break the ice, but do so comfortably.

And so to the final twist. Like the Dockers' revival, St Kilda's belated stirring started inconspicuously enough, McCartin toeing one over the goal line. At three-quarter time, you would still have had your money on Freo.

But the last quarter began as had the first. St Kilda began to win the clearances again. Those dominant early, resumed their control. It was Jack Steven and  Armitage out of the middle. In attack, McCartin seemed everywhere, marking, contesting everything and teammates queuing up for the spills his physicality created.

Tim Membrey made the gap just a goal. Another karate kick effort, this time from Riewoldt, levelled the scores. The other Weller, Maverick, put St Kilda back in front. Seb Ross, another big part of the final-term surge, hit Membrey on the chest, Josh Bruce ran into an open goal and the gig was nearly up.

The death knell for the Dockers came when Taberner, who'd played well, marked just 15 metres out. Freo were still a slim chance, but in his eagerness to get the ball back in the middle for the re-start, Taberner hurried his kick and hit the post.

It was the sort of moment symptomatic of the Dockers' year. And all the encouragement the relieved Saints needed to continue with what was by now a scoring spree.

An eight-goal final term, more than they'd managed in the first three put together. A fourth win for the season. And in their defeated opponent, a good example to a side on the up that if you don't take advantage of your premiership window, looking through the glass that has been slammed shut can be a depressing business.


VOTES

(Rohan Connolly)

David Armitage (StK) ........8

Jack Steven (StK)..............8

Lachie Neale (Frem) .........7

Nick Riewoldt (StK)............7

Seb Ross (StK)..................6