FREMANTLE
4.4 6.7 8.10 13.11 (89)
WESTERN BULLDOGS
1.3 5.6 10.12 10.13 (73)
GOALS: Fremantle: M Walters 3 C McCarthy 2 D Mundy 2 H Crozier 2 S Kersten 2 B Grey L Weller.
Western Bulldogs: L Hunter 3 R Murphy 2 J Johannissen J Stringer M Bontempelli M Boyd T McLean.
BEST: Fremantle: N Fyfe, D Mundy, S Hill, A Sandilands, J Hamling, M Walters
Western Bulldogs: L Hunter, L Dalhaus, J Macrae, M Suckling, T Liberatore, M Bontempelli
Umpires: Ben Ryan, Dean Margetts, Andrew Mitchell.
Official crowd: 28,865 at Domain Stadium.
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Dockers upset defending premiers
Fremantle have earned their first win of the season in a thriller against the Western Bulldogs.
Fremantle continues to be a thorn in the side of the Western Bulldogs.
The Dockers repeated their efforts of round 23 of last season to beat the Bulldogs by 16 points at Domain Stadium on Saturday night. Actually, the last time the Dogs beat the Dockers in Perth was round one of 2009.
That night last year, the Dogs rested some of their players, with the finals in mind. And it worked, as they won the flag. But this week, they had 16 of their premiership players on the field.
The Dockers had made six changes after an embarrassing loss to Port Adelaide last week. They had two debutants and 10 players on the ground with fewer than 20 games experience.
Despite Ross Lyon opting for youth in place of some seasoned campaigners, it was his senior players that stood up when the game was on the line.
Brownlow medallist Nat Fyfe was almost untouchable in the second half when he collected 19 possessions to finish the game with 33. Aaron Sandilands, David Mundy and Stephen Hill were also still running hard at the end.
Sadly, only 28,865 Dockers fans bothered to show up to the game.
And while most of those would even have expected the Bulldogs to finally gain momentum and claim a win, it didn't happen. The Dockers forward line had been under the pump in the opening fortnight of the season, but for most of the contest it looked more capable of kicking a winning score than the Dogs.
Its goal haul against Geelong in round one was 10; and only eight against Port in round two.
But they appeared to have more avenues to goal than the Dogs and finished with 13 to the Dogs' 10.
Travis Cloke was well held by former Dog Joel Hamling, while Jake Stringer was struggling to get his hands on the ball inside 50.
If it wasn't for Lachie Hunter, the Dogs would have been much more than 26 points down in the first quarter. Hunter had 11 touches in the first term and kicked the Dogs only goal. He had their first three. At the other end, Lyon's changes were all paying dividends.
The Dockers kicked the first four goals of the game and recalled youngsters Brady Grey and Hayden Crozier had each contributed to the scoreboard, as had new forward recruit Cam McCarthy.
One of Lyon's position changes, Mundy moving forward, also paid dividends, with the former captain also kicking an early major. His second, in the final term, seemed to give his side belief they could actually win.
The Dogs are without some goal kicking power. Stewart Crameri, Tory Dickson and Jack Redpath were all missing from the line-up and they were also without Liam Picken from the 10-minute mark of the second term with concussion.
In the third term, once Marcus Bontempelli started to shake his Connor Blakely tag, the Dogs started to get more chances but they just couldn't make the most of it.
In that third term they had 16 inside 50 entries but could kick only 5.6. They had turned a seven point half-time deficit to 14-point lead at the last break, but it could have been much more.
Fremantle's manic pressure and run in the final quarter blew the Bulldogs off the park, with Fyfe tallying 12 disposals for the term.
Votes
9 N Fyfe
8 D Mundy
8 L Hunter
8 S Hill
7 A Sandilands
(Brad Elborough)