VENUE: Domain Stadium, 4.40pm AWST
PAST FIVE TIMES
R17, 2016, Geelong 11.12 (78) d Fremantle 9.7 (61) at Domain Stadium
R2, 2015, Fremantle 15.14 (104) d Geelong 9.6 (60) at Simonds Stadium
R20, 2014, Geelong 12.9 (81) d Fremantle 11.13 (79) at Simonds Stadium
R9, 2014, Fremantle 13.18 (96) d Geelong 9.10 (64) at Domain Stadium
2QF, 2013, Fremantle 12.15 (87) d Geelong 9.18 (72) at Simonds Stadium
GAME NOTES: Fremantle has embarked on a new era after last year’s disastrous 4-win campaign and is expected to be much more competitive in 2017. Club great Matthew Pavlich has hung up the boots, but the Dockers have recruited Cam McCarthy (GWS) and former Cat Shane Kersten in attack, along with premiership players Bradley Hill (Hawthorn) and Joel Hamling (Bulldogs). Superstar Nat Fyfe returns from a broken leg to lead the club for the first time as captain. Fyfe watched with envy last season as Patrick Dangerfield claimed his crown as the AFL’s best player, and seeing the Brownlow medallists lock horns again will be worth the price of admission. The Cats have faced a summer of questions about their reliance on midfield stars Dangerfield and skipper Joel Selwood following their humiliating preliminary final defeat to Sydney. How Chris Scott’s men bounce back, without retired champions Corey Enright and Jimmy Bartel, will be one of the season’s intriguing storylines.
Ol Mottsy’s Tip: Cats by 15
While we do our best to update posts with end of quarter scores, we aren’t always online so if you have access to the scores and see they haven’t gone into the Comments section of this post, the Community would love it if you could help us out.
PRE-SCALE SCORES
(Not sure how accurate they are, but that’s from Live HQ at the end of the game)
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Late change for GeelongCats with ruckman Zac Smith out, replaced by Jackson Thurlow. Dockers go in as named. #AFLFreoCats
Sandilands to go big?
Replacing a speedy for a tall on the wide spaces, probably a good choice.
Especially when they have never had any real chance of winning the hitouts anyway.
G’day guys,
T/U: Take Gawns VC score of 128
T/D: Roll the dice with Danger
Cheers!
128 is a pretty solid score Rd1, given the carnage. I’d be banking it.
Cheers mate 125+ is normally my rule with the VC score, but just didn’t feel right haha. Thanks for giving me the wake up call!
Danger on 64 points at half time. Looks like a breakeven so far 🙂
A Sandilands
4 Hitouts to Advantage in the first 6 minutes
Umps helping the cats early!
Dangerfield up to 42 already. Fyfe on a respectable 24. Cam McCarthy on 0.
Fyfe better not make be regret Captaining him. Had Danger all weekend but the lack of ruck made me change.Was hoping Sandi -> Fyfe all day.
Fyfe’s not going badly – he’s up to 35 now – but Dangerfield is going better so far (now up to 45).
Lincoln McCarthy somehow on 54 (only 24 DT).
Sandilands on 4 (!?) – compared with 22 DT.
Umps won the first quarter………….
Commentators baffled, confusing first round……..
Go Victoria
Please stop looking at the live SC scores, it’s doing my head in.
Scores are going mental – Dangerfield back to 0, and Motlop (!) up to 88.
Close the tab, just wasting your data refreshing it! Been like this all weekend, no point.
I think as an interim thing we should just track the DT scores. It won’t be perfect, but it should give us a rough idea of how each player is going.
Where are u getting the live SC scores used to use Superfooty HQ but it is down at the moment? Thanks
DANGER!! Set for a big SC Score predicting 150+ and that mark WooWee!! 2 Goals strait already not even half time
That didn’t even come close to answering his question.
I’m getting mine from the ‘All Player Stats’ section of the Gameday tab.
Thanks Jack really appreciate it, Gl with your SuperCoach year
No problem.
lol @Healy “It’s a game of crime and punishment, and the dockers are taking the punishment”
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DT Scores:
Dangerfield 60
Fyfe 41
Neale 40
Selwood 40
Sandilands 34
Stewart 25
Parfitt 14
Blicavs 0
Cam McCarthy -1
Is it just me or does Shane Kersten remind anybody of Jack Anthony.
A case of a player having one solid season and getting an inflated contract elsewhere
You mean like Dale Thomas?
Probably not.
I think it was FURL who at one time described Thomas as the best player in the league.
Thomas was a top 10 draft pick also so I would say Thomas is now a has-been whereas Kersten is a never was been
Sandi going well Danger ok Fyfe a bit quiet.
Half time DT scores:
Dangerfield 74
Selwood 60
Fyfe 50
Neale 47
Sandilands 43
Horlin-Smith 39
Tuohy 36
Stewart 25
Parfitt 18
Blicavs 17
Thurlow 11
Cam McCarthy 5
Mccarthy. Feels like no lube.
I’m baffled he was picked up by over 20% of teams…
20% of people forgot that he only attracted the third or fourth best defender in GWS’ forward line, and that he was getting much better delivery there, too.
I wonder how highly his owners are valuing his much-vaunted job security right now?
Still better than the infamous zac dawson.
To clarify, I didn’t mean to suggest that McCarthy would be dropped – he won’t be. Just that job security doesn’t mean much if he doesn’t score anything.
1/2 TIME
Freo 30 vs Geelong 69
(Don’t read too much into these scores just yet……the way things have been this weekend)
FREO
C. Sutcliffe 78
J. Griffin 58
S. Hill 56
N. Suban 51
A. Sandilands 46
C. Blakely 43
N. Fyfe 40
L. Neale 37
D. Mundy 36
L. Spurr 30
D. Tucker 29
M. Johnson 27
E. Langdon 24
M. Walters 24
G. Ibbotson 24
D. Pearce 23
L. Weller 19
B. Hill 18
C. McCarthy 14
J. Hamling 14
Z. Dawson 10
S. Kersten 3
CATS
D. Menzel 86
J. Selwood 76
S. Motlop 67
A. Mackie 66
P. Dangerfield 64
Z. Tuohy 49
L. McCarthy 47
T. Hawkins 47
M. Duncan 46
L. Henderson 45
G. Horlin-Smith 35
N. Cockatoo 34
J. Cowan 32
M. Blicavs 29
T. Ruggles 23
H. Taylor 22
R. Stanley 22
B. Parfitt20
T. Lonergan14
J. Thurlow13
J. Murdoch12
T. Stewart 11
Commentators ” Fyfe has been held onto at all the stoppages …. and the umps are NOW starting to pick it up”……..
Fyfe suddenly up to 80 DT. McCarthy up to 12.
I almost considered trading in Thurlow for Stewart at the last minute when I heard he was playing. Thank goodness I didn’t have enough coin to do it.
Fyfe, you’re going brilliantly, but please let Lachie have a turn with the ball.
Fyfe was always gonna steal them!
Would he at least be open to a bit of one-two handballing?
He’s listened! Neale now on 20 disposals (up from 9).
3-quarter-time DT scores:
Dangerfield 93
Fyfe 89
Selwood 75
Sandilands 63
Tuohy 60
Horlin-Smith 52
Neale 46
Stewart 36
Parfitt 31
Blicavs 28
Thurlow 25
McCarthy 16
Pre-scale scores at the top of the post!!
Go the Cats!
This is completely irrelevant, but there’s a picture on the top of the AFL website of Tim Watson, Hamish McLachlan, and some Robinson Crusoe-looking guy. It’s been there for a few days, now. I’ve only just realised that the beardy one is Garry Lyon! He looks like he’s been sleeping in the gutter or something.