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Dockers defeat Swans 12.11 (83) to 10.11 (71) in AFL preliminary final
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Minor premiers to meet Hawthorn or Brisbane in grand final at the MCG
The Fremantle Football Club have never had a night like this. They’ve never been forced this deep down the well to win a big game. They’ve never had so much thrown at them. They’ve never been in such a hostile environment. They’ve never, in a big game, flipped so quickly from a meek, nervy, fumbly team to an offensive powerhouse.
All year they have demonstrated that they can run out games well, and that they can slam on a lot of goals in a short amount of time. They were awful here in the first half. But they showed signs of life after the main break. Some hard-fought stoppage wins culminated in a superb Jye Amiss goal, before Luke Jackson marked a dump kick and converted from 50m. But Sydney cancelled the two goals out immediately. And when Charlie Curnow hauled in a cracking contested mark, his first for the evening, they had half a foot in the grand final. In keeping with the pattern of the game, it began with an intercept mark in defence. If not for Hayden Young’s goal after the siren from deep in the members’ pocket, Fremantle’s cause may have been lost.
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