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Comedy legend to get a taste of the Dockers
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by DockerNow.com
in Miscellaneous
American comedic legend Jerry Lewis will be an interested onlooker when Fremantle take on Carlton in one of their biggest games of the season at Etihad Stadium this weekend.
Radio 3AW reports “The King of Comedy” is heading to Melbourne this weekend, and will be the guest of the Blues club at the clash on Saturday night.
The 84-year-old will be in Australia as part of his longstanding role as international patron for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation.
He will speak at the President’s dinner before the match, and then accompany President Stephen Kernahan to the player warm up.
He will also join the captains at the coin toss before the start of the game.
A comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer, Lewis is best-known for his slapstick humour in stage, radio, screen, recording and television – mostly in partnership with legendary ratpacker Dean Martin.
Palmer back but Suban hits new hurdle
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by DockerNow.com
in News
Nick Suban’s injury-interrupted second AFL season has continued with a new elbow injury ruling him out of Fremantle’s critical clash with Carlton at Etihad Stadium tomorrow night.
The Dockers regained one talented left-footer, Rhys Palmer, but lost another, although they are confident that Suban will be back for the match against Port Adelaide after the mid-season break.
Byron Schammer’s AFL career has again stalled, dropped from the team after just one match back against St Kilda last Sunday, although football manager Chris Bond said he was likely to earn chances if he kept working hard at Claremont.
“Obviously it is a difficult time for Scham, but he is handling it really well and we look forward to him fighting his way back,” Bond said.
Young ruckman Zac Clarke will also return to the WAFL after having just two possessions as a backup forward against the Saints.
Matt de Boer returns to the team and teenager Dylan Roberton will play his third AFL game tomorrow.
Leadership a key indicator for this year’s draft
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by DockerNow.com
in News
AS THE country’s best young footballers jockey for attention at this year’s NAB AFL Under-18 Championships, their leadership ability has become a prominent talking point among AFL recruiters.
State coaches are coaching leadership, players are making a point of developing it, and recruiters like Fremantle’s Brad Lloyd are taking more notice of the young footballers that have it.
Lloyd said Fremantle, which has drafted 23 new players over the last two years, had made a point of recruiting young leaders and it was something that can push a player up the draft pecking order.
“From a recruiting point of view it’s an area that every football club will be looking at,” Lloyd told afl.com.au.
“With AFL teams focusing more on structures, clubs will increasingly look for leaders who can direct traffic on field, while also taking note of players who don’t play their role for the team and therefore break down what the group is trying to achieve.
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Fremantle Vs. Carlton – Round 13 Teams
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by DockerNow.com
in Team Selections
Fremantle
B: Nathan Fyfe, Chris Tarrant, Kepler Bradley
HB: Antoni Grover, Adam McPhee, Roger Hayden
C: Garrick Ibbotson, David Mundy, Anthony Morabito
HF: Jay van Berlo, Matthew Pavlich, Stephen Hill
F: Ryan Crowley, Alex Silvagni, Hayden Ballantyne
Foll: Aaron Sandilands, Michael Barlow, Paul Duffield
I/C: Dylan Roberton, Rhys Palmer, Paul Hasleby, Matthew de Boer
Emg: Tim Ruffles, Clancee Pearce, Jesse Crichton
In: Palmer, de Boer, Roberton
Out: Byron Schammer, Nick Suban, Zac Clarke
Carlton
B: Aaron Joseph, Michael Jamison, Paul Bower
HB: Jordan Russell, Andrew Walker, Bryce Gibbs
C: Kane Lucas, Kade Simpson, Heath Scotland
HF: Marc Murphy, Jarrad Waite, Jeff Garlett
F: Eddie Betts, Lachie Henderson, Bret Thornton
Foll: Matthew Kreuzer, Chris Judd, Andrew Carrazzo
I/C: Richard Hadley, Ryan Houlihan, Sam Jacobs, Chris Yarran
Emg: Dennis Armfield, Shaun Grigg, Mitch Robinson
In: Bower, Henderson, Yarran, Lucas
Out: Setanta O’hAilpin (calf), Dennis Armfield, Steven Browne, Mitch Robinson
Woes continue for Freo’s Thornton
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by DockerNow.com
in News
Dockers defender Scott Thornton will miss up to 10 weeks after breaking his leg while playing for South Fremantle in the WAFL last weekend.
It is the latest setback for Thornton – a groin injury has kept him from playing any matches for Fremantle this season.
Meanwhile, Freo midfielder Rhys Palmer will face a fitness test on his injured ankle to determine if he will line up against Carlton at Docklands on Saturday night.
Hasleby looks beyond 200
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by DockerNow.com
in Milestones
FREMANTLE midfielder Paul Hasleby has expressed his desire to play on next season and experience success at the end of his career as he prepares to play his 200th AFL game on Saturday night.
Hasleby, 29, was given a one-year contract extension at the end of 2009 and he said his focus at the moment was to get to the end of this season and prove his worth.
But having played in just two finals across 11 seasons, the veteran said being a part of a successful era with Fremantle was driving him to play on beyond this year.
“I’ve played 200 games and only two finals, and that’s something that I want to turn around and play in a few at the end of my career,” Hasleby said from Fremantle Oval on Monday.
“Jonathan Brown in the first four years of his [career] almost played in 20 finals. It’d be nice if I could do that at the end of my career.
“Once you get to 29 you’re getting watched every game you play.
“I’m just going to keep putting my best foot forward on and off the field and hopefully at the end of the year the club deems it good for me to go on.”
AFL coach reveals secret: my brain tumour battle
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by DockerNow.com
in Miscellaneous
MARK Harvey was 34, retired and in his first full-time season as an assistant coach at Essendon. It was 1999. At work, around his friends and in the newspapers, people kept asking him the same questions: do you want to be a senior coach one day? Why aren’t you applying for jobs? What are you waiting for?
Each time, Harvey tried to deflect the attention, to avoid answering, to buy himself some time. He wanted to coach his own AFL team, absolutely, but he was in no condition to. What he didn’t know then was that a small tumour had grown on the pituitary gland in his brain, flooding his body with human growth hormone, making his organs swell and messing with his mind.
How could he contemplate his next career move when he thought he was going mad?
Harvey isn’t sure when he started to get sick. But for more than a year after he retired in 1997, things weren’t quite right.
Fremantle not tiring: Harvey
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by DockerNow.com
in News
FREMANTLE has lost consecutive matches for the first time this season after falling to St Kilda by 18 points on Sunday, but coach Mark Harvey says his young side is not tiring.
Fremantle mounted a courageous comeback at Subiaco Oval, kicking five of the game’s last six goals, but its ball-use was below the standard it has set this year.
The side now travels to Etihad Stadium to face Carlton with its top-four spot vulnerable, but Harvey said it was the quality of opposition that undid Fremantle on Sunday, not a tiring side.
“We never played well,” the coach said after the game. “We were always either three or four goals behind, and with St Kilda at some stage you’ve got to ask them to play on you a little bit more.
“Today can be the quality of the opposition – you’ve always got to take that into consideration.”
Harvey praised Hayden Ballantyne (two goals and 19 possessions) and Chris Tarrant, who blanketed Stephen Milne in the second half, while Adam McPhee impressed in a tagging role on star Saint Lenny Hayes.
Saints hold off fast-finishing Fremantle
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by DockerNow.com
in Match Results
Fremantle 2.1 4.5 7.6 10.7 (67)
St Kilda 4.2 8.6 11.7 12.13 (85)
GOALS
Fremantle: Morabito 2, Ballantyne 2, Barlow, Bradley, Fyfe, Pavlich, Duffield, Hasleby
St Kilda: Milne 4, Koschitzke 2, Schneider 2 McQualter, Gardiner, Jones, Gilbert
BEST
Fremantle: Ballantyne, Barlow, McPhee, Mundy, Sandilands, Tarrant
St Kilda: Goddard, Milne, Fisher, Gilbert, Dal Santo, Koschitzke, Ray
INJURIES
Fremantle: Palmer (ankle) replaced in selected side by Hasleby, van Berlo (ankle)
St Kilda: Clarke (hamstring)
Reports: Justin Koschitzke (St Kilda) for striking Ryan Crowley
Umpires: Margetts, Rosebury, Findlay
Official crowd: 37,569 at Subiaco Oval
Highlights – Vs. Adelaide – Round 11
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by DockerNow.com
in Video
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