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McPhee, Hill fined for wrestling
Aug 2nd
Adam McPhee, Fremantle, has been charged with a first offence for wrestling Patrick McGinnity, West Coast, during the first quarter of the round 18 match between Fremantle and West Coast, played at Subiaco on Sunday August 1, 2010.
In summary, he can accept a $900 sanction with an early plea.
A first offence for wrestling is a $1200 sanction. An early plea reduces the sanction by 25 per cent to a $900 sanction.
Stephen Hill, Fremantle, has been charged with a first offence for wrestling Scott Selwood, West Coast, during the second quarter of the round 18 match between Fremantle and West Coast, played at Subiaco on Sunday August 1, 2010.
In summary, he can accept a $900 sanction with an early plea.
A first offence for wrestling is a $1200 sanction. An early plea reduces the sanction by 25 per cent to a $900 sanction.
Tarrant sidelined
Aug 2nd
Star defender Chris Tarrant will not be available for at least a month after suffering a medial ligament injury in Sunday’s Carlton Mid Derby win.
Tarrant injured his left knee in a collision with West Coast’s Andrew Embley in the first quarter at Subiaco Oval and will be sidelined for between four and six weeks.
Losing Tarrant is a blow to the side’s top-four ambitions with important games against North Melbourne, the Sydney Swans, Hawthorn and Carlton to round out the season.
Tarrant, who was making his comeback from a heel injury against West Coast, has played 13 games this season.
Harvey said he was the type of player that could return to the side without a stint in the WAFL if the opportunity presents during this year’s finals campaign.
“He’s a player that comes up quite quickly so he doesn’t need a lot of game time,” Harvey said.
“Even today (Sunday) you saw he’d been out for that period of time but it didn’t look like he’d been out.”
AFL wait fuels Ballantyne’s hunger
Aug 2nd
FREMANTLE goalsneak Hayden Ballantyne says waiting for his opportunity at AFL level has made him hungrier to succeed and inspired a dream 2010 season.
Ballantyne, who was recruited by Fremantle as a 21-year-old after winning the 2008 WAFL Sandover Medal, kicked a career-best six goals against West Coast on Sunday, putting his stamp on a 75-point derby demolition.
The 23-year-old has now kicked 32 goals in an impressive second season and is on track to achieve the 40-goal mark he set for himself at the start of the year.
He said he never gave up on his AFL ambitions, despite being overlooked at consecutive drafts as a Peel Thunder junior.
“I was always hoping I was going to get a chance and I was lucky Freo gave me the chance,” Ballantyne said from Fremantle Oval on Monday.
“I knew it was going to take a lot of hard work and I was a bit edgy on whether I was going to get picked up.
“The more you miss the harder you want to work and try get to it.
Spoon-feeding some life into the derby
Aug 2nd
Fremantle wrapped up its seventh straight derby win against arch foe West Coast and boy did the team do it in style.
The Dockers’ biggest ever scoreline against the Eagles came courtesy of a barrage of goals from 11 different players, including six from small forward Hayden Ballantyne.
Matthew Pavlich returned to goalkicking form with four majors, and who said ruckman Aaron Sandilands needed a break? The giant outfoxed West Coast duo Dean Cox and Nic Naitanui for the bulk of the game and was a clear winner for the Ross Glendinning Medal.
It was a fun day out in the sun for the Dockers faithful at Subiaco Oval, while for the Eagles minority – and weren’t they a minority indeed – could be forgiven for thinking they were in the rain and hail at the MCG.
Freo caned the Eagles into submission, they were well beaten. But what could have topped off the afternoon was the sight of 40,000 fans waving around wooden spoons.
Youth coming of age
Aug 2nd
Fremantle hard man Matt de Boer says the side’s young players are aware of their growing importance this season after driving Sunday’s 75-point western derby win.
With Justin Bollenhagen making his debut, Fremantle fielded 10 first- or second-year players against West Coast and the group set the standard for intensity and tackling pressure.
De Boer, who played possibly the best game of his 31-game career, typified the desperation of Fremantle’s young players when he lunged in Mitch Brown’s path deep into the third term to set up a goal for Bollenhagen.
The 20-year-old, who finished with 19 possessions and had a hand in numerous other goals, said those sorts of efforts summed up how he and his inexperienced teammates want to play the game.
“We get together before each game and get in a little circle and say, ‘We’re going to set the standard here’, and things like that, so we’re going along pretty nicely,” de Boer told fremantlefc.com.au after the side’s seventh consecutive western derby win.
Ban cost me life membership at Fremantle: Dale Kickett
Aug 2nd
DALE Kickett still hasn’t forgotten the first Western Derby.
It was May 1995 and West Coast, the reigning premiers, used physical intimidation to remind the new kids on the block who was boss as the Eagles thrashed Fremantle by 85 points.
The defeat inflicted mental scars on the Dockers and variations of the script were played out each time they met for several seasons.
“We got hammered physically in quite a few of our first games. I remember being cleaned up in the middle of Subiaco Oval in I think the first derby by Woosha (West Coast defender and now coach John Worsfold). The derbies were littered with those things throughout,” Kickett said.
“They were physically much bigger than the majority of our team. They’d just come off a premiership and in the same boat we probably would have done the same thing.”
Fast forward five years and Western Derby XII already had an edge to it before the players ran out on July 30. Despite Fremantle finally breaking its derby duck in 1999, the Eagles had won the first derby of 2000 by 117 points and there was a feeling a statement needed to be made.
Taz only downside to derby triumph
Aug 2nd
FREMANTLE looks set to lose Chris Tarrant for the final month of the season after the star full-back suffered a suspected medial ligament injury in Fremantle’s 75-point western derby win on Sunday.
Tarrant, who had missed Fremantle’s past five matches with an ankle injury, clashed with West Coast’s Andrew Embley late in the first quarter at Subiaco Oval, with his left knee tangled up in the collision.
He walked to the rooms unaided and coach Mark Harvey said the star full-back was likely to miss the run to Fremantle’s first finals series since 2006.
“[It’s] probably a medial ligament at this stage,” Harvey said after the win, Fremantle seventh consecutive – and most convincing – derby triumph over West Coast.
“We’d like to think it was probably three or four weeks but we’ll wait for the full diagnosis in the morning.
“It depends on the grading of it; it can either be one, two or three.
“He’s upbeat. Naturally he just wants to be part of the team the way they’re winning at the moment.”
Freo’s demolition derby
Aug 2nd
Fremantle 7.6 13.8 18.12 24.16 (160)
West Coast 0.3 4.4 9.5 13.7 (85)
GOALS
Fremantle: Ballantyne 6, Pavlich 4, Hasleby 3, Johnson 2, Bollenhagen 2, Hill 2, Hayden, Mundy, Suban, van Berlo, Crichton
West Coast: LeCras 5, Strijk 2, Rosa 2, Selwood, Naitanui, Embley, Waters
BEST
Fremantle: Broughton, Sandilands, Ballantyne, Mundy, Pavlich, Hill, Fyfe
West Coast: LeCras, Priddis, Rosa, Strijk
INJURIES
Fremantle: Tarrant (knee)
West Coast: Nil
Reports: Nil
Umpires: Margetts, McInerney, Keating
Official crowd: 40,451 at Subiaco Oval
Big 150 as Luke McPharlin etches Fremantle life membership in Derby XXXII
Aug 1st
LUKE McPharlin feels at home.
At home in the AFL, at home in defence and at home with the Dockers.
The Fremantle key-position star will play his 150th game for the club in Sunday’s Western Derby, making him eligible for life membership at his second club.
McPharlin has become such a fixture with Freo that his 12 games with Hawthorn in 2000 and ’01 are almost forgotten. Had he not been traded back home to the Dockers as the Chris Connolly era began in 2002, he could have easily held the premiership cup aloft with Shane Crawford and Lance Franklin two seasons ago.
But rather than looking back, the 28-year-old is focused on the future.
