Round 14
	V
Fremantle 9.9 (63)		Port Adelaide 22.15 (147)

Subiaco, House of Pain ... Yah Right! Fortress Shmortress!

Seven on the trot is a record for the club and certainly done in brilliant fashion. The opening of the game was pretty intense and I thought, "Shit, they're really going for it" especially with it being Dale Kickett's last game and all. Some pretty blatant errors in front of goal meant we kicked eight behinds before we scored our first goal which didn't look good at the time.

So Freo held us pretty well until half time and I didn't really see anything out of the ordinary that made me sit up and take notice. It was easy to see where it was going for Freo when their stats showed all of their marks around the ground because they played their chippy stop-start game. It reminded me of Port a couple of years back and really indicated how far we have come.

After half time it was simply a show of class. Dew, Tredrea and Wanganeen really showed their class and put together some really brilliant work that was inspirational. Dew is sucha freak on goal and when you can snap on your right leg when you're a left footer from some very freakish angles and still put them through is unbelievable. Tredders is truly becoming the best centre half forward in the comp by a country mile.

So they put the pedal to the metal and absolutely demolished Freo. At the start of the game when they showed the super on TV that said we beat them by 92 points last time we met them at Subiaco, I thought, not this time. Boy, we were bloody close though!

Hopefully we can keep injury free and work our way towards a successful finals campaign in September. The media's talking up our position as Premiership favourites and it's certainly way too soon to do that but the way the season has panned out so far, it feels like we are just starting to hit our straps at the right time.

My last word is a huge hearty round of congratulations to the one and only Choco - Mark Williams, on being made a member of the AFL Club given this was his 300th game as player and coach. Well done, Mark. We are very proud of your achievements. I will never forget the podium presentation at the Ansett Cup Final win over Brisbane in 2001 when he was facing the members and turned and pointed to the outer and said "This is for you guys, the real fans"

Ladder: 44 points, No. 1. 4 points clear of Brisbane and Collingwood on 40.

Highlight:
1) Wanganeen's 3rd quarter individual effort on goal, beginning at half back. Bloody superb.
2) Dom Cassisi's great debut with some really good gutsy efforts
3) Poulton's hip and shoulder on Jeff Farmer.

Lowlight:
1) French's report for striking Croad. Didn't see it. I hate waiting 'til Monday night tribunal.

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