Match

Fremantle vs GWS Giants

Commentary / 28 Mar 2021

Pre Game

00:00
The Giants scored from 43 per cent of their inside 50s last season – ranked fourth.

Quarter 1

00:00
Q1 is now underway.
00:30
SCORE GOAL - Giants (Jacob Hopper)
02:30
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Rushed)
05:08
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Andrew Brayshaw)
05:13
The Dockers are well on top in the inside 50's, 5 to 2 early on in the match. They have failed to capitalise on their advantage leading only by two points.
08:10
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Tim Taranto)
08:53
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Callan Ward)
09:58
Giants Interchange - Sam J. Reid off due to the blood rule.
10:03
Tim Taranto has led from the front for the Giants with five disposals, three clearances, two contested possessions and 115 metres gained.
11:13
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Sam Switkowski)
14:19
Tim Taranto 126, Andrew Brayshaw 119 and Harry Perryman 97 are leading the way in terms of metres gained in the match.
17:13
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Sam J. Reid)
17:37
The Dockers have had put on more pressure inside their forward 50 so far in the match - 5 to 0. David Mundy is leading leading the way with two.
18:18
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Adam Cerra)
19:24
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Michael Frederick)
20:46
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Lachie Schultz)
20:59
Dockers are kicking at an efficiency of 64 per cent for the match while the Giants is going at just 55 per cent by foot.
23:30
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Matt Taberner)
24:45
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Stephen Coniglio)
26:01
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Matt Taberner)
27:16
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Toby Greene)
29:28
Dockers Interchange - Lloyd Meek off due to the blood rule.
29:59
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Sam Switkowski)
31:43
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Nat Fyfe)
31:46
The siren has sounded to end Q1.

Quarter 2

00:00
Q2 is now underway.
00:54
Fremantle are well on top in contested possession, 40 to 33. David Mundy is leading the Dockers in this department with six of his thirteen disposals coming via an contested possession.
02:45
Dockers Interchange - Caleb Serong off due to the blood rule.
04:33
David Mundy has had a strong start to the first half for the Dockers with 14 disposals, eight contested possessions, seven handball receives, four tackles, six clearances and 152 metres gained.
05:32
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Bobby Hill)
06:19
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Nat Fyfe)
06:34
The Dockers have taken their lead out to 25 points their highest in the match so far, they have been in front for 21 minutes out of their 30 played so far in the match.
08:44
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Sam Switkowski)
09:03
With almost 10 minutes played in the second quarter, the Dockers have gone inside their forward 50 on seven compared to GWS two but have only registered one goal and two behinds to three behinds.
10:01
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Matt de Boer)
10:32
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Josh Kelly)
11:23
Andrew Brayshaw has had a strong first half so far with 13 disposals, 11 uncontested possessions, eight handball receives, three handball receives, one goal and 143 metres gained
13:53
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Rushed)
18:23
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Lachie Schultz)
20:28
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Jack Buckley)
23:15
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Rushed)
24:48
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Sam Switkowski)
26:35
The siren has sounded to end Q2.

Quarter 3

00:00
Q3 is now underway.
01:36
SCORE GOAL - Giants (Harry Himmelberg)
03:27
Adam Cerra has won 12 out of 17 disposals have come via uncontested possessions and has gained 400 metres. The Dockers are winning the outside contest via uncontested possessions 149 - 124.
03:43
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Matt Taberner)
06:30
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Andrew Brayshaw)
07:59
Brennan Cox and Matthew Taberner (Fremantle) are the only players who have played 100 per cent of the match so far.
08:30
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Toby Greene)
09:40
Dockers have outscored GWS 3.3.21 to 1.0.6 from defensive 50 chains.
10:35
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Nat Fyfe)
13:45
Adam Cerra 485, Isaac Cumming 435, Luke Ryan 401 and David Mundy 383 are leading the way in terms of metres gained in the match.
14:02
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Michael Frederick)
15:37
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Andrew Brayshaw)
16:53
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Sam Switkowski)
18:23
The Dockers have maintained their territory dominance across the entire match, recording 15 more inside 50s for the match. This territory dominance is reflected on the scoreboard with the Dockers having 23 to 13 scoring shots.
19:02
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Toby Greene)
20:41
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Lachie Schultz)
23:42
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Michael Frederick)
25:40
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Bobby Hill)
26:07
Dockers Interchange - Brennan Cox off due to an injury.
27:08
Dockers Interchange - Nat Fyfe and is possibly out for the game.
30:19
SCORE GOAL - Giants (Harry Himmelberg)
30:25
The siren has sounded to end Q3.

Quarter 4

00:00
Q4 is now underway.
01:19
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Caleb Serong)
03:07
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Matt Taberner)
04:06
Both sides have been inaccurate from set shots today with their accuracies Fremantle 59 per cent from 20 shots and GWS 50 per cent from 9 shots.
05:07
In the 24 ruck contests that Matt Flynn and Lloyd Meek have contested against each other, Flynn has won the hit outs by 1, the clearances 12 - 10 while Meek has won the hitouts-to-advantage 4 - 3
05:55
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Rushed)
07:55
The weight of possession and territory has resulted in Fremantle dominating the scoreboard today. Fremantle lead the total disposal count 360 - 276, clearances 24 - 19 and inside 50s 50 - 36.
09:53
The Dockers have started the final quarter strong inside the contest-winning groundball gets 9 - 3 and contested possessions 15 - 5.
10:41
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Lachie Schultz)
12:26
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (David Mundy)
15:01
David Mundy has played an important role in the match for the Dockers. He has won 34 disposals, 504 metres gained, 15 contested possessions, six clearances, six ground ball gets and 16 handball receives.
15:07
SCORE GOAL - Giants (Zach Sproule)
19:11
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Tanner Bruhn)
20:45
SCORE BEHIND - Dockers (Ethan Hughes)
22:25
SCORE GOAL - Giants (Toby Greene)
24:30
SCORE GOAL - Giants (Toby Greene)
26:15
SCORE BEHIND - Giants (Josh Kelly)
29:10
SCORE GOAL - Dockers (Lachie Schultz)
30:23
The siren has sounded to end Q4.