Lappin handballs to Kouta, snap around the body and hits the post.

Carlton fans are rising as the team appears to be taking more risks.

Brad Fisher playing some desperate footy with no regard about his knee

Carlton seem to be ready to take more risks.

Free Kick to Fremantle after a soft push in the back apparently.

Goal to Fremantle courtesy of the umpires.

93 points to half time. On course to nudge 200. Surely they're going to run out of steam?

7 goals STRAIGHT to Freo...what is it with teams playing us and accuracy?

Sounds like a nice free-flowing game both ways....sounds like we're playing pretty positively.

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even though it's a 35 pts behind, we are not playing shit.

scotland 19 possession so far, that's very good!

Hopefully we can do something about the centre clearances and shut them down in the second half. Was better in that quarter in that we won more but still when they clear its under so little pressure.

Some good positive's though being Fisher and Simpson

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No goals to Fevola or Whitnall.

Fevola will not get another free all year from these friggin' umpires. They seem determined to push him to the edge, paying free kicks against him that he would never, ever get if the situation was reversed. That way, when he spits the dummy, the umpires get to pay one of their nice, theatrical fifty metre penalties and get their mug in the paper and on the tele all week.

SHITS ME TO TEARS.

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turnover at half forward = freo goal

those 2 last freo soft/flukey goals in the last 2 minutes pretty much sums up the season so far. Hope the boys can at least fight this one out

Sounds like whoever wins the centre bounce gets a goal and it goes the other way.

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Oh and....


SIMMO

HAS

ARRIVED.

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Hi guys
Could someone put some stats up and the actual scores? I can't get the afl website working...

Simpson and Fisher are keeping us in this match.

Bugger about T-bird, we're always going to be struggling with him off the field. Waite and Lance doing okay in defence though. We're really struggling at the centre bounces in the ruck.

Hopeully we don't simply fade out, again, in the second half.

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biggest positives so far = simmo and fish

welcome back fish

longmuir showing a bit also

1AW needs to do a bit more in the 2nd half

Fev has no space in the fifty............oh and the umps wont give him a free kick.

Carlton (9.4.58) Fremantle (15.3.93)
Goalkickers
Troy Longmuir 2
Kade Simpson 2
Nick Stevens 1
Ian Prendergast 1
Cory McGrath 1
Brad Fisher 1
Anthony Koutoufides 1

Matthew Pavlich 5
Ryan Crowley 3
Brett Peake 2
Troy Cook 1
Josh Carr 1
Shane Parker 1
Luke McPharlin 1
Des Headland 1
Team Stats
107 Kicks 97
41 Marks 42
66 Handballs 90
21 Tackles 18
12 Hitouts 19
9 Frees 9


Carlton

Player K H D M HO T FF FA G B
H.Scotland 13 6 19 4 0 0 1 0 0 0
A.Koutoufides 8 8 16 3 0 1 0 0 1 2
S.Camporeale 9 6 15 2 0 1 1 0 0 0
B.Fisher 7 7 14 4 0 0 0 1 1 0
A.Carrazzo 7 3 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
N.Stevens 7 3 10 3 0 2 0 1 1 1
L.Whitnall 7 2 9 4 0 1 0 0 0 0
I.Prendergast 5 3 8 2 4 2 1 0 1 0
K.Simpson 5 3 8 1 0 1 2 0 2 0
G.Bowyer 5 2 7 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
B.Fevola 5 2 7 2 0 0 0 2 0 0
B.Johnson 4 3 7 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
M.Lappin 1 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
L.Livingston 4 2 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
J.Waite 3 3 6 1 0 1 1 2 0 1
C.Bryan 3 2 5 3 8 2 0 0 0 0
T.Longmuir 3 2 5 1 0 2 1 1 2 0
E.Betts 2 2 4 0 0 2 1 1 0 0
D.Teague 3 1 4 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
C.McGrath 2 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
B.Thornton 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
A.Walker 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

outstanding effort from Fisher........with nice cameo from Simpson

the defensive efforts of Stevens and Camporeale are bloody awful though - 5 goals kicked against them.

Parker has Fev in a bearhug, no free. The ball then goes to Sandilands who shepherds across the Carlton player's face, no free. Then it goes into the Freo forward line for a goal.

Good effort by Prenda to go into the centre and stifle the Freo ruck dominance after being beaten by Pavlich early.
Simmo terrific at this stage.
Longmuir lively when the ball is in the forward line.
Walker missed another mark of the year attempt. One day he'll hang onto one.

Edit: And it's great to see Fisher back playing well.

Campo playing ok , Stevens is woeful - crowley killing him.

Fisher is god , Simmo is also

Waite playing well and prenda doing ok

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