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Roos utility Riley Hardeman is out for the game after taking a painful blow to the chest or sternum in the first half.
Patrick Voss took the first mark of the second half but missed his shot at goal.
The Dockers still lead by 55 points.
Freo 83, Roos 28 with 18 mins to go in Q3.
Updated: That was Freo’s highest first half score since early in 2015 according to Kayo Sports.
The Roos sold a home game to Bunbury but Fremantle is giving them a free lesson after a nine goals to one second term.
Freo are the standard, the Roos are a mile off them, and that was made blatantly clear.
Might it have been closer at Marvel Stadium, with the Roos own fans cheering them on? We will never know but at least they can chase the purple jumpers around in nice sunshine.
Luke Jackson has just streamed through the corridor and kicked a running goal.
The Dockers have kicked nine goals to one in this term and they are giving the Roos a spanking.
This Roos team is way better than this but they have no answer and no way to stop these hard running Dockers.
Freo 82, Roos 27 with two mins to go in Q2.
Josh Treacy is one of the form players in the AFL this season but he just made a rare error.
The Dockers big man flew for a contested mark at the top of the goal-square and he pulled it in.
But after he landed he saw a teammate free in the square and handballed, but he didn’t see a North defender was close by and he knocked it over for a rushed behind.
Treacy put his hand up to say sorry, next time he will just boot the goal.
Freo 70, Roos 27 with four mins to go in Q2.
The Dockers are rolling yet again and they’ve just taken the ball from deep in defence using handballs and kicks and found Treacy in space who marked and then kicked the goal.
It looked like a training drill that was perfectly executed.
This is a special team.
Freo 57, Roos 27 with 11 mins to go in Q2.
Roos star George Wardlaw recently signed a contact extension and he has shown yet again how valuable he can be winning a free kick and booting a goal from almost 50m out.
The Roos looked in trouble at the start of this term but they have battled back into it with Josh Darling and now Wardlaw kicking goals.
Although Switkowski just kicked his second goal to regain some points for the Dockers.
Roos forward Cooper Trembath has made a difference with his leaping taps in the ruck.
Freo 39, Roos 27 with 14 mins to go in Q2.
More than two years have passed since Chris Fagan entered a Q-Clash believing he might be coaching the Brisbane Lions for the last time.
The emotional toll from the Hawthorn racism allegations still weighed heavily and that, compounded with a cancer scare, created a doom-laden backdrop for a coach whose side had lost the 2023 grand final by four points and was sitting at 2-5 in early May the following season.
History relates that club bosses Andrew Wellington and Greg Swann went to Fagan’s house the morning after the Lions had defeated the Suns following a tip-off from club doctor Paul McConnell that the coach was seriously struggling.
Fagan had told his wife Ursula and his manager James Henderson that he was thinking of walking away from the Lions. The heavy injury toll suffered during the Gold Coast game, combined with a truthful and cathartic session with Wellington and Swann, changed his mind.
