Eagles soar, Fremantle look to reset after shock western derby result

Fremantle manager Justin Longmuir is adamant determination were nary excuses for his team’s occidental derby flop, saying his players simply got smoked successful the contest.

West Coast led 46-3 by aboriginal successful the 2nd 4th of Saturday’s lucifer connected the mode to their daze 16.9 (105) to 10.8 (68) AFL win.

West Coast observe their 2nd triumph of the season.Credit: Getty

The Eagles won the contested possession conflict 132-108, starring to a 48-40 triumph successful the wrong 50 metres count.

Fremantle kicked conscionable 10 goals from the match, continuing a worrying scoring lull during which they had kicked conscionable 9 goals successful each of the erstwhile 3 matches.

But it was the contention enactment that disquieted Longmuir the most.

“Probably from the 20-minute people successful the archetypal 4th for astir two-and-a-half quarters, we got smoked successful the contest,” Longmuir said.

“Behind the shot they were capable to halve contests oregon triumph contests.

“And successful beforehand of the shot they conscionable smoked america – led america to the shot and anticipated surge contests wins quicker than us.

“And astir the ball, astatine stoppage, we got our hands connected it, but that unit was excessively bully and we didn’t spot ourselves against their pressure, and we coughed it and fto them locomotion retired the front.”

The Dockers won their opening 3 games to sprout into aboriginal emblem contention.

But heartbreaking losses to Port Adelaide and Carlton – erstwhile Fremantle coughed up the pb successful the dying minutes of each crippled – severely dented the Dockers’ momentum.

Longmuir said those disappointing losses weren’t an excuse for their mediocre show against West Coast.

“I’m not going to beryllium present and usage that arsenic an excuse,” Longmuir said.

“I thought we had a bully week prep and we got beaten by what we prepared for tonight, We conscionable weren’t bully enough, truthful I’m not going to usage that.

“Look astatine our crippled implicit the archetypal 5 weeks. We’ve been precise bully astatine contests, been precise bully with our pressure, been precise bully with our crushed ball, and each that was disconnected tonight.

“We’ve had adjacent losses, we’ve had bully wins, and present we’ve had a truly mediocre defeat.

“We’ll reappraisal similar we reviewed each our different games, enactment retired what went wrong, reset and spell again.”

Hayden Young finished the lucifer connected the bench, but Longmuir is hopeful the midfielder volition beryllium acceptable for adjacent Saturday night’s crunch location clash with the Western Bulldogs.

“He had a choky hammy,” Longmuir said.

“The crippled was done and it wasn’t worthy risking. So hopefully we dodged a slug there.”

Jye Amiss volition miss the lucifer aft being concussed successful the opening minutes against West Coast.

Matt Taberner, who was rested this week, is expected to regenerate Amiss.

-AAP

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