Already out of finals contention, the Dockers’ season can’t end soon enough as they limp towards the finish line of an underwhelming 2017. The 25.5 (155) to 7.9 (51) loss to the Tigers created AFL history as it meant Fremantle had suffered the biggest losses by the same margin in consecutive games.
Veteran footy journalist Mike Sheahan slammed the 14th-placed West Australian club for being an embarrassment to the entire region.
“That’s three 100-point losses in 12 weeks, two in a row, they’re an embarrassment to an area that’s got a rich football history, and there’s something amiss there,” Sheahan said on SEN Breakfast.
“If (coach) Ross (Lyon) wasn’t contracted until 2020, and I were a board member there, I would be putting be putting his future on the table.
“It’s attitude when you get beaten by 100 points. Their second half of the season has been atrocious.”
Life was bad enough when the Swans pumped Freo 22.11 (143) to 5.9 (39) two Saturdays ago in the harbour city. Former Sydney and Melbourne coach Paul Roos was critical of the side’s attitude on that day, slamming players for not running hard enough without the ball.
But Lyon’s men clearly didn’t learn much from that shellacking and their fortunes didn’t improve in the debacle that was their defeat to the Tigers on Sunday.
Sheahan says the loss marked a deplorable low for a club that finished the 2015 home and away season on top of the ladder.
Source: Fremantle AFL ‘embarrassment’ stains an entire region
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