Saturday’s fourth AFL Round 14 match is between Fremantle Dockers and Brisbane Lions with the game to be played at Patersons Stadium. The opening bounce is set to commence at 5:40 PM local time with home team Fremantle Dockers currently holding favouritism. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Fremantle Dockers and Brisbane Lions.
Round: Round 14 , June 21, 2014 , 5:40 PM
Stadium: Patersons Stadium
Weather: 21° Late shower.
Preview:
In the most uneven match-up of the round, Fremantle take on the Lions on Saturday, 5.40PM at Patersons Stadium. The Dockers are performing well at the moment, currently in 5th ladder position after four consecutive wins over Geelong, the Bulldogs, Adelaide, and Richmond. The Lions shouldn’t be able to trouble them too much at Patersons Stadium, with the Brisbane side losing by an average of 30 points in their last three matches against the Dockers in the west. After losing to GWS by 45 points last round, Brisbane will be low on confidence and probably wont trouble the Dockers too much at all.
Teams:
FREMANTLE
B Lee Spurr, Zac Dawson, Paul Duffield
HB Tendai Mzungu, Alex Silvagni, Danyle Pearce
C David Mundy, Ryan Crowley, Nick Suban
HF Lachie Neale, Chris Mayne, Nat Fyfe
F Hayden Ballantyne, Matthew Pavlich, Zac Clarke
FOLL Aaron Sandilands, Michael Barlow, Stephen Hill
I/C Garrick Ibbotson, Colin Sylvia, Cameron Sutcliffe, Clancee Pearce
EMG Matt Taberner, Brady Grey, Tommy Sheridan
IN Clancee Pearce
OUT Tommy Sheridan (omitted)
BRISBANE
B Justin Clarke, Matt Maguire, Joel Patfull
HB Ryan Harwood, Sam Mayes, Jed Adcock
C Rohan Bewick, Tom Rockliff, Dayne Zorko
HF Lewis Taylor, Daniel Merrett, Marco Paparone
F Zac O’Brien, Michael Close, Josh Green
FOLL Stefan Martin, Jack Redden, Claye Beams
I/C Pearce Hanley, Nick Robertson, Tom Cutler, Darcy Gardiner
EMG Daniel McStay, Andrew Raines, Ryan Lester
IN Daniel Merrett, Nick Robertson, Tom Cutler
OUT James Aish (Rested), Jonathan Brown (Concussion), Mitch Golby (Omitted)
News:
The AFL is moving with the times to host football on Good Friday, although fans may have to wait until 2016 for the historic occasion.
“The AFL commission has today approved for the first time the scheduling of an AFL match on Good Friday,” commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick told a news conference on Monday.
“There has been a growing appetite to hold a game on this day and on balance we believe the time is right.
“AFL matches are scheduled on every other public holiday during the season.
“It’s now up to the AFL executive to determine whether or not to create a Good Friday fixture and if so when and where.
“Other details as to who might compete in such a game will follow later.”
New AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan acknowledged that the departure of his predecessor Andrew Demetriou had changed the dynamic of the argument, given that Demetriou was an opponent of staging a game on the religious holiday.
But McLachlan said the concept of playing on Good Friday might not be a good fit for the league’s fixture in 2015.
“Next year the most likely weekend we would start the season would be that Easter weekend after the Cricket World Cup final and that makes it problematic,” he said.
“So I don’t think it’s a given we’ll play next year and part of that is the difficulty of finding a match-up.”
North Melbourne and Western Bulldogs have been among those clubs seeking a Good Friday game.
