The second of the AFL Preliminary Finals will be played tonight between Fremantle Dockers and Sydney Swans. The match is to be played at Patersons Stadium in Western Australia with the opening bounce set to commence at 7:45pm AEST. The Fremantle Dockers currently hold favouritism in the market and will be very hard to beat at home. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Fremantle Dockers and Sydney Swans.
WHERE AND WHEN: Patersons Stadium, 7:45pm AEST, Saturday 21 September
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Opening odds comparison:
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| Fremantle Dockers | 1.31 | 1.30 | 1.30 | 1.30 | 1.31 | 1.30 |
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Sydney Swans
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3.55 | 3.55 | 3.60 | 3.55 | 3.55 | 3.55 |
Preview:
The second match of finals week 3 sees Fremantle play Sydney, Saturday 5.45pm at Patersons Stadium. Fremantle are seen by many as series contenders for the flag this year, but first they will have to get past the defending premiers. The Dockers had a great start to the finals series, winning by 15 points against Geelong in order to make it this far. They will be favourites to win this one, with the Swans looking somewhat wounded and weary.
Sydney will have do go into battle without Kurt Tippett and Tom Mitchell, adding to an already extensive injury list which has seen them lose Alex Johnson, Lewis Roberts-Thomson, Adam Goodes, Sam Reid and Rhyce Shaw, among others throughout the season. If Sydney want to win here, all of their remaining players will have to be on top form. In contrast, the Dockers will have pretty much everyone on board.
While the Swans will be definite underdogs for this match, interestingly, they haven’t lost in Perth since 2009. It is also important to remember that they are the defending premiers and wont give away their title easily. While most of the attention this week is on the match between Hawthorn and Geelong, this game could end up being just as close. While the Swans will be hard to beat, the combination of a home ground advantage, recent form, and a full team sheet should be enough to see the Dockers through.
Teams:
Fremantle Dockers: 
B: L Spurr, Z Dawson, P Duffield
HB: M Johnson, L McPharlin, T Mzungu
C: D Mundy, M Barlow, S Hill
HF: M de Boer, C Mayne, D Pearce
F: H Ballantyne, M Pavlich, M Walters
Foll: A Sandilands, N Fyfe, R Crowley
I/C: C Sutcliffe, Z Clarke, N Suban, L Neale
Emg: A Silvagni, J Hannath, T Sheridan
In: M Johnson
Out: T Sheridan (omitted)
Sydney Swans:
B: D Rampe T Richards S Biggs
HB: J McVeigh H Grundy N Smith
C: A Everitt K Jack N Malceski
HF: D Hannebery J Bolton C Bird
F: L Parker M Pyke J White
FOLL: S Mumford J Kennedy R O’Keefe
I/C: H Cunningham L Jetta B McGlynn G Rohan
EMG: B Jack J Lamb L Roberts-Thomson
IN: B McGlynn G Rohan
OUT: K Tippett (knee) B Mitchell (ankle)
Fremantle: a sea of purple on final eve
Come, take a stroll the Fremantle way.
For a start, it’s not Friday in these parts of Western Australia: it’s Purple Friday.
And it’s fair to say on the eve of the AFL club’s first home preliminary final, the Fremantle locals are getting a tad carried away.
There’s the butcher selling purple sausages.
You can wash the snags down with a Docker-cino.
The meal can be served on purple plates and purple place-mats, perhaps at one of the myriad of cafes and restaurants bedecked in Fremantle’s favourite colour.
Inevitably, the meal can be completed with a slice of pavlova.
But don’t try and tell the locals the meringue dessert dish was actually named after Russian ballet dancer, Anna Pavlova, in the 1920s: Freo fans maintain it’s named after Dockers captain Matthew Pavlich.
Pavlich’s club is omnipresent on Purple Friday in the port city at the mouth of the Swan River – in a remarkable oversight, the river retains its name despite Fremantle’s opposition on Saturday being the Sydney Swans.
Step inside the historic Fremantle Markets in a grand old building – dare we say, Victorian-styled – and there is literally a haze of purple, a colour commonly associated with royalty and piety.
The local ABC radio network set up camp there on Purple Friday, giving out purple balloons to people dressed in purple shirts, with purple scarves and purple hats.
Down the main street in Fremantle, walk past businesses themed in purple, but not just with the normal streamers and balloons.
There are purple clothes everywhere: fancy a purple suit or jacket? No problem. You can even get some of those purple braces, ties, shirts, socks and jocks to go with them.
There’s purple dresses. Purple ugg boots. Even purple mannequins.
You can admire a purple bike, complete with a Fremantle Dockers seat and associated livery. But it’s not for sale: it will be auctioned after the AFL grand final.
And, in these parts, its danger to suggest the Dockers won’t reach their first grand final by accounting for the Swans: the locals look at you like you have been drinking – not red wine, of course, but purple.