Fremantle v Port Adelaide

Sitting up in the stands watching the fantastic tussle between the Fremantle Dockers and Port Adelaide on a calm Perth winter's evening; the second last round of the home and away season saw defensive dominance outplay a rapidly improving and offensive Port Adelaide team.

The lights shone brilliantly over Paterson's Stadium; the home of Western Australian football, Fremantle's forwards shone even brighter this evening kicking 21 goals to 9 in a masterful display.

The pressure applied to Port's young midfield was relentless; however, Port learning from this experience overcome an arrogant Collingwood in the elimination final a couple of weeks later causing another great upset in the Australian Football League finals series.

Fremantle caused the first upset of the series taking down an experienced Geelong in the first final to be played at Simonds Stadium in over 100 years; a day later Carlton took down Richmond in front of crowd exceeding 94,000 fans to throw the first week of the finals into overdrive.