Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir has promised to dedicate loads of time to enhancing the Dockers’ kicking inside 50 over summer time after their 16 level loss to Port Adelaide highlighted the category distinction between the groups.
Port Adelaide received 11.8 (74) to eight.10 (58) and the Power’s elegant and explosive midfielders set the tone for the day with Zak Butters and Jason Horne-Francis having a huge impact, notably from clearances. Fremantle had six extra inside 50s however couldn’t flip these alternatives into targets.
Longmuir stated it was a development from the complete season that must be fastened.
“An area we need to do a fair bit of work on is making more of our entries. It’s been an issue all season. I know we’ve got a young forward line but I feel like we go for the wrong decision going inside 50 a bit too much,” he stated.
“Trace back to the very start of the season and it was more our work going inside 50 than anywhere else on the ground. I feel like the Brisbane game and today, that was an issue as well.
“Good teams finish their work off. That’s something we can practice. We’ll get back to train, do the reps and get another summer of execution under our belt in the right scenarios and we’ll chip away with that.”
Fremantle suffered two accidents through the day with Bailey Banfield (AC joint) and Jaeger O’Meara (calf) unable to complete the sport.
But a highlight shone on Port Adelaide as captain Tom Jonas went for a concussion check through the third quarter after a head conflict within the second quarter. The Power have been fined $100,000 earlier this month for not correctly assessing Aliir Aliir after a head conflict towards Adelaide.
Jonas obtained an preliminary check on the bench through the second time period and returned to the sphere earlier than having the total check within the rooms after half-time. Jonas handed that check and performed out the sport.
Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley the check after half-time was accomplished as a precaution.
“The vision, you go back through it, and the messages you get were ‘lets just do the right thing and not take that chance. Let’s just go and do the head assessment.” he stated.
“We were really clear that he was okay, but we’ve lived a pretty poor experience just recently and we needed to make sure we didn’t go through something anywhere near similar.
“I was really pleased with the decision to do what we did. I thought it was really brave because we’ve been under the microscope for those things.
“We made a really cautious decision to make sure we did everything we should have. We want to be leading the way with that now. We don’t want to be causing any problems.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
