Footy Fix: Freo’s skipper is BACK – and he’s making the Dockers’ defence great again
Alex Pearce won’t get any Brownlow Medal votes for his performance on Friday night at Optus Stadium. If there was a medal to be won, he’d have been unlikely to get a look in. And I suspect if you look at the ‘bests’ lists on the country’s leading footy publications on Saturday morning, he might just scrape in for a passing mention at the end. It’s a reflection more on the way we value defenders, and key defenders especially, in a sport where they rarely bring...