Fremantle outlast plucky Lions
The Fremantle Dockers have maintained their two-game buffer at the top of the AFL ladder, defeating Brisbane by 36 points at a sodden Subiaco Oval. In a low-scoring and heavily contested encounter, the last-placed Lions stuck it out with the Dockers all the way until three-quarter time, from which point the class of the premiership favourites told. The big guns in the Dockers’ forward line proved the difference with goals from Michael Walters, Pavlich and Danyle Pearce coming early in the last...