There was some hope among Fremantle fans that the 2023 season would end at the MCG. And it will with a meeting with fellow strugglers Hawthorn in round 24. It’s on the big stage in one of the few games of the weekend that means almost nothing.
But, in fact, this young Fremantle line-up could achieve something the club has never pulled off before.
It’s not a huge, trophy-winning, mayoral-reception, type triumph but it’s this…
Fremantle has never, in a non-finals season, won their final home and away game away from home. In fact they’ve usually been thrashed. Disappointing seasons ending miserably far from home.
In 1997 Fremantle lost by 40 points to Melbourne (a win in that game would have secured the club’s first finals appearance).
1998 lost by 89 points to Hawthorn.
1999 lost by 51 points to Geelong.
2000 lost by 107 points to Brisbane.
2004 lost by 29 points to St Kilda.
2005 lost by 45 points to Port Adelaide.
2007 lost by 32 points to Port Adelaide.
2009 lost by 40 points to Geelong.
2011 lost by 46 points to Western Bulldogs.
2017 lost by 15 points to Essendon.
2019 lost by 43 points to Port Adelaide
2021 lost by 58 points to St Kilda.
Records, even very bad records, are made to be broken.
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