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Carlton coach Brendon Bolton was filthy with his players after the AFL club’s hopes of avoiding the wooden spoon evaporated with an inept third-quarter display against Fremantle.
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Final score
Fremantle Dockers 15.11.101
Carlton Blues 10.12.72
The season might be gone for the Fremantle Dockers and Carlton Blues, but the issue of spots next season still exists when the two sides clash in Perth. Join The Roar for live scores and coverage from 4:40pm (AEST).
Neither the Dockers or the Blues have had a great season, to put it bluntly.
As it stands, just three matches from the finals, the Dockers sit 13th and the Blues dead last with the wooden spoon virtually signed, sealed and delivered.
Carlton have won just two games all year, with their percentage right on 60. It’s abysmal, to say the least, and puts them in the discussion for worst season in the history of the competition.
While they beat the Gold Coast Suns a fortnight ago away from home, it was back to misery last week, with the GWS Giants beating them by 105 points and taking the last quarter despite having only 17 fit players at one point.
It was flat out embarrassing for the Blues and a trip to Perth isn’t going to make things any easier for the team with the second-worst attack and worst defence by a considerable distance.
The Dockers, as mentioned, haven’t been perfect either, but they are the best of the teams who have no chance of making the finals.
They have won seven of their 19 games throughout the season, but were going a heap better than that, having won just one of their last five games.
It’s been a tough run for the Dockers, playing Hawthorn, the West Coast, Melbourne and suffering a nine-point loss to Port Adelaide in that time frame.
The string of losses might have ended their finals hopes, but the Dockers can still finish the season on a high-note and build both some confidence and momentum ahead of a finals push in 2019.
At home this season, the Dockers have won five of their nine games, with one of those losses against the Eagles.
When the two sides met earlier in the season at Docklands, the Dockers recorded a 57-point victory.
Prediction
The Dockers should have absolutely no problems at home in knocking over a team who may be the worst in history. Given they beat them away from home earlier in the year by a considerable margin and the Blues seem to have clocked off for the year after last week, this could get ugly.
Dockers by 55.
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