Jye Amiss has kicked a career-high five goals as Fremantle maintained their western derby dominance with a 56-point win over West Coast in Perth.
The Eagles took a surprise lead early in the second quarter of Sunday’s match, but Fremantle steadied to seal the 14.13 (97) to 5.11 (41) win in front of 54,232 fans.
It marked Fremantle’s ninth win from the past 10 derbies, but West Coast still hold a 33-29 lead in the overall tally.
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The Dockers’ fifth win on the trot kept them in second spot on the ladder with a 5-1 record, behind Sydney on percentage only.
All-Australian defender Jordan Clark won the Glendinning-Allan medal as best afield for his 27 disposals, one goal, 622m gained and 11 score involvements.
Murphy Reid (26 disposals, 10 score involvements) and Luke Jackson (29 hitouts, 16 disposals, one goals) also played important roles.
Amiss had kicked four goals on nine previous occasions, but he finally cracked through that barrier early in the final quarter when he nailed a 50m set shot.
The 22-year-old finished with a club-record nine marks inside 50m, beating Matthew Pavlich’s tally of eight.
Amiss also notched 13 disposals, one goal assist and 5.4 as West Coast struggled to cover all bases in a tall Fremantle forward line containing Amiss, Patrick Voss (three goals), Josh Treacy and Jackson.
Andrew Brayshaw copped an early knock and only finished with 15 disposals and three clearances, while former Collingwood ruckman Mason Cox tallied four disposals and 13 hit-outs in his Dockers debut.
Jake Waterman was lively for West Coast with 11 marks, but he was wasteful in front of goal with 1.4.
Harley Reid (20 disposals, three clearances) battled hard, while Reuben Ginbey did an excellent job in keeping Josh Treacy to one goal.
West Coast kicked a wayward 0.6 in the opening term to trail by 10 points at quarter time.
Jobe Shanahan’s flying pack mark was the highlight of the term, while Eagles defender Tom McCarthy bravely got straight back to his feet after copping a brutal hip-and-shoulder from Treacy.
After seven consecutive behinds, West Coast finally scored their first goal when Elliot Yeo snapped truly early in the second term.
And when Josh Lindsay’s snap took a leg break-style bounce to go in for a goal shortly after, West Coast hit the lead.
It didn’t last long, with Fremantle’s height in attack proving too hard to counter.
Amiss kicked two goals and Jackson added another, before Harley Reid gave away an unlucky 50m penalty for tackling Clark to the ground thinking the kick hadn’t travelled 15m.
Voss taunted Reid after Clark kicked the goal, with Fremantle heading to half-time with a 22-point edge.
It was all one-way traffic in the second half as Fremantle cruised to victory.
Cox was quiet in his Dockers debut, but he did whack the ball forward 29.9m in one memorable moment in the second half.
