An emotional Fremantle captain Alex Pearce has opened up on kicking simply his fifth profession targets in 117 video games, holding again tears as he devoted it to late teammate Cam McCarthy.
It got here after the Dockers notched up a 75-all draw with Collingwood – the third of the season.
It was additionally the Pies second attract simply six weeks, coming off their Anzac Day end result towards Essendon.
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After being up by 26 factors on the remaining break, the Pies have been unable to cease the Dockers’ late comeback, which noticed the house aspect kick 5 targets to 2.
However the Dockers additionally coughed up their probabilities, headlined by a damning miss from Jeremy Sharp, who could not slot the objective with simply 49 seconds left within the final quarter.
After the sport, he was caught slamming his mouthguard into the turf in frustration.
But it surely was Pearce, who is likely one of the strongest defenders within the recreation, who kicked Fremantle’s eleventh main, to place them only one level down with underneath two minutes left to play.
The defender mirrored on the foremost, simply the fifth of his profession, after the tragic loss of life of former Docker and GWS ahead Cam McCarthy.
Pearce was extraordinarily emotional on the time, and upon reflection on Friday evening, continues to be deeply impacted by McCarthy’s passing.
“It has been powerful. A few weeks in the past, it was a very exhausting recreation to get by way of,” Pearce stated on 7 publish match, holding again tears.
“I used to be nervous going again, my arms have been a bit bit shaky.
“However as I used to be going again, I did suppose ‘Cam would kick this’. It was for him.”
Meantime, the Pies have been left bewildered by a shock umpiring name which awarded Dockers ruckman Sean Darcy a objective with a few minutes left to play within the remaining time period.
After the umpire blew his whistle to sign a ball up, Pie Lachie Sullivan, who was getting up from a sort out, threw the ball as much as teammate Nick Daicos, as a substitute of straight again to the umpire.
The sphere umpire then referred to as it a free kick towards Sullivan, for not giving the official the ball again instantly.
It was additionally a troublesome evening for the Pies, who ended up with three males on the bench within the remaining time period, on account of accidents to Mason Cox and Brody Mihocek.
Cox drifted throughout the pack to spoil a marking contest in Collingwood’s defensive 50 within the third time period, touchdown awkwardly on his knee.
He took a heavy hit to his ribs, competing with Docker Jye Amiss whose knee went into his ribs, falling to the turf, together with his knee getting caught beneath him.
Cox was subbed off instantly, nervously awaiting scans to see the lengthen of the harm.
Mihocek was taken off the bottom, citing hamstring consciousness.
The Pies sit in fifth on the ladder with a 6-3-2 report after 11 rounds.
Meantime, Fremantle are in sixth, with a 6-4-1 report.
