They were the two biggest names in the AFL in 2015, Fremantle travelled down to Adelaide to play the Adelaide Crows with Fremantle’s Nat Fyfe lining up on Adelaide’s Patrick Dangerfield. With the retirement of Nat Fyfe, this classic match up saw Fyfe and Dangerfield go head to head for seventy eight minutes in a classic midfield encounter in front of 45,518 fans.

Fremantle were sitting on top of the ladder, Adelaide was seventh so this was going to be a tussle, and it did not disappoint. It was a wet night in Adelaide, so this tussle was going to be tight, it was a battle of two very good teams. At this point, Fremantle were unbeaten with eight wins, Adelaide sported a five/four record but had the home ground advantage.

The stats were Fyfe forty possessions to Dangerfield’s twenty eight, Fyfe had fourteen clearances and three contested marks whilst Dangerfield had nine clearances and three contested marks. Both Fyfe and Dangerfield kicked a goal each with Fyfe getting three Brownlow votes and Dangerfield receiving two Brownlow votes, Fremantle’s Michael Barlow received one vote.

Fremantle ended up winning the game by 11 points with a score of 10.8 [68] to 7.15 [57]. With Adelaide winning most of the stats with 238 to 204 kicks, 128 to 137 handballs, 67 to 64 marks, 366 to 341 disposals, and 88 to 72 tackles, just poor conversion in front of goals cost Adelaide the game. However, Fremantle were better in the important moments and ended up getting over the line for what was a very good match where Nat Fyfe just got over Patrick Dangerfield in a classic midfield encounter that is still talked about.