{"id":888198,"date":"2026-09-11T13:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888198\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T13:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:54:17","slug":"afl-finals-week-2-fremantle-dockers-v-geelong-cats-semi-final-results-highlights-chris-scott-punches-wall-in-coaches-box-video-fremantle-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888198\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Finals Week 2: Fremantle Dockers v Geelong Cats semi final results, highlights, Chris Scott punches wall in coaches box video, Fremantle wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Scott<\/a>\u2018s flying punch in the coaches\u2019 box perfectly encapsulated Geelong<\/a>\u2019s frustrating final moments of the season, as Fremantle<\/a> clinched a pulsating 14-point win on Friday night to book a preliminary final berth against Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Instead of advancing, the Cats are out of the premiership race following a heart-wrenching 18.12 (120) to 16.10 (106) loss to the Dockers, who stood tall in front of a roaring sea of purple at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n

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Chris Scott punches a wall.\u00a0Fox Footy<\/p>\n

Scott was spotted on the broadcast fuming after his side was controversially denied a goal in the third quarter by the ARC.<\/p>\n

Ollie Dempsey had pulled off a spectacular bicycle kick attempt at the top of the goal square, but the goal umpire\u2019s \u2018soft\u2019 call was a behind and the ARC didn\u2019t overturn it.<\/p>\n

Amid conjecture as to whether the ball touched Dempsey\u2019s boot after making contact with Matthew Johnson\u2019s bicep, the ARC ruled there was insufficient evidence to change the on-field decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might be the unluckiest call of the year,\u201d Jordan Lewis said on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n

Just hours after the San Francisco 49ers had stunned the \u2018hosting\u2019 LA Rams<\/a> in a historic MCG game, Geelong hoped to do the same.<\/p>\n

But it was Fremantle who set a ferocious tone for the night in Perth, with Shai Bolton<\/a> booting two goals and Patrick Voss adding a third in a frantic opening two-and-a-half minutes. <\/p>\n

Tempers flared immediately following Bolton\u2019s first goal, as Geelong\u2019s Bailey Smith<\/a> found himself right in the middle of an early scuffle.<\/p>\n

The visitors found a glimpse of hope late in the third quarter when champion veteran Patrick Dangerfield<\/a> slotted a goal to put Geelong in the lead for the first time with four minutes remaining in the term.<\/p>\n

But the minor premiers, who are hunting a maiden AFL flag for the club, dug deep and conjured one mighty response.<\/p>\n

The Dockers piled on four goals before the three-quarter time siren sounded, through Josh Treacy, Voss and Luke Jackson, who booted two.<\/p>\n

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Bailey Smith was locked in a scuffle early. \u00a0James Wiltshire<\/p>\n

The Dockers then survived a frantic final 20 minutes to finish ahead of Geelong in front of a raucous crowd in Perth. <\/p>\n

Fremantle has booked its ticket to a preliminary final next Saturday at the SCG, the first time the Dockers have qualified for a preliminary final since 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Scott\u2018s flying punch in the coaches\u2019 box perfectly encapsulated Geelong\u2019s frustrating final moments of the season, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-888198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}