Nat Fyfe and David Mundy. Mundy was sensational from the time he won the first kick of the match to the time he put in a late chase and forced a throw-in with his side's Grand Final spot already secure. Fyfe started slower but had a massive say in proceedings - on the scoreboard, in the air and in tight.

 

Dan Hannebery was close to the Norm Smith in last year's Grand Final but he was church-mouse quiet for most of the night on Saturday. Hannebery had just the two kicks in the first half. Retiring veteran Jude Bolton also had a match to forget, not getting his first kick until almost 15 minutes into the third term – it was a goal though.

 

The Swans were making some sort of challenge in the third term when Michael Walters single-handedly stopped the rot with two goals of his own. The first was a clever snap but the second of them, his third of the night, came at the 16-minute mark after a hanger that made the already over-stimulated Purple Haze go bananas.

 

Zero. The Swans had zero possessions inside their forward 50m arc in the first 27 minutes of the second quarter as Freo's strangle took total control. The game looked all over midway through that second term and the Swans' half-time score of 2.2 was their lowest ever in a final.

 

"I don't think he's nasty at all" – Ryan Crowley's mum, Kerry in a half-time interview on Channel 7.

 

One vote: Michael Walters. Looked at home on the big stage, wanted the ball and delivered the goods with three goals.

 

Two votes: David Mundy. Was there when it mattered and kept the motor running for the full 120 minutes. Get on him or Nat Fyfe for the Norm Smith.

 

Three votes: Nat Fyfe. The Super Supreme with the lot (plus anchovies), Fyfe has it all as a footballer. Not as prolific as some but his impact is crucial and will be one of the keys to Freo's premiership push next week.  

 

1. The League's best tagger Ryan Crowley went to Kieren Jack and you know the rest of the script. The Sydney Swans captain simply could not cope with the attention and had a stinker. The mark Jack dropped under no pressure, except Freo's perceived pressure, in the first term resulted in constant, vicious sledging from Crowley and his partner-in-annoyance, Hayden Ballantyne.

 

2. Fremantle's Chris Mayne won't want to watch his third-term fumble which cost the Dockers a goal. All on his own in the goalsquare all he had to do was grab the pill and slot the major. But he couldn't. 

 

 

"I reckon he'd cash those B&Fs and All-Australians in next week for that premiership," Matthew Richardson on Freo captain Matthew Pavlich.

 

Pavlich. Pav's waited a long time for this and got into the game immediately taking the first mark of the match after 10 seconds. Although he booted a point on that occasion, he was soon on the scoreboard. His opening term of seven possessions, three marks inside 50 and 1.2 set the tone for his side.