AFL great whacks Dockers over 'pitiful performance'

Port Adelaide large Kane Cornes has lashed the Fremantle Dockers pursuing their dismal 70-point nonaccomplishment to the GWS Giants connected Saturday.

Cornes exposed respective faults successful Fremantle's crippled play, labelling the side's 16. 10. (106) to 5. 6. (36) defeat arsenic "one of the worst losses from immoderate squad this year".

"There's thing earnestly incorrect astatine Fremantle," helium told Nine's AFL Sunday Footy Show.

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"I don't know wherefore this play has been derailed but these numbers are bonzer crossed the committee against a broadside that astir apt isn't successful contention to marque the apical eight.

Nat Fyfe and the Fremantle Dockers had nary reply to a GWS Giants onslaught connected Saturday (Matt King via Getty Images)

"But, minus 24 wrong 50s, marks wrong 50 - they allowed 21, they were retired tackled and minus 52 points from turnovers.

"So wherever is the effort astatine Fremantle? I thought it was a pitiful performance.

"That was 1 of the worst losses from immoderate squad this year."

Cornes showed a fig of highlights from the nonaccomplishment which was deemed "damning imaginativeness for the Fremantle Dockers" by Essendon large Matthew Lloyd.

Dockers manager Justin Longmuir said his broadside was 'ordinary successful each phases' (Matt King via Getty Images)

"We were mean successful each phases," Fremantle manager Justin Longmuir told reporters aft the game.

"They were precise good. We couldn't lucifer them. We didn't get the contention right, each implicit the ground, each aspects, we got beaten up, that's not bully enough.

"Of course, it is (frustrating) due to the fact that we are playing thing similar we were earlier the bye. Clearance wasn't wherever it needed to beryllium today. (Centre) Clearance was 15-3 astatine 1 signifier which costs you tract position.

"We didn't person the aforesaid urgency astatine the contention oregon successful defence. We request to marque definite we get an uplift successful those areas."

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