For the first years of their existence, the Dockers were nothing more than a minnow that went through various desperate phases of partial success, crash and the rebuild. In 1995 the Dockers were still heavily reliant on their initial ‘establishment’ trades of Ridley, Delaney, Kickett and Allan, and were no match for the good teams in the competition.

This away win was impressive for its control and dominance against the local team, backed up by a superb 7 goal game from Stephen Kernahan and the defence leadership of BOG Peter Dean.

Carlton  3.3 (21) 8.7 (55) 10.13 (73) 15.16 (106)
Fremantle 2.0 (12) 4.2 (26) 6.5 (41) 7.7 (49)

Venue: Subiaco

Date: Sunday, July 2, 1995

Umpires: M.Prince, D.Rich & T.Pfeiffer

Crowd: 25,067

Goalkickers: S.Kernahan 7, E.Spalding 2, B.Pearce 2, B.Mitchell 1, T.Lynn 1, F.Brown 1, A.Koutoufides 1

Best: S.Kernahan, E.Spalding, A.Koutoufides, F.Brown, B.Ratten, P.Dean, A.Christou

Reports: Nil

Injuries: Nil

B:32 Adrian Whitehead1 Stephen Silvagni14 Michael Sexton
HB:5 Andrew McKay35 Peter Dean39 Ang Christou
C:16 Scott Camporeale7 Brett Ratten13 Mil Hanna
HF:23 Dean Rice11 Earl Spalding20 Fraser Brown
F:19 Brad Pearce4 Stephen Kernahan (c)10 Barry Mitchell
Ruck:44 Justin Madden43 Anthony Koutoufides21 Craig Bradley (vc)
Interchange:34 Ron De Iulio15 Tony Lynn22 Glenn Manton
Coach:David Parkin

Brownlow votes:
3 - Peter Dean (CARL)
2 - Earl Spalding (CARL)
1 - Fraser Brown (CARL)

Milestones:
First game against the Fremantle Dockers

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