Round 1, 2004

Carlton	3.3	21	5.6	36	8.9	57	8.12	60
Fremantle	5.3	33	9.9	63	13.12	90	15.17	107

Venue: Subiaco

Date: Sat Mar 27, 2004

Result: Loss by 47 points

Umpires:

Crowd: 34,177

Goalkickers: Fevola 3, Camporeale, Kenna, Lappin, Morrell, Scotland

Reports: Lappin (charging)- cleared

Injuries:

Game Review

This game would be remarkable for the large number of players all making their debut for Carlton together: 9 in total...the most since 1899! Jordan Bannister, David Clarke, Daniel Harford, Brett Johnson, Digby Morrell, Heath Scotland and David Teague had all previously played with other AFL clubs, while Adrian Deluca and Stephen Kenna would play their first AFL games, having both been recruited from the VFL.

Almost no team could have been expected to travel to Perth to take on Fremantle in hot conditions and beat them, let alone one with as many changes in personnel as that. While the Blues lacked quality, experience and cohesion, they did not lack endeavour and bravely fought the match out. Neither Koutoufides nor Stevens were available for this game and might have made a difference.

Ryan Houlihan with 26 disposals, Matthew Lappin with 22 and Trent Sporn with 17 were key contributors, providing drive out of defence, while Jordan Bannister would quieten the dangerous Pavlich.

Team

B:	15 David Teague	32 Bret Thornton	37 Karl Norman
HB:	33 Ryan Houlihan	8 Lance Whitnall (vc)	36 Trent Sporn
C:	29 Heath Scotland	10 Brett Johnson	9 David Clarke jnr
HF:	12 Matthew Lappin	3 Digby Morrell	2 Daniel Harford
F:	14 Brad Fisher	25 Brendan Fevola	26 Adrian Deluca
Ruck:	11 Barnaby French	31 Jordan Bannister	16 Scott Camporeale (a/c)
Interchange:	17 Stephen Kenna	27 Darren Hulme	28 Ian Prendergast
Interchange:	34 Simon Wiggins
Coach:	Denis Pagan
Emg:	Justin Davies	Cory McGrath	Anthony Franchina