Fremantle set a new club record with 10 straight wins and beat St Kilda by 30 points in a bruising AFL round 11 clash at the MCG, but the night was defined as much by the injuries as the margin. With 90 seconds left, the Dockers led 104 to 68 and Shai Bolton had already delivered one of the game’s defining moments, taking a flying defensive mark, surging forward and snapping a goal from the boundary.

The injury toll was severe. Tom Lynch was taken to hospital after a knock to the larynx, Archer May also went to hospital after the game with a ribs issue, and Andrew McGrath suffered a broken jaw. Brad Scott said of McGrath’s blow that “a tooth flew out in the blow,” a description that underlined how violent the collision was. Late in the game, Rowen Marshall limped off with a suspected knee injury, and Will Schofield said on Kayo Sports that doctors were testing Marshall’s knee, including his ACL.

For Fremantle, the result was the cleanest possible proof that this run is no accident. The club’s 10 consecutive wins is a new benchmark, and the Dockers again found ways to bend a game when it threatened to tilt. Bolton’s sequence summed it up: defend, attack, finish. It was the sort of passage that strips away any doubt about who is carrying momentum right now.

The match text comes from live coverage of Richmond vs Essendon in AFL round 11 2026 from the MCG, but the game inside the game was the one that mattered by the finish. St Kilda’s late consolation came through Brad Hill, who kicked a goal to end the Saints’ drought, yet the broader picture was already settled by then. Fremantle left with the points, the record and the hard evidence that its form is not easing.

What lingers is the physical cost. In a single match, multiple players were sent for hospital checks or left under a cloud, while one club celebrated a run that has now reached double figures. That is the sort of night that shapes a round far beyond the final siren.