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AFL grand final: What Fremantle Dockers players, coaches and executives said after heartbreaking loss

28 Sept 2026 04:00 AEST Summary

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From the report

After Fremantle’s premiership dream turned into a grand final situation, here is what every Dockers player, coach or executive who spoke had to say.

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 18.4 mundaneloaded

None in this text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

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Sentiment -1.4 hostilefavourable Sourcing 79 unattributednamed sources Mood 30.7 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Measured on The West Australian’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

The West Australian AFL grand final: What Fremantle Dockers players, coaches and executives said after heartbreaking loss plain
7NEWS Couple married at AFL Grand Final speak after heartbreaking Fremantle loss to Brisbane plain
The West Australian Fremantle’s AFLW team pledge to ‘get around’ AFL players after heartbreaking grand final defeat plain
The West Australian Fremantle Dockers loss might rank as the most devastating in grand final history plain

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The West Australian. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
The West Australianas they published this story	18.4	0	79	-1.4	30.7
7NEWS	13.3	5	82	-1.0	55.8

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The same event elsewhere

3 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

7NEWS Couple married at AFL Grand Final speak after heartbreaking Fremantle loss to Brisbane Niral 13.3 political 0 The West Australian Fremantle’s AFLW team pledge to ‘get around’ AFL players after heartbreaking grand final defeat Niral 25.3 political 0 The West Australian Fremantle Dockers loss might rank as the most devastating in grand final history Niral 13.7 political 0