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It looks certain that Jaymie Graham will be the next North Melbourne senior coach. Sad that we will lose him, he's been an amazing assistant coach at the club for the last 4 seasons. He has single-handedly turn our forward line into the most feared in the competition.

So thank you very much Jaymie for all you've done for Fremantle, and the Freo Faithful know that you will do well at the Kangaroos.

We'll see you on the field at the next game. When Fremantle take on North Melbourne in 2027.

Hayden Young reflecting on the Grand Final

Covering from

* Disappointment of the loss

* Wharfie Time (can we finally put the theory to bed)

* Pride of a season

* Looking towards the future

Youngy you're a bloody legend, you played your guts out there and we are extremely proud of you and the rest of the Freo boys. Onwards to 2027.

I had this crazy thought during the day and I was thinking if there were any VFL/AFL clubs that went to a Grand Final, the first two times they didn't win, but they finally got it done on the 3rd attempt. So I did some digging around on the all time record of premiers & runner-ups and I found this.

Over the years there have been 3 clubs that have been runner-up twice at any stage from its first two Grand Final appearance and then going into its 3rd Grand Final and they finally end up winning the premiership.

• South Melbourne: First two runner-up years were 1899 & 1907 before winning its first flag in 1909.
• North Melbourne: Its first two Grand Finals were 1950 & 1974 before finally winning the flag in 1975.
• St Kilda: It's first Grand Final was 1913, then in 1965 before winning its sole flag in 1966.

For Fremantle, we're now in the same scenario. We've been to two Grand Finals, 2013 and this year 2026 without any success. At some point the dam wall has to break for Fremantle, and here is hoping that on our 3rd attempt, we finally see the premiership cup coming to Fremantle.

Wait & See.

Sending out well wishes and positive thoughts for our inspirational skipper Alex Pearce. He goes in today for scans on the Achilles injury he sustained in the Grand Final.

Here's hoping that there isn't any major damage sustained and we don't lose him for long in season 2027 for another chance for glory.

Good Luck Moose, we're with you.

Just an old episode of Dan Does Footy when Dan Gorringe had a look around the Fremantle Cockburn ARC facility, about six months ago. But the one thing that struck me on this episode was the wall of memories in the clip.

* Pictures of the history of the club from humble beginnings

* Famous club victories

* The 2015 McClelland Trophy of the 1st minor premiership

* And Nat Fyfe's Brownlow Medal walking stick

By Saturday, will there a new great memory of the football club and a new piece of silverware to go along with it.

Rest in Peace Angry Anderson.

A look back at his performance at the 1991 AFL Grand Final at Waverly Park.

This match was not special because this was Fremantle's first finals series in seven years since the 2015 minor premiership season and the last finals match the club won. This match was special for the way the match went down.

41 points down at the halfway point of the 2nd quarter, against a team that had a knack of going deep into September from the lower half of the top 8, the Western Bulldogs. Enter one of the greatest finals comebacks in VFL/AFL history.

15 of Fremantle's current lineup were involved in this game, with 11 of them expected to lineup in the upcoming semi-final this Friday. Can they rediscover that final pressure test which they past on this night in 2022?

We need Cyclone Treacy beyond category 5. Total destruction.

This all time classic was the last time that Fremantle faced Geelong in a final. 2013 Fremantle finished 3rd on the ladder thus going against the 2nd place Geelong at Kardinia Park. Considered as one of the toughest road trips in AFL since Geelong are virtually unbeatable at their home ground. But Fremantle against the odds secured a famous 15 point win to earn its first home Preliminary Final on its path to its first Grand Final.

Play of the game: Stephen Hill coming off the interchange bench in the last minute and a half, the run and goal for the win.

After the Qualifying Final loss to Hawthorn this past Thursday, among the Freo Faithful has been a mixture of emotions. Anger, sadness, frustration. And rightfully so, the team were absolutely embarrassed by the Hollywood Hawks. They came in and did what they had to do to get to the Preliminary Final.

Since we finished top 4 and minor premiers, we get another opportunity to advance into a Preliminary Final, but we have to get past Geelong in order to do that. Geelong have their own agenda in this finals series, they want redemption after they were embarrassed in last season's Grand Final. We have a semi-final showdown with them on Friday night, and the winner goes to Sydney to face the Sydney Swans in the Preliminary Final.

We have this huge opportunity ahead, but before Fremantle go into this match, they need a Come to Jesus moment with each other after the performance they produced with high stakes. Thursday was humiliating not only for the team, but for its loyal supporters, the supporters that are now borderline obsessed in seeing its club finally win its first premiership. The vultures from the media have unleashed their criticism and I say let them keep talking down on Fremantle, opposition fans from the other clubs have now come after calling us out in straight sets and still labelling us as finals choke artists.

Last season's early finals exit still burns inside, and now the latest finals loss should stoke the fire even more. We want to show the AFL world that we will not go quietly into that goodnight, not just yet. All the remaining six clubs in the final draw that their own agenda in this finals series, but Fremantle has its own. The first premiership after 32 years in the competition. We want a premiership cup of our own in the camp at Fremantle, we should not be happy with just two minor premierships and the runner-up of a Grand Final.

The questions remains is, how bad do you want it? What price are you willing to pay for the ultimate success? Who are you willing to go through to achieve that goal? From now on its kill or be killed mentality. Show no fear, be aggressive, take chances, be clean. We want the Fremantle that put fear into the hearts of opposition this season, not the old Fremantle that were too afraid to make moves. Because if the ruthless aggression doesn't show on Friday night, Geelong will tear Fremantle apart. Don't care about other opposition's premiership dreams and whose we have to end in order to achieve ours.

Its time for the real Fremantle to rise from depths of the Davy Jones Locker and ready to raise hell, cause chaos and do serious damage. Show no mercy and good old fashion hard yakka.

And when you go out there, don't just do it for you, don't do it for the coach, don't do it for the club staff, don't just do it for every player that has worn the purple jumper. But Jesus Christ lads, do it for the loyal supporters out there who have waited 32 years for this. 32 years of being told, Freo can't do it, they'll never win the big one. Its time to burn that all down.

As Fremantle head into a semi-final showdown next week against either Geelong or Carlton at Optus Stadium. I want to cast back 20 years. Its season 2006 and it was a huge step taken in the young history of Fremantle. Finishing 3rd on the AFL ladder that year, heading into only its second finals series and earning the double chance. First week of the finals they lost to Adelaide at the old AAMI Stadium (AKA Football Park) in Adelaide by 30 points, and having to face Melbourne in the 2nd week of the finals.

At that point, Fremantle had never won a finals game in two attempts until this game here.

The point of this post here is to maybe draw some inspirational from one of the big milestone moment in our club's history and show that it can be done to get back into the finals race.

If there is one person that knows all about this game and that our coach Justin Longmuir, he played in this game where he kicked a goal.

Fremantle would go on the defeat Melbourne by 28 points, to win its first final and to advance to a Preliminary Final.

It wasn't the start to the finals we were hoping for. Fremantle got beaten by the Hawks by 32 points. The biggest game that the club has played in many years. Disappointing performance yes, should have been a better outcome, absolutely. A win would have meant that Fremantle would have been catapulted into the Preliminary Final at home with a week off. But instead, thanks to finishing in the top 4 they get the double chance and play next week against the winner of the Carlton vs Geelong Elimination Final at home.

I want everyone to think about this. A team that finished in the top 4 and lost the first Qualifying Final has still gone all the way to the Grand Final and won it, it has been done before. The last time it was done was last season, Brisbane lost to Geelong in the first week and turned around to beat Gold Coast, Collingwood and got one back on Geelong in the Grand Final.

We hit a major brick wall tonight, got stunned but it hasn't knocked us out. But by all means its not over yet. Now that the loss happened tonight, means that they can come back even more focused and more determined to turn it around. Chance to reflect, regroup and rebound.

Onto next week.

This month and year commemorates the 30th anniversary of the demise of the Fitzroy Football Club in the AFL. After years of financial difficulties and the change heading into a national competition and expansion, it finally collapsed with the AFL side merging with the Brisbane Bears to form what we know as the Brisbane Lions today.

Now a lot of people don't know that what merged with Brisbane was the AFL operations of the Fitzroy Football Club, the actual club survived and came out of administration in 1998. From that point on Fitzroy had partnerships with various clubs in the lower leagues, including one with Coburg in 1999 in the VFL.

In 2009, the club finally was able to field its own team in the VAFA (Victorian Amateur Football Association) after 13 years, and by 2018 won its first premiership of any kind since its last VFL/AFL premiership in 1944, first in 74 years.

Now personally I always wonder, now that the club is been back playing for the last 13 years. Would there be a possibility for Fitzroy to ever go up to the next level, back to its roots prior to the formation of VFL/AFL in 1897, and that's the modern day VFL (formally known as Victorian Football Association), where it won a premiership in 1895.

All the current day Victorian clubs had their start in the VFA, even the Sydney Swans back when it was known as South Melbourne.

Hear me out, there could be a time when the AFL revives the National Reserves competition which will possibly move the existing AFL stand alone reserves teams out of the VFL and into the new competition, which could open up some spare spots in the VFL. Just imagine if Fitzroy got a chance to make the jump back into the VFL, which could be the closest it will ever get to the big time again. But it could be an interesting prospect.

September 1, 1996. Round 22 of the 1996 AFL season. On this date 30 years ago, the Fitzroy Football Club played its final AFL game ever before its AFL side was merged into Brisbane. And its final opponent was none other than the newest team on the block, the Fremantle Football Club at Subiaco Oval in Perth.

Fremantle having the honour of being the final opponent of the historic foundation club.

Despite losing its final game by 86 points, Fitzroy did win the final quarter outscoring the Dockers by 2 points in the final term 29 to 31 making it fitting of a Blaze of Glory.

It wouldn't be the only time that season where both clubs faced each other, in Round 8 at the Whitten Oval, Fitzroy pulled off a huge upset by toppling Fremantle by 31 points, thus marking the Roys Boys final victory in VFL/AFL.

During a trying turbulent final season for the foundation VFL/AFL club Fitzroy, in the midst of financial collapse and an uncertain future.

If there is one of the things that Mason Cox knows about AFL, and that's winning a premiership with Collingwood. He's been there before along with Shai Bolton at Richmond & Luke Jackson at Melbourne.

Very important bit of advice ahead of a big Freo Final campaign towards its inaugural premiership.

Josh Treacy reflecting on his first All-Australian from Tuesday night, but he's still got the focus on the number one goal.

Mad respect for the Big Cahuna.

Five Dockers are named in the final team of the 2026 All-Australian

* Jordan Clark: Back to back All-Australian Defender

* Shai Bolton: Now a two-time All Australian, his first as a Docker

* Josh Treacy: Earning his first All-Australian Blazer as a forward

* Luke Jackson: Add his first All-Australian in the interchange

* Murphy Reid: Another accolade in his young career, his first All-Australian Blazer in the interchange

Honorable mention to the other Fremantle Dockers nominated in the All-Australian Squad

* Jye Amiss

* Alex Pearce

* Caleb Serong

Congratulations lads on the recognition, well deserved on a great season so far.

Fremantle young gun Murphy Reid has added another accolade in his young career by being named the AFLCA Best Emerging Player tied in the votes with St Kilda's Max Hall at 66 votes.

The award formally known as the Best Young Player Award has had a great lineage of Fremantle players to have won the award.

* 2010: Stephen Hill

* 2011: Nat Fyfe

* 2021: Caleb Serong

The AFL premiership cup has hit the road on a national tour. And the first spot on the list is none other than the minor premiers, Fremantle.

The next question is will the cup make a round trip back to Fremantle and make berth in the port city and stay docked permanently.

Wait & see in five weeks.

GO DOCKERS