Dockers boss JLo staying GROUNDED despite flying team

Walyalup (Fremantle) coach Justin Longmuir insists his workforce hasn’t achieved something but, regardless of climbing into the highest eight for the primary time this season after an epic win over Narrm (Melbourne) on the MCG.

The Dockers survived a late scare from the house facet to prevail by seven factors in what was their fourth consecutive win, taking their season ledger to 6-5 heading into the bye after trying down and out at 2-5 after spherical seven.

Longmuir didn’t need to entertain the F-word dialog and mentioned getting their mindset and preparation proper with the main focus over September dreaming.

“We don’t really get carried away with that, you guys might have said we weren’t going to make finals or our season was gone but we never focus on that area,” Longmuir mentioned.

“We’ve tried to focus on getting our preparation and our mindset right, week in, week out, and we’ve worked really hard to get ourselves back into the season.

“But that’s all we’ve done, we haven’t achieved anything yet.”

Longmuir believes there was a robust shift in pondering over the previous month, from taking part in to win as a substitute of taking part in “not to lose”.

“We’re playing to win, we’re not playing not to lose,” Longmuir defined.

“It’s a pretty board topic but we’ve just embraced the chaos of the game and understood that the next moment is your most important moment and we’re treating every contest and every moment on its merits and we’re not getting caught up in outcomes and stuff we can’t control.”

Longmuir mentioned whereas it was “surely” time for younger ahead Jye Amiss to get a Rising Star nomination after back-to-back three-goal hauls, the 19-year-old wouldn’t be getting caught up in that.

Amiss has hit the scoreboard in his previous 9 video games, taking his season tally to 19 in 10 appearances after getting neglected for the 23 within the opening-round loss to St Kilda at Marvel Stadium.