Fremantle chief govt Simon Garlick is assured the AFL membership is nicely positioned for a sustained interval of success, however warns there might be some bumps alongside the best way.
The Dockers ended their six-year finals drought final season and enter 2023 boasting one of many competitors’s most fun younger lists.
Although Griffin Logue (North Melbourne), Rory Lobb (Bulldogs) and David Mundy (retirement) departed on the finish of final season, the additions of former Demons ruckman Luke Jackson and ex-Hawk Jaeger O’Meara have offset these losses.
The return to full health of two-time Brownlow medallist Nat Fyfe additionally looms as a serious weapon for the Dockers.
Fremantle unleashed an bold plan 15 months in the past that set themselves the purpose of profitable at the very least one AFL flag by 2025 and attaining three top-four finishes in that point.
Garlick believes the membership is nicely positioned to present that bold goal a red-hot crack.
“We think we’re really well positioned for an extended period of contention,” Garlick instructed reporters on the membership’s season launch on Wednesday.
“We’d be certainly very disappointed if we didn’t get to the level that we achieved last year (as a minimum), and hopefully beyond.
“I definitely really feel like we’re higher positioned than we had been 12 months in the past to proceed to progress.
“But having said that, there’s so much precedence for clubs who have ended up being sustainably successful and have won premierships – but the path to that status wasn’t a linear one.
“There might be bumps within the street. Sometimes you’ll be able to regress or stagnate, and this competitors has seen that many instances.
“So we’re really mindful of the fact that can occur. But there’s no limit on what we can achieve this year.”
Garlick stated that Fremantle’s subsequent captain can be unveiled earlier than Friday’s follow match towards Adelaide.
Alex Pearce and Andrew Brawshaw are the 2 important contenders to interchange Fyfe, whereas 22-year-old Caleb Serong can be within the combine if the Dockers go for a youthful chief.
Meanwhile, the Dockers have introduced that they are going to be often known as the Walyalup Football Club for future video games performed throughout Sir Doug Nicholls and AFLW Indigenous Rounds.
The renaming has been within the works for the previous two years and follows within the footsteps of Melbourne, who performed because the Narrm Football Club in 2022.
Walyalup – the Indigenous title for the realm of Fremantle – means place of the Walyo or Woylie, a small brush-tailed bettong or kangaroo rat.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
