Season 2026 - Fremantle

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Fremantle

Coach – Justin Longmuir

2025 –

Points For – 9th
Points Against – 7th

Top 5 Best and Fairest

1 – Caleb Serong
2 – Andrew Brayshaw
3 – Josh Treacy
4 – Luke Jackson
5 – Jordan Clark

2025 Rising Star Noms

Murphy Reid (Rnd 6)

Ins – Leon Kickett, Ryda Luke, Judd McVee, Mason Cox, Tobyn Murray, Adam Sweid, Toby Whan

Outs – James Aish, Will Brodie, Jack DeLean, Nat Fyfe, Odin Jones, Quinton Narkle, Liam Reidy, Michael Walkters

My Prediction

Fremantle had a very good year last year. They have a lot of talent on their list and this should be a year they look to push harder towards the top four. They recruited unusually with picking up Maxon Cox, I presume to list the WAFL ratings but also added McVee to just tighten up their backline. Depth looks less of a question than previous years, on paper they look ready.

The backline is solid, fitness will be the key with Pearce needing to stay on the track, they also have Cox at half back. Ryan, Clark and McVee are all good users of the ball and will allow them to improve how they transition the ball.

The midfield needs more Hayden Young than they got last season. Putting him in the middle with Brayshaw and Serong is an incredible top three. Talk about Erasmus finally turning the corner seem early but he showed a bit last season. Reid, Wagner, Frederick and Bolton moving through the middle gives them a different look as well. The interest will be what they do with Luke Jackson with plenty of talk he may play as an inside mid which considering the new ruck rules seems incredibly stupid and clunky. Why you wouldn’t let him ruck and then turn into a midfielder is beyond me.

The forward line was overhyped last year courtesy of Essendon reject, Paddy Voss who had an outstanding season. He brings a great level of energy and made the absolute most of his opportunity. Not sure how much upside from here but they would take what he produced last year again this season. Throw in Treacy and maybe Amiss or a resting ruckman and Freo have finally built a decent group of marking forwards. The smalls are handy as well with Switkowski and Reid, not to mention Bolton who should be more settled this year.

The rucks are curious. Darcy has apparently slimmed down (I presume in the same way Mumford would occasionally slim down) to give him greater mobility. Jackson is a gun and they have recruited Mason Cox who is funny and strangely effective. Curiousity will be in how they set up and how they use them. The coach is uninspiring and a little boring but also seemed to get the job done last season. He had one foot out the door but in the second half of the season they looked like a good cohesive unit and that is all you can do as a coach.

It is easy to forget that they have a young list (at least easy if you turn the sound off your TV so you don’t have the commentators mentioning it three times a quarter). Progression with a young list isn’t always linear. That being said, they need to spend a lot of the year challenging for the top four even if they don’t make it. I think 3-6 needs to be their landing spot.

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I don’t see them as a top 4 side. They are going to be around the mark for finals.

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May they rot.

Except VOSS

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Or if you’re @Wanderlust Especially Voss

HATES him :laughing:

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Absolutely! Can’t stand the bloke.

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I reckon they will win the flag.

We’re the rollers, we’re the rockers,
We’re the mighty Freo Dockers
We’re gonna roll them and we’ll rock em,
We’re gonna send them to the bottom
And if they get up, we’ll do it again
The Dockers stop at nothing, nothing!

Freoooooo way to go

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This has made me uncomfortable.

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Caleb Serong adds another seven years to his existing contract.

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Cough bullshit cough

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Carn the dockers.

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The Patrick Voss thread is closed, so i will post this here.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/former-essendon-vfl-coach-leigh-tudor-still-baffled-by-patrick-voss-delisting-from-the-bombers/news-story/19cf56e66d472433bd46b4585b788d87

Former Essendon VFL coach Leigh Tudor still baffled by Patrick Voss’ delisting from the Bombers

When Patrick Voss was cut by the Bombers in 2023, fans were baffled — and so was his former VFL coach Leigh Tudor. He sets the record straight on rumours around the Prancing Pony’s time at Essendon.

The Essendon VFL coach who awarded Patrick Voss the club’s best-and-fairest award only weeks before he was delisted remains baffled and “disappointed” the Fremantle cult hero was let go by the Bombers.

Voss has turned into one of footy’s most combustible and charismatic characters but after he started to thrive at Fremantle there was speculation Essendon had let him go on character grounds.

There were some Bombers figures during that regime who believed Voss had off-field discipline issues and privately used that to justify their decision to delist him given he has since gone on to be one of the game’s most dynamic forwards.

But former Essendon VFL coach Leigh Tudor told the Herald Sun on Friday he was still staggered by the decision to move former rugby player and Turvey Park Bulldogs junior Voss on.

Tudor, the 2007 VFL premiership coach with Geelong and former Cats and North Melbourne player, departed at the same time as Voss at the end of the 2023 season.

Voss kicked 37 goals in a breakout 2025 season and won the Dockers’ best clubman award and this year he has already kicked 32.27 in 16 games.

Just as the Dockers did enough work on No. 17 draft pick Murphy Reid to be confident he was a strong character who would thrive at the Dockers, they plucked a value selection in summer rookie Voss.

“He was a ripper. I am a massive fan,” said Tudor, now coaching at Aberfeldie.

“Looking back at that best-and-fairest he won, we rated his year because he won but he beat (Sydney’s) Billy Cootee and (Melbourne’s) Joel Fitzgerald. We had some good young players in that side but Vossy was the leader of the pack.

“He had natural leadership and you are seeing what you see now. We had a really quiet group and he was the one who wanted to fire us up and get us going.

“There was not one thing I saw. I have heard a few stories like that, with people saying stuff.

“But there was nothing untowards from my end, unless I was naive or biased. He was great around the club. At that time at Essendon he was the first in and the last one to leave. He did his work and he wasn’t any trouble. The things you see now with him starting a club doing extras at Fremantle, he was showing those signs at Essendon. I can see why he’s been successful.”

In that season Voss kicked 30 goals in 18 games while also averaging 13 possessions and 3.1 bone-rattling tackles.

When Essendon announced Voss’s delisting on social media in October 2023 fans hounded the club and predicted he would punish them when he was picked up by a rival side.

“Voss is going to kick six goals against Essendon within 2 years,” said one reply.

The Dons preferred Jake Stringer, Kyle Langford and Sam Weideman to Voss but clearly could not see his potential in future seasons.

Sure enough, he kicked five goals against Essendon this season – three years later – with the Dockers now clear premiership favourites.

Jake Stringer continues to dominate for the Giants after being let go by the Dons but while his departure was part of a deliberate attempt to give kids more opportunities, Voss was only 20 when he was delisted.

Tudor still can’t explain why Voss wasn’t given any senior chances that year as the Bombers prioritised Sam Weideman, playing him forward and back in 16 games.

“He was only 19 back then and he was just really physical and if anything ever happened, he was the one who went in and tried to show his presence. He always had that edge about him and sometimes you needed to control him but it’s what we needed.

“He was a ripper with edits and doing extras and he couldn’t have done any more at Essendon,” Tudor said.

“I was really disappointed for him when he got delisted. The way he was tracking I thought there had been options that year for him to push for senior selection. I thought he was a sneaky chance (to play) a few times at Essendon but it never happened for him. He was going to play VFL at Port Melbourne and Fremantle gave him an opportunity to play. It’s so much fun to watch him. Me and my son watching him and see him get carried away and it’s so exciting. It’s a must-watch in my house.”

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Even Voss admitted that being delisted was a wake up call and he has worked on becoming more professional. Tudor must have had blinkers on. Just a shame Essendon couldn’t provide him with the environment he needed to sort himself out

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As @Stressed_out says, if he had issues and Voss himself said it was a wake up call, was he really first in and last to leave?

Or is Tudor talking about the nightclubs too?

Maybe they can ask Brad Scott why he delisted him?

At least with Voss playing good footy, people can see one of the reasons we sacked Scott.

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Jordan Clark from freo is on record this year saying exactly this about voss a few months ago, along with he’s the first to put his hand up for kids footy clinics

Maybe he was an idiot off the field. I mean, i can see that with his persona. He’s a different unit

But thats the difference between good clubs and us. Good clubs can harness characters and bring the best out of them. We would have delisted the likes of jordan de goey or steven may after 2 years with how shitscared and vanilla we are

We were too fkn scared to have any flamboyant types under dodoro.

If your doing everything right whilst at the club, even if you are a bit of a character/flog/different off the field, which would be common, surely if you have a good culture and staff behind you, it gets figured out

Letting voss go was a shocking decision. An absolute fk up. Luckily we pumped games into weideman though

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100% and we should be allowed to sue Brad Scott over it. He should be copping much more heat than he is for the state of our club.

It says a bit of how far backwards we have gone when we used to be the club that took in the cowboys and wild child and got them to perform

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That was the whole thing wasn’t it? Was a lot of fluff when Scott was brought in about lifting professionalism, “AFL lifestyle” being thrown around and the result was Voss, Hind and Stringer pushed out.

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Very odd for Tudor to be acting surprised about why Voss was let go. I have no doubt he was across the off field issues.

When you’re given half a dozen chances and you still choose to preference behaviours that are not acceptable by any employer, then you can really only blame yourself.

He was offered and given so many chances, so much support and so many additional resources that should have been enough to want anyone to make better decisions. But it didn’t.

It become so undesirable that players living with him chose to move elsewhere to learn better habits from quality people.

If anything, he should acknowledge and thank Essendon for delisting him as that’s the ultimate wake up call that has led to an attitude change at Fremantle.

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Tudor was the VFL coach. He handled the players that weren’t on our senior list at training (senior listed players train during the day, VFL at night).
In 2023 I only recognised Tudor at AFL training once or twice when he would help out with goal kicking practise.
There is a good chance that whatever Voss’ issues were, Tudor wasn’t privy to them and it’s likely he didn’t observe them.

If you saw Voss on game day at VFL, you would think he’s a normal kid trying to develop. Good on him for finding a spot on a list elsewhere.

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