FREMANTLE managed their first win over Collingwood since the 2008 but have paid the price with yet another injury after ruckman Jon Griffin suffered what is feared to be a ruptured ACL. Griffen, 27, injured his knee mid-way through the first quarter of the game against the Magpies at Patersons Stadium last night during a

SOMETIMES you win, sometimes you lose. And tonight the Fremantle Dockers and midfielder Nat Fyfe lost. And really, you have to ask why they tried. In hindsight appealing a one match suspension that would have been served when the Dockers would be playing the Gold Coast Suns is not that bad a penalty. But by

FREMANTLE held on for a thrilling one-point victory over Richmond but is now likely to be without Kepler Bradley for the rest of the season after he injured his knee in the second quarter of the game. The club now fears that Bradley has ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee after an

FREMANTLE has secured the services of defender Michael Johnson for a further two years. Johnson, a life member at the Dockers, is an integral part of the sides backline. The defender was a top 10 draft pick in 2003 and made his debut for Fremantle in 2005. “Michael has grown into a terrific defender,” said

UPDATE:  In what is a huge blow to Fremantle ahead of their clash with Hawthorn this Saturday, skipper Matthew Pavlich has now been ruled out for four to six weeks with an Achilles injury. Fremantle announced a short time ago that surgery was the best course of action for Pavlich. The injury flared up after last

FREMANTLE was able to beat West Coast on Saturday night without Aaron Sandilands. Now it looks like they will have to get used to playing without their star ruckman for an extended period with the club announcing tonight that he will have to undergo surgery on his injured left hamstring. The club has said that

FREMANTLE took care of business yesterday against West Coast, and their skipper did the same after the game when he was admitted to hospital with a hand injury. Matthew Pavlich posted the following picture on Instagram a short time ago saying “Went straight from the oval last night to hospital for my hand & finger

AARON Sandilands’ return from a hamstring injury has been hit with a setback after the Fremantle Football Club announced that their star ruckman aggravated the injury at training earlier today. Sandilands sustained a partial tear to his left hamstring tendon last month in the club’s 18-point Round 1 NAB Cup win over Geelong and at that time was ruled

THE Fremantle Dockers have just announced that they have signed contract extensions with Zac Dawson and Chris Mayne. Dawson, 27, joined the Dockers last year and had previously played for Ross Lyon at St Kilda. The 195cm tall defender played in 18 games last year and he has signed a two-year extension that will have

THE Fremantle list is the strongest it’s been since the club made the 2006 Preliminary Final. The Dockers were unlucky against Adelaide in last year’s semi final going down late despite being in the contest for three and half quarters.

ROSS Lyon joined the Dockers last season and immediately turned around a team that had under performed the year before under Mark Harvey. The Dockers went from nine wins and an 11th place finish in 2011 to 14 wins and seventh place on the ladder and a finals appearance

FREMANTLE ended their NAB Cup campaign in convincing style with a 109 point thumping of the Western Bulldogs in Mandurah yesterday.

And after a disappointing and listless performance a week ago against Carlton, the Dockers this time fielded a near full strength side with Aaron Sandilands the only key player missing from the side

CARLTON kicked into gear last night with a commanding performance that would’ve impressed new coach Mick Malthouse and fans alike against a shocked Fremantle last night

AFTER initial confidence that he had escaped serious injury in the club’s 18-point NAB Cup win over Geelong on Saturday, the Fremantle Dockers today announced that Aaron Sandilands had instead sustained a partial tear to his hamstring tendon and will be out for up to 8 weeks. Sandilands was sidelined during the clash with Geelong

THERE were two significant changes to the Fremantle list that were evident on the weekend in the club’s first NAB Cup games. The first was the arrival of Danyle Pearce who made is debut for the Dockers after beginning his career at Port Adelaide. Pearce was a bright spark for the Dockers in both games and

AFTER bowing out in last year’s semi finals, tonight marks the return to the field for both West Australian teams when Fremantle and West Coast play host to Geelong in the first round of the 2013 NAB Cup at Patersons Stadium. Both the Eagles and Dockers will field considerably strong teams in the first hit

FREMANTLE’S Nat Fyfe looks set to return to field this year bigger and better than ever.

The key word here being “bigger”

IN an effort to save an AFL career that has been on hold because of injuries since his debut in the 2010 season, Anthony Morabito has opted for controversial LARS surgery on his injured knee

FREMANTLE’S injury prone forward Anthony Morabito has reportedly walked off the training track in an awkward state after limping with what is feared to be a knee injury today. Morabito, who has already suffered two serious knee injuries in his young career, is understood to be fearing the worst from the incident today. A WA

FREMANTLE’S mature age recruit Jack Hannath believes it his versatility that became crucial for him in the Dockers selecting him with the eighth selection in last month’s AFL rookie draft. Hannath, still only 21 and was the first choice ruckman at Central Districts in the SANFL, is set to play a major back-up role at

FOR new Saint Dylan Roberton, this was living life in the fast lane. Within 24 hours of being picked up by the Saints after moving on from Fremantle, Roberton had his first taste of high altitude training in Boulder, Colorado in the US. “For me, the biggest thing is getting to know my teammates. I

OUR final list on the final day of 2012: we look back on the year that was and give you our opinion on the Top 5 Recruits of the 2012 AFL season

The end of the year is upon us and as we get ready to reset our calendars for 2013 we take a look back on the year that was and give you our opinion on the top 5 games of the 2012 AFL season.   5.  Elimination final – Geelong v Fremantle Fremantle 14.12 (96)

THE offseason injury tally continues to rise with the latest addition being Fremantle defender Ryan Crowley who is set to miss six weeks of training after tearing a pectoral muscle. The Dockers elite tagger tore the muscle during practice earlier this week but will be available to avoid surgery and is expected to recover quickly “We

WE take a club by club look at this year’s draft and, where we have them, we link to our prospect profiles for more details and video of individual players

JACK Anthony’s tumultuous stint with the Fremantle Dockers has come to an end with the out of favour forward and the club mutually agreeing to part ways ahead of the final AFL list lodgement on November 29. As we reported last month, Anthony had been rumoured for much of 2012 to be on his way

ADAM McPhee is set to pull the pin on his AFL career as early as Monday despite signing a one year contract extension with Fremantle last month. The news comes just one day after the club announced that it had delisted Nick Lower, Dylan Roberton and Jesse Crichton. The West Australian reports that McPhee, who is

JACK Anthony has retained a place on Fremantle’s 2013 list for now with the harbour club instead deciding to delist Nick Lower, Dylan Roberton and Jesse Crichton. The trio follow Jay Van Berlo, Gavin Roberts and Jordan Wilson-King who were delisted prior to the first list lodgement. Lower and Crichton have been offered the chance

FREMANTLE has offered utility Dylan Roberton a contract extension however his football career is in limbo with his management still in talks to get him across to a Victorian club in the draft. There was some interest coming from Collingwood during the trade period but nothing of substance eventuated between both parties. The homesick Roberton

FOOTBALL NATION brings you the full list of retirements and delistings – club by club – and as they come to hand for

                  ROUND   DATE OPPONENT VENUE   TIME 1 Saturday, March 23 West Coast Eagles Patersons Stadium Home 4.40pm 2 Saturday, April 6 Western Bulldogs Etihad Stadium Away 2.10pm 3 Friday, April 12 Essendon Patersons Stadium Home 6.40pm 4 Saturday, April 20 Hawthorn Aurora Stadium Away 1.45pm

FREMANTLE and West Coast have been handed very similar fixtures as they prepare for their assaults on the 2013 AFL season. Both clubs will kick start their campaign against each other on Saturday, March 23 at Patersons Stadium in what will be a ‘home’ game for the Dockers.. In the following five rounds, Fremantle will

BOTH the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers were active participants in this years’ player exchange period. How will these transactions change the dynamics of two teams firmly entrenched in a battle for a top four spot next season? Only time will tell, but for now a more detailed look at the weeks that were

RUMOURS are circulating out of Fremantle that the Dockers may part with contracted forward Jack Anthony. Anthony, recruited from Collingwood, managed just 4 games for Fremantle in 2012 with the last coming in Round 10 in the loss to Adelaide. The former Magpie singed a three year contract with Fremantle that expires at the end

JUST one day after he met with club officials to discuss his place in Ross Lyon’s side, Fremantle defender Greg Broughton has been traded to the Gold Coast Suns. While Broughton had been linked to Port Adelaide and St. Kilda throughout the trade period it was a strong bid from Gold Coast that got a deal done, with the

FREMANTLE defender Greg Broughton will meet with club officials today to discuss his place in Ross Lyon’s side ahead of a possible trade interstate

SEE the full list of all the club best and fairest winners for 2012 here as Sam Mitchell collects his fourth medal at the Hawks

FREMANTLE has dived into the free agency market making a bid for out of contract Port Adelaide defender Danyle Pearce making him the first player to take advantage of the new rules managing player movement. The clock is now ticking for the Power who have just 72 hours to match the offer or lose the services of

FRESH from a come-from-behind 10-point win over Fremantle at AAMI Stadium last night, Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson was buoyant about his clubs’ chances of causing an upset against the hot favourites Hawthorn next Saturday night in a preliminary final. The Crows have made it through to the final four and like their prospects next week.

FREMANTLE’S stunning upset of Geelong by 16-points in last night’s epic elimination final has somewhat turned the finals on its head. The Dockers will now meet Adelaide in a semi-final next week with the winner to face Hawthorn at the MCG, the following week in a preliminary final. Coach Ross Lyon was quick to hose

ON a day that Matthew Pavlich jumped past John Coleman’s goalkicking tally, the Fremantle skipper also took the lead for the medal named in his honour with eight goals in the western derby in its 65-point win over West Coast at Patersons Stadium. Pavlich was a unanimous winner of the Ross Glendinning Medal for the

AARON Sandilands left Saturday’s game against Richmond  five minutes into the first quarter with what was thought at the time as being an ankle injury. The club has now revealed that a medical report has indicated that the big man has suffered a “turf toe” injury to his right foot and will miss up to 10 weeks.

After the completion of the 2012 AFL season the league will be revolutionised by the introduction of free agency. For eligible players this will give them the ability to leave their current club, bypassing the draft and trade periods, and essentially pick their next employer themselves. For the AFL, this will be an unprecedented change. In the lead

FREMANTLE star ruckman Aaron Sandilands will miss this Friday’s clash with Carlton. Sandilands, 29, has been struggling with a knee injury sustained during last week’s thrilling 13-point win over St Kilda at Etihad Stadium.  Described variously by the media as a “tweak”, the big man has had complications with the injury as fluid has leaked from

So after hearing at the start of the week that midfielder Nat Fyfe was out and then later that he would be in, we now learn that he will NOT be playing tonight against St Kilda after all. The surprising late scratching comes 24 hours after the team list was announced and we cannot help

DOCKERS midfielder Nat Fyfe is a chance to play this Friday against St Kilda in spite of  a serious shoulder injury. We think. Fyfe, 20, injured the shoulder after colliding with Brisbane’s Matt Maguire and landing awkwardly last Saturday in what was ultimately a 29 point Fremantle victory over the Lions. It was the same same

FREMANTLE  midfielder Anthony Morabito has suffered another setback as he works towards a return from knee reconstruction surgery that forced him to miss all of the 2011 season. After being ruled out of the team’s opening game of the season with a quadriceps injury in early March, Morabito, 20, has this time tweaked his hamstring while playing for WAFL

WE continue our season preview in a pocket series with the team that we predict will finish in seventh position this season. And that is the Fremantle Dockers. Rising stars: Jayden Pitt is one who we have seen enough of to suggest he is going to step up this season. He came to the club

FREMANTLE’S young midfielder Anthony Morabito, 20, has been ruled out for the team’s opening game of the upcoming season with a quadriceps injury that occurred last Friday

FREMANTLE Jayden Pitt is one that has had a good pre-season. Matthew Pavlich will once again score huge points along with Michael Barlow. Tendai Mzungu is excellent value. 1. Hayden Ballantyne – Small forward renowned for his run and bounces. Won Goal of the Year last season. Creative and exciting to watch. 2. Anthony Morabito –

FREMANTLE is slightly ahead of the betting ranks to beat the Western Bulldogs at Patersons Stadium on Monday. The Dockers are at $1.67, while the Bulldogs are at $2.20 according to Sportingbet. The Bulldogs have been in brilliant form over the past two weeks in which it has convincingly beaten the Brisbane Lions and the

FREMANTLE’S gun midfielder Michael Barlow didn’t want to put a timeline on his comeback from a leg injury but cited that it was likely to be between rounds one and five. He is hopeful of returning to his prolific best and is a Dream Team or Supercoach certainty after a stellar start to his career.

FREMANTLE has continued to take a punt on untried state talent after snaring ex Sydney rookie Peter Faulks from Williamstown and Tendai Mzungu from the WAFL. The Dockers had a couple of success stories last year with Werribee’s Michael Barlow swinging into action early with a dominant season before breaking his leg, while Alex Silvagni

FREMANTLE’S top four hopes appear to be dashed following its 54-point loss to North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium on Saturday. The Dockers have suffered some massive injuries in recent weeks with ruckman Aaron Sandilands added to a list that also includes Chris Tarrant and Michael Barlow on the sidelines. But maybe of more concern to

FREMANTLE midfielder Michael Barlow has received loads of messages on social network site Facebook following Saturday’s sicking leg break against Port Adelaide. The broken leg is expected to end his season and will have a huge impact on Fremantle’s season after he was second favourite for the Brownlow Medal. The mature age rookie appears just

FREMANTLE recruit Michael Barlow is second favourite for the Brownlow Medal behind the league’s best player Gary Ablett in his debut season in the AFL. Geelong’s mature age recruit James Podsiadly is in the market for the Coleman Medal. Are we dreaming? Football Nation columnist and former AFL coach Gary Ayres believes it was fait

FREMANTLE has been the real genuine improver for 2010. The Dockers have excelled through pace and determination with Matthew Pavlich becoming the games’ No.1 player; a dominant forward and attacking midfielder. They also have uncovered talent in the VFL such as Mick Barlow and Alex Silvagni; and an influx of young talent that are delivering

What is going on in the west?? In the past decade we have seen a remarkable turnaround of two sides. On one hand we had the super successful West Coast Eagles, who dominated the competition for the majority of the past years and had a premierships to show for their efforts. (more…)

ST KILDA remain undefeated following its 15-point win over Fremantle on Sunday at Etihad Stadium. Brendon Goddard booted five match-winning goals for the Saints in the 16.12 (108) to 14.9 (93) win. “I think it is good that you recognise his (Goddard) effort and his leadership under a great deal of adversity,” coach Ross Lyon

FREMANTLE continued its dream unbeaten start to 2010 with a seven-point win over reigning premier Geelong at Subiaco Oval on Sunday. Matthew Pavlich and Stephen Hill were keys in the final quarter onslaught of six goals to come back from a 21-point deficit and win, 18.17 (125) to 17.16 (118). Coach Mark Harvey praised his

FREMANTLE ended a long hoodoo over Essendon at Etihad Stadium on Sunday by 44-points. Aaron Sandilands was impressive and Michael Barlow, in his second game, was brilliant in the 17.11 (113) to 9.15 (69) win. Dockers coach Mark Harvey wasn’t fussed with all the media attention surrounding former Bomber Adam McPhee leading into the match.

FREMANTLE’S mature age recruit Michael Barlow stunned Adelaide at Subiaco Oval leading the Dockers to a 56-point win. Barlow’s 33-possessions was recording breaking in his senior AFL debut given that the previous record was held by former Brisbane Lion Bradd Dalziell with 32 disposals. The Dockers held a 36-point half-time lead and, while briefly challenged,

We take a look at where Fremantle will finish this season? Will it be Mark Harvey’s last season as coach? We disect where the Dockers have to finish for the former Bomber to keep his job

FORMER Werribee Tigers midfielder Michael Barlow is set to be swiftly elevated from the Fremantle rookie list for the Dockers’ season opener against Adelaide after starring during the pre-season for the Dockers. The Dockers have plenty of scope for rookie elevations following the retirement of former Bomber Dean Solomon, while Scott Thornton, Antoni Grover and

Fremantle midfielder Byron Schammer will line up against the Hawks this weekend after successfully escaping a one-week suspension

Fremantle midfielder Byron Schammer will miss next week’s clash with Hawthorn after the Match Review Panel reviewed contact he made with Carlton’s Marc Murphy at the weekend

Fremantle was a team under heavy pressure in 2008, winning only six games and missing out on several others due to last quarter fadeouts. The club faces a tough start to 2009, with games against the Western Bulldogs, St Kilda, Adelaide and Sydney inside the first five rounds. But the Dockers have spent some time