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Revision as of 03:12, 25 March 2013
Fremantle | |
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Names | |
Full name | Fremantle Football Club |
Nickname(s) | The Dockers, Freo |
2012 season | |
After finals | 7th (home and away) 6th (after finals) |
Pre-season | First round |
Leading goalkicker | Matthew Pavlich (69 goals) |
Doig Medal | Ryan Crowley |
Club details | |
Founded | 1994 |
Colours | Purple and white |
Competition | Australian Football League |
Chairman | Steve Harris |
Coach | Ross Lyon |
Captain(s) | Matthew Pavlich |
Premierships | Nil |
Ground(s) | Patersons Stadium (1995–) (capacity: 43,500) |
WACA Ground (1995–2000) (capacity: 24,500) | |
Fremantle Oval (training and pre-season) (capacity: 17,500) | |
Other information | |
Official website | www |
Guernsey: | |
The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Dockers, is an Australian rules football team which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based in the port city of Fremantle at the mouth of the Swan River in Western Australia. In 1995 it became the second team from Western Australia to be admitted to the national Australian rules football competition, honouring the rich footballing tradition and history associated with Fremantle.
Matthew Pavlich has been club captain since the beginning of the 2007 season.[1] High profile players since the club's inception include Pavlich, the league's equal tallest ever player Aaron Sandilands, former captains Peter Bell and Shaun McManus, former number one draft pick Clive Waterhouse, winners of the AFL Rising Star award Paul Hasleby and Rhys Palmer, Jeff Farmer, Luke McPharlin and Hayden Ballantyne.
The club is coached by former St Kilda coach Ross Lyon following the sacking of Mark Harvey at the end of the 2011 AFL home and away season.[2] Fremantle has not won a premiership, nor played in a grand final, during its time in the AFL. Their most successful season to date was 2006 when they finished in third position and reached the preliminary final.[3]
History
The AFL announced on 14 December 1993 that a new team would enter the league in 1995 and be based in Fremantle. The names "Fremantle Football Club", "Fremantle Dockers" and club colours were announced on 12 July 1994. Their first training session was held on 31 October 1994 at Fremantle Oval.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/VictoriaPavillionPlaque_2005_SMC.jpg/150px-VictoriaPavillionPlaque_2005_SMC.jpg)
The decision to base the new club in Fremantle was primarily due to the long association of Australian rules football in Fremantle. The first match to be played in Fremantle occurred in the 1880s[4] and the city quickly became a stronghold of the code, with Fremantle based teams winning 24 of the first 34 WAFL premierships.[5] For over 100 years it has been represented by two strong clubs in the West Australian Football League: East Fremantle and South Fremantle. However it was not represented in a national club competition until 1995, eight years after the first expansion of the then Victorian Football League into Western Australia in 1987 with the creation of the West Coast Eagles.
When the club was launched in 1994, Levi Strauss & Co., which produces the Dockers brand of clothing, challenged the club's right to use the name "Fremantle Dockers", specifically on clothing.[6] As a result, the club and AFL discontinued the official use of the "Dockers" nickname in 1997. However, the team was still known unofficially as "The Dockers", both inside and outside the club, including in their official team song "Freo Way to Go" and the official club magazine "Docker".[7] In October 2010, the strong association that members and fans have with the "Dockers" nickname led the club to form a new arrangement with Levi Strauss & Co which allows the club to officially use the nickname "Dockers" everywhere including on clothing and other brand elements.[8] This name change was made in conjunction with changes to the club logo and playing strip.[9]
The team endured some tough years near the bottom of the premiership ladder, until they finished fifth after the home and away rounds in 2003 and made the finals for the first time. The elimination final against eighth placed Essendon at Patersons Stadium was then the club's biggest ever game, but ended in disappointment for the home team, with the finals experience of Essendon proving too strong for the young team. They then missed making the finals in the following two seasons, finishing both years with 11 wins, 11 loses and only 1 game outside the top 8.
After an average first half to the 2006 season, Fremantle finished the year with a club record 9 straight wins to earn themselves 3rd position at the end of the home and away season, a club record 15 wins in a year and a double chance for their September finals campaign. In the qualifying final against Adelaide at AAMI Stadium, the Dockers led for the first three quarters before being overrun by the Crows. The following week (15 September) saw the club win its first finals game in the semi-final against Melbourne at Patersons Stadium. The club subsequently earned a trip to Sydney to play in its first ever preliminary-final the following Friday night (22 September) at ANZ Stadium against the Sydney Swans, where they lost by 35 points.
Recent history
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/2006_AFL_Fremantle.jpg/150px-2006_AFL_Fremantle.jpg)
In 2007, following Chris Connolly's resignation midway through the season, Mark Harvey, a three-time premiership player with Essendon, was appointed caretaker coach for the club. During his seven matches for 2007, Harvey coached the Dockers to four wins and three losses.[10] The club came 11th that year. The following year saw the club slumped to 14th.[10]
In Round 15, 2009, Fremantle achieved the lowest score in its history and of the 2000s, scoring only 1.7 (13) to the Adelaide Crows' 19.16 (130).[10] It was held to just one point in the first half and the only goal scored came in the third quarter. Earlier that year, in Round 4, they scored their lowest ever score in Melbourne, 4.4.(28),[10] against eventual runners-up St Kilda.
After finishing 6th in the 2010 regular season, the team booked their first finals appearance since 2006 and third ever home final. The team played Hawthorn at Patersons Stadium and despite being considered underdogs, went on to win by 30 points. The win came from strong performances from Luke McPharlin and Adam McPhee who limited the impact of Lance Franklin and Luke Hodge, respectively.[11] The team's second ever win in a finals match qualified them for a semifinal to be played against the Geelong Cats at the MCG the following week. In a one-sided contest, Geelong won easily by 69 points.[12]
Season 2011 saw Fremantle lose just once in the first six rounds (against Geelong), before injury struck to several players, none more important than premier ruckman Aaron Sandilands. The Dockers ended up finishing 11th on the ladder after losing their last 7 games of the season, with the injury list growing longer each week. Key players Matthew Pavlich, David Mundy, Nathan Fyfe, Luke McPharlin (late withdrawal), Hayden Ballantyne, Adam McPhee, Nick Lower (suspended) and Matthew de Boer all missed the final game of the season against the Western Bulldogs, which was Mark Harvey's last game as senior coach of Fremantle.
Fremantle made it into the 2012 finals after finishing the regular season in 7th position and had to play the reigning premiers, Geelong, at the MCG in an elimination final. Despite being considered the underdog in the game, Fremantle managed a 16-point victory over Geelong. This win marked Fremantle's first finals win away. Fremantle subsequently lost to Adelaide in their next final, which was played at AAMI Stadium in Adelaide.
Overall performance
Fremantle are one of the least successful clubs in the league, with an overall win percentage of 41.58% as of the start of the 2013 season. They have only reached the finals on four occasions, in 2003, 2006, 2010 and 2012, winning three games and losing five.[13] They are yet to win a premiership or play in an AFL Grand Final.[14]
The club has never played in a drawn match, despite a controversial Round 5 match against St Kilda at Aurora Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania in 2006, which initially ended in a draw. However, when the AFL overturned the draw result the following Wednesday after the match due to an error by the siren, the first time this had occurred since 1900, the AFL Commission declared Fremantle as one-point winners.
Year by year performance
Home and away | Finals | Ladder | |||||||
Year | P | W | D | L | % | P | W | L | Rank |
2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 135.00 | 2/18 | |||
2012 | 22 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 115.67 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7/18 |
2011 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 83.11 | 11/17 | |||
2010 | 22 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 103.88 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6/16 |
2009 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 77.34 | 14/16 | |||
2008 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 93.73 | 14/16 | |||
2007 | 22 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 102.55 | 11/16 | |||
2006 | 22 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 109.83 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3/16 |
2005 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 100.15 | 10/16 | |||
2004 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 100.64 | 9/16 | |||
2003 | 22 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 103.13 | 1 | 1 | 5/16 | |
2002 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 88.33 | 13/16 | |||
2001 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 72.02 | 16/16 | |||
2000 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 14 | 72.04 | 12/16 | |||
1999 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 82.44 | 15/16 | |||
1998 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 76.37 | 15/16 | |||
1997 | 22 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 91.9 | 12/16 | |||
1996 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 92.28 | 13/16 | |||
1995 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 14 | 92.85 | 13/16 | |||
Total/Avg | 396 | 165 | 0 | 231 | 92.13 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 11.06 |
P = Played, W = Win, D = Draw, L = Loss, % = Score for/Score against. Source: AFL Tables |
Finals results
Year | Final | Date | Opponent | Home/Away | Score (Fremantle's score is in bold) | Margin | Venue |
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2003 | 1st Elimination Final | Friday, 5 September | Essendon | Home | 8.9 (57) – 15.11 (101) | −44 | Subiaco Oval |
2006 | 2nd Qualifying Final | Saturday, 9 September | Adelaide | Away | 10.16 (76) – 7.4 (46) | −30 | AAMI Stadium |
2nd Semi-Final | Friday, 15 September | Melbourne | Home | 14.18 (102) – 11.8 (74) | +28 | Subiaco Oval | |
1st Preliminary Final | Friday, 22 September | Sydney | Away | 19.13 (127) – 14.8 (92) | −35 | ANZ Stadium | |
2010 | |||||||
2nd Elimination Final | Saturday, 4 September | Hawthorn | Home | 14.10 (94) – 8.16 (64) | +30 | Subiaco Oval | |
2nd Semi-Final | Friday, 10 September | Geelong | Away | 20.15 (135) – 10.6 (66) | −69 | MCG | |
2012 | |||||||
2nd Elimination Final | Saturday, 8 September | Geelong | Away | 11.14 (80) – 14.12 (96) | +16 | MCG | |
2nd Semi-Final | Friday, 14 September | Adelaide | Away | 12.9 (81) – 11.5 (71) | −10 | AAMI Stadium |
Western Derby
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Fremantle_players_warming_up_prior_to_a_game.jpg/220px-Fremantle_players_warming_up_prior_to_a_game.jpg)
Fremantle's biggest rivalry is with the other Western Australian team, the West Coast Eagles, who they play twice each year in the home and away season, in the fiercely contested "Western Derby" matches (Derby is pronounced /ˈdɜːrbi/ in Western Australia). West Coast were victorious in the first nine games, before Fremantle won in round 16, 1999. Since 2006, when the Dockers won both derbies in a season for the first time, Fremantle has been the more successful team, winning nine of the twelve games, including seven in a row between 2007 and 2010. The term derby is named after the Fremantle Derby games between East and South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League, which for almost 100 years have been considered some of the most important games in the local league.[15] The 1979 WANFL Grand Final still holds the Subiaco Oval football attendance record of 52,781.[16]
St Kilda controversies
The Dockers and the St Kilda Football Club have seen a number of controversial events between them, most notably the AFL siren controversy at York Park in 2006. The match was set into a state of confusion with Fremantle leading by one point when the siren (which had not been very loud all game) was not heard by the umpires who then allowed St Kilda tagger Steven Baker to score a point after time had elapsed and, as a result, the match ended in a draw. The outcome of the game was taken to the AFL Commission and it was decided during the week that as the siren had gone Fremantle were judged to be the winners, disallowing Baker's point.
During the 2011 off-season, Fremantle controversially sacked coach Mark Harvey and replaced him with St Kilda's coach Ross Lyon in equally controversial circumstances. The move was met with much criticism towards Fremantle's president, Steve Harris, and CEO, Steve Rosich, claiming that they had "backstabbed" Harvey. Lyon was also met with widespread criticsm and was accused of backstabbing St Kilda by many Saints supporters as the club was made aware that Fremantle had approached Lyon during St Kilda's lead-up to its finals campaign. Such is the large interest in the future contests between Fremantle and St Kilda for this reason, the AFL has provided a Friday night prime-time blockbuster game in Round 4 of the 2012 AFL season at Etihad Stadium.
Club
Fremantle Football Club has its training and administration facilities at Fremantle Oval. The club encourages fans to attend Monday night training sessions, when players remain on the field after training to meet their supporters and sign autographs.
The team's home games are played at Patersons Stadium which has naming rights over Subiaco Oval. Between 1995 and 2000 they also played home games at the WACA Ground.
Current squad
- See also Fremantle Football Club drafting and trading history for the complete list of Fremantle's draft selections, delistings and trades
Leadership
Seasons | Captain[22] | Coach[22] |
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1995–1996 | Ben Allan | Gerard Neesham |
1997–1998 | Peter Mann | Gerard Neesham |
1999 | Chris Bond | Damian Drum |
2000–2001 | Shaun McManus and Adrian Fletcher (co-captains) | Damian Drum/Ben Allan from Rd 10, 2001 |
2002–2006 | Peter Bell | Chris Connolly |
2007 | Matthew Pavlich | Chris Connolly/Mark Harvey from Rd 16 |
2008–2011 | Matthew Pavlich | Mark Harvey |
2012–present | Matthew Pavlich | Ross Lyon |
Awards
The Doig Medal is the Fremantle Football Club's annual fairest and best award. Currently, the Fremantle coaching staff give every player votes on a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis after every match, including Finals Series matches. Top votes are awarded for what is regarded as an elite performance. At the end of the year the votes are tallied and the Doig Medal Night is held to announce the winner. Variations on the voting system have been used in past years. The awards ceremony has been held at the Fremantle Passenger Terminal (1995), Challenge Stadium (1998–1999), Fremantle Oval (2000–2001), the Grand Ballroom at Burswood Entertainment Complex (2002–2005, 2008–current) and the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre (2006–2007).
The Beacon Award is presented to the club's best first year player. Mature aged recruits Michael Barlow, Tendai Mzungu and Lee Spurr have won in recent years, despite being significantly older than most first year players.
Guernsey
Until 2011 the Fremantle Football Club used the anchor symbol as the basis for all of their guernseys. The home guernsey was purple, with a white anchor on the front separating the chest area into two panels, which were coloured red and green to represent the traditional maritime port and starboard colours. The away or clash guernsey was all white with a purple anchor. Since the end of the 2010 home and away season the home jumper is purple with 3 white chevrons and the away jumper is white with 3 purple chevrons.[26]
One game each year is designated as the Purple Haze game, where an all-purple jumper with a white anchor is worn. This game is used to raise money for the Starlight Foundation. After the guernsey re-design to a predominately purple home jumper, Fremantle wore the starlight foundation logo, a yellow star, above the highest chevron for their Purple Haze game.
Since 2003, the AFL has marketed one round each year as the Heritage Round. Until 2006 Fremantle wore a white guernsey with 3 red chevrons, to emulate the jumper worn by the original Fremantle Football Club in 1885. However in 2007, the selected round had Fremantle playing Sydney, who also wear red and white. An alternative blue and white striped design was used, based on the jumper worn by the East Fremantle Football Club in their 1979 WAFL Grand Final win over the South Fremantle Football Club. This Fremantle Derby still holds the record for the highest attendance at a football game of any code in Western Australia, with 52,781 attending at Patersons Stadium.[4]
In September 2008, newly appointed CEO Steve Rosich confirmed that the Fremantle Football Club would undergo a thorough review of all areas, including the club's team name, song, guernsey, and logo in a bid to boost its marketability.[27] However he later confirmed that the purple colour will be maintained as it had become synonymous with Fremantle.[28]
Records
- Premierships: Nil
- Highest ladder position: 3rd, 2006
- Wooden spoons: One (2001)
- Finals series reached: Four (2003, 2006, 2010, 2012)
- Biggest winning margin: 112 points - Fremantle 28.12 (180) v Collingwood 10.8 (68), Patersons Stadium
- Biggest losing margin: 117 points - Fremantle 1.7 (13) v Adelaide 19.16 (130), AAMI Stadium
- Longest winning streak: 9 games (Round 14, 2006 – Round 22, 2006)
- Longest losing streak: 18 games (Round 22, 2000 – Round 17, 2001)
- Highest score: 28.12 (180) to 10.8 (68), against Collingwood, 8 May 2005, at Patersons Stadium
- Lowest score: 1.7 (13) to 19.16 (130), against Adelaide, 11 July 2009, at AAMI Stadium
Individual awards and records
- Brownlow Medallists: None
- Norm Smith Medallists: None
- Coleman Medallists: None
- AFL Rising Star award: Paul Hasleby, 2000; Rhys Palmer, 2008
- All Australians: Matthew Pavlich 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008; Peter Bell 2003; Paul Hasleby 2003; Aaron Sandilands 2008, 2009, 2010; Luke McPharlin 2012.
- International rules representatives: Heath Black 2005; Matthew Carr 2003; Ryan Crowley 2006; Paul Duffield 2010;[29] Robert Haddrill 2004; Paul Hasleby 2003; Garrick Ibbotson 2010;[29] David Mundy 2006; Matthew Pavlich 2002, 2003; Brett Peake 2006; Clive Waterhouse 1999
- AFLPA Best First Year Player Award winners: Paul Hasleby 2000; Rhys Palmer 2008; Michael Barlow 2010
- AFLCA Best Young Player Award winners: Stephen Hill 2010; Nathan Fyfe 2011
- Most games: Matthew Pavlich, 279 games (as of 2012)[30]
- Most consecutive games: Matthew Pavlich, 160 games (Rd 15 2001 – Rd 16 2008)[31]
- Most goals: Matthew Pavlich, 558 goals (as of 2012)
- Most goals in a season: 72 Matthew Pavlich, 2007[32]
- Most goals in a game: 10 Tony Modra vs Melbourne, Rd 10 1999, MCG[33]
- Mark of the Year winners: Tony Modra 2000; Luke McPharlin 2005
- Goal of the Year winners: Winston Abraham 1996; Hayden Ballantyne 2011
Attendance records
- Record attendance (home and away game): 45,436, Round 1, 30 March 2003 at AAMI Stadium v Adelaide
- Record attendance (home game): 42,770, Elimination Final, Sept 5 2003 at Patersons Stadium v Essendon.
- Record attendance (finals match): 61,373, Preliminary Final, Sept 22, 2006 at ANZ Stadium v Sydney.
Song
The official song of the club is Freo Way to Go. The Fremantle Dockers' club song that was used from 1995 until 2011 was called Freo Heave Ho and was written in the mid-1990s by Ken Walther and unlike many of the other Australian rules team songs, it is played to a contemporary rock tune but is based on a traditional Igor Stravinsky arrangement of a Russian folk song, Song of the Volga Boatmen.,[34] but most of the song was an original composition by Walther. After the 2011 season, the Volga Boatmen section was dropped, leaving only the part written by Walther.
The song is regarded with a great deal of derision from many opposition supporters[35][36] and equally fierce loyalty from many fans. At the end of the 2010 season, there was speculation that the song would be changed at the same time as the jumper and logo was changed, but only a review of the song was announced.[37][38]
On 26 October 2011, the official website of the Dockers released four options for members to vote on to be the club song in 2012 and beyond. One of the songs titled "Freo Freo" was written by Australian indie-rock group and the Dockers' number one ticket holder Eskimo Joe.[39]
Honours
- AFL:
- Premierships (0):
- Runners-Up (0):
- Minor Premiership (0):
- Finals Series Appearances (4): 2003, 2006, 2010, 2012
- Wooden Spoons (1): 2001
- Premierships (0):
Membership base
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Dockerssupporters.jpg/265px-Dockerssupporters.jpg)
Despite a relative lack of on-field success, Fremantle has recorded membership figures above average for the league. The club in 2005 had the fastest growing membership in the AFL competition with home crowds growing at a similar rate. The club's recent membership slogans have emphasised the passion of Fremantle fans for their team.
Season | Members | Change from previous season | Finishing position | Average home match crowds[40] |
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1995 | 18,456 | – | 13th | 23,361 |
1996 | 19,622 | ![]() |
13th | 22,473 |
1997 | 19,949 | ![]() |
12th | 21,982 |
1998 | 22,186 | ![]() |
15th | 23,104 |
1999 | 24,896 | ![]() |
15th | 23,972 |
2000 | 24,925 | ![]() |
12th | 22,357 |
2001 | 23,898 | ![]() |
16th | 21,258 |
2002 | 23,775 | ![]() |
13th | 26,359 |
2003 | 25,347 | ![]() |
5th | 30,681 |
2004 | 32,259 | ![]() |
9th | 36,258 |
2005 | 34,124 | ![]() |
10th | 35,224 |
2006 | 35,666 | ![]() |
3rd | 36,569 |
2007 | 43,343[41][42] | ![]() |
11th | 37,474 |
2008 | 43,366[43] | ![]() |
14th | 35,877 |
2009 | 39,206[44] | ![]() |
14th | 33,144 |
2010 | 39,854 | ![]() |
6th | 36,572 |
2011 | 42,762 | ![]() |
11th | 34,394 |
2012 | 41,705 | ![]() |
7th | 33,386 |
Fremantle Football Hall of Legends
The Fremantle Football Hall of Legends was inaugurated by Fremantle Football Club in 1995, in recognition of the new AFL team’s links with its home city’s football heritage. The inductees are nominated by the two clubs from the Fremantle area in the WAFL: East Fremantle and South Fremantle. In time, players who represented Fremantle in the AFL will join their predecessors in this prestigious Hall.
Ceremonial positions
Number 1 Ticket Holders
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Fremantle_Football_Club_anchor_ceremony.jpg/220px-Fremantle_Football_Club_anchor_ceremony.jpg)
It is traditional for each club to recognise a prominent supporter as the No. 1 Ticketholder. Fremantle originally chose to award this to the sitting member for the Federal Seat of Fremantle. This was roundly criticised as the member may or may not be a Fremantle football supporter and unnecessarily linked politics with sport.[45] The policy was soon changed to select a well-known Fremantle identity for a two-year period.
On 23 April 2010 Eskimo Joe were announced as the number one ticketholder for the Fremantle Football Club, replacing golfer Nick O'Hern.[46] The band's drummer and guitarist Joel Quartermain hinted that they might pen a new theme song for the club
We'll give it a crack. We're back here this winter writing our new record so, while we're at it, we may as well knock off a new theme song.
— Joel Quartemain, [46]
Year | Number 1 Ticket Holder |
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1995–1996 | Carmen Lawrence |
1997–2002 | Jack Sheedy and Steve Marsh |
2003–2005 | Rove McManus |
2006–2007 | Luc Longley |
2008 | Jesse Dart (#1 Junior Ticket Holder)[47] |
2009 | Nick O'Hern[48] |
2010–2011 | Eskimo Joe[46] |
2012– | Ben Roberts-Smith[49] |
Other high profile fans include former Premier of Western Australia Alan Carpenter,[50] Federal Minister of Defence Stephen Smith,[51] author Tim Winton[52] and journalists and television presenters Dixie Marshall, Simon Reeve,[53] and Matt Price.
Patrons
Since 2003, the Fremantle Football Club has had the Governors of Western Australia as its patron.
- 2003–2005: John Sanderson
- 2006–present: Ken Michael
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Johnny_%22The_Doc%22_Docker.jpg/220px-Johnny_%22The_Doc%22_Docker.jpg)
Vice-patrons
- David Malcolm – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (retired)
- Syd Corser
- Con Regan
- Steve Marsh
- Jack Sheedy
Mascots
- 1995–1999: Grinder – A cartoon-like docker man, in a similar style to Popeye, with a permanent snarl, oversized jaw and muscular arms.
- 2000–2003: The Doc – a straggly blonde-haired mascot, similar in appearance to Fremantle players Clive Waterhouse or Shaun McManus.
- 2003–present: Johnny "The Doc" Docker – a blonde haired surfer with a surfboard under one arm is the Docker's official mascot in the Mascot Manor promotion for kids. Jenny Docker is also a mascot of the Fremantle Football Club.
See also
- List of Fremantle players (alphabetical)
- List of Fremantle Dockers league players (ordered by debut)
- Australian rules football in Western Australia
- Fremantle Football Club drafting and trading history
- Sport in Australia
- Sport in Western Australia
Footnotes
- References
- ^ Pavlich steers Dockers ship
- ^ Chadwick, Justin (15 September 2011). "Fremantle sack AFL coach Mark Harvey with St Kilda's Ross Lyon to take over at the Dockers". Foxsports. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
- ^ Fremantle - Season Summary
- ^ a b "History of Fremantle Football". Full Points Footy. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011.
- ^ List of WAFL league premiers
- ^ "Prior claim on `Dockers'". The Age. 24 July 1994. p. 33.
- ^ Way to Go Lyrics; Docker Magazine Reference
- ^ New look for Fremantle Dockers
- ^ "Smaller anchor for Dockers". The West Australian. 1 October 2010.
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- ^ Fremantle Dockers dump Hawthorn to earn finals clash with Geelong
- ^ Geelong gives Fremantle the heave-ho
- ^ Team Win-Loss Records
- ^ Grand Final Records
- ^ "NEXT SATURDAY'S GAMES". Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885–1954). Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 29 August 1929. p. 23. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ^ Patersons Stadium
- ^ https://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/1221968
- ^ https://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/1247609/brady-grey-to-return-to-freo
- ^ https://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/1254714/mcdonald-joins-freo-as-new-ruck-coach
- ^ https://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/1462884/football-department-update
- ^ https://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/1471965/afl-coaching-department-locked-and-loaded
- ^ a b List of Captains and Coaches
- ^ Kastanis, Costa (3 October 2010). "It's David's Doig".
- ^ Quartermaine, Braden (9 October 2011). "Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich wins sixth Doig Medal". The Sunday Times.
- ^ O’Donoghue,, Craig (7 October 2012). "Crowley hails coach Lyon after winning Doig Medal". The West Australian.
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- ^ Hagdorn, Kim; Fremantle Dockers' anchor logo, song, colours under review; PerthNow; 6 September 2008
- ^ Clarke, Tim; Freo won't heave ho; Realfooty; 10 September 2008
- ^ a b Goodes named Australian captain – AFL.com.au
- ^ Fremantle - All Time Player List
- ^ Consecutive games
- ^ Fremantle Goalkicking Records
- ^ [1]
- ^ 'It's not a bad song' says man who penned Freo Heave Ho
- ^ Katz, Danny;No rhyme or reason to what you fancy; The Age; 6 May 2004;Retrieved on 14 June 2007
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