New faces, new roles.

I won the footy tipping comp at work and the prize is a team guernsey of your choice.

I can't find anywhere still selling Freo guernsey in my size. The AFL Store has very few XLs left (not my size). And I wanted the Stealth version too.

Does anyone know where they can be found?

Here is my round 1 Best 23 for 2027

FB: Chapman, Cox, Worner

HB: McVee, Davis, Clark

C: Frederick, Serong, Erasmus

HF: Young, Treacy, Reid

FF: Voss, Amiss, Dudley

Foll: Jackson, Brayshaw, Bolton

Int: Johnson, Murray, Bedendo, Darcy

Int: Walker

EMG: Ryan, Serri, Draper

Now that the (unsurprisingly quiet) trade period is over I thought it would be worth looking at looking at the list briefly. As it stands, we added Bedendo, and lost O’Driscoll, Banfield, Sturt, Murphy, Switkowski, & Luke.

That leaves 4 main list spots open with Luke freeing up a Cat B spot. Freo tend to leave 1 open for an SSP but Bedendo might have already taken that spot. Considering the next few drafts are tassie-affected I imagine freo will go harder at this one. Freo’s picks currently are: 19, 40, 60, 63, 78, 96, 114.

I haven’t paid much attention to the draft prospects this year yet, but we have 3 promising NGAs in Josh Nathan, Lucas Robinson (inside mids) and Finlay Yeo (small fwd), which I imagine freo would ideally like to draft all of.

Regarding what the list needs, I think it’s in a pretty healthy spot. Lots of players contracted, a good selection of youth albeit a lot untried at AFL level. I can’t think of too many glaring needs, but the list was very healthy this year so that might’ve made any less obvious.

Bonus line about jumper numbers if you’re a number snuff like me: 1, 7*, 30, 33, 39, 40, 41 are all free. 7 I'm unsure because I don’t know if they want to leave it open for another year or two.

Fremantle have been pretty quiet in this Trade Period. The only changes made to the overall list thus far is the retirement of Sam Switkowski, the delistings of Bailey Banfield, Sam Sturt, Ryda Luke & Ollie Murphy. And also Nathan O'Driscoll traded to Richmond. The addition of Dom Bedendo to the team.

As we are now in the final day of the Trade Period, any last minute predictions for what's to come. Is there any last minute surprises from David Walls and his team?

I’m bored. The end.

FREMANTLE is close to finalising a pair of coaching appointments after losing key assistant Jaymie Graham, with former Docker Tendai Mzungu set to earn promotion to a line coaching role in 2027.

AFL.com.au also understands the Dockers are close to securing triple premiership Richmond player Nathan Broad as a development coach as it looks to fill three off-field roles in its coaching team.

As well as Graham, who led Fremantle's forward line before his appointment as North Melbourne senior coach, the Dockers have lost midfield development coach Todd Curley and Peel Thunder WAFL coach Adam Read.

Curley has joined WAFL club West Perth as its senior coach while Read was targeted by Greater Western Sydney to join Adam Kingsley's team as senior assistant.

Mzungu played 106 games for Fremantle, including the 2013 Grand Final, and has been a development coach with the Dockers since 2021, working closely with Fremantle's defenders in recent seasons under line coach Jade Rawlings.

It is not yet clear if the 40-year-old will take over the forward line from Graham, or if the club will look to reassign roles in its coaching team.

Broad, meanwhile, is set to make an immediate move into coaching after returning home to Western Australia for family reasons.

The three-time premiership hero initially flagged his interest in continuing his 191-game playing career with either the Dockers or West Coast but was targeted by Freo to fill one of its coaching vacancies.

Broad, 33, represented Western Australia in this year AFL Origin clash where he linked up with Longmuir who was supporting coach Dean Cox as an assistant.

As well as Mzungu and Rawlings, Fremantle's coaching team includes midfield coach Joel Corey, stoppages coach Harry Garland, and ruck coach Sam Naismith.

Broad would join a development program led by Geoff Valentine and with former Docker Chris Mayne working with the club's young forwards, while Andrew Sturgess is the club's opposition strategy and leadership coach.

Ex Dockers forward lands new role after shock retirement - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1631375

Chuffed that Banners might be picked up to continue playing somewhere.

Cats are open to getting him off the books. Tall key defender could be handy for us - thoughts? Are we in a position to acquire him?

When Mason Cox first came to Freo I was pro the move, and I think that he has played his role quite well in the majority of games. He doesn’t need to be a huge stat getter, he’s the backup ruckman

However, after the grand final I’ve started to walk back on the take. I definitely think that he earned his spot in the side, but I think that in hindsight they may have been better off giving Sean Darcy a game just for the sake of having a player that could have a potentially bigger impact on the game overall

It’s a tough one, I’m aware that Darcy is injury prone and from what I understand when he came back from the injury he didn’t play that well…but he’s much younger than Cox and if fit I think they’re better off persisting with him especially since Cox is unlikely to play on past 2027

Freo fans apologies if this post cuts deeper than intended. If I’ve gotten anything wrong please tell me

Just wanted to know other peoples experiences with the toyota grand final packages. We bought one in June and attended the grand final. Despite the package being a ‘premium’ package our actual seats at the game were fairly poor, being at the very back of the first tier. Was very grateful to be in attendance but was just wondering if other people had a similar experience with the packages and where were you seated?

Mon Bessen