"The important part is that individual element." | How should the Dockers review the Grand Final? (29.09.26)
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How should Fremantle review its heartbreaking Grand Final loss to Brisbane?
Welcome back to mornings. Uh JJ and Kane for the first air and then Sammy Edmund will strut his way into the studio and get us through until twelve o'clock. Our studio partner is Vanguard. When did you last compare your super? So uh there's always a Brisbane side of things and there's always a Fremantle side of the equation as well. The team that loses a grand final. Now they can hold their heads high. They were I I've got to admit, I I probably thought they'd uh be nervous in that grand final like they were in a couple of their earlier finals across the September campaign. I thought they played a really good game. I agree with Chris Fagan that uh it won't make them feel much better, that they probably deserve to win that game.
They won so many of the key stats and and took away a lot of Brisbane's strengths, Kane. How how would you advise Justin Longmuir to review that grand final.
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Met because I get the feeling he as an individual would like to go in on most of the detail and most of the edits and look at a lot of vision. How uh what would you say to him?
When should the Dockers review the Grand Final—with players or after the off-season?
Firstly it's the timing of all this is difficult and when to do it. Do you l do you do it straight away before the players go off on leave? So you've dealt with it and then they are clear in their minds on what went wrong throughout their off season or do you wait until you get back and do it on the first day of preseason. So for those that aren't aware, uh th there will be two or three days of admin for the Fremantle players. They'll all sit down individually with their line coaches and the coach and the fitness staff for their exit interviews, which everyone is familiar with. They'll have a medical to get exactly the picture of of how their body is in shape. They'll get a fitness program. And then they'll have the best and fairest and they'll go off for their ten, twelve weeks holiday not to be seen until just before Christmas probably.
I know. I think it's fourteen. Think it's four day. I think I think you have to I think you have to address it, JJ.
Should Fremantle analyze the whole Grand Final or focus on the final moments?
Now how forensically you want to address it? Is it the whole game? Is it as many positives as it is negatives? I think you have to sprinkle those through as well as just the last four minutes. I think there was some luck that went Brisbane's way, like that Lockheed Neil kick was just pretty much a shank that just got out of the grasp of Switkow. If that goes back, then who knows? If Hayden Young just gets tackled over the boundary line versus handballing it over the boundary line for a free kick, then we're not probably talking about this. If Josh Tracy kicks it through I don't know. So I think you have to review it, because when we lost by 119, completely different but similar sort of psychological trauma, really.
Yeah. We just swept it under the carpet, didn't address it, and it ruined the club. for I I think five to six, seven seven years. Um I don't think you can sweep it under the carpet. I think you might have a different view though.
What can Fremantle learn from how Richmond and Geelong handled Grand Final losses?
Yeah, well I I I I do have a bit of a different view because I've seen it handled in in two different ways. Um so when we lost in in twenty seventeen and and and and I guess that was heightened to an extent because of, you know, what we did in the pregame and um you know, a lot of the stuff that's going on in the periphery and the fact we were favourites and, you know, the Richmond element to it as well. So um Um, you know, we I thought uh we were you know, we were let down to an extent I felt by our uh our our coaches in terms of, you know, they whether that was deliberate or not made us sort of feel like it was our fault, not not not not them in it as well. Um and that sort of festered across the summer.
Whereas when uh I was at Geelong, and again I didn't play in the game, so maybe the emotion is out of it for me. It it was never spoken about ever again. It was swe and I and and this is a time where a lot of people are saying Geelong's cliff has come. Geelong need to rebuild. Geelong need to do this. And even after twenty twenty one, when they lost the prelim final in Perth to Melbourne, Max Scorn went crazy and and Melbourne absolutely destroyed them.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How should Fremantle review its heartbreaking Grand Final loss to Brisbane?
0:04–1:10
2
When should the Dockers review the Grand Final—with players or after the off-season?
1:10–2:02
3
Should Fremantle analyze the whole Grand Final or focus on the final moments?
2:02–2:57
4
What can Fremantle learn from how Richmond and Geelong handled Grand Final losses?
2:57–4:58
5
How should coaches help Hayden Young and Josh Treacy move on from costly errors?
4:58–5:42
6
Which list gaps should Fremantle address after falling short in the Grand Final?
5:42–6:49
7
Could Nathan Broad or another defender strengthen Fremantle’s list?
6:49–7:34
8
How can Fremantle improve its ball movement while working within a committed list?
7:34–8:12
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