Mero's Footy Jumpers
Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Dockers and known informally as "Freo", is one of 16 teams in the Australian Football League (AFL). It was the second team from Western Australia to be admitted to the national Australian rules football competition, joining in 1995. The club is based in the port city of Fremantle, south west of Perth at the mouth of the Swan River.
It has been captained by Matthew Pavlich since the beginning of the 2007 season.
History
Main article: Western Derby The Western Derby
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 Subiaco Oval. Between 1995 and 2000 they also played home games at the WACA Ground.
The Club
See also Fremantle Football Club drafting and trading history for the complete list of Fremantle's draft selections, delistings and trades
Rookies:
1 Luke Webster
2 Josh Carr (Vice-Captain)
3 Byron Schammer
4 Paul Hasleby
6 Dean Solomon
7 Brett Peake
8 Shaun McManus (Veteran)
9 Matthew Carr
11 Des Headland
12 Brock O'Brien
14 Antoni Grover
15 Ryan Crowley
16 David Mundy
17 Chris Tarrant
18 Luke McPharlin
21 Heath Black
22 Scott Thornton
24 Adam Campbell
25 Steven Dodd
27 Daniel Gilmore
28 Ryan Murphy
29 Matthew Pavlich (Captain)
30 Marcus Drum
31 Aaron Sandilands
32 Peter Bell
33 Jeff Farmer
34 Robert Warnock
40 Andrew Foster
35 Garrick Ibbotson
36 Andrew Browne
37 Michael Johnson
41 Paul Duffield
43 Roger Hayden
26 Benet Copping
38 Chris Smith 2007 squad
Leadership
The Doig Medal is the Fremantle Football Club's annual fairest and best award. Currently, after each of the 22 home and away matches, the Fremantle coaching staff rate each player from 0-7 (with 7 being the best). 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) and the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre (2006).
The Beacon Award is presented to the club's best new talent. To be eligible, a player must be under the age of 21 years on or before 31 December of the previous year and have played less than 10 games at the start of the season (matching the AFL Rising Star criteria).
Club awards
The Fremantle Football Club uses the anchor symbol as the basis for all of their guernseys or jumpers (unlike other sporting codes it is rarely called a jersey, shirt or kit). The home jumper is purple, with a white anchor on the front separating the chest area into two panels, which are coloured red and green to represent the traditional maritime port and starboard colours. The current alternative or clash guernsey is all white with a purple anchor.
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.
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 Subiaco Oval[1].
The home jumper is predominantly purple, with a white, stylized anchor running down the front, separating two green and red panels.
The away jumper is the same design as the home jumper but is predominantly white with just a purple stylized anchor running down the front.
The Purple Haze jumper is purple, with a white, stylized anchor running down the front.
For all past guernsey designs, see Mero's Footy Jumpers website.
Club guernsey
Premierships: None
Highest ladder position (after Rd 22): 3rd, 2006
Wooden spoons: One, 2001
Finals series reached: Two
Wins in finals: One (d. Melbourne Demons 14.18 (102) to 11.8 (74), September 15, 2006)
Biggest winning margin: 112 points, against Collingwood, May 8, 2005 at Subiaco Oval, 28.12 (180) to 10.8 (68)
Biggest losing margin: 117 points, against West Coast on April 15, 2000, at Subiaco Oval, 28.10 (178) to 9.7 (61)
Longest winning streak: 9 games (Round 14-22, 2006)
Longest losing streak: 18 games, (Round 22, 2000 - Round 17, 2001) Individual awards and records
Record attendance (home and away game): 45,436, Round 1, March 30, 2003 at AAMI Stadium v Adelaide
Record attendance (home game): 42,213, Round 6, May 6, 2006 at Subiaco Oval v West Coast Eagles.
Record attendance (finals match): 61,373, Preliminary Final, Sept 22, 2006 at Telstra Stadium v Sydney. Attendance records
The official song of the club is Freo way to Go. It 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. and equally fierce loyalty from many fans.
Club song
Despite a relative lack of on-field success, Fremantle has surprised many with record membership figures. 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.
Membership
History of club membership numbers
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.
Fremantle Football Hall of Legends
Ceremonial positions
It is traditional for each club to recognise a prominent supporter as the #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. The policy was soon changed to select a well-known Fremantle identity.
1995-1996 Carmen Lawrence
1997-2002 Jack Sheedy & Steve Marsh
2003-2005 Rove McManus
2006- Luc Longley Number 1 Ticket Holders
Since 2003, the Fremantle Football Club has been honoured to have the Governor of Western Australia as its patron.
Vice-Patrons
2003-2005 His Excellency Lieutenant General John Sanderson, AC
2006- His Excellency Dr Ken Michael, AC
David Malcolm – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (retired)
Syd Corser
Con Regan
Steve Marsh
Jack Sheedy Mascots
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 Subiaco Oval. Between 1995 and 2000 they also played home games at the WACA Ground.
The ClubSee also Fremantle Football Club drafting and trading history for the complete list of Fremantle's draft selections, delistings and trades
Rookies:
1 Luke Webster
2 Josh Carr (Vice-Captain)
3 Byron Schammer
4 Paul Hasleby
6 Dean Solomon
7 Brett Peake
8 Shaun McManus (Veteran)
9 Matthew Carr
11 Des Headland
12 Brock O'Brien
14 Antoni Grover
15 Ryan Crowley
16 David Mundy
17 Chris Tarrant
18 Luke McPharlin
21 Heath Black
22 Scott Thornton
24 Adam Campbell
25 Steven Dodd
27 Daniel Gilmore
28 Ryan Murphy
29 Matthew Pavlich (Captain)
30 Marcus Drum
31 Aaron Sandilands
32 Peter Bell
33 Jeff Farmer
34 Robert Warnock
40 Andrew Foster
35 Garrick Ibbotson
36 Andrew Browne
37 Michael Johnson
41 Paul Duffield
43 Roger Hayden
26 Benet Copping
38 Chris Smith 2007 squad
Leadership
The Doig Medal is the Fremantle Football Club's annual fairest and best award. Currently, after each of the 22 home and away matches, the Fremantle coaching staff rate each player from 0-7 (with 7 being the best). 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) and the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre (2006).
The Beacon Award is presented to the club's best new talent. To be eligible, a player must be under the age of 21 years on or before 31 December of the previous year and have played less than 10 games at the start of the season (matching the AFL Rising Star criteria).
Club awards
The Fremantle Football Club uses the anchor symbol as the basis for all of their guernseys or jumpers (unlike other sporting codes it is rarely called a jersey, shirt or kit). The home jumper is purple, with a white anchor on the front separating the chest area into two panels, which are coloured red and green to represent the traditional maritime port and starboard colours. The current alternative or clash guernsey is all white with a purple anchor.
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.
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 Subiaco Oval[1].
The home jumper is predominantly purple, with a white, stylized anchor running down the front, separating two green and red panels.
The away jumper is the same design as the home jumper but is predominantly white with just a purple stylized anchor running down the front.
The Purple Haze jumper is purple, with a white, stylized anchor running down the front.
For all past guernsey designs, see Mero's Footy Jumpers website.
Club guernsey
Premierships: None
Highest ladder position (after Rd 22): 3rd, 2006
Wooden spoons: One, 2001
Finals series reached: Two
Wins in finals: One (d. Melbourne Demons 14.18 (102) to 11.8 (74), September 15, 2006)
Biggest winning margin: 112 points, against Collingwood, May 8, 2005 at Subiaco Oval, 28.12 (180) to 10.8 (68)
Biggest losing margin: 117 points, against West Coast on April 15, 2000, at Subiaco Oval, 28.10 (178) to 9.7 (61)
Longest winning streak: 9 games (Round 14-22, 2006)
Longest losing streak: 18 games, (Round 22, 2000 - Round 17, 2001) Individual awards and records
Record attendance (home and away game): 45,436, Round 1, March 30, 2003 at AAMI Stadium v Adelaide
Record attendance (home game): 42,213, Round 6, May 6, 2006 at Subiaco Oval v West Coast Eagles.
Record attendance (finals match): 61,373, Preliminary Final, Sept 22, 2006 at Telstra Stadium v Sydney. Attendance records
The official song of the club is Freo way to Go. It 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. and equally fierce loyalty from many fans.
Club song
Despite a relative lack of on-field success, Fremantle has surprised many with record membership figures. 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.
Membership
History of club membership numbers
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.
Fremantle Football Hall of LegendsCeremonial positions
It is traditional for each club to recognise a prominent supporter as the #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. The policy was soon changed to select a well-known Fremantle identity.
1995-1996 Carmen Lawrence
1997-2002 Jack Sheedy & Steve Marsh
2003-2005 Rove McManus
2006- Luc Longley Number 1 Ticket Holders
Since 2003, the Fremantle Football Club has been honoured to have the Governor of Western Australia as its patron.
Vice-Patrons
2003-2005 His Excellency Lieutenant General John Sanderson, AC
2006- His Excellency Dr Ken Michael, AC
David Malcolm – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (retired)
Syd Corser
Con Regan
Steve Marsh
Jack Sheedy Mascots
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