2010 Fremantle Football Club season
Australian rules football club season
The 2010 Fremantle Football Club seasonAustralian Football League (AFL). The club reached the finals for the third time and won its first ever Elimination Final, beating Hawthorn at Subiaco Oval before losing to Geelong at the MCG to end the season.
Personnel changes
Fremantle was not a major participant in the trade period, with no recruits and only fringe players Brett Peake and Marcus Drum traded for late third round selections. In the draft, however, Fremantle would recruit two significant members of its future midfield in Nathan Fyfe and Michael Barlow , as well as the injury prone Anthony Morabito . Adam McPhee returned to the club via the pre-season draft after spending the seven previous seasons with Essendon.
Dean Solomon retired during the pre-season due to a recurrence of a past knee injury.[ 2] Scott Thornton announced his retirement mid year after breaking his leg whilst playing for South Fremantle .[ 3] Paul Hasleby declared prior to the final home and away game that he would retire at the end of the season.[ 4]
Off-field, Rick Hart stepped down as president at the end of the 2009 season, with Steve Harris his successor. Ben Allen was reappointed as the member's elected representative, and inaugural Docker Stephen O'Reilly and Jenn Morris , a dual Olympic gold medalist with the Hockeyroos , appointed to the board.
During the season
Additions
Traded to Fremantle:
2009 National draft :[ 5]
Pre-season draft
Rookie draft:[ 6]
Rookie elevation:
Departures
Retired
Delisted:
Traded away:
Ladder
Source:
AFL ladder Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers
2010 results
Aaron Sandilands was named as the lead ruckman in the 2010 All-Australian team , his third selection. Matthew Pavlich was considered unlucky to have not been selected for his seventh All-Australia team.[ 11] Michael Barlow was awarded the Ross Glendinning Medal in Round 6, with Sandilands winning it in Round 18. Barlow, despite only playing 13 games for the season due to suffering a broken leg in Round 14, was also awarded the Best First Year Player Award by the AFL Players Association awards .[ 12]
Nathan Fyfe and Anthony Morabito both received nominations in the 2010 AFL Rising Star award, Fyfe in Fremantle's round 9 win over Sydney[ 13] [ 14]
Garrick Ibbotson and Paul Duffield were chosen to represent Australia in the 2010 International Rules series in Ireland.[ 15]
Club awards
David Mundy won his first Doig Medal , awarded at a function at the Burswood Entertainment Complex on 3 October.[ 16]
Doig Medal : David Mundy , 190 votes2nd: Aaron Sandilands , 171 votes
3rd: Matthew Pavlich , 160 votes
4th Stephen Hill , 137 votes
5th: Greg Broughton , 116 votes
6th: Hayden Ballantyne , 103 votes
7th: Michael Barlow , 97 votes
8th: Luke McPharlin , 80 votes
9th: Roger Hayden , 78 votes
10th: Chris Tarrant , 76 votes
Best Clubman: Matt de Boer
Beacon Award: Michael Barlow
Milestones
Debuts
References
^ "AFL Crowds, 2010" . AFL Tables.^ a b Schmook, Nathan (18 February 2010). "Solomon's mind willing, body beat" . AFL BigPond Network. Archived from the original on 21 February 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2010 . ^ Schmook, Nathan (28 June 2010). "Leg injury ends Thornton's 88-game career" . AFL BigPond Network. Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2010 . ^ Schmook, Nathan (23 August 2010). "Fremantle to farewell Hasleby at season's end" . AFL BigPond Network. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2010 . ^ Club by club draft list ^ O'Donoghue, Craig (15 December 2009). "Rookie Silvagni to Fremantle" . The West Australian . Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2014 . ^ Fremantle welcomes six new young faces Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine ^ a b c d e f "News Browne, Gilmore among six delistings at Freo" . AFL website. 3 September 2009. Archived from the original on 22 September 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2009 .^ Chadwick, Jason (13 November 2009) Dockers de-list Foster Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
^ a b "Your club's AFL trade week deals" . 10 October 2009. Retrieved 10 October 2009 .^
Vaughan, Roger (13 September 2010). "Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich left out of 2010 All-Australian team" . AAP. Archived from the original on 14 September 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2014 .
^ Lienert, Sam (6 September 2010). "Collingwood midfielder Dane Swan wins AFL players' association MVP award" . AAP. ^ Holmesby, Luke (25 May 2010). "NAB AFL Rising Star round nine: Nathan Fyfe" . AFL BigPond Network. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2010 . ^ Broad, Ben (30 August 2010). "NAB AFL Rising Star round 22: Anthony Morabito" . AFL BigPond Network. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2010 . ^ "Freo Dockers duo set for Ireland" . 8 October 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014 .^ Papalia, Ben (3 October 2010). "David Mundy wins Fremantle's best and fairest" . ^ Anthony Morabito's playing statistics from AFL Tables^ Michael Barlow's playing statistics from AFL Tables^ Alex Silvagni's playing statistics from AFL Tables^ Nathan Fyfe's playing statistics from AFL Tables^ Dylan Roberton's playing statistics from AFL Tables^ Jesse Crichton's playing statistics from AFL Tables^ Justin Bollenhagen's playing statistics from AFL Tables
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