\n Senior coach Justin Longmuir has praised his leaders for taking charge at two breaks during a sometimes heated RAC Derby 61.\n <\/p>\n
\n By fremantlefc.com.au\n <\/p>\n
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Senior coach Justin Longmuir has praised his leaders for taking charge at two breaks during a sometimes heated RAC Derby 61.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Key forward Josh Treacy took the initiative on Optus Stadium when the half-time siren sounded, while leaders also called teammates together before coaches arrived at ground level during the final change. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Treacy addressed the group after the side kicked a wasteful 1.6 during the second quarter, and more leaders stepped up, with Freo failing to take opportunities with 3.6 in the third term.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were probably disappointed with that third quarter,\u201d said Justin Longmuir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSee something, say something. Don\u2019t wait for the coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m loving those moments that they\u2019re identifying and correcting before I have to.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Midfielders and co-vice captains Andrew Brayshaw and Caleb Serong have been sharing captaincy duties in the absence of skipper Alex Pearce, while Treacy, Jaeger O\u2019Meara, Sam Switkowski and Hayden Young are all members of the leadership group.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pearce has played only one game in the past eight rounds due to a hot spot in his shin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a good complement of our leaders back in the team now. It\u2019s only \u2018Pearcey\u2019 (Alex Pearce) that\u2019s not in the team,\u201d said Longmuir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been times this year when we\u2019ve had four of the six (leaders) out and we\u2019ve had to rely on some others, and some others have been forced to step up. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen \u2018Clarky\u2019 (Jordan Clark). Luke Ryan and \u2018Coxy\u2019 (Brennan Cox) really step up with their leadership, so we\u2019re starting to build a real depth with our leadership now which is what we\u2019ve always been searching for.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat stuff doesn\u2019t happen overnight. It takes time and we\u2019re starting to see it which is great.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Longmuir was also full of praise for Young\u2019s football skills, with the silky midfielder claiming his first Glendinning Allan medal after being voted best-afield.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With back-to-back hamstring strains leading to surgery at the start of May, Young was playing only his sixth game of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before being subbed off due to managed minutes early in the final term, the 24-year-old had kicked three goals from 23 disposals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThought he was clean, thought he found space, thought he finished well. He was sharp,\u201d said Longmuir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve missed his ball use at times this year so he\u2019s a handy addition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gives us another big body that helps Andy and Caleb. We\u2019ve missed that as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought our stoppage work went to a level that we haven\u2019t seen for a while today. I\u2019m sure Youngy had an impact on that but it\u2019s not just those three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior coach Justin Longmuir has praised his leaders for taking charge at two breaks during a sometimes heated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-24083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}