\n Fremantle have confirmed their final team of 23 to take on Carlton in Retro Round\n <\/p>\n
Fremantle have confirmed Sunday\u2019s final team of 23 to take on Carlton in the Club\u2019s Retro Round clash at Optus Stadium, naming an unchanged side after a successful RAC Derby win.<\/p>\n
RAC Derby 61\u2019s Glendinning-Allan Medallist Hayden Young will start in the middle of the ground, with Jaeger O\u2019Meara and Nathan O\u2019Driscoll on the wings.<\/p>\n
Fresh off a two-year contract extension, Karl Worner has been named at centre half-back, with Jordan Clark and Heath Chapman on the half-back flanks.<\/p>\n
Bailey Banfield, Sean Darcy, Isaiah Dudley, Neil Erasmus and Murphy Reid are named on the interchange bench.<\/p>\n
As revealed in Thursday\u2019s squad announcement, skipper Alex Pearce continues to progress in his return to play from a shin injury and is expected to be available next week.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Nat Fyfe will make his return from a calf injury on Saturday when he runs out for Peel Thunder in the WAFL on managed minutes.<\/p>\n
Caleb Serong will captain the Fremantle side in Pearce\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n
Will Brodie, Joshua Draper and Brandon Walker have been named as emergencies.<\/p>\n
Carlton have won seven of the past eight encounters against Fremantle, with the Club\u2019s last win over the Blues coming at home in front of the Purple Army, prevailing by 35 points in Round 6 of 2022.<\/p>\n
The home side has made Optus Stadium a fortress in 2025, with nine wins from the last 10 matches in Perth.<\/p>\n
For Retro Round, Freo is going all the way back to 2003 to celebrate the design of its very first Purple Haze jumper, worn against Richmond in Round 18 at Subiaco Oval.<\/p>\n
The Club\u2019s home design at the time was originally updated in 2003 for the Purple Haze game, removing the red and green from the chest and leaving a two-tone purple and white anchor design.<\/p>\n
It was the first time in the Club\u2019s history that Freo had worn fewer than four colours in an official game.<\/p>\n
Freo are also bringing back retro pricing for Retro Round, with $22 tickets to this weekend’s game available for a limited time only. The old-school anchor jumper and ticket prices like it’s 2003 all over again, this is a deal too good to turn down. You’ll need to be quick as limited availability applies on this special offer.<\/p>\n
Bounce down on Sunday is at 3.10pm WST at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n
The game will be broadcast live on Channel 7, Fox Footy, and streamed live on Kayo and 7plus from 2.30pm WST.<\/p>\n
The tactical substitute for Sunday will be confirmed one hour before the bounce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fremantle have confirmed their final team of 23 to take on Carlton in Retro Round Fremantle have confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-37842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37842","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=37842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}