New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI think anyone who has been around football would realise this is an advantage,\u201d Longmuir said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should all start the season the same way. There should be no competitive advantage in teams having played a game before they play another team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just makes so much sense to people in the industry. We\u2019ve just got it wrong.<\/p>\n
When asked if the club had approached the AFL with their concerns, Longmuir responded with \u201cwe\u2019ve said enough\u201d.<\/p>\n
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The Dockers started in brilliant fashion with eight goals in the opening quarter in a period where Longmuir believed the foundations of his side\u2019s game looked \u201creally good\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said his side weren\u2019t able to handle tweaks to Geelong\u2019s game after the main break.<\/p>\n
\u201cLost a bit of composure with ball in hand, our basics fell away, we succumb to their pressure a little bit,\u201d the seventh year Dockers coach said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re disappointed with the way we handled the second half, disappointed with how we handled the last quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cDidn\u2019t defend Geelong well enough. When we did create opportunities back the other way, we didn\u2019t tidy our work off.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got a bit sloppy and the way they were playing left us really vulnerable the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fremantle now returns to Perth for their first home of the season next Saturday night against Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Judd McVee who made his Dockers debut will face off against his old side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir has called for a return to a traditional fixture where all 18 AFL clubs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,267562,10124,46861,13659,9130,267561,40511,10400,677,46,668,85,267560,3439],"class_list":["post-539852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-brilliant-fashion","tag-fremantle-dockers","tag-fronts-media","tag-geelong-cats","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-horror-fadeout","tag-judd-mcvee","tag-justin-longmuir","tag-oceania","tag-perth","tag-press-conference","tag-sports","tag-traditional-fixture","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539852","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=539852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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