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Camera IconTobyn Murray in action for Peel. Credit: Stuart Quinn\/The West Australian<\/p>\nYoung Fremantle forward Tobyn Murray has paid tribute to teammates Sam Switkowski and Michael Frederick for helping him realise his value and impact extends beyond the stat box.<\/p>\n
The 20 year-old was a mature-age recruit from Geelong\u2019s VFL program in the off-season after kicking 22 goals across 17 games last year and has approached his first pre-season in the AFL with a sense of curiosity.<\/p>\n
While he is yet to make his Dockers debut, Murray\u2019s stats at WAFL level with Peel have been up and down.<\/p>\n
He kicked three goals from just 13 touches across his first two games with the Thunder, before a breakout game last weekend against Perth which featured two more goals and 23 disposals.<\/p>\n
Against Subiaco on Saturday, he went scoreless and tallied 10 disposals as Peel went down by one point for the second week in a row.<\/p>\n
But Murray said the likes of established AFL players like Switkowski and Frederick had been excellent sounding boards as he delves deeper into his understanding of his half-forward role.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe role I play as a small forward, you can have games where you\u2019re inconsistent, and bridging that gap is a difficult task, so I just work really closely with my coaches and bounce off the other players like Minario (Michael) Frederick and Sam Switkwoski,\u201d he told The West Australian.<\/p>\n
Camera IconTobyn Murray in action for Peel. Credit: Stuart Quinn\/The West Australian<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re two very good people to bounce ideas off. I watch at training and how they go about it, and they\u2019ve really instilled in me just to continue to learn, but also, some days as a high forward, you can have days where your stat sheet doesn\u2019t look great.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if you\u2019re doing what really matters for the team, judging yourself on how you\u2019re doing your role and your trademark actions, rather than the stat sheet, you can go a long way. They\u2019ve been super helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Murray, who was working part-time at a primary school as an education support teacher and studying business on the side before his AFL dream was realised, said his time in the VFL last season had well-prepared him for Fremantle \u2014 but he still had plenty to learn.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a really easy transition for me. I know what I want out of myself, and I demand high standards of myself and the club have got a really good, premiership-standard thing we bring every single day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to be there; I\u2019m curious, I\u2019m learning. I want to be the best footballer and person I can be. For me, it\u2019s living the dream.\u201d<\/p>\n
Murray said the off-field part of the game had been his biggest learning curve, but he was enjoying the education.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a maturity standpoint these last two years, I\u2019ve really figured out what I want to be as a footballer and a person, and I think that\u2019s really held me in good stead coming into my first pre-season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always been super professional before I was drafted, but it\u2019s that next level of, it\u2019s a full-time job, so you\u2019re doing all the little things away from the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s what you\u2019re eating, everything away from the field. Everything on-field looks after itself in a sense, with the coaching and your natural ability to get better and work in all areas, but everything off-field makes you more of that professional footballer and takes you a further step.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Fremantle forward Tobyn Murray has paid tribute to teammates Sam Switkowski and Michael Frederick for helping him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,10124,293356,588,85,36052],"class_list":["post-632810","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-fremantle-dockers","tag-peel-thunder-football-club","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-wafl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632810","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=632810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}