Archive for January, 2011
Ex-Pie Jack Anthony says Dockers work harder
1Fremantle recruit Jack Anthony believes the Dockers train harder than premier Collingwood.
The Magpies are renowned for their cutting-edge approach to preparation and football science and travel to Arizona for high-altitude pre-season training camps.
Fremantle sports science manager Jason Weber said Anthony had made big fitness gains since joining Fremantle’s pre-season program.
“He demonstrated last year from when he arrived in that November period to the pre-Christmas testing, he significantly improved himself,” Weber said.
“And he certainly has noted a difference in the way we approach things here compared to his former club.”
Barlow will be back ‘in a good way’
0Fremantle remains confident that midfielder Michael Barlow can make a strong return from a broken left leg, but still won’t put a date on when that will be.
Barlow, 23, was one of the success stories of the 2010 season until he suffered his horrific injury against Port Adelaide in round 14.
Recruited from VFL club Werribee, Barlow was elevated to Fremantle’s senior list as a nominated rookie last year, but has been formally promoted for the 2011 season.
Fremantle sports science manager Jason Weber said Barlow was progressing well.
“Mick’s on track with his recovery from the fracture and looks to be back this season in a good way,” Weber told fremantlefc.com.au.
“Now that the bone is strong and recovered, one of the most important things is the soft tissue surrounding it.”
General manager of football operations Chris Bond said in November that the club wouldn’t rush Barlow’s rehabilitation, and that it was too early to tell whether round one was a realistic target for him.
Ballantyne in grave doubt for NAB Cup
0By Sportsnewsfirst.com
Fremantle forward Hayden Ballantyne looks unlikely to feature in the Dockers’ pre-season campaign, adding to the club’s pre-season injury woes.
With Anthony Morabito ruled out for the season, Roger Hayden out until the second half of the home and away program and Michael Barlow several months away from a return, Ballantyne is also being nurtured back slowly from a broken foot.
The livewire small forward was not sighted at Fremantle’s first training session of 2011, and club fitness guru Jason Weber refused to give a date for his return.
Dockers hit the ground running in 2011
0The Fremantle Dockers have kicked off 2011 with a solid running session following the Christmas and New Year break.
Big John reveals he’s a Dockers fan
0If only John Isner was born in Australia.
At 2.06m tall, with good overhead ball skills and the remarkable stamina to be able to run for more than 11 hours, AFL talent scouts would have drooled over the American as a teenager.
But the fact he comes from a country that mostly doesn’t know where Australia is on the globe yet alone have an affinity with its national football code, hasn’t prevented Isner from developing a love for the game, on his way to an international tennis career.
And he proudly pledges that he is a Docker.
While representing the US in the Hopman Cup at the Burswood Dome, Isner revealed his passion for AFL and displayed an extraordinary amount of knowledge on Fremantle for someone who has never seen the purple live in action.
Isner’s roommate during his time at University of Georgia was WA’s Strachy Bobusic, who naturally had a keen interest in AFL. Bobusic is Isner’s hit-up partner at the Hopman Cup.
“I love all sorts of football and I actually barrack – I like that word – I barrack for the Dockers,” Isner said after the US’s first-round tie against France, which the Americans claimed 3-0 on Monday.