2013 freo SEASON reVIEW OFAMF ICI L AGAZINE OF THE FREMANTLE DOCKERS SEPTEMBER 2013 VOLUME 9.3 $5.95 (INC GST) PP606264/1022 VISIT RYAN FREMANTLEFC.COM.AU CROWLEY THE TAG OF A CHAMPION I WANT TO WIN AND I WANT TO GO WELL AND I WANT THE TEAM TO GO WELL ZAC DAWSON THE BRAVEST THING I’VE EVER DONE PR OUD MAJOR SPONSORS 01 DockerMag3-Cover.indd 1 29/08/13 2:28 PM MEREMB THANK YOU This edition of Docker wraps up our 2013 home and away season. After finishing the season entrenched in the top four, we are excited to have our members behind us as we take part in the 2013 AFL Final Series. LOOK OUT FOR FULL COVERAGE OF THE FINALS, AS WELL AS THE 2013 DOIG MEDAL PRESENTATION DINNER IN THE CLUB YEAR BOOK IN DECEMBER. To all our members and supporters, thank you for being behind us everystep of the way this season. We simply could not have done it without you. Enjoy your Docker and GO FREO! 02 DockerMag3-InsideCover.indd 2 29/08/13 2:14 PM BRAVE: Zac Dawson and the man who made him believe again. OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE FREMANTLE DOCKERS FOOTBALL CLUB SEPTEMBER 2013 VOLUME 9.3 4 The Freo 17 United in White 26 2013 Doig Medal 34 Purple Patch Insta-space and Member recognition game Preview Freo photos from Twitter-sphere at Patersons Stadium. Who will be crowned our around the globe. The latest from social media. 19 Milestones club champion this year? 37 Where Have 7 Purple Pocket Player milestones 28 Live The Dream They Docked A snapshot of events from rounds 12-23. Sixteen young people live Docker catches up around the club. 22 The Tag the life of an AFL player. with Brodie Holland. 8 Zac Dawson of a Champion 31 Charity 38 Kidzone The bravest thing Ryan Crowley’s rise from Partnerships For the young Freo fans. he’s ever done. mediocrity to champion. The latest from our 11 Round by Round charity partners. A review of the last 12 rounds of the 2013 season. 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Information Web fremantlefc.com.au AFL Media Fremantle WA 6959 Abbott & Co correct at time of going to print. FREMANTLEFC.COM.AU 3 03 DockerMag3-Contents.indd 3 29/08/13 2:14 PM FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM @FREMANTLEDOCKERS Monika Serrao ‏ hballas Teana-Jayne Cass Underdown @foxyangelina @hballas @teanajayne91 @cassandrau #freodockers #afl Steve urkle, My new banner. This is honestly the #dockersfan #fremantledockers did i doooo thaaaaat. #gangster #LachieNeale #27 #gofreo #loveit best moment of my life! I just met @mav_29! And jeez he’s tall! insta-spaceThe Freo twitter-sphere A look at what’s been happening in the #gofreo world Rhiannon Bonacchi Fremantle Dockers @rhiannonskye89 @fremantledockers #gofreo #football Look who Freo fan #footballbetterthansoccer Maria spotted at the gym #freoheaveho #gofreo Tendai Mzungu ‏@tmzungu livvilaalaa Bit of ‘bromance’ going on after yesterday’s game @livvilaalaa Lees biggest fans #34 #favouritecousin #30games 4 FREMANTLEFC.COM.AU 04-05 DockerMag3-Twittersphere.indd 4 29/08/13 2:22 PM Matthew Pavlich ‏ @mattpav29 Daddy/daughter time! Michael Clare @ Angie @angelamareec _caro_xoxo ‏ leizy123 Our little freo lucky charm @_caro_xoxo Legend #wharfiefever #letsgoboys #gofreo The future of Freo #ouryear #gofreo supporters #cute #purpleteam Nina Hayden ‏ Chris Mayne ‏ @neenz_hayden @cmayne23 #gofreo Mini golf at its best #lads #murdochpines #holeinone Matt de Boer ‏ David Fedson ‏ Matt de Boer ‏@mattdeboer @mattdeboer9 @dfeds7 The Terminator! #i’llbeback Spide calling on his #gofreo #vegas smart phone #thestrip FREMANTLEFC.COM.AU 5 04-05 DockerMag3-Twittersphere.indd 5 29/08/13 2:22 PM LIVE.DREAM.PLAY FREMANTLE DOCKERS PURPLE POCKET ALL SMILES: G RADUATION The first year DAY players get a happy snap after First year players Josh Simpson, finishing their AFL Tanner Smith, Alex Howson, Apprenticeship Max Duffy, Jack Hannath, Craig Program. Moller and Matt Taberner graduated from their AFL Apprenticeship Program in August. The program, which commenced in January this year, aims to equip the players with skills in communication and leadership as well as time and financial management. Player development co-ordinator Liam Casson has seen the players develop off-field and recognises the benefits of the program. “You see guys at the start of the program who are quite reserved, then by the end they have come out of their shell, so that’s always nice to see,” Casson said. “It’s been fascinating to watch friendships form… they are a real close-knit group.” PURPLE POCKET What’s been happening in the world of the Fremantle Dockers LOVE YOUR FREO His aim is to raise $1 million There were some big names at towards breast cancer research Patersons Stadium to watch us take and, at the same time, break the on the Kangaroos on Sunday 23 June. world record for longest distance Perth-born international travelled on a unicycle. comedian and musician Tim Minchin The round 13 half-time enjoyed the win with the players in experience was one he will the rooms after the game, along with cherish for a long time. Australian actor Samuel Johnson. “Going around Patersons ZEST FOR LIFE: Johnson, whose sister Connie has Stadium in Perth was absolutely Nick Suban and Tendai Mzungu breast cancer, is riding his unicycle phenomenal… I even got a standing THURSA’S TRIP TO FREO: catch up with young gun Mason Thursa Leary meets her favourite Hambling in Melbourne. around the country to remind every ovation from the fans,” Johnson player Luke McPharlin at Freo HQ. Australian woman to be ‘breast aware’. told Channel Ten’s The Project. A YOUNG FREO ALL FREO HERO THE WAY FOR When Tendai Mzungu and Nick THURSA Suban met Mason Hambling in Passionate Freo supporter Melbourne on Saturday 17 August, Thursa Leary met her favourite player they couldn’t believe just how Luke McPharlin in August at Freo HQ. much energy the youngster had. A member since 1994, the 90 Mason was diagnosed with year-old is hoping for success. Burkett’s Leukaemia in April this “It would be great to see a year and has so far undergone premiership in the coming years,” six rounds of chemotherapy Thursa said. treatment since his diagnosis. “To see Luke out there playing The three-year-old spent POST MATCH would be lovely.” an hour with Mzungu and CATCH UP: Thursa has attended most Suban, kicking the footy and Matthew Pavlich, home games over her 19 years enjoying time away from his Tim Minchin and Samuel of membership and recently, treatment at Melbourne’s Johnson join her three-year-old great grandson Royal Children’s Hospital. the celebrations Peter attended his first game. The players were in absolute in the change rooms He only lasted until half time, awe of his zest for life and love after the round but if Thursa has her way, for his Freo Dockers. 13 win. he’ll be a Docker for life. FREMANTLEFC.COM.AU 7 07 DockerMag3-Purple Pocket.indd 7 29/08/13 2:30 PM ZAC DAWSON THE BRAVEST TH ING I’VE EVER DONE Zac Dawson had lost the passion for the game he loved. One man’s belief in him helped him find it again. STORY COSTA KASTANIS n an episode of Docker TV’s and Fremantle club champion for a month, and nothing was ever indicator was pointing towards ‘The Burning Question’, Ryan Crowley. positive,” Dawson says. not playing AFL again. the players were asked He trained every day of the week “It was a lot to take on board “I’d pretty much said to him what the bravest thing and played Saturdays and Sundays. as a young guy.” I wasn’t that keen when he first they had ever done was. A bit excessive if you ask his father. Dawson played 10 more games asked me,” he says. Zac Dawson’s answer “It was too much football, but that season for a total of 14 at Lyon implored Dawson to speak was to play AFL. he loved it, the more the better,” Hawthorn, but the stigma from to his family and friends before It wasn’t skydiving, nor Peter says. his fourth never went away. deciding which road to take. Iasking for his girlfriend Sheena’s So if playing football was Zac He was delisted at the end of the “I think that was the best hand in marriage. Dawson’s great passion, why did he 2006 season, residing in a football advice because I spoke to my There was a time in Dawson’s consider playing AFL the bravest wasteland for the next two years. parents and they said, if you life when playing Aussie Rules was thing he’d ever done? The scars from a tumultuous don’t take this opportunity, all he ever wanted to do, just as It can be traced back to an two years at Hawthorn had taken then in a year or two’s time his grandfather from his mother infamous day in 2006, when their toll and the game he’d you’re going to wonder ‘what if?’,” Maureen’s side, Ken Barclay, and his in just his fourth AFL game for devoted eight days a Dawson says.