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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Jonathan Horn

From the Pocket: Fremantle must get pulses racing to break the cycle of ‘vanilla’ mediocrity

Jordan Clark, Andrew Brayshaw and Sam Switkowski celebrate a Fremantle victory
Fremantle will be out to entertain as the Dockers seek a second finals campaign under coach Justin Longmuir during the 2025 AFL season. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Sometimes I read a press release from a bank, a politician or a football club and I get to the end of it and think – I have no idea what I just read. Is this good news or bad? Are you sacking someone here or are you appointing them? Am I being sold something? Have you assembled every cook in the kitchen to suck the marrow and meaning out of every sentence?

“Following a number of discussions with Justin Longmuir,” the Fremantle chief executive, Simon Garlick, said in a statement, “it was clear that the expectations we set ourselves is what drives our ambitions and standards, not the length of a contract”.

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