Fremantle and West Coast prepare for the western Derby, with the Dockers trying to bounce back after two close losses

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Fremantle has made a big selection call for Saturday night’s Western Derby, as it looks to bounce back from consecutive narrow losses. But the Docker will have to get pasted an improved West Coast, who have recalled a Premiership star, if they win a sixth straight Derby.

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00:00 It's a week later than the Dockers had hoped but Sean Darcy will play his first AFL game

00:07 of the season.

00:08 The Ruck rejoining Luke Jackson in the side following a pre-season knee injury.

00:12 He's coming off a pretty limited prep if you look at his summer so it will take a little

00:17 bit of time for him to get back to the amount of Ruck work he was playing last year.

00:22 Contest is their big strength, I'm sure you'll agree with that.

00:26 And their stoppage work is pretty good as well so yeah only a couple of goals off being

00:32 undefeated so we sort of know what kind of game we're going to get.

00:35 The Eagles coming off a big win over Richmond and a competitive showing against Sydney.

00:40 We're still working on a lot of areas of our game and a few of the areas clicked on the

00:44 weekend against the understrength Tigers so we're not delusional but we're taking steps

00:48 forward so we'll get a pretty good audit this week.

00:52 The Eagles have made one change for the derby with Dom Sheed named in the 23-man squad following

00:56 a frustrating run of injuries.

00:58 For Fremantle, Darcy is joined in the side by Sam Sturt with Sam Swietkowski out with

01:03 concussion while Matt Tabiner has been managed.

01:06 I've been really impressed with the way the players have owned our part in those two losses.

01:13 We need to learn from them and get better from them because if we're in that position

01:15 later in the year or down the track in big games we want to be able to execute.

01:19 Fremantle hasn't lost a derby since May 2021.

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