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Dockers big man Aaron Sandilands back for season opener against Geelong
Champion Fremantle big man Aaron Sandilands is right on course to play his crucial part in an AFL premiership season opener against Geelong in Perth next month.
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Champion Fremantle big man Aaron Sandilands is right on course to play his crucial part in an AFL premiership season opener against Geelong in Perth next month.
​Controversial Fremantle recruit Harley Bennell is poised for another full scale escalation in training as the gifted midfielder continues to shrug off a devastating calf injury curse.
West Coast looks set to unveil boom recruit Sam Mitchell in a unique western derby showdown with arch enemy Fremantle on Saturday at Western Australia's mid-western coastal town Geraldton.
But the Dockers boss concedes that winning a signature from one of the game's biggest stars could be delayed until well into the 2017 premiership home-and-away series.
Fremantle champion Nat Fyfe has given no clear sign of a new contract but distinct evidence he will spend time as a goal-scoring forward as his Dockers rebuild finals hopes this year.
Promising young midfielder Liam Duggan has suffered a summer hit in his hopes to win a spot in a star-studded West Coast Eagles midfield.
Emerging Adelaide utility Mitch McGovern is looming large in West Coast and Fremantle recruiting sights before a football has even been kicked in anger in a new AFL premiership race.
The gifted follower is originally from the Peel Thunder club, but is believed to have not contemplated staying at his home outfit and reigning WAFL premiers with the continued alignment with the Dockers.
West Coast can further shore up the oldest AFL playing list with contract extensions for some of the longest serving Eagles on the back of recruiting decorated veterans Sam Mitchell and Drew Petrie through this year's trading and drafting.
Western Australia is poised for its biggest AFL national draft crop in almost a decade.
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