Fyfe opens up on 'tough' call to help Dockers

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Nat Fyfe has stood down from his relation arsenic Fremantle skipper aft a six-year tenure successful what helium described arsenic a "tough" decision.

The 31-year-old informed his teammates of the determination connected Tuesday, admitting that it had been coming for the champion portion of a month.

"The determination was tough. It has been thing I've known for the past 3 oregon 4 weeks," helium said.

"Last twelvemonth was a challenging twelvemonth for maine individually, but a large twelvemonth for the nine and it started to pave the mode for a transition.

"Intuitively, I knew that it was an breathtaking accidental for the nine for maine to measurement speech and fto idiosyncratic other travel through.

"It took a portion for the emotions and my caput to enactment up with my intuition, it feels similar I was letting spell of a imagination successful immoderate ways, but erstwhile I connected with that feeling, it opens up the anticipation for truthful overmuch more.

"I'm optimistic astir what this modulation tin bash for the club."

After being Fremantle's talisman for the bulk of his 209-game career, Fyfe endured a pugnacious 2022 season, managing conscionable 7 appearances and averaging a career-low 15.1 disposals per contest.

Fyfe has besides stepped speech from Fremantle's enactment radical entirely, arsenic the club's adjacent procreation gets acceptable to instrumentality over.

Andrew Brayshaw has overtaken Fyfe arsenic Fremantle's No.1 midfield man, and aft a vocation twelvemonth which saw him named the AFLPA's MVP, the 23-year-old is 1 of the blistery favourites to beryllium Fyfe's successor.

While Fyfe enjoyed a palmy idiosyncratic tenure arsenic captain, winning his 2nd Brownlow Medal successful 2019, the squad did not bask arsenic overmuch occurrence nether his leadership.

Fremantle missed the finals successful each of Fyfe's archetypal 5 seasons arsenic skipper earlier a drought-breaking quality past play wherever they were yet beaten successful a semi last by Collingwood.

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