Nat Fyfe

Dockers football manager Peter Bell has had his say on when the club is likely to appoint a new skipper in the wake of Nat Fyfe's decision to stand down.

I think it’s a really humbling role to hold and I guess the way we do it with the players having such a large say... to have their full backing and feel like they want you to lead them would be really humbling and I guess a privilege to do,” he told Triple M. It could also mean the Dockers take to the field for pre-season games without a captain in place.

In his exclusive radio interview with Adam Papalia on WWOS Nat Fyfe shared what's next for his career and the club. “It was liberating… it intuitively feels ...

Nat Fyfe's six-year stint as captain of Fremantle has ended in intrigue with the veteran declaring he stepped down after months wrestling with the decision, ...

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Paul Hasleby has listed his candidates to succeed Nat Fyfe as Fremantle's next captain. Fyfe, 31, stepped down as Dockers skipper on Tuesday after six years ...

- He’s reliable. He’s got leadership skills behind him. He’s the great player you need to be. - He’s done it before. - He’s a match-winner. There’s something about a big guy as captain.

Fremantle star Nat Fyfe is embracing his future as a forward having stood down as skipper, while Brennan Cox was spotted jogging and walking laps at ...

After returning to training this week, Cox - who was named in the All-Australian last season after a breakout year - was being closely monitored on Tuesday before leaving the track early. The 31-year-old was spotted getting in some goal-kicking practice on his own as his teammates wrapped up the session. Fremantle star Nat Fyfe is embracing his future as a forward having stood down as skipper, while Brennan Cox was spotted jogging and walking laps at Cockburn on Tuesday morning.

Nat Fyfe believes he ended his tenure as captain a vastly different leader to when he started.

“In time, I started to grasp the concept of bringing other people along. “If you talk about meetings and speeches and media calls there is a time commitment involved, but the real weight comes from that expectation you carry as the symbolic leader of the Club and how much you wear the success and failure of the organisation. “Most of the burden or expectation or mental load is felt at a subconscious level,” Fyfe said. “By the end I came to realise that my role as a leader wasn’t necessarily to inspire, it was most often to make the players feel safe, supported and free to be able to play their footy as best they could.” It’s easy to do lip service to that and say that’s what leadership is, but until you get a handle on how you get people to follow you and provide a safe environment for people to get the most out of their journeys…it’s a hard thing to do. “When I took over I was 25 or 26, I was mid-age group in terms of the rest of the team," Fyfe told 6PR.

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“The opportunity to completely step away and reinvent my game is quite exciting. “I think this gives me the best opportunity to go forward and focus on my own game. I reached out to Brett Kirk who was a mentor of mine. “Clearly the club wanted to move on from him as captain and that must take some getting your head around … “I know he was having a lot of conversations with people within the footy club, his teammates, certainly the coach, myself at times and others within his own inner sanctum about what would be the best thing for the footy club moving forward and certainly what would be the best thing for him to get back out on the park. Fyfe himself admitted he needed to get his head around the change in leadership at Fremantle, and mentioned a “main sell” – a term that saw many question if it was his call at all.

Nat Fyfe has delved deeper into the mental side of his goalkicking, as he works to establish a more permanent forward role.

“You can keep failing until you figure it out and that is where I am at the moment and I feel like I am in a great space to get some good results from that.” “The goalkicking one sort of developed out of nowhere, I kicked seven points all in general play at the start of 2021 then I kicked a couple more goals and a couple more points from set shots and then all of a sudden, I had this goalkicking problem which I kind of created myself and then it got worse and worse. “You can go from being completely confident and everything subconsciously coming to life and clear of mind - to all of a sudden you have a bunch of demons for different reasons,” Fyfe said. “I have been putting a lot of work in and I’m just starting to see some of those results from a lot of work invested,” Fyfe told 6PR. “I am starting to feel some synchronicity with how I’m hitting the ball…and feeling really confident in front of goal,” Fyfe said. “I had to really go to hell and back with my mental game on my goalkicking because it became quite a burden to step out there in front of goals.