Fremantle have added three new players to their list with the last of the AFL recruiting carnivals, or drafts as they like to unimaginatively call them. Fremantle had a surplus of pre-season draft picks after confusing the dates they needed to delist Adam McPhee and Jack Anthony by and with their first selection they went for a South Australian ruckman by the name of Jack Hannath.
Hannath is 200cm and weighs a crap load in the old scale, 100kg in the new and has been playing for one of the SANFL clubs, you don't really care which one, as a ruckman. Over the past couple of weeks he has been training with the Melbourne Football Club and dropped in at Hawthorn for a look around but Fremantle had the advantage, thanks to their buggering up of the list before the main draft, and swooped on him. Hannath no doubt looks forward to working with Sandilands, Griffin, Clarke and Kepler Bradley to improve his ruck work and crack a few games in the AFL.
With Fremantle's second pre-season pick they went for Jess Crichton, a 17 game Fremantle player who was first put in a Fremantle jumper after the 2009 draft and was delisted at the end of the season to allow room for McPhee and Anthony.
Fremantle had three Rookie Draft picks up their sleeve, the last of which had already been use a couple of months back to take Craig Moller from their NSW development list. Moller is also a ruckman and is sure to look forward to developing his game around the likes of Sandilands, Griffin, Clarke, Bradley and Jack Hannath.
The first new rookie pick was Matt Taberner from the highly regarded Myrtleford Football Club in a Victorian country league. He was invited back to the Murray Bushrangers for a few games where he impressed with pure footy skills and an uncanny ability to get free and kick goals.
Fremantle went back to the ever reliable East Fremantle Football Club for their other pick, obviously taking Alex Howson who for some reason had gone unnoticed until this point. A 195cm goal kicking machine, winning the Colts goal kicking medal, he's also part of the program introduce by Fremantle a few years ago to pick up the slack from South Fremantle in producing footballers who can grow heavy beards by the time they're 16.