The season was soured by three 63-point defeats, two to Hawthorn and another by Fremantle at Subiaco Oval ( this occurring after the second of those hidings by Hawthorn ) plus a 50 point hiding from eventual premiers Geelong ( for which captain Matthew Lloyd was suspended ).

East Fremantle Oval has been the team's home ground since 1953.

Today Fremantle is represented in the Australian Football League by the Fremantle Dockers, who train at the heritage-listed Fremantle Oval, shared with South Fremantle, and play their home matches at Patersons Stadium in Subiaco.

During the early 1990s, Fremantle Oval was one of two venues used during the Perth leg of the Big Day Out music festival.

Their first training session was held on 31 October 1994 at Fremantle Oval.

A commemorative plaque from Victoria Pavilion, Fremantle Oval.

Statue by Robert Hitchcock outside Fremantle Oval of South Fremantle Football Club | South Fremantle's John Gerovich taking a " specky " over East Fremantle Football Club | East Fremantle's Ray French in the 1956 West Australian Football League | WANFL preliminary final

On being traded to the Dockers, Tarrant said that Subiaco Oval, both Fremantle and the West Coast Eagles ' home ground, would suit his style of play.

In the 2nd Semi Final Claremont crushed Swans at Claremont Oval by 50 points 17. 17 ( 119 ) to 10. 9 ( 69 ) with former Fremantle Dockers player Andrew Foster kicking 5 goals.

The team's home ground is East Fremantle Oval.

Highest Score: Round 17, 1944-33. 23 ( 221 ) vs. South Fremantle at Fremantle Oval

Greatest Winning Margin: Round 17, 1944-201 points vs. South Fremantle at Fremantle Oval

Record Finals Attendance: 1979 Grand Final-52, 781 vs. South Fremantle at Subiaco Oval

Lowest Score: Round 10, 1903-0. 3 ( 3 ) vs. East Fremantle at Fremantle Oval

It was formed in 1900 and plays its home games at Fremantle Oval.

On Foundation Day v East Fremantle at East Fremantle Oval, South played in front of the biggest crowd of the 2009 WAFL home and away season 11, 300.

2007 was a much better season for Essendon, in which, despite significant wins over Adelaide ( twice ), Fremantle, St Kilda, Sydney ( by one point in Sydney ), the previous year's premiers West Coast ( their second successive win by a solitary point ) and Carlton, they missed the finals for the third year running.

It is clear that Stirling had already selected the name Perth for the capital well before the town was proclaimed, as his proclamation of the colony, read in Fremantle on 18 June 1829, ended " given under my hand and Seal at Perth this 18th Day of June 1829.

Two schoolfriends, who had also been evacuated from Singapore to Batavia, heard that Gorton was in hospital, arranged for them to be put on a ship for Fremantle, which left on 23 February and treated Gorton's wounds.

In 1801 while aboard the 74-gun HMS Ganges ( commanded by Captain Thomas Fremantle, a personal friend of Brock's ), Brock was present at the Battle of Copenhagen where it was intended that his troops would lead an assault on the forts at Copenhagen.

After the battle, along with Fremantle, he was among those who celebrated the victory with Nelson.

Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829.

The Noongar people inhabited the area that is now Fremantle, which was known as Walyalup.

As a result of Stirling's report, Captain Charles Howe Fremantle of HMS Challenger, a 603 ton, 28-gun frigate, was instructed to sail to the west coast of Australia to establish a settlement there.

It was then that Stirling decided to name the port settlement ' Fremantle '.

The thirty-seventh and last convict ship to dock at Fremantle was the Hougoumont on 10 January 1868, signalling the end of penal transportation to Australia.

During World War II, Fremantle was the home of the largest base for Allied submarines in the Southern Hemisphere.

Fremantle was considered a " veritable Shangri-la " among submariners during the war, however tensions between transient American and non-American soldiers often led to alcohol-fuelled violence.

The Fremantle state seat was continuously held by the Australian Labor Party from 1924 until 2009, when it was lost at a by-election to Greens candidate Adele Carles.

The convicts built a new gaol, Fremantle Prison, which was completed in the 1850s and continued to be used as Fremantle's prison until 1991.

Fremantle Prison was once one of the most notorious prisons in the British Empire.

This was done to make way for the widening of High Street, but that project was stopped thanks to the campaigning of The Fremantle Society and other community members, and the buildings along the southern side of High Street were retained.

Global attention turned to Fremantle when it hosted the America's Cup yachting race in 1987, after Australia was the first country to ever win the race, aside from the USA, in 1983.

Organised Australian rules football was first played in Fremantle in the early 1880s with the Fremantle Football Club, a founding member of the West Australian Football Association in 1885.

In 2009, a statue of Scott created by Fremantle sculptor Greg James was erected at the Fishing Boat Harbour.

The Fremantle family, originally from Aston Abbotts, had strong naval connections.

It has a population of about 14, 300 people ( 2011 census ), of whom about 25 % were born overseas, mostly in the United Kingdom, and has a landmark high-rise hotel, the Rendezvous Observation City, originally built in 1986 for Alan Bond whose intention was to profit from anticipated accommodation demand when the 1987 America's Cup challenge was held at nearby Fremantle.

Melville was originally established on 14 December 1900 as the East Fremantle Road District under the Roads Boards Act 1871.

Little Creatures is a brewing company based in Fremantle, Western Australia, originally established in 2000 by the original brewers of the Matilda Bay Brewing Company.

McPhee was originally recruited by Fremantle, with whom he made his debut in 2001.

The Fremantle Football Club ( originally known as Unions and unrelated to either an earlier club and the current AFL club of the same name ) had won ten premierships in the fourteen years that they were in the WA Football Association ( now known as the West Australian Football League ).

Fremantle Oval originally known as Barracks Green Field is a stadium in the centre of Fremantle, Western Australia.