Fremantle's first half of the season has been red-hot with a record of 11-1, but can the Dockers keep that fire burning?
Leading Western Australian sports journalist Digby Beacham certainly thinks so as he spoke on Zero Hanger's The Outer Wing about how he believes the Dockers can have a record-breaking season.
"I'm giving them two losses (for the rest of the year)," Beacham said. "I've got them minor premiers at 20-3. They have North and then they have the bye. Then they have a four-game patch where they have Geelong, Gold Coast, GWS who look like they are clearing their throats and then Sydney.
"It's a really testing four-game stretch, but three of those games are at home. They get the Cats at home after a bye, so they will be fresh and they will have all of the personnel there, Young will be there, Serong will be there.
"Then they get Gold Coast here, they should beat Gold Coast here. Gold Coast don't travel all that well. They also get Sydney here. Right here, right now if you were to frame your market at TABtouch against Geelong, Gold Coast and Sydney, Fremantle will be favourites. Will they drop one of them? Probably.
"Then they have got a couple games away in the dead of winter, they have Port in Adelaide and we know that can get really cold and bleak over there, then they also have Melbourne at the MCG later in the year as well.
"Which games they are going to lose, I am not entirely sure, but they are not going to win out from here, so I have got them 20-3 and finishing top of the ladder. And I dare say they will continue to be TABtouch premiership favourites."
The Dockers' previous best home-and-away season was in 2015 when the club claimed its first and only minor premiership with a record of 17-5.
Cross-town rival West Coast has already had a much-improved season after only one win in 2025.
The Eagles currently sit with a record of 4-8 and Beacham believes the club can claim a few more scalps in the second half of the year.
"I have got them (finishing) 7-16," he said.
"It requires them to win a further three games for the year, but again, like Fremantle they have a big four-week block coming. They have games against Port, North Melbourne, Carlton and Adelaide. We know the Adelaide game is home, the Carlton game is over there in Melbourne, but they get North Melbourne here at Optus Stadium.
"If they can pinch a couple of those, they get Richmond later in the year, we saw what Richmond did over here, so they would love to be able to exact some level of revenge against the Tigers. And we know the Tigers are really banged up at the present stage.
"On the path they are on at the moment West Coast, there are games which they are going to be really, really competitive in.
"They have even got Collingwood over here later in the year. We saw what happened a couple of weeks ago at the MCG before a rabid Collingwood crowd, so I might have even sold them a little bit short, but 7-16 is the crystal ball for me with West Coast this year."
