The skipper said Fremantle’s major focus since it beat Geelong in the qualifying final was to stick to doing what had got the club this far.
“Particularly since Ross (Lyon) and the new regime has been here, we’ve put in a lot of work and been focussing on some core basics, and that’s been a real strength of the group for a long time, to stay in the moment and not look for anything too magical or too spectacular,” Pavlich said.
The captain said Fremantle had drawn on the experience of its senior coach, who has been in two grand finals and a grand final replay with St Kilda.
Lyon’s advice was simple.
“To train hard, stay in focus, stay in tune, not look too far ahead, and just worry about the next session,” Pavlich said.
“It’s all the things that sound boring but are really important at this stage.”
Pavlich admitted there were many distractions outside of the club, but he said there were no concerns within the walls of Fremantle.
“When you come into the club it’s all about another game of footy, it’s not the focus on ‘this could be our last game for the year’, ‘it’s a prelim’, that sort of stuff,” he said.
“It’s more about how we go about things, our preparation in a normal week.
“The distraction comes when you’re outside of the club and people are in your ear or you have some thinking time, and that’s where we revert to what we have for a long time, our normal mental preparation and trying to relax as much as we can because we know it’s a big game.”
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