Senior Coach Justin Longmuir feels his recent move to coach from the interchange is the best way for him to connect with a young Fremantle group on game days.

Longmuir coached from the boundary for the second consecutive game on Friday against the Western Bulldogs after trying it for the first time against Gold Coast at Norwood Oval, when Fremantle fielded the least inexperienced team in the competition for Gather Round.

The Bulldogs made their experience count in round six, with the second-oldest selected team that round running out 49-point winners against their younger opponents.

Longmuir feels being on the bench has been beneficial to those younger Freo players.

“I haven’t decided what I’m going to do longer term, but I feel like we’re a young group, we’re constantly the third youngest or lower in terms of age and experience so I just think to have the senior coach down there allows our younger players and all our players to some degree to reset, stay involved in the game rather than getting caught up in mistakes,” Longmuir said.

“I get a good sense of leadership, who comes to the bench a bit fired up and who’s communicating with their teammates and staying in the game.

“It’s been a good experiment and I’ll just work out week-to-week what I do.”

22-year-old Jordan Clark said the players have embraced Longmuir on the bench.

“I actually really like it, JL’s a very good coach and you hear stuff from the horse’s mouth when you come off the ground,” Clark told the Final Siren Podcast with Duck and Oz.

“Everyone likes to just hear directly from the head coach. He’s really good, obviously when things aren’t going so well, it’s hard to give guys feedback but he’s very good and I find that the last two weeks in particular, I’ve really enjoyed having him on the bench.

“The conversations around the change rooms are the boys have liked having him down there as well.”