Fremantle assistant coach Joel Corey has said the Club’s co-vice-captains are playing a pivotal role in developing younger players as the pre-season ramps up in 2024. 

Serong and Brayshaw are both coming off impressive 2023 campaigns, with Serong taking home the Doig Medal for the first time, while fellow vice-captain and midfielder Andrew Brayshaw came runner-up.

The pair will be looking to continue their form in the 2024 season but their priority this pre-season has been around the development of the Club’s emerging midfielders.

The Fremantle coach told SportFM on Wednesday the effect Brayshaw and Serong are having on their younger midfielders in their second seasons as co-vice-captains.

“Caleb, Andy and Luke (Jackson) to an extent are working on how they can influence their teammates and the leadership side of things,” Corey said. 

“We talked earlier about some of the younger players and how having them develop as individuals is important, and sometimes these players that have been around a couple of years and have influenced the AFL in the way that they have aren’t necessarily working on the same things.

“It’s a difficult game, football... so to continually develop them in as many different spaces is important.”