Fremantle Senior Coach Justin Longmuir wants to see his side improve on forward 50 conversions to score.

Speaking at his post-match media conference, Longmuir said that fine-tuning the team's ability to convert forward 50 entries into scores will be a key improvement moving forward, with the team managing 12 marks inside forward 50 from the 59 entries on the afternoon and converting 34% of the entries into scores compared to Sydney's 42%.

“That last bit going inside 50, we are still a little bit rusty, and we need to make more of 31 inside 50s in the second half for four goals,” Longmuir said.

"I feel it was making more of our entries and I feel we were predictable with the way we went inside forward 50.

“Sometimes we just need to dump it to the goal square and compete our backsides off, and then there are other times when our method forward of the ball can be better to provide better options to the kicker.”

Sydney led the inside 50 count by one at half-time (28-29), by the final siren, Fremantle led the count by four (59-55), but ultimately weren’t able to convert to a winning score, going down to the Swans by three points.

Fremantle held the Swans goalless in the first term, with Josh Treacy getting the fans up and about early with the opening two goals of the game, finishing the afternoon with four majors.

Positively, Longmuir believes the overall improvement of the team following Round 1 had been demonstrated throughout the day, saying the team’s ability to back themselves with the ball in hand was a noticeable difference.

“Our contest, and trusting ourselves with the ball in hand, that goes a long way in buffering the opposition's pressure; being willing to hang onto the ball for an extra second or two,” Longmuir said.

“I thought that aspect of our game was really strong.

“I thought we defended our front half pretty well. There are going to be some things we’d like to do better, but by hanging onto the ball a little bit longer, it allowed us to change angles and drive with the ball in our hands, creating a little bit more.”

Only two games into the year, and with Round 3 bringing the RAC Derby, Longmuir was adamant that a lot more football was yet to be played out.

“We’re disappointed about the game, but we are two games in," Longmuir said.

"We need to improve our footy, own what happened today, take the positives out of it, take the lessons out of it, and we’ll be a better product next week.

“There is plenty to fight for; we play West Coast next week and like I said, we’ll improve on our footy just like they’ll be trying to do.

“There is still a lot of footy to play this year.”