Fremantle’s win over the Western Bulldogs on Sunday afternoon has seen the team move up to 11th on the ladder, with consecutive wins now providing a building block for the remainder of the season.

Fremantle Senior Coach Justin Longmuir said the team would take confidence from the game, with the team’s ball use and decision-making being the highlight of the win.

“When we had our run and our full calibre of players out there, I thought we were able to create some really strong opportunities," Longmuir said at his post-match media conference.

“I thought our backs held up really well under their (the Bulldogs) field position dominance at times.

“I’m just really proud of how we hung on. I think we were down to one rotation with some sore boys who just had to either give us something or had players who just had to give us a whole last quarter when they’d usually have a rotation.”

Although the Bulldogs were +49 in disposals (68-117), +11 for inside 50s (8-19), and +3 in clearances (8-11), Fremantle went into the first break with a two-point lead, thanks to an elite 75 per cent efficiency inside 50 for the Club's four goals.

Freo flipped the script in the second quarter, scoring from 63 per cent of their entries inside 50 and kicking a goal from 44 per cent of those entries while also keeping the Bulldogs to a single goal from just 14 per cent of their entries, going into halftime with a 32-point lead.

Fremantle’s halftime score of 71 is the highest they’ve scored under Longmuir’s leadership, with the Senior Coach saying the team’s ball movement in the first quarter was what kept the side in the game.

“Belief is built on the back of doing, isn’t it?” Longmuir said.

“They should get a bit more confidence from the competence of being able to execute.

“Every time we lose a game of footy, everyone wants to jump all over our ball movement, and it staggers me sometimes, some of the commentary around our ball movement.

“Our ball movement kept us in that quarter and kept us in front. Our contest wasn’t great, field position wasn’t great, and we weren’t defending the ground the way we wanted to, but we were able to create opportunities on the back of our ball movement.

“We’ve done that consistently over the last two, two and a half years.

“For whatever reason, that goes unrecognised, but today it kept us in the game. It’s not the way we want to play, but I think it shows the maturity of our game that we are able to evolve our play.”

By the time the final siren had sounded, and despite the Bulldogs having 19 more inside 50s (44-63), the Bulldogs were restricted in scoring for the afternoon by Fremantle’s stringent defence, scoring from just 33 per cent of their entries and kicking a goal from just 19 per cent.

Fremantle, on the other hand, scored from 50 per cent of their entries and kicked a goal from 34 per cent. Fremantle will now travel on the road for back-to-back weeks as they head to Gather Round and the MCG in Round 6.

Fremantle’s win over the Bulldogs is also the first time co-vice-captain Andrew Brayshaw has won a milestone game, playing his 150th game today.