The 24-year-old will play his 100th AFL game this Sunday against GWS at Patersons Stadium.
Not only has he become one of the elite set-shots in the competition, Mayne is arguably the best pressure forward in the league.
Like a pin ball, bouncing off bumpers and flippers, Mayne relentlessly delivers pressure act after pressure act on defenders, causing turnovers or locking the football in Freo’s forward half.
He’s incredibly unselfish, too, as the third-quarter pass on his un-favoured left side that created a goal for Lachie Neale on Saturday night showed.
Mayne was held goalless for the first time this season on Saturday, however, goals are not the main criteria by which Fremantle’s senior coach judges his troops.
Ross Lyon told 6PR on Monday that, despite not hitting the scoreboard, Mayne was one of Freo’s best against the Blues.
“I put him in our top five on the ground,” he said.
“I thought he was critical to making us function and his work rate is second to none in the AFL.
“He made things happen for us on the night.”
