You may have noticed some number changes at Sunday's Starlight Purple Haze Game.
With 14 new players on the list this season, check out the jumper allocations as some of your favourite players may be donning new guernsey numbers in 2009.
Garrick Ibbotson has vacated his number 35 and can now be seen running around in the No. 5 jumper (formerly Ryley Dunn’s). Marcus Drum has passed in his No.30 and is wearing Matthew Carr’s No. 9, while Andrew Foster has swapped his No. 40 for Heath Black’s No. 21.
Shaun McManus’s famous No. 8 is now the property of recruit Nic Suban. Peter Bell’s No. 32 and Jeff Farmer’s No. 33 jumpers have been passed on to Stephen Hill and Ben Bucovaz respectively.
In other jumper allocations, Hayden Ballantyne will wear No. 17, Zac Clarke will don the No. 30, Chris Hall will take No.34, Tim Ruffles will fill Ibbotson’s vacated No. 35 and Michael Walters will wear No. 38.
The 2009 rookie jumper allocations are: Casey Sibosado (39), Matt de Boer (40), Hamish Shepheard (45), Clancee Pearce (46), Jay Van Berlo (47) and Greg Broughton (48). Luke Pratt (13) and Brent Connelly (44) will continue in the numbers they wore in 2008.
Visit the Team Stores located at Fremantle Oval or Subiaco Oval to have your favourite players number put on your Fremantle guernsey.