Fremantle senior coach Justin Longmuir has outlined some of the fundamental issues that proved costly in the loss to Brisbane.

“We just kept missing opportunity after opportunity, and then I suppose the pressure of the game, being behind on the scoreboard meant we had to chase, and we didn’t chase well,” Longmuir said.

“I said to the players, ‘It’s probably the first time I’ve seen us be behind and lack composure in those plays where we take a mark in the goal square and then go to play on.’

“We were playing a really good team that was bouncing back, and we just kept on missing opportunities.

“We didn’t make the most of our play, and then they made the most of theirs.

“It felt like the first time in a while where we’ve probably felt the pressure of the game and lacked a little bit of composure to finish our work off.”

Longmuir highlighted the simple fact that poor scoreboard conversion let the team down.

At halftime, Fremantle had generated more inside-50 entries (27–25) and taken more marks in the forward 50 (7–3), but trailed at the major break, wasteful in front of goal kicking 3.8.

“Bad kicking becomes contagious. The shots we missed weren’t all difficult,” Longmuir said.

“Ball movement doesn’t help, we turned the ball over in terrible areas.

“In the first half a majority of our inside-50 entries were shallow, and they are the best team at bouncing off shallow entries.

“I thought we sat back too much, and against a team like (Brisbane), they’ll just pick you apart.

“We just weren’t clean enough with the ball, and our execution let us down.”

As disappointing as the loss was, Longmuir says his faith in the group is unwavering, with everything to play for in Round 24 in a clash with the Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium.

“We’ll go over there and give it our best shot,” Longmuir said.

“We’ve won, what 11 of 13. I know everyone will be doom and gloom and write us off again after tonight, but I’ve got a lot of faith in this team.

“It didn’t go our way tonight, but like I said to them after the game - we’ll review it the same way, we’ll get better, dust ourselves off, and we’ll go again.

“We haven’t said farewell to Fyfey yet. We’ve got plenty of footy left in us.”