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AFL finals: Fremantle Dockers settle on 25-man squad to fly to Sydney for preliminary final

The West Australian Jake Santa Maria

16 Sept 2026 14:08 AEST Summary

From the report

After Brennan Cox was ruled out earlier on Wednesday, Fremantle have locked in their travelling squad of 25 players for their preliminary final clash against Sydney. See who’s headed east here!

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Indicators

Niral Score 4.2 mundaneloaded

None in this text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

final2preliminary2squad2

Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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The West Australian AFL finals: Fremantle Dockers settle on 25-man squad to fly to Sydney for preliminary final plain
The West Australian AFL finals: Brennan Cox ruled out of Fremantle Dockers’ preliminary final clash against Sydney plain
The Guardian Australia (Sport) AFL finals: where the Sydney v Fremantle preliminary final will be won and lost plain

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The West Australian. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
The West Australianas they published this story	4.2	0	42	-0.1	50
The Guardian Australia (Sport)	20.5	36	0	-0.1	35.3

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The same event elsewhere

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The West Australian AFL finals: Brennan Cox ruled out of Fremantle Dockers’ preliminary final clash against Sydney Niral 2.7 political 0 The Guardian Australia (Sport) AFL finals: where the Sydney v Fremantle preliminary final will be won and lost Niral 20.5 political 0