Fyfe said the Dockers' 22-point semi-final loss to Port Adelaide – after Freo led by four goals at half-time at Patersons Stadium – was still difficult to come to terms with.

 

However, the 22-year-old (he turns 23 on Thursday) was confident the Dockers wouldn't fall away in the coming seasons, as some pundits have predicted.

 

"It's all still pretty raw and we've still got some dissecting (of the Port loss) to do but we definitely feel with the group and the coaching staff we have that we have a longer plan than this year," Fyfe said at Tuesday night's All Australian team announcement.

 

"The game against Port Adelaide wasn't a great result, but it wasn't a do-or-die end-of-the-world game for us."

 

Fyfe was named in the All Australian team for the first time on Tuesday night, a week after he was voted the AFL Players' Association MVP.

 

The 190cm onballer could poll the highest number of votes at the Brownlow Medal on Monday night, although is ineligible after twice being suspended this season.

 

Fyfe said it was "quite a prestigious acknowledgment for an individual player" to be considered for the All Australian side.

 

Fremantle ruckman Aaron Sandilands and goalsneak Hayden Ballantyne were also picked in the 2014 team.

 

It was Sandilands' fourth All Australian gong and the first for Ballantyne.

 

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