EMERGING Fremantle half back Garrick Ibbotson has enjoyed the chance to freshen up this week and is confident his club can quickly get back on track.

Since losing to Melbourne on Sunday after leading by 50 points half time, Fremantle has been hammered from every angle in the media, but Ibbotson believes that can quickly turn around.

This week those who played in the loss to the previously winless Demons have had three days off before returning to help run Thursday's 150th Major Schools Event.

Over 1500 school children took part in the massive clinic at Langley Park, alongside the Swan River.

Every child got to take part in activities with the Fremantle players and received a special Australian Football 150th Year Certificate with AFL Legend and 150-year Ambassador Kevin Sheedy's signature.

Ibbotson relished the opportunity to run around with the youngsters.

"We've got a lot of the guys down here today and are running a clinic that involves kids from each one of our WAFL regions," the 20-year-old said.

"We've got guys from the south-east, East Fremantle, Subiaco and all our WAFL zones together, which is great. Each guy has been allocated to an area to have fun with their kids and hopefully get them to continue playing."

Ibbotson didn’t have answers for the second-half fadeout against Melbourne, but expects it all to come out in the review that will begin now that the players are back at the club, except for captain Matthew Pavlich and Luke McPharlin, who are in the Dream Team squad for the Australian Football Hall of Fame Tribute Match on Saturday night.

"We came out and were flying up until half time, but couldn’t keep it together and got run over at the end," he said.

"We came back from Melbourne on Sunday and have had the last few days off so we haven’t sat down and talked about it yet, but we will do that over the later part of the week and see what comes out of it."

Ibbotson's form in recent weeks has likely seen him cement his spot for quite some time, but he would like to soon play in a win.

"I'm happy to be playing and with the way I'm going at the moment, but we just need to pull together as a team a bit more. I'll be happier to be playing in the team when we start winning," he said.

"I had a big pre-season and have always thought it would be a year where I could break into the team regularly and start playing good football with Fremantle and I'm happy with how it's gone so far."

Coach Mark Harvey believes that young players such as Rhys Palmer and Ibbotson needed the break and Ibbotson goes along with that, while urging players with more experience to step up to help lead the young brigade.

"It is a lot more intense, but we do get helped out through training. The break has come at a good time for us, so we can have time to review our season so far and what we can get out of it going forward," he said.

"We have a lot of young guys coming through and once they get games into their legs and more experience, they will only get better, but the guys that have played 50 or more games now have to act as senior players."

Ibbotson believes a concentration issue could be behind Freo going missing at certain parts of matches, but is still hopeful they can finish the season strongly.

"I don’t think we are unfit, it has happened because of something else. It might be something like a lack of concentration at time during games," he said.

"We are still confident that we can play good footy and there's 15 games to go in the year, so even finals aren’t out of the question. We will work out as a group what we need to do to get back and everyone is confident that we can."