COMEBACK TRAIL: Fremantle's Viv Michie at training this week. Picture: Richard Polden Source: PerthNow
FORGOTTEN Docker Viv Michie is in line for Saturday's NAB Cup opener after taking another step in his comeback from injury in Friday's intra-club game.
Michie, who was taken by Fremantle with pick 44 in the 2010 national draft as part of the compensation received for losing Chris Tarrant to Collingwood, is yet to debut.
Dockers football operations manager Chris Bond praised the 20-year-old's resilience after a two-year struggle with foot stress fractures, but said the club did not have great expectations for him this season.
"It was great to see him out there playing," Bond said.
"To miss two years of football and come back means that he's still got a lot of work to do, but he's a very impressive young man and he'll continue to do that work.
"Our main concern with Viv has been getting through training, so there's no expectations on Viv at all and his first aim is to play good, consistent WAFL football.''
Michie said last year his struggle had given him more motivation to forge an AFL career.
"Basically, each time I've gone to come back, my body hasn't handled it and I've broken down again," he said.
"(But) I am pretty confident within myself and my own ability that I can be successful in the future."
The Dockers will take on Geelong and West Coast in shortened matches at Subiaco on Saturday. The clash with the Cats, in the first game of the triple-header, will be a rematch of last season's elimination final.
Fremantle's upset 16-point win at the MCG was hailed as a watershed moment for the club and raised questions about whether Geelong's dynasty was over.
It will be Cats coach Chris Scott's first visit to Patersons Stadium since he labelled the ground unsuitable for children after a loss to West Coast last August. Scott can also expect a fiery welcome from Eagles fans after labelling them "disgraceful" last year.
Key Fremantle midfielders Nat Fyfe and David Mundy could join skipper Matthew Pavlich on the sidelines.
Mundy and Fyfe, along with Pavlich and Doig medallist Ryan Crowley, sat out of Freo's intra-club hitout at Patersons Stadium on Friday morning.
Fyfe has been carefully nursed through the pre-season program following a series of shoulder problems last year. The club remains confident Pavlich will play later in the NAB Cup following back surgery in November.
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