every game for the rest of the year I still won't be the senior coach next year." Fremantle won two of the remaining 13 matches with Allan as caretaker senior coach and finished last on the AFL ladder. Allan as the caretaker senior coach was demanding rather than inspiring and was openly critical of the playing group. At the press conference after a home loss to Port Adelaide he told the media: "if they are looking for me to motivate them for the next eight weeks, they are barking up the wrong tree ... clearly out there today we had too many out there today who haven't got strong enough character". Nevertheless, a dispirited playing group stayed reasonably competitive in many of the remaining games of the season. Allan's two victories were both notable: the first was in Round 18 against at Colonial Stadium, which broke an 18-match, 370-day losing series of matches (and, until round 17, 2021, would be the last time that Fremantle defeated Hawthorn outside of Western Australia), and the second was in the final match of the season against . The joyous spirit of this game, played in front of a smallish but passionate crowd in night rain at Subiaco Oval, was rejuvenating for the club and its supporters after the gloom of the Damian Drum years. The new optimism was built on with the appointment of the new senior coach for 2002, Chris Connolly, who replaced Allan as Fremantle Football Club senior coach and the exciting victories and growing crowds that and the subsequent years brought. Statistics Playing statistics |- |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" | scope="row" | 1990 || || 37 | 6 || 3 || 4 || 41 || 13 || 54 || 11 || 13 || 0.5 || 0.7 || 6.8 || 2.2 || 9.0 || 1.8 || 2.2 || 0 |- | scope="row" bgcolor=F0E68C | 1991# || || 15 | 25 || 18 || 19 || 350 || 134 || 484 || 72 || 53 || 0.7 || 0.8 || 14.0 || 5.4 || 19.4 || 2.9 || 2.1 || 1 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" | scope="row" | 1992 || || 15 | 23 || 12 || 15 || 382 || 132 || 514 || 88 || 30 || 0.5 || 0.7 || 16.6 || 5.7 || 22.3 || 3.8 || 1.3 || 5 |- | scope="row" | 1993 || || 15 | 21