FREMANTLE coach Mark Harvey is confident he will be able to field a fit team in the final round of the season after his side sustained yet more injuries in Friday night's 80-point loss to Collingwood.

Key defender Peter Faulks suffered a fractured cheekbone and broken jaw after courageously running back with the flight of the ball and being collected by ruckman Cameron Wood, and half-back Garrick Ibbotson will also miss next Saturday's clash with the Western Bulldogs with a shoulder injury.

Harvey was forced to select a team from around 25 players this week after the club's injury crisis peaked against North Melbourne in round 22, with captain Matthew Pavlich and star midfielder David Mundy among the casualties.   

Making matters worse, midfielder Nick Lower will face scrutiny from the match review panel after a front-on, head-high hit on Collingwood's Dale Thomas that Harvey described as "awkward".

Despite the personnel concerns, Harvey said the club would "get by" next week as it looks to avoid ending its season on a seven-game losing streak.

Antoni Grover, Alex Silvagni, Ben Bucovaz, Justin Bollenhagen and Joel Houghton are all possible inclusions.

"We haven't won a game for six weeks, so we need to be really competitive against the Bulldogs," Harvey said on Friday night.

"It'll be an emotional game on their behalf probably and we need to see if we can win in Melbourne.

"There's obviously opportunity for guys that probably wouldn't be expecting to get a chance to play in this game next week, and that's all we can look at."

Harvey said the most important thing for his team to take out of Friday night's loss was the lessons learned playing against star midfielders Dane Swan, Scott Pendlebury and Thomas.

"We challenged players to play on specific players, even though they're a heavy rotating side and they use that as a way to release each other," he said.

"It's what our players learn from playing on that type of side that's the most important thing.

"Our mindset was to challenge them and to see if we could sustain and be in the game for a long period of time.

"Our inability to be able to maintain possession under their type of pressure (cost us)."

A positive to emerge from the match for Fremantle was former Magpie Jack Anthony's performance in defence, holding Chris Dawes goalless.

Harvey said the 23-year-old, who has failed to have an impact at AFL level in his first season with the club, would not necessarily be turned into a key defender.

"I think the easy option for coaches is to have forwards and then turn them into defenders, and then all of a sudden you finish up with a lack of key forwards," he said of Anthony.

"The hardest part of the game is to play as a forward, not as a back.

"There was a lot of pressure put on him externally throughout the course of the week and I thought he acquitted himself really well.

"Don't discount the fact that he might stay there as a defender."