KNEE or neck? Back? Or something else?

It's a mystery injury from which Chris Tarrant has now recovered, but Fremantle won't say what it was, so other teams won't target it.

Fremantle assistant coach Dean Wallis said on Monday that Tarrant was fully fit, but that might not win him back his spot after his trip to the WAFL last weekend.

And although Wallis admitted that he hadn't yet seen any vision of Tarrant playing for East Perth due to returning late after watching Melbourne play Carlton, he wanted the 27-year-old back in a Dockers jumper this weekend.

"[If you ask] me personally? About four days," he said when asked how far away Tarrant was from playing for Fremantle.

"Unfortunately, the general public and media don't understand the stuff that he'd been playing with prior to not getting selected, so he's actually done a quite amazing job to play the game under the circumstances.

"You go back to the last game he played, and he was our best player in the first 15 minutes until he took a massive clash with Dean Solomon.

"If he can consistently play to that level, he'll be a very good player for this footy club."

And has he done that in his career so far?

"What do you think? You know the answer, he hasn't. That's why all you blokes (in the media) are jumping on his back, because he hasn't consistently done it."

"The expectation on this club, and obviously West Coast, is amazing, and it's because of (the Western Australian media),” Wallis said.

"I've got to the stage where I don't read the paper anymore – you can only read so much. I just find it amazing that every day, three or four pages are dedicated to two footy clubs. Where I come out of a state where you probably have a paper that might be one or two pages dedicated to 10 clubs."