Fremantle tagger Ryan Crowley is raring to return to full training in the next fortnight after a season blighted by a serious foot injury.

The 25-year-old injured his right foot in the Round 6 Western Derby against West Coast and initially felt it was good news when told he hadn't broken any bones.

Unfortunately though, he'd suffered a complicated ligament injury akin to the one Hawthorn's Trent Croad did during the 2008 Grand Final.

Unlike Croad, who's playing future remains in doubt, Crowley's enjoyed a successful recovery and appears well on track for Round 1 next season, having blitzed various time trials over the last few weeks as Fremantle's pre-season kicks into gear.

"Six months out, it's been good to get back in and amongst the boys," Crowley said on Monday.

"I did a bit of running over the break just for the simple fact that I hadn't done the majority of the season, so I just wanted to make sure I came back fit and things have been going good so far."

"The foot's fantastic, I couldn't be more happy with it."

"The last little bits of the jigsaw are still to go in before I'm right back into full training," he added, saying his ball and contact work had been limited so far.

"But I couldn't be happier with how it's going at the moment."

Crowley said the injury had been difficult to stomach at such an early point of the season.

"That was the hardest bit," he said.

"It (the injury) took me around Round 6. Pre-season was just so hard and I did it so early, and (after) I did all that training it feels like you did it for nothing."

Crowley was just one of several Dockers hit hard by long-term injuries in 2009. The club didn't see forwards Hayden Ballantyne (wrist) and Chris Mayne (stress fractures) until late in the season, while Michael Johnson (ankle), Roger Hayden (broken leg) and 2008 Rising Star winner Rhys Palmer (ruptured ACL) all missed sizable chunks of the campaign.

Although Crowley was disappointed for 20-year-old Palmer when he did his knee in Round 5, the tagger said having a team-mate there to go through the recovery helped from a mental perspective.

"Having someone else there to go through the experience with was really good," Crowley said.

"Rhys is a great kid and we did a lot of things, a lot of our recovery together and we were sort of on the same recovery phases all the way through."

"So we got to do a lot together and it was really good to have him there," he said.