Fremantle have six of Ross Lyon’s assistants without a contract for next season, with changes to be made to the coaching panel at season’s end.

The Dockers have already told development coach Brent Guerra that he will not be given a contract for 2020, while five others – assistants Simon Eastaugh and Michael Prior, development coaches Roger Hayden and Adam Read and the coach of the club’s WAFL affiliate Peel Thunder, Cam Shepherd – have not yet been told whether they will be offered a position.

Fremantle coach Ross Lyon. Credit:Fairfax

As new football boss Peter Bell reviews the coaching department, the expectation is that the Dockers will make two to three changes to the coaching panel, replacing Guerra and one or two others.

Six assistants is a large number to be up in the air at a club where the senior coach has a contract for next season, though the Dockers have staggered some of their coaching contracts.

Under the AFL Coaches’ Association protocol, assistants are supposed to have their futures clarified by August 1.