Long-time Gold Coast assistant coach Dean Solomon met with Fremantle football chief Peter Bell this week as the Essendon premiership player throws his hat into the ring to replace Ross Lyon as Dockers coach.

Industry sources have confirmed Bell has been travelling around Australia meeting with prospective senior coaches before Fremantle trim a list of candidates for a shortlist to be interviewed. Solomon is among those to have spoken to the former Dockers captain.

Dean Solomon has caretaker experience. Credit:AAP

Bell is on the five-person selection panel which will choose Lyon's replacement, who was sacked last month after almost eight years in the job.

Fremantle chairman Dale Alcock, club directors Peter Mann and Sue Murphy, and former Docker Luke McPharlin are the other members of the subcommittee.