While it would be a shock if Fremantle selected Ryan Crowley to play in their Preliminary Final in two weeks's time, it would not be unlike Ross Lyon to do so.

In 2010, when he was coach of St Kilda, Lyon selected another tagger Steven Baker for the Grand Final after he'd been sidelined for nine weeks by the AFL tribunal.

Ryan Crowley's 12-months ban ends a day before Fremantle's preliminary final.

Baker sat out from round 13, when he was reported four times for incidents including Geelong's Stevie Johnson, but played in both the drawn Grand Final and the replay against Collingwood.

Crowley's 12 month suspension for breaching the AFL's drug code ends on September 24, the day before Fremantle's Preliminary Final.