WAFL Season Review – Club by club breakdownWednesday, September 20, 2023 - 11:39 PM - by Chris Pike

IT proved to be a fascinating WAFL season in 2023 ahead of East Fremantle and Peel Thunder battling in the Grand Final this Sunday with four teams making finals with 12 wins while the reigning premiers only narrowly missed out despite a blistering finish.

By the end of Round 20, East Fremantle did finish two games and percentage clear on top of the WAFL ladder for 2023 to claim a first minor premiership since 1998 and then the West Coast Eagles were clear with another wooden spoon finish with a winless season.

However, in between and there wasn’t much that separated the other teams and even the teams who missed finals, West Perth finished the season on fire to just miss making it, Swan Districts developed well, South Fremantle just had a horror run, and Perth showed some encouraging signs.

Then Subiaco, Peel Thunder, East Perth and Claremont all finished with 12-6 records to only be separated by percentage highlighting just how tightly contested the WAFL season was in 2023.

Now as East Fremantle and Peel Thunder meet in this Sunday's Grand Final at Optus Stadium for the first time, let's take a look back at how the 2023 seasons went for the 10 clubs in the competition.

EAST FREMANTLE
14 wins, 4 losses – First position (grand final)

Coach – Bill Monaghan
Captain – Matthew Jupp
Leading Goalkickers – Cody Leggett 35, Dillon O’Reilly 33, Brayden Lawler 29
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Milan Murdock 17, Kyle Baskerville 9, Cam Eardley 8, Harry Marsh 8
WAFL Team of the Year members – Matthew Jupp, Kyle Baskerville, Milan Murdock, Cody Leggett, Cam Eardley 

East Fremantle now has its best chance at a premiership this century ahead of Sunday’s Grand Final against Peel Thunder at Optus Stadium, but it’s taken an enormous amount of work to get to this point.

After winning its 29th and last premiership in 1998, East Fremantle did make Grand Finals in 2000 and 2012, but on both occasions were significant underdogs and lost to powerful East Perth and Claremont teams.

Then things were decidedly bleak after the 2014 preliminary final loss to Subiaco where they shot themselves in the foot scoring 7.26 in a five-point loss. The Sharks had won just 20 of 78 matches by the time Bill Monaghan arrived as coach in 2019.

It’s been a gradual build since with five wins in 2019, one in 2020 (from just eight matches) and eight in 2021, but by 2022 the Sharks were back in the premiership mix.

Everyone at East Fremantle felt it was a great missed opportunity bowing out in the preliminary final at East Fremantle Oval, but it had taken a tremendous performance all season just to get there with plenty of obstacles both on a personnel and logistical front.

It has been similar in 2023 with the Sharks not having a home ground once more with the redevelopment of Shark Park and not having Sandover Medallist Blaine Boekhorst all season, and Michael Tassone, Jamie Meade, Lachlan Bailey and Jonathon Marsh amongst those to have interrupted seasons.

However, the Sharks put together a brilliant season. They ended up finishing two games and percentage clear on top of the ladder, and then held firm in the second semi-final to beat Peel Thunder to now be in a first Grand Final since 2012 attempting to win a first flag since 1998.

Along the way, East Fremantle finally ended its 15-game losing streak in derbies against South Fremantle and are in prime position to add a 30th flag to the club’s collection.

There’s no weaknesses in the team either. Reuben McGuire and Hugh Dixon have been tremendous sharing the ruck duties with Milan Murdock, Tom Joyce and Harry Marsh the on-ballers with Tom Bennett and Fraser Turner on the outside.

Captain Matthew Jupp has been brilliant anchoring a defence including Cam Eardley, Finn Gorringe, Lennon Marlin, Bailey, Jack Cleaver and the prolific Kyle Baskerville.

Dixon and Dillon O’Reilly have been strong forward targets alongside Jonathon Marsh and Cody Leggett with Brayden Lawler and Alex Montauban terrific at ground level, and the Sharks have all areas covered going into the Grand Final.

PEEL THUNDER
12 wins, 6 losses – Third position (grand final)

Coach – Geoff Valentine
Captain – Ben Hancock
Leading Goalkickers – Sebit Kuek 25, Ben Middleton 24, Brody Wemm 22
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Will Brodie 12, Ben Hancock 12, Karl Worner 9
WAFL Team of the Year members – Jacob Blight

Peel Thunder is back into a third WAFL Grand Final after two impressive finals victories against Subiaco and it’s a great credit to everyone involved how the local players and Fremantle AFL-listed have come together.

The great bonus of the Peel partnership with the Dockers is that they have AFL-listed players to come back and play in the WAFL with the Thunder. 

However, it can also be a curse if the connection can’t be created and if the WAFL and AFL players aren’t able to pull together to understand the game plan, to do what’s best for the team and to be all on the same page making winning the goal and not their individual pursuits.

That has been of no concern for the Thunder in 2023 and it’s a significant reason why they are now in the Grand Final to take on East Fremantle this Sunday at Optus Stadium with a genuine chance at adding to their premierships of 2016 and 2017.

To watch leaders Ben Hancock and Blair Bell, emerging players Jack Sears and Ben Middleton, new additions like Brady Grey and Jacob Blight or Dockers regulars Joel Hamling, Nathan Wilson, Will Brodie and Travis Colyer, and it’s been a cohesive Thunder unit all season long.

That’s why Peel was able to build on last year’s finals appearance where they lost to Claremont in a first semi-final to finish the 2023 season in third position with a 12-6 record and only 1.41 per cent behind the second placed Subiaco.

Peel came back from a 29-point deficit early in the third quarter to beat Subiaco in the qualifying final and then only just fell short of a similar comeback against East Fremantle in the second semi-final.

The Thunder then dominated the preliminary final at home against Subiaco to book in a spot in their third ever Grand Final this coming Sunday attempting to make it a third premiership.

Coach Geoff Valentine and football boss Matt Rosa have done a standout job pulling the Peel and Fremantle players together on this Thunder team with outstanding performers all over the field.

Blight proved an outstanding recruit at centre half-back to make the WAFL Team of the Year forming a terrific partnership with Hamling and Hugh Davies with Corey Wagner, Karl Worner and Wilson offering great attacking weapons.

Captain Hancock along with Bell and Grey have then teamed with Brodie to form a terrific midfield and throughout the season locals Sears, Middleton and Brody Wemm have done well forward alongside Fremantle-listed players Colyer, Josh Corbett and Tom Emmett.

SUBIACO
12 wins, 6 losses – Second position (lost preliminary final)

Coach – Beau Wardman
Captain – Leigh Kitchin
Leading Goalkickers – Ben Sokol 53, Ryan Borchet 37, Taj Schofield 20
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Liam Hickmott 15, Zac Clarke 13, Taj Schofield 12, Stefan Giro 9
WAFL Team of the Year members – Liam Hickmott, Zac Clarke, Stefan Giro, Ben Sokol

Take out two finals losses to Peel Thunder and there was so much to like about what Subiaco did in 2023 to become premiership contenders again.

Subiaco was boosted with the return of ruckman Zac Clarke in 2023 and he went on to be a dominant presence working brilliantly especially with fellow WAFL Team of the Year members Liam Hickmott and Stefan Giro.

Ben Sokol and Ryan Borchet ended up combining for 90 goals in the season and then the back-line anchored by Angus Dewar, Aaron Heal, Drew Rohde, Galen Savigni, Kyle Stainsby and Henry Berenger before the return of Jordan Lockyer was outstanding.

Taj Schofield had a breakout season too as a lively goalkicking option and pinch-hit midfielder and the Lions put themselves right back in the premiership hunt once more to end up in second spot at the end of the home and away season with a 12-6 record.

It was a strong all-round bounce back season for Subiaco after a disappointing 2022 where the Lions missed finals on the back of winning premierships in 2018, 2019 and 2021.

The Lions looked every inch like a team capable of at least making a 15th Grand Final in the last 20 years throughout the 2023, but once again it proved the Thunder who were their bogey team in the finals.

Subiaco led Peel by 29 points early in the third quarter of the qualifying final at Leederville Oval before ending up losing by 10 points. The Lions were impressive and emphatic in bouncing back to beat Claremont by 39 points the next week.

That set up a rematch with Peel in Mandurah in the preliminary final and on this occasion the Thunder kicked the first four goals to be on top from the outset to end the season of the Lions.

It’s a remarkable thing that over the past decade Subiaco has played in 19 finals and since losing a second semi-final to East Perth in 2014, the Lions have won every final they’ve played in including the Grand Finals of 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2021 aside from against Peel.

The Lions have now lost the 2016 and 2017 Grand Finals, second semi-final of 2017 and now the two finals this year all against the Thunder. 

All Subiaco will be hoping is to avoid Peel in the finals of 2024 and with the majority of their group expected back to attempt to win what would be a sixth premiership in a decade, there’s every chance they’ll be in the mix.

CLAREMONT
12 wins, 6 losses – Fifth position (lost first semi-final)

Coach – Ash Prescott
Captain – Declan Mountford
Leading Goalkickers – Zac Mainwaring 30, Talon Delacey 30, Alex Manuel 25
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Jye Bolton 14, Bailey Rogers 13, Declan Mountford 8
WAFL Team of the Year members – Jye Bolton, Oliver Eastland

Claremont is now in a fascinating position looking towards 2024 after yet another season in 2023 where the Tigers put themselves in premiership contention, but came up short losing in a first semi-final.

Coming into the 2023 season and Claremont had lost two of the past three WAFL Grand Finals, and had fallen short in heartbreaking fashion in those to South Fremantle and West Perth respectively.

The Tigers had also lost preliminary finals in 2019 and 2021, and now in first semi finals in both 2018 and 2023 so for six straight years they have been banging on the door of a premiership but just come up short.

There's no indication of any significant changes in the playing personnel and their stars once again in 2023 like Jye Bolton, Bailey Rogers, Lachlan Martinis, Ben Edwards, Callan England, Oliver Eastland, Jack Lewsey and Alex Manuel all have plenty of football left in them.

The Tigers also recruited well in 2023 with the additions of Jack Maibaum and Teia Miles to the back-line panning out well along with the continued growth of Anthony Davis while it was just a bit of bad luck personnel wise that did prove most costly.

Captain Declan Mountford only ended up playing 12 games and missed the finals but it was the departure to the Sydney Swans of key forward of Jack Buller that proved the cruellest blow.

He was proving to be a pure match winner as a forward target in his first five games of the season before being drafted and really, Claremont was never able to find a tall forward to stand up following his departure and that proved costly.

With so much talent, class and experience with every indication at least the majority of the playing group will want to give it one more crack at that elusive premiership in 2024, and there's no reason to think there'll be any drop off from Claremont.

However, how deep they can continue to dig after six years of heartbreak will be a fascinating thing to watch. 

Throw in just how much Ash Prescott can keep going back to the well after proving himself a standout coach at WAFL level but still not quite being able to breakthrough for that hard to crack premiership. 

Despite getting Claremont to four Grand Finals and finals every year he's been in charge, it will be an intriguing thing to watch how he continues to reinvent himself to try to win that flag for Claremont that's proving more and more elusive.

EAST PERTH
12 wins, 6 losses – Fourth position (lost elimination final)

Coach – Ross McQueen
Captains – Christian Ameduri, Hamish Brayshaw
Leading Goalkickers – Mitch Schofield 30, Liam Tedesco 27, Hamish Brayshaw 25
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Hamish Brayshaw 26 (winner), Angus Schumacher 18, Mitch Crowden 17
WAFL Team of the Year members – Hamish Brayshaw, Angus Schumacher, Mitch Crowden, Angus Scott, Nick Robertson

First things first and East Perth's mission was to return to finals action in 2023 with Ross McQueen in charge for his first season, and the Royals achieved that but will be disappointed to have bowed out in an elimination final.

After all, at three quarter-time of their final match of the home and away season against West Perth and the Royals had all the momentum after a scintillating finish to the third quarter. They were on track to secure second position on the ladder and a home qualifying final.

However, in the end West Perth produced a strong last quarter to beat them in that game and the loss in percentage saw the Royals slip to fourth position in a dramatic finish to the season.

That meant East Perth still had a home final, but it was an elimination final instead with Claremont ending up prevailing by 12 points to end the Royals season in the opening weekend of finals.

The positives were that East Perth were back in finals for the first time since 2018 but the Royals are still without a finals victory since 2015. Now not just making it, but going deep is going to be the focus for 2024.

Clearly East Perth wanted to build a team based around the midfield and not just around the three on-ballers, but having enough options with players where they could provide tremendous flexibility to move them around.

The impact of Hamish Brayshaw, Mitch Crowden and Angus Schumacher was remarkable. They all made the WAFL Team of the Year, combined to poll 61 Sandover Medal votes with Brayshaw the winner, but what was more impressive was how they all had an impact both in the middle and going forward.

It also allowed for Christian Ameduri to be used up forward and on the ball, and their presence allowed Tom North and Stan Wright to settle off half-back, and for Angus Scott to once again average 27 touches on the wing.

Harrison Macreadie, Corey Watts and Team of the Year selection Nick Robertson were terrific down back too.

Mitch Schofield (30 goals), Liam Tedesco (27) and Sam van Diemen (20) had their moments up forward, but having that one key target to rely on to work around will be a focus although Tom Graham could be the answer.

But in reality, having not lost ruckman Scott Jones for the second half of the season could have been enough for East Perth to go deeper into the finals so the need for change in 2024 is minimal.

WEST PERTH
11 wins, 7 losses – Sixth position

Coach – Darren Harris
Captains – Aaron Black, Dean Munns
Leading Goalkickers – Tyler Keitel 57, Mitch Dobson 18, Luke Meadows 14, Noah Pegoraro 14
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Luke Meadows 19, Tyler Keitel 12, Shane Nelson 11
WAFL Team of the Year members – Shane Nelson, Tyler Keitel, Luke Meadows 

West Perth will have to look back on the 2023 season with disappointment considering the reigning premiers missed finals, but given the way the Falcons finished off it will also be a great missed opportunity.

The Falcons came into the season on the ultimate high after last year's premiership triumph at their spiritual home of Leederville Oval. With a list majorly in their prime and with minimal changes from last year, expectations were high of their title defence.

While the season started with a loss in the Grand Final rematch to Claremont, it was a record setting 169-point win against West Coast in Round 2 and after beating Perth in Round 6, the Falcons were on track with a 4-2 record.

However, they would lose five of the next six matches and it would be that period that left West Perth with too much work to do despite the scintillating way they finished the season.

The Falcons ended up winning the last six matches including against the finals bound Claremont, Peel Thunder and East Perth, but they just fell one game short of making finals and will be left to rue what might have been had they sneaked into the top five.

Shane Nelson and Luke Meadows both were outstanding once again in the middle all season long for West Perth, and Tyler Keitel won another Bernie Naylor Medal by kicking 57 goals. That trio couldn’t have done more and ended up making the Team of the Year.

Co-captain Aaron Black played a new role largely in the forward-line and did well before a late hamstring injury while Zac Guadagnin, Ben Johnson and Tyson Moulton stood up well down back.

Regular centre half-back Noah Pegoraro showed good signs forward late in the season alongside Keitel so that could be something to persevere with in 2024 but getting Mark Hamilton back to anchor the defence will be important. 

In the end, getting one game from Mark Hutchings and two out of Hamilton hurt, but it never really felt like a personnel issue. Had the Falcons played the rest of the season like they did over the last six weeks, not only would they have played finals, but could have had a real impact.

Premiership winning captain Jason Salecic now steps up as coach to take over from Darren Harris in 2024. While there might be no need for significant personnel changes, what impact a new coach has and the motivation provided from this season will be fascinating to watch.

SWAN DISTRICTS
8 wins, 10 losses – Seventh position

Coach – Andrew Pruyn
Captains – Chris Jones, Brandon Erceg 
Leading Goalkickers – Tom Edwards 31, Jesse Palmer 28, Chris Jones 23
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Jesse Turner 18, Aidan Clarke 10, Jackson McLachlan 9
WAFL Team of the Year members – Aidan Clarke, Jesse Turner

Swan Districts is another team who will be frustrated when reflecting on their 2023 WAFL season, but ultimately a first year under a new coach showed there's plenty to be optimistic about moving forward.

Andrew Pruyn took over from Adam Pickering as coach at Swans for 2023 and while he had his team playing well from Round 1, and got them into winning positions, five narrow losses in the first seven rounds ultimately cost them a shot at the finals.

Swan Districts was in winning positions against East Perth, East Fremantle, West Perth, Claremont and Subiaco inside the opening seven rounds, but lost those five games by a total of 18 points.

The luck turned for Swans and that included wins after the siren against Perth and West Coast with clutch goals from Jarrod Cameron and Tom Edwards, and they had a period of winning seven of nine matches.

However, they just fell short of finals and by losing the last two games of the season to the finals bound Claremont and Peel, they ended up with an 8-10 record but there's every reason to think they can continue to improve in Pruyn's second season in charge.

Swans ended up getting no games from Frank Anderson in 2023, six out of Seb Bright, four from Will Collins, four from Sam Fisher, seven from Brandon Erceg, nine from Greg Ottaviano, eight from Brad Lynch and 12 from Nathan Blakely.

Full seasons from each of those important players could have changed things but really for Swans it's about building on what they have now started in 2023, and trying to minimise the departures and top up with some handy recruits to make that leap into finals.

Having Aidan Clarke, Jackson McLachlan, Josh Cipro and Jesse Turner to build around through the middle gives Swans four prolific weapons while the back-line stood up well in 2023 even without Erceg and Collins for the most part with Jarvis Pina, Tobe Watson, Tony Stephens and Nathan Ireland impressive.

The forward-line will be where the focus lies for Swans to try and find more avenues to goal, but there were exciting signs with some of the youth blooded in 2023 especially Lawson Humphries who seemingly got better every game he played.

What Tom Edwards did forward saw him become a breakout star of the league kicking 31 goals, but he does need more help and if Swans can find that in 2024, then finals should be a realistic goal to shoot for.

SOUTH FREMANTLE
6 wins, 12 losses – Eighth position

Coach – Todd Curley
Captain – Dylan Main
Leading Goalkickers – Brandon Donaldson 26, Zac Strom 18, Jimmy Miller 18
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Tom Blechynden 12, Brendon Ah Chee 6, Dylan Main 6
WAFL Team of the Year members – Toby McQuilkin, Chad Pearson

In a lot of ways the 2023 WAFL season for South Fremantle might have been the year the Bulldogs needed to have after a tremendously successful era, but the truth to that will only be known in hindsight.

South Fremantle had played finals in each of the previous seven WAFL seasons including three consecutive preliminary finals before breaking through to reach the Grand Final in 2019, and then winning a premiership in 2020.

The Bulldogs made another Grand Final in 2021 and then again played finals in 2022, but they started 2023 on the backfoot eight points behind the rest of the competition after a salary cap sanction imposed upon them.

On top of that, they had lost Haiden Schloithe, Hamish Free, Steven Verrier, Nick Suban, Blake Schlensog, Mason Shaw, Steely Green, Ben Rioli and Steve Edwards from 2022.

Then if that all wasn’t enough, Jackson Broadbent played just one game in 2023, Jarrad Doney two, Brock Higgins three, Brendon Ah Chee six, Matthew Parker seven and Jake Florenca nine.

In so many ways, it felt it was a season snakebit from the start for South Fremantle and they ended up winning just six of 18 games to miss finals for the first time since 2015.

However, what that meant was that it fast tracked the development of a host of young players with new faces Ashton Ferreira, Ed Graham, Mitch Sinnott, Aaron Drage, Kaden Harbour, Jack Blechynden and Roan O'Hehir showing enough to suggest they have bright futures.

With the continued development of those young players, getting full seasons from Ah Chee, Florenca and Parker especially, and still having veterans Zac and Noah Strom, Chad Pearson, Jimmy Miller, Dylan Main, Jacob Dragovich and Brandon Donaldson will hold them in good stead.

Tom Blechynden had a standout season as an on-baller for the Bulldogs while the back-line was their great strength. 

South Fremantle only gave up 68 points a game this season with Toby McQuilkin continuing his growth along with Jordan Boullineau and Glenn Byron while Noah Strom and Pearson were rock solid once more.

It will be a fresh start in a lot of ways for South Fremantle in 2024 and premiership coach Todd Curley has committed to lead that charge.

Then there's plenty of reasons to be optimistic if you're a Bulldogs supporter to put 2023 behind them and with it being that down year that was needed to usher in a new era of success.

PERTH
2 wins, 1 draw, 15 losses – Ninth position

Coach – Peter German
Captain – Michael Sinclair 
Leading Goalkickers – Sam Stubbs 26, Michael Sinclair 21, Simon Hayward 11, Kristian Cary 11, Jaiden Hunter 11
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Charlie Thompson 8, Corey Byrne 4
WAFL Team of the Year members – Jack Avery

The win-loss comparison might be similar for Perth from 2022 to 2023, but you can clearly see what new coach Peter German is trying to build with the Demons and they will be hoping that translates into more wins now in 2024.

It was a significant challenge for German to take on to try and build the Demons back up in the WAFL on the back of another three-win season in 2022 and with the departures of key players Kasey Nicholas, Andrew Fisher, Fraser McInnes, Haydn Busher, Chris Mayne, Clayton Giblett and Brayden Ainsworth.

That meant that once again any recruiting Perth was able to do for 2023 to play under their new coach was really only going to be able to help replace what they had lost, which has been such a recurring theme unfortunately at the Demons this century.

And they were able to find some tremendous recruits. Charlie Thompson turned out a standout midfielder and would claim the Butcher Medal as fairest and best while getting Jack Cooley from East Perth added another prolific ball winning midfielder.

There were further good signs with Jack Avery having a breakout season in defence to earn a place in the Team of the Year while Sam Stubbs was impressive kicking 26 goals and also doing well when pinch hitting in the midfield.

Captain Michael Sinclair has played most of his 161-game career down back, but he was a handy forward target too kicking 21 goals and then Connor Sing and Kane Johnston stood tall down back the best they could against the opposition key forwards.

Aside from the personnel, though, and the significant changes you could see from the presence of having German as coach was in the style of play, and the starting of the culture change at the football club to a more professional environment.

In terms of the playing style, it was clearly a more attacking Perth outfit in 2023 with the players encouraged to take the game on to move the ball quickly, to get it forward and to run and carry the ball.

To be daring was clearly an instruction from their coach and while that did leave them more vulnerable on the turnover, it did have Perth playing a more attractive brand.

The fruits of that might still be a year or two away, but 2023 was all about setting the foundations and now everyone involved at Perth will be hoping that translates to more wins in 2024.

WEST COAST EAGLES
0 wins, 1 draw, 17 losses – Last position

Coach – Rob Wiley
Captains – Jackson Nelson
Leading Goalkickers – Shannon Lucassen 21, Josh Burke 15, Tyrell Dewar 10
Top Sandover Medal vote winners – Josh Browne 2, Greg Clark 2
WAFL Team of the Year members – Nil

If the West Coast Eagles are struggling to put together 22 fit players and to be competitive at AFL level, it's always going to flow down to the WAFL team and unfortunately it was a season to forget once again in 2023.

While the Eagles made finals and even won a final back in their first season as a standalone club in 2019, the going has been tough since. COVID meant they didn’t take part in the season at all in 2020 and now since returning, the past three seasons has resulted in just five wins and a draw from 54 matches.

That has seen West Coast collect three consecutive wooden spoons in the WAFL now and there were times in 2023 where being competitive was made impossible. 

With the Eagles just managing to find 22 fit players for the AFL team, it meant there was precious few AFL-listed players available for the WAFL side at times and that made a significant impact.

The toll was especially tough early with consecutive triple figure losses to West Perth, East Fremantle and Claremont. The next four weeks and the losing margin was 85 points, and it says everything if that's seen as an improvement.

The first 11 losses came at an average of 107 points a game but then with AFL-listed personnel becoming more available, the Eagles had a brief improvement in competitiveness and were unlucky not to get a first win since Round 10 last year.

Twice in a three-week period West Coast were in front of games when the siren sounded. The first saw Perth take a shot after the siren that was rushed through on the goal line for a draw. Then two weeks later and Swans kicked a goal after the siren to snatch the win.

It was a tough last month from there with four more losses by an average of 76 points so by the end of the season, West Coast had 17 losses and a draw, with the defeats coming at an average of 89 points.

Jackson Nelson battled hard in the midfield all season and took out the fairest and best award while Josh Browne was once again the leading possession winner with 24.4 touches a game.

The Eagles will receive more help next year able to spend 60 per cent of WAFL salary cap, having five extra recruitment points and that is hoped that it can lead to a more competitive line-up without needing to rely too heavily on the availability of the AFL-listed players.