ROUND 7 in the WAFLW competition for 2022 gets underway at the port under lights on Saturday night before two more games on Sunday as the fight over spots in the top four begins to heat up. While Claremont and East Fremantle have broken from the pack a little at the top of the WAFLW ladder, the battle right now over third and fourth spot Read More ...

PERTH came into the 2021 season on such a high after their first finals appearance since 1997 the year before, but it didn’t quite go to plan and now the Demons will be determined to bounce back in 2022 and put themselves back in the 2022 finals mix. It was quite the sight to see Perth end their finals drought of 22 years when they Read More ...

Peel Thunder Premiership player Bella Mann has been appointed Captain of WA’s AFLW State 18’s team. On an emotional night for the squad of 35, players were presented with their jumpers ahead of this year’s NAB AFLW Draft Championships.  Mann heads up a six-player leadership group, which includes Peel teammate Ella Roberts, Swan Districts’ pair Jaime Henry (vice-captain) and Tara Stribley, South Fremantle’s Lauren Wakfer Read More ...

WE had a player kicking six goals, another booting five and a whole host of other standout performances right across the field in Round 6 of the 2022 WAFLW competition. That meant that competition for spots once again in the WAFLW Team of the Week was fierce for Round 6 following the three matches that took place on Sunday afternoon. The Round 6 WAFLW action Read More ...

CLAREMONT won again to stay on top of the WAFLW ladder, East Fremantle remained undefeated and Subiaco returned to the winner's list all part of the Round 6 action on Sunday afternoon. The 2022 WAFLW season resumed in Round 6 with all three matches taking place on Sunday afternoon while Swan Districts sat out the action with the bye this weekend. First up to open Read More ...

Claremont coach Ashley Prescott has revealed the club’s strategy to winning its first Premiership in a decade.  The Tigers are putting their faith in local talent to claim their first flag since 2012.   “Really pleasingly, there’s a group of about 15 graduating colts who’ve come through the system, and a strong group of development reserves players, so I think it just adds depth to the Read More ...

THERE is a new coach, a new captain and a whole host of new faces at Peel Thunder coming into the 2022 WAFL season as they attempt to make a return to the finals for the first time since winning back-to-back premierships. It's the beginning of a new era for Peel following the departure of coach Cam Shepherd. He will go down in history as Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission congratulates its Deputy Chair, Dixie Marshall  on her appointment to the board of the Australian Sports Commission. Still maintaining her role within the WAFC, this appointment will see Marshall  driving innovative ways to support and invest in Australian sport over the next three years. Ms Marshall was a pioneer of women’s sports broadcasting. Upon joining the Commission in 2021, Ms Read More ...

THE three Round 6 match ups in Round 6 of the WAFLW competition are all fresh combatants this season with all the action taking place on Sunday afternoon. With Swan Districts having the bye in Round 6 on the back of winning their past three matches in-a-row having starting the new season losing two straight, the six teams in action on Sunday will all be Read More ...

IT was another fascinating Round 5 in the WAFLW competition for 2022 and a host of standout performers in the wins Swan Districts, Claremont and Peel Thunder who make up a large proportion of the Team of the Week. We had star performers right across the three games pushing their cases forward for spots in the Team of the Week for Round 5 including two Read More ...

EAST Fremantle finished 2021 with some impressive form to be building for the future and while there's no hiding from how much three late blows could be tough to cover in 2022, the Sharks still come into the new season with expectations of further improvement. East Fremantle hasn’t played finals since a devastating preliminary final loss to Subiaco way back in 2014, but the Sharks Read More ...

CLAREMONT recorded another big win to maintain top spot, East Fremantle remains the lone undefeated team and Swan Districts won their Grand Final rematch to make up the Round 5 WAFLW action on Sunday. All three Round 5 matches of the 2022 WAFLW season took place on Sunday beginning at Fremantle Community Bank Oval. The league-leading Claremont maintained their hold on top position with another Read More ...

Hamish Brayshaw has become accustomed to twists and turns in his footy career.  This week, the 24-year-old was named by the Fremantle Dockers in their list of Covid-19 Top Up players.    “It was a bit unexpected, exciting and I was hoping there was a chance I’d get the call up.  But to get another opportunity, should it come about, really means a lot,” Brayshaw said.  Read More ...

West Perth Captain Aaron Black has won a WAFL Premiership and a Sandover Medal but playing AFL had fallen off his radar.  That is until this week, when he was Drafted by the West Coast Eagles in the AFL Covid-19 Top Up Player Plan.  “I’m well and truly entrenched in the West Perth culture and what we’re trying to do at the footy club, so Read More ...

WA Hall of Famer Steve Malaxos has joined other high profile footy stars to help educate a rising number of aspiring coaches.   The West Australian Football Commission staged its Level 2 Coaching Courses during the off season, with the accreditation status of a record 110 coaches overseen by WAFC Coach Coordinators.  In a cross section of coaching experience, Malaxos shared his expertise along with former Read More ...