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 ...

ROUND 5 of the WAFLW competition features three fascinating matches all for different reasons and each of them takes place on Sunday throughout the day. The Sunday match ups are all going to be tantalising to follow with big challenges for South Fremantle and West Perth opposed to the league's top two teams before the day is capped off with a mouth-watering Grand Final rematch. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission is set to trial a new ‘Blue Card’ in upcoming pre-season WAFL games, with the focus on putting player's safety first.   The introduction of the card will see players with suspected concussions or a head knock as a result of a rough conduct charge, removed by umpires for a minimum of 15 minutes to undergo SCAT 5 testing by medical Read More ...

Five Sandover Medallists are among a group of 40 players named by the Fremantle Dockers and the West Coast Eagles as part of the AFL’s “Top Up Contingency Plan.”  Claremont pair Bailey Rogers and Jye Bolton were taken by the Dockers through NGA Club Selections, while 2019 Sandover Medallist Lachlan Delahunty was selected at pick 3 by Fremantle in yesterday’s Draft.  West Perth midfielder Aaron Read More ...

SWAN Districts were back in the finals in 2021 and will look to continue their rise in 2022, and the signs are promising in their bid to do that with some exciting talent coming in even though they've lost a bit of experience at the same time. It has been a slow build at Swan Districts under Adam Pickering, but the hard work was beginning Read More ...