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Bailey Rogers claims 2021 Sandover Medal

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 11:09 PM

Claremont midfielder Bailey Rogers has capped off an incredible individual season by claiming the 2021 Sandover Medal on Tuesday night at Optus Stadium. Rogers finished the count on 30 votes, five ahead of dual Sandover Medallist and Tigers teammate Jye Bolton (25 votes) and a trailing pack of Haiden Schloithe (South Fremantle), Aaron Black (West Perth) and Greg Clark (Subiaco) all on 22 votes. Read More ...

Rogers pips Claremont teammate for Sandover Medal

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 10:45 PM - by Chris Pike

JYE Bolton told anyone that would listen late in the 2021 WAFL season that his teammate Bailey Rogers was the best player in the competition, and that was confirmed on Tuesday night at the Sandover Medal count. Just two days after a heartbreaking preliminary final exit, it was the Claremont pair left fighting it out for the Sandover Medal of 2021 coming into the final Read More ...

Sandover Medal - Live Stream

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 11:29 AM

It's WA Football's night of nights. For the first time in WA Football history, the Sandover Medal and WA Football Hall of Fame inductions will take place on the same evening. Join us live at Optus Stadium via The West Australian Sport from 7.00pm. WATCH HERE --> https://bit.ly/3ig4jGn Read More ...

Match Report – Bulldogs hold out Tigers in preliminary final

Sunday, September 26, 2021 - 10:37 PM - by Chris Pike

ANOTHER chapter was written into the budding South Fremantle-Claremont rivalry and this time the Bulldogs prevailed in Sunday's preliminary final at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on the back of keeping the Tigers goalless for three quarters. It was the sixth time that the Bulldogs and Tigers had met in a final in the past three WAFL seasons with the incredible quirk being that all of Read More ...

WAFL Preliminary Final Preview

Saturday, September 25, 2021 - 11:37 AM - by Chris Pike

IT has become the most incredible of recent rivalries and it now will add one more instalment this Sunday at Fremantle Community Bank Oval as South Fremantle battles Claremont for a place in the Grand Final. This will be the sixth time that South Fremantle and Claremont have locked horns in a finals match in the past three years. Making it the more remarkable is Read More ...

Weekend to savour on horizon for Curley

Friday, September 24, 2021 - 7:13 PM - by Chris Pike

TODD Curley's footballing heart largely lies at three clubs and that means that this weekend could very well be a 24-hour period he'll never forget if the Western Bulldogs win the AFL premiership and South Fremantle reaches a third straight WAFL Grand Final. Curley's heart, in terms of football, is split between West Perth, the Western Bulldogs and now South Fremantle given the significant time Read More ...

Tigers not afraid of past history against Bulldogs

Friday, September 24, 2021 - 5:53 PM - by Chris Pike

CLAREMONT isn’t shying away from the hurdles they need to overcome in Sunday's WAFL preliminary final but Alex Manuel is confident the Tigers' best will be good enough as he looks for a big finish to the best season of his career. Claremont put together a tremendous fight back to beat West Perth in Sunday's first semi-final to book in a spot in this Sunday's Read More ...

Semi-Final Reaction – South Fremantle

Thursday, September 23, 2021 - 10:18 AM - by Chris Pike

FOR the second straight week South Fremantle had to try and dig themselves out of a significant hole to open the WAFL finals series and weren’t able to do so against Subiaco with coach Todd Curley thankful they earned a double chance. South Fremantle opened the finals the previous week in the qualifying final and found themselves 30 points down to Claremont at Fremantle Community Read More ...

Semi-Final Reaction – Claremont

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 9:33 PM - by Chris Pike

THE run that Claremont veteran Kane Mitchell was having prior to his AFL career at Port Adelaide was almost a dream, but it's seemingly been obstacle after obstacle since, but that has made him more focused than ever on helping the Tigers back to a Grand Final. Mitchell made his WAFL debut with Claremont back in 2008 and while originally he was given a role Read More ...

Semi Final Reaction – Subiaco

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 7:00 PM - by Chris Pike

STANDARDS are high at Subiaco and they've been that way this entire century so while there were reasons, not making finals at all in 2020 meant they had redemption on their minds in 2021 and now the Lions are the first to book a spot in the Grand Final. It has been a remarkable century of consistent high performance for Subiaco in what is the Read More ...

Match Report – Tigers roar over Falcons to reach prelim

Sunday, September 19, 2021 - 8:56 PM - by Alex Ventouras

CLAREMONT had to reach deep down to avoid what would have been a devastating straight sets finals exit to produce a 51-point second half turnaround to beat West Perth in another classic finals encounter on Sunday. Coming last year's heartbreaking Grand Final loss to South Fremantle and then a one-point last week again to the Bulldogs in the qualifying final, Claremont had to reach deep Read More ...

Match Report – Lions overpower Bulldogs to reach Grand Final

Sunday, September 19, 2021 - 8:14 AM - by Matt Paddick

SUBIACO asserted its dominance in the first half and then held sway from there to take care of South Fremantle by 22 points in Saturday's second semi-final at Leederville Oval to move straight into the WAFL Grand Final. It was a familiar scenario for both teams as they played in their fourth second semi-final at Leederville Oval in the last six years, and once again Read More ...

WAFL First-Semi Final Preview

Friday, September 17, 2021 - 8:14 PM - by Chris Pike

ONE of Claremont or West Perth is going to be devastated at a missed potential opportunity in 2021 following Sunday's cut-throat first semi-final battle at Revo Fitness Stadium. The two teams put their seasons on the line when they meet at the Claremont venue on Sunday afternoon with the winner to advance to a preliminary final against either Subiaco or South Fremantle while the season Read More ...

WAFL Second-Semi Final Preview

Friday, September 17, 2021 - 3:30 PM - by Chris Pike

SUBIACO and South Fremantle renew their recent run of battling in finals on Saturday at Leederville Oval with a place in the 2021 WAFL Grand Final on the line. Up until Subiaco missed making the finals last year during the shortened and delayed 2020 season, the Lions and Bulldogs have become quite accustomed to taking on one another in finals contests in recent seasons. Over Read More ...

WAFL Team of the Year 2021

Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 8:43 PM - by Chris Pike

EACH weekend during the WAFL season there was a Team of the Week named and now those players who stood out on a consistent basis have been rewarded with selection in the WAFL Team of the Year for 2021. It was quite the star-studded team and between the final 25 players selected, they have won five Sandover Medals, four Simpson Medals and a total of Read More ...