West Perth advance to its second WAFL Grand Final in three years after posting a gutsy 29 point win over East Perth in the Preliminary Final at HBF Arena on Saturday September 20. Swan Districts reserves gear up against South Fremantle in the grand final after beating Subiaco 15.8 (98) to 5.7 (37) and Swan Districts clash with Claremont in the colts grand final after it defeated Peel Thunder by 23 points at HBF Arena. Book tickets to the WAFL Grand Final here. Read More ...

PERTH is celebrating its second Sandover Medal winner in seven years with Aidan Tropiano taking out West Australian football's most prestigious individual honour in a nail-biting count at the Crown Perth Grand Ballroom on Monday night. Perth's last winner was Ross Young back in 2009 and now Tropiano joins him as reward for a strongly consistent season for a Demons team that might have won just two games, but is trying to build something for the future under new coach Earl Spalding. Tropiano worked tirelessly in the midfield all season long for Perth averaging 32.5 possessions a game and never having an outing of less than 28 disposals, and picking up more than 30 touches on 15 occasions. Read More ...

PERTH'S Aidan Tropiano claimed the 2015 Sandover Medal as the West Australian Football League's fairest and best player, presented in the Grand Ballroom at Crown Perth on Monday night, September 21. The count was streamed live by The West online. CLICK HERE to watch a replay of the count. Tropiano won  with a total of 45 votes, just one ahead of South Fremantle’s Ashton Hams, who finished second with 44 votes. Read More ...

THREE players who could have comfortably stayed on AFL lists longer appear the most likely chances of winning the Sandover Medal as the WAFL's fairest and best player on Monday night, but it appears a wide open race with up to a dozen players with a genuine chance to win. The Sandover Medal count for 2015 will be held this Monday night in the Grand Ball Room at Crown Perth with the event broadcast live on radio via 91.3 SportFM from 6.30pm while the count will also be streamed live online from 8.15pm at www.thewest.com.au South Fremantle's Ashton Hams, Swan Districts' Ryan Davis and Subiaco's Sam Menegola are three players to have standout seasons in the WAFL to appear among the fancied candidates to win the 2015 Sandover Medal. However, those three former AFL-listed players are far from the only ones with a chance with Claremont's Corey Yeo and Ryan Neates, East Perth's Steven Payne, Brendan Lee and Paul Johnson, Peel Thunder's Jacob Ballard, Perth's Aidan Tropiano, Subiaco's Chris Phelan or West Perth's Andrew Strijk and Shane Nelson among the others expected to poll well. Read More ...

WEST Perth showed no ill-effects from playing an 11th straight match or from being down to two men on the interchange for the second half to win through to next Sunday's WAFL grand final following a gutsy 29-point preliminary final win over East Perth at HBF Arena. West Perth came into the contest on the back of a 55-point second semi-final loss to Subiaco having not had a bye since Round 15 and then lost Laine Rasmussen (ankle) and Matt Johnson (hamstring) for the afternoon by early in the third quarter. East Perth was in outstanding form coming into the preliminary final having won seven of its last eight games, including cut-throat finals against Claremont and Peel Thunder, and the Royal started strongly with the breeze kicking four goals to one in the first quarter. Read More ...

BRETT Robinson was part of the most remarkable WAFL premiership in recent history at Swan Districts back in 2010 but given the tough times he's had since, winning his second flag next Sunday for Subiaco will mean every bit as much for the damaging and hard-running midfielder. Robinson joined the WAFL having originally come from Tasmania and then Werribee in the VFL in 2008, and alongside Wayde Twomey and Tim Geappen helped form a strong Swan Districts team that made the grand final the first year, just missed in 2009 and then won a premiership in 2010. Just to play in that flag, Robinson had to overcome a knee reconstruction earlier in 2010 and then illness curtailed his impact in 2011 and his 2012 was ruined by a second knee reconstruction. Read More ...

REIGNING Sandover Medallist Aaron Black has declared himself a certain starter for West Perth's WAFL preliminary final against East Perth on Sunday with the Falcons turning their attention to a better performance starting in the middle after their second semi-final loss to Subiaco. Black was one of three West Perth players to come out of last Sunday's loss to Subiaco at Medibank Stadium with an injury complaint joining full-forward Michael Lourey (ankle) and ruckman Chris Keunen (knee). However, the Sandover Medallist, premiership star and 107-game midfielder has done everything he can this week to get himself up to play in Sunday's preliminary final against the Royals with a spot in the grand final against Subiaco up for grabs. Read More ...

EAST Perth is now in its best form of the 2015 WAFL season entering Sunday's preliminary final against West Perth at HBF Arena with Mitch Howlett making the most of his first chance to play finals football after being overlooked the last two years. East Perth has now won seven of its last eight games to regroup after a lacklustre first half of the 2015 season to have firstly qualified for the finals for a fourth straight year, and having beaten Claremont and Peel Thunder in cut-throat finals to be a chance of a third straight grand final. While Craig Wulff, Brendan Lee, Steven Payne, Kyle Anderson, Paul Johnson, Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls and Mitch Fraser have played in both losing grand finals to West Perth and Subiaco the last two years, it's a new experience for 22-year-old Howlett. Read More ...

WEST Perth and East Perth are the fiercest of rivals and now the Falcons and Royals do battle on Sunday at HBF Arena in the WAFL preliminary final with a spot in the grand final against Subiaco at stake. With Subiaco already having moved into the grand final for 2015 after winning last week's second semi-final, West Perth host East Perth on Sunday at the Joondalup venue with the winner to advance, and the loser's season over. The reserves preliminary final will also be at HBF Arena with Subiaco taking on Swan Districts with the winner to advance to the grand final against South Fremantle. The colts preliminary final will begin the day at HBF Arena with Swan Districts taking on Peel Thunder with a place in the grand final against Claremont up for grabs. Read More ...

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EAST Perth coach Brian Dawson couldn’t fault his team's preparation and form entering Sunday's WAFL preliminary final against West Perth at HBF Arena as the Royals chase a third straight grand final appearance, but he knows it counts for nought once the ball is bounced. Coming off playing in the last two grand finals, and subsequently losing to West Perth in 2013 and Subiaco in 2014, East Perth was left with plenty of work to do just to make the finals again in 2015 having won just three of their first eight, and six of 14 games. However, the Royals then turned things around and had a terrific finish to the home and away season winning five of the last six matches, and then overcame Claremont in the elimination final and Peel Thunder in last Sunday's first semi-final. Read More ...

JORDAN Jones is in contention to be a surprise inclusion for West Perth in Sunday's WAFL preliminary final against East Perth at HBF Arena as the Falcons try to inject some fresh legs for what will be their 11th consecutive match since their last bye. West Perth's last bye was way back in Round 15 with the Falcons playing the last eight games of the home and away season without another break, but they were able to secure second position on the ladder having won 13 of 20 games. West Perth then proved too good for a weakened Peel Thunder side winning by 109 points in the qualifying final at HBF Arena, but it was a tired looking outfit in the second half of last week's second semi-final against Subiaco with the Lions kicking 13 of the last 16 goals to win by 55 points. Read More ...

The countdown is on for the highly anticipated 2015 WAFL Grand Final showdown at Domain Stadium on Sunday September 27. Coming off the back of two AFL Preliminary Finals, WA Football's game of the year is set to go off with a range of entertainment activities lined up for the fans including the WAFL Grand Final Luncheon to be held at 12.30pm in the Bill Walker Room. Be a Read More ...

The East Fremantle Football Club has announced Rob Wiley as Senior Coach of the Sharks for the next 3 years. The club said Wiley was chosen ahead of a strong field of developing coaches from Western Australia and Victoria, citing his wealth of football knowledge spanning over 40 years in the football industry and his passion to develop young players as making him the ideal candidate to take over the coaching reins at East Fremantle. Wiley has just completed three years in charge of Carlton’s Development & Coaching giving him the most up to date knowledge of the modern AFL techniques, which he will use to mentor the young developing coaches and players within the Club. Read More ...

West Perth coach Bill Monaghan and East Perth coach Brian Dawson have fronted the media at Domain Stadium ahead of the Preliminary Final at HBF Arena on Sunday Septmeber 20. Read More ...