IT WAS a time for statements in Round 5 of the WAFL on Saturday with Subiaco, East Fremantle and Peel Thunder all sending a message that they mean business with big road victories while Perth finally broke its losing run. It wasn’t a day for the home teams on Saturday with all four away sides recording victories and it was the reigning premiers and losing preliminary finalists from last year who perhaps sent the biggest message with big wins over opponents who had been in good form so far this year. Reigning premiers Subiaco hammered South Fremantle at Fremantle Oval winning 24.13 (157) to 10.8 (68) while East Fremantle proved too good for Swan Districts winning 16.7 (103) to 10.12 (72) at Steel Blue Oval. Peel Thunder then also won its third straight match to move into second position on the ladder beating East Perth 9.16 (70) to 7.5 (47) at Medibank Stadium and then Perth won the battle of winless teams downing Claremont 11.9 (75) to 10.6 (66) at the Claremont Showground. Read More ...

Ins, outs and fixtures for this weekend's Round 5 WAFL games with Frizz Ferguson. Read More ...

ROUND 5 of the 2015 WAFL season again sees all four matches take place on Saturday afternoon with an all-time great of his club reaching 250 games while the two top teams fight over first spot, and the two winless sides look to open their account. The action begins at 1.40pm at Medibank Stadium with East Perth hosting Peel Thunder with that match broadcast live on 7mate. The other three fixtures are all in the traditional 2.15pm time slot with South Fremantle playing Subiaco at Fremantle Oval, Claremont hosting Perth at the Claremont Showground and Swan Districts facing East Fremantle at Steel Blue Oval. Read More ...

EAST Perth co-captain Craig Wulff couldn’t be more proud to reach 250 games this Saturday with the club that holds a huge piece of his heart, but what he hopes more than anything is that it's third time lucky for that elusive premiership in 2015. Wulff came through his colts career and made his league debut with East Perth with the club in the middle of winning a hat-trick of premierships between 2000-02. He looked up those triple premiership stars and had every reason to expect he would get the chance to enjoy that premiership feeling before too long as well. Read More ...

SUBIACO premiership coach Jarrad Schofield was pleased with his team's response to beat West Perth last week after a disappointing previous five quarters and he has every reason to expect the Lions to continue to improve with some stars close to returning. Coming off winning last year's premiership thanks to a superb grand final performance against East Perth in difficult conditions, Subiaco picked up right where it left off to start the 2015 season with impressive wins over Claremont and East Fremantle. However, that winning run was ended with a thud at the hands of East Perth on Good Friday with the Royals winning the grand final rematch by 64 points and then coming off that, Subiaco didn’t score last Saturday in the first quarter against West Perth also at Medibank Stadium. Read More ...

Tayah has always been a sporty kid wound up in the world of netball and gymnastics at a young age but also loved kicking the footy around during school lunchtimes. Wanting a change at the age of 11, Tayah would head down to the Swan Districts junior football games on the Thursday and Friday nights where she would snag a few sessions with the ball.  Read More ...

WESTERN Australia’s State under 15 indigenous team were crowned Kickstart Champions at Cazaly’s Stadium in Cairns yesterday after remaining undefeated throughout the tournament from April 11 to 15. It was the fifth consecutive year that WA has won the Championships after claiming victory every year since the event’s inception in 2011. Read More ...

CRAIG Wulff has already had a career that stands him as an all-time great East Perth player and as he approaches game No. 250 this Saturday, there is every chance he will finish up as the Royals' games record holder and deservedly so. Wulff will lead the Royals out on Saturday against Peel Thunder at Medibank Stadium in his 250th match with the club that means everything to him. Already as a fairest and best winner, captain for four years, life member and with his name on the No. 13 locker, not to mention his passion and love of the club, and dedication and loyalty to it, he is an all-time great of East Perth. Read More ...

The early morning Sunday wakeups have become a typical weekend ritual for the Horton family ever since they enrolled their eldest son Thomas in the NAB AFL Auskick program seven years ago. The program has entered it’s 20th year and gives kids between the ages of five and 12 the opportunity to learn the basic skills and rules of AFL. Read More ...

PERTH and Claremont missed golden opportunities to record their first wins of the 2015 WAFL season on Saturday afternoon while Swan Districts and Subiaco were both impressive in stopping the respective winning runs of South Fremantle and West Perth. All four Round 4 matches took place on Saturday and there were two thrillers that came down to the dying minutes and they saw East Fremantle pip Claremont 10.14 (74) to 10.11 (71) at ATOM Stadium and Peel Thunder storm home to beat Perth 11.7 (73) to 9.14 (68) at Lathlain Park. South Fremantle suffered its first loss of the season with Swan Districts winning 12.16 (88) to 9.13 (67) at Steel Blue Oval and in the twilight fixture at Medibank Stadium, Subiaco responded from a scoreless opening quarter to beat West Perth 9.11 (65) to 6.12 (48). Read More ...

EAST Fremantle and Peel Thunder both scored nail-biting victories to keep Claremont and Perth winless in 2015 while Swan Districts and Subiaco scored strong wins over teams on winning runs in a fascinating day of WAFL action on Saturday. All four Round 4 WAFL matches took place on Saturday with East Fremantle beating Claremont 10.14 (74) to 10.11 (71) at ATOM Stadium, Swan Districts defeating South Fremantle 12.16 (88) to 9.13 (67) at Steel Blue Oval, Peel Thunder downing Perth 11.7 (73) to 9.14 (68) at Lathlain Park and finally Subiaco beating West Perth 9.11 (65) to 6.12 (48) at Medibank Stadium. The round's results leave South Fremantle (3-1) still on top of the WAFL ladder but only by percentage ahead of Subiaco (3-1) with the two teams set to do battle now next Saturday at Fremantle Oval. Read More ...

SWAN Districts coach Greg Harding has had two weeks to let his team know about his disappointment about their loss to East Perth and expects their best this Saturday against a South Fremantle team he rates as a real contender in 2015. Swans started the season in emphatic fashion beating Perth by 96 points at Steel Blue Oval before then putting in a disappointing first two and-a-half quarters against East Perth at Medibank Stadium. The black-and-whites did fly home and only lost by 13 points but for Harding it didn’t make up for the poor way his team started the game. They then had the bye last weekend over Easter and now Harding has some selection headaches coming into Saturday's clash with the unbeaten South Fremantle at Steel Blue Oval. Read More ...

PERTH coach Earl Spalding knows that his Demons team is a work in progress but one thing he can't compromise on is giving 100 per cent and being hard at the ball, and he's already had to make some hard calls on talented players who aren’t delivering exactly that. Spalding was never under any illusions that the job he was taking on in his second stint as a WAFL senior coach was always going to be a tough one with Perth losing its last 14 matches of 2014 and taking out the wooden spoon. On top of that, Perth then saw Paul Bevan, Cale Morton, Nick Kane, Gerald Ugle, Jared Risol, Haydn Busher and Matthew Moody all leave the club with all of them among their best and most experienced players. Read More ...

KYLE Hams has no trouble admitting to enjoying his three years with Swan Districts but a year out of the WAFL had him craving one more crack and the chance to try to win a third premiership with South Fremantle and his twin brother Ashton was too much to turn down. Hams played 106 matches and was a key player in the back-line in South Fremantle's premierships in 2005 and 2009, but he was feeling a little stale with the Bulldogs at the end of 2010 and was considering doing in 2011 what he ended up doing in 2014 - taking time away from the WAFL. He has always wanted to move back to Busselton to live, and he has done that, but Swan Districts made him an offer too good to refuse in 2011 and he ended up having three outstanding seasons with the black-and-whites. Read More ...

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