EAST Perth is straight into the WAFL grand final for 2014 with Subiaco and East Fremantle setting up a battle over who takes on the Royals in the premiership decider following Sunday's semi-final action. East Perth won the second semi-final at Medibank Stadium over Subiaco 13.12 (90) to 7.16 (58) on the back of kicking the first four goals of the game, and then three quick majors in the opening four minutes of the second half. While the Royals were in control of the contest virtually from the start, that was far from the case in the first semi-final at ATOM Stadium. Swan Districts dominated the majority of the first three quarters to still lead by 30 points at three quarter-time, but East Fremantle had the advantage of the howling breeze in the final quarter and took full advantage with nine goals to nil in the last term to win 19.7 (121) to 14.14 (98). Read More ...

BRENDON Jones decided against retiring in the end in 2014 and not only did he continue to be one of the WAFL's elite midfielders, but on Saturday night was awarded the Tuckey Medal for the second time as Peel Thunder's fairest and best player. Not only did Jones decide to change his mind of his retirement decision from the end of 2013, but he had such a standout 2014 season that he is now committed to continuing on in 2015 as well meaning he will bring up his 200th WAFL game early next season. Jones has currently played 198 matches made up of 101 with Perth and now the last 97 with Peel and he has not missed a game with the Thunder since Round 23, 2013 – a run of 80 consecutive matches. Read More ...

EAST Fremantle might not be entering the finals quite in the form it hoped, but the important thing is the Sharks are there to former skipper Mark McGough as he tries desperately to win an elusive premiership with a strong group of experienced teammates. McGough has now played 98 matches with East Fremantle since arriving in 2010 and was captain up until giving up the role to Sandover Medallist Rory O'Brien this season. With his future up in the air along with several teammates, and with Steven Dodd already announcing his retirement, time is ticking on this Sharks' teams chance to win a premiership together. Read More ...

HAIDEN Schloithe has been recognised for his outstanding season on return from Fremantle's AFL list with the South Fremantle Football Club awarding him the WJ Hughes Medal as its fairest and best winner for the 2014 WAFL season. The WJ Hughes Medal night for 2014 was held on Friday in the Griff John Function Centre at Fremantle Oval and was a time to acknowledge the efforts of senior coach Paul Hasleby over the past three seasons and to look forward to a strong future that he has helped set up for incoming coach Todd Curley. South Fremantle might have missed finals for the third straight season, but there were terrific signs with five straight wins to close out the season and with each and every player featured on the fairest and best leaderboard committed to being with the club in 2015, the future looks bright.   Read More ...

THE WAFL finals for 2014 begin this Sunday with East Perth and Subiaco looking to become the first team to qualify for the grand final while East Fremantle and Swan Districts are out to extend their seasons for at least one more week. The second semi-final takes place at Medibank Stadium between the Leederville co-tenants East Perth and Subiaco. The winner of that clash is straight through to the grand final while the loser will host next Sunday's preliminary final up against the winner of the first semi-final between East Fremantle and Swan Districts at ATOM Stadium. Both games bounce down at 2.15pm on Sunday. Read More ...

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SOUTH Fremantle full-forward Ben Saunders has claimed his second Bernie Naylor Medal as the WAFL's leading goalkicker in three years since joining the Bulldogs from Claremont. The 22-year-old has just completed his third season with South Fremantle and now has a second Bernie Naylor Medal to show for it after kicking 59 goals in 2014 to lead the WAFL in terms of goals kicked. Saunders claimed the 2014 Bernie Naylor Medal ahead of Subiaco full-forward Matt Boland who kicked 51 goals for the season with Swan Districts' Ricky Cary next on 44 goals followed by Tim Geappen (Swan Districts) with 39, Brett Peake (East Fremantle) 39, Jack Bradshaw (Claremont) 38 and Josh Smith (East Perth) 38. Read More ...

Luke Farmer joined elite company when he umpired his 300th senior game when WCE played Melbourne in round 22. Farmer joined the WAFL panel in 1997 aged just 16 and spent several years establishing himself. He made his league debut in Round One 2000 when Claremont defeated Perth. One of his partners that day was Trevor Garrett, who now coaches umpires on bouncing technique. In Read More ...

The WAFL Semi-Finals kick off this Sunday, with East Fremantle hosting Swan Districts in the 1st Semi Final at ATOM Stadium and East Perth and Subiaco to clash in the 2nd Semi Final at Medibank Stadium. Read More ...

EAST Perth was the clear minor premiers at the end of the WAFL season but coach Brian Dawson knows as well as anyone that nothing is guaranteed in the finals and the hurt of losing last year's grand final is certainly driving a large chunk of the Royals on. East Perth finished the season two games clear on top of the ladder to take out the minor premiership for the first time since its last premiership year of 2002, and now the Royals take on Subiaco in the second semi-final in a battle of the co-tenants at Medibank Stadium. The winner will go straight through to the grand final and for East Perth providing a chance to make up for the heartbreak of losing last year to West Perth in the premiership decider. Read More ...

SWAN Districts was fully aware that it was written off coming into 2014 and also that given a disappointing last month that it might be underdogs heading into the finals, but the black-and-whites proved everyone wrong to make the finals and are ready to do so again in September. Following the departure of Kyle Hams, Tom Roach, Wayde Twomey, Shaun Hildebrandt, Dayle Garlett, Charlie Cameron, Rory Lobb and Brett Robinson to either retirement, switching clubs or the AFL system, and as a result most pundits had the black-and-whites sliding down the ladder. Swans have made finals the last two years on the back of a second last finish in 2011 following the 2010 premiership, but lost the second semi-final and preliminary final in 2012, and then the first semi-final to East Perth last year. Read More ...

JARRAD Schofield is entering his first finals series as a league coach with Subiaco but has plenty of playing experience on the big stage to call upon as he aims to lead the Lions to a first premiership since 2008 when he was still a key part of the side. Schofield was an AFL premiership player with Port Adelaide in 2004 and then played in three flags with Subiaco in 2006, 07 and 08 to close out his playing career and is hoping that he can help pass on some of that experience and knowledge to a relatively inexperienced group he has in 2014. Subiaco only has Darren Rumble, Kyal Horsley and Shaun Hildebrandt left as premiership players who Schofield played with during the hat-trick of flags between 2006-08 and even from the team that made the 2011 grand final Schofield has overseen a mass turnaround in the squad. Read More ...

EAST Fremantle is now hosting its third first semi-final in the last five years this Sunday against Swan Districts with coach Steve Malaxos seeing no reason why the Sharks can't end up going all the way for the first time since 1998 – the same year he retired as a player. After making the finals in 2002 and losing the first semi-final to West Perth, East Fremantle suffered its worst ever run without a finals appearance until 2010 which saw the Sharks host their first ever home final and now this Sunday it will be their third in five years at the newly named ATOM Stadium. In 2010, East Fremantle narrowly lost to East Perth in front of almost 7000 fans and then in 2012 the opponent was the Royals again with over 3500 fans watching the Sharks win their first final since 2000 on their way to a grand final appearance against Claremont. Read More ...

Swan Districts player Albert Dean was awarded the Jack Clarke Medal last night (Wednesday, September 3) as the fairest and best player in the WAFL Colts competition. Dean, from Upper Swan Junior Football Club, averaged 25 possessions and kicked six goals in his 15 Colts games with Swan Districts this season. He also averaged 21 posessions in 4 Reserves games. Read More ...

CLAREMONT and West Perth both farewelled retiring stars in style in Round 23 WAFL action on Saturday while South Fremantle finished the season in terrific fashion and Subiaco became the only team to enter the finals coming off a victory. There were three Round 23 matches on Saturday with South Fremantle beating Peel Thunder 14.20 (104) to 10.14 (74) at Fremantle Oval while West Perth thrashed Perth 21.18 (144) to 9.8 (62) at Lathlain Park and Claremont held off East Perth 12.12 (84) to 11.11 (77) at Medibank Stadium. Then on Sunday, two finals teams did battle at Medibank Stadium with Subiaco kicking the only four goals of the last quarter to beat East Fremantle 12.9 (81) to 8.8 (56). Read More ...