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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 ...

SUBIACO kicked the only four goals of the final quarter to secure a 25-point win over East Fremantle at Medibank Stadium on Saturday but the Sharks were just able to avoid losing by too much to cough up a home first semi-final next week. East Fremantle needed to avoid losing by more than six goals in the last home and away match of the 2014 WAFL season, and the Sharks achieved that but only just with Subiaco ending up winning 12.9 (81) to 8.8 (56) thanks to a dominant final quarter. East Fremantle will now host Swan Districts in a cut-throat first semi-final at its home ground of ATOM Stadium next Sunday. Read More ...

WAFL Semi-Finals will be played at Medibank Stadium and ATOM Stadium on Sunday, September 7. League games will be played at 2.15pm, Reserves at 11.25am and Colts at 9am. For more information on the WAFL Finals Series including ticket prices CLICK HERE Read More ...

THE last two WAFL premiers Claremont and West Perth might not be playing finals in 2014, but both farewelled retiring stars in style on Saturday to open the last round of the season with South Fremantle also continuing its winning run to close out the campaign. Reigning premiers West Perth were farewelling star forward Anthony Tsalikis and defender Dan Hunt at Lathlain Park, and scored a thumping 21.18 (144) to 9.8 (62) win over Perth. The 2011 and 2012 premiers Claremont was farewelling Luke Blackwell, Trinity Handley, Andrew Foster and Matt Orzel, and also did so in winning fashion knocking off the minor premiers East Perth 12.12 (84) to 11.11 (77) at Leederville's Medibank Stadium. Saturday's other Round 23 fixture saw South Fremantle beat Peel Thunder 14.20 (104) to 10.14 (74) at Fremantle Oval. Read More ...

DAN Hunt might not like the attention but the West Perth premiership defender and life member will go down as one of the Falcons' all-time great defenders as he prepares to play the final game of his career on Saturday against Perth at Lathlain Park. Hunt arrived at West Perth in 2005 following three years with the Sydney Swans and ever since has been the mainstay of the Falcons defence, and one of the very best key backmen in the WAFL over the course of his 168-game career. Along the way, Hunt has had his named etched on to the No. 12 locker, has become a life member of the West Perth Football Club, represented WA and was a key contributor in the 2013 premiership playing a starring role in the grand final win over East Perth. Read More ...

THE final round of the 2014 WAFL season takes place this weekend with the finals bound teams looking to take some winning form with them, those out of contention out to finish on a high and several clubs also trying to send off some champion players on winning notes as well. There are three matches on Saturday with East Perth taking on Claremont at Leederville's Medibank Stadium, South Fremantle hosting Peel Thunder at Fremantle Oval and Perth facing West Perth at Lathlain Park. Then on Sunday, Subiaco battles East Fremantle at Medibank Stadium with Swan Districts having the bye ahead of a first semi-final clash with East Fremantle next week. Read More ...