The second intake for the The WAFL State 16’s Academy has been announced following the conclusion of the WAFL 16’s Carnival and inaugural WAFL 16’s All Stars match. Both events gave Academy coaches and selectors the opportunity to view the best 40-50 16 year old players in a game situation and select the second intake in preparation for the 2014 NAB AFL National 16s Championships in July this year.    CLICK HERE to see the State 16s Squad 2014 The WAFL State 16’s Academy will play a number of trial matches and continue its training program before the final team is selected to represent WA at the National 16s Championships on the Gold Coast. Read More ...

IT IS hard to imagine that a more passionate man has ever represented the Swan Districts Football Club than Tallan Ames and as he prepares for his 200th game and something would have to change in the rest of 2014 for him to not set the goal of reaching 250. Ames grew up supporting Swan Districts, played colts football with Swans, reserves football and then earned his league debut in 2002, cemented a spot in the team by 2004 and has now gone on to amass a tremendous 199-game career at the club that means the world to him. The current captain is a premiership player from 2010, Swan Medal winner as the fairest and best from 2011 and has gone on to represent Western Australia on three occasions as he now becomes the 14th Swan Districts player and first since Joel Cornelius in 2005 to reach the 200-game mark. Read More ...

BROCK Higgins has been thrust into South Fremantle's No. 1 ruck role early in his time with the Bulldogs and thrived, and it could have been the best thing to happen to him after an interrupted pre-season crossing from East Perth. Higgins played 30 matches over the last three seasons at East Perth but with the Royals still possessing Josh Smith and Paul Johnson on top of Eagles talls Fraser McInnes, Jeremy McGovern, Callum Sinclair and Scott Lycett it was always going to be tough for the versatile big man to get a regular game in 2014. Read More ...

TALLAN Ames deserves a big stage for his 200th WAFL match and he gets it this Saturday as his Swan Districts take on Subiaco in a top-of-the-table clash with Swans set to continue using criticisms from others to spur them on. Swan Districts were written off by most pundits coming into the 2014 season but what stung the black-and-whites the most were the players who left their club to join rival WAFL sides thinking they would have more success, and the ones who returned to WA but elected to play elsewhere. However, what has resulted is a passionate group at Swan Districts full of heart and spirit, playing to the plans from the coach perfectly and that have won four straight matches following a narrow opening game loss to East Perth. Read More ...

WEST Perth is preparing to commence its 2014 FOXTEL Cup campaign next Tuesday, May 6 against Box Hill at Etihad Stadium. The 2013 WAFL Premiers will be joined in the 2014 competition by Grand Final rivals East Perth, reigning Foxtel Cup winners West Adelaide (SANFL) and state league premiers Norwood (SANFL) and Box Hill Hawks (VFL). Read More ...

WAFL Manager Cameron Knapton's Round 6 wrap-up of the 2014 AAMI WAFL Premiership Season. Knapton provides a summary of Round 6 results, individual highlights, reports, tribunal results and Round 7 fixtures. Read More ...

SWAN Districts kept on winning, South Fremantle made it two straight and East Perth and Claremont both put an end to losing runs in Round 6 of the 2014 WAFL season over Friday and Saturday afternoons. The round began on Anzac Day Friday with two massive matches that saw Swan Districts beat West Perth 11.9 (75) to 9.14 (68) at Bassendean's Steel Blue Oval and South Fremantle defeat East Fremantle 13.5 (83) to 9.12 (66) at East Fremantle Oval. Then on Saturday, East Perth beat Perth 14.14 (98) to 11.10 (76) at Leederville's Medibank Stadium and Claremont defeated Peel Thunder 15.12 (102) to 11.8 (74) at the Showgrounds. Read More ...

WAFL football was played in the wet for the first time in 2014 and Saturday's two Round 6 matches saw East Perth and Claremont score victories over Perth and Peel respectively. The round began on Friday for Anzac Day with South Fremantle beating East Fremantle by 17 points and Swan Districts defeating West Perth by seven leading into Saturday's two matches where all four teams Read More ...

SWAN Districts has won four straight WAFL matches and South Fremantle two on the trot after both recorded strong Anzac Day victories on Friday to open Round 6 action. Round 6 of the 2014 WAFL season opened on Anzac Day with over 7000 fans attending the two matches that saw Swan Districts beat West Perth 11.9 (75) to 9.14 (68) at Bassendean's Steel Blue Oval and South Fremantle defeat East Fremantle 13.5 (83) to 9.12 (66) at East Fremantle Oval. Read More ...

THE WAFL is commemorating Anzac Day in Round 6 of the 2014 season starting with two terrific contests on Friday and then two more clashes on Saturday featuring four teams desperate to get back on the winner's list. The Anzac Day WAFL action begins at Bassendean's Steel Blue Oval with Swan Districts hosting West Perth and then East Fremantle Oval will host the first Fremantle derby of 2014 between East Fremantle and South Fremantle. The two matches on Saturday afternoon then feature Claremont taking on Peel Thunder at the Claremont Showgrounds and East Perth is playing Perth at Leederville's Medibank Stadium. Anyone wearing military uniform or medals as well as kids under 16 admitted will be admitted FREE. Read More ...

RYAN Cook took South Fremantle's slow start to the 2014 WAFL season to heart and called in the Bulldogs' last two captains to help inspire the group, and as a result he enjoyed Saturday's win over West Perth as much as anyone. Cook is now in his fourth season at South Fremantle and his third as captain following on from premiership skippers David Gault and Toby McGrath. The 26-year-old former Collingwood player of 14 AFL matches has certainly made his mark since arriving at South Fremantle in 2011 with two fairest and best awards under his belt, but another slow start to the season to open 2014 was the last thing he was hoping for, or expecting. Read More ...

WAFL Manager Cameron Knapton's Round 5 wrap-up of the 2014 AAMI WAFL Premiership Season. Knapton provides a summary of Round 5 results, individual highlights, reports and Round 6 ANZAC fixtures. Read More ...

EASTER Round of the 2014 WAFL season was split over three days with East Fremantle and Subiaco recording victories on Good Friday, South Fremantle winning on Saturday and Swan Districts then prevailing in a thriller over Perth on Easter Sunday. The action began on Good Friday with East Fremantle beating Peel Thunder 12.14 (86) to 10.8 (68) at Mandurah's Bendigo Bank Stadium and then Subiaco downing East Perth 16.10 (106) to 12.10 (82) at Leederville's Medibank Stadium. South Fremantle then recorded its first win of 2014 beating West Perth 15.8 (98) to 10.15 (75) at Arena Joondalup and on Easter Sunday, Swan Districts kicked the last three goals to beat Perth 14.8 (92) to 13.13 (91). Read More ...

SWAN Districts and Perth saved up the best for last in the Easter Round of WAFL football with Swans ending up thrilling one-point winners on Sunday over the Demons at Lathlain Park. It was yet another thrilling contest between Swans and the Demons with the black-and-whites ending up back in front at the 26-minute mark of the final term thanks to a goal to Ryan Davis, and that was enough for them to hold on and win 14.8 (92) to 13.13 (91). Read More ...

SOUTH Fremantle continued its love affair with Arena Joondalup on Saturday playing its best football of 2014 resulting in its first victory with a 23-point upset of the reigning premiers West Perth. The Bulldogs came into the contest having lost their opening four games of the season and the Falcons coming off a 100-point thrashing of East Perth, but South Fremantle was outstanding all afternoon never trailing at any stage to end up winning 15.8 (98) to 10.15 (75). Read More ...