The West Australian Football Commission congratulates six West Australians taken in last night’s AFLW Draft. In a major endorsement of the WAFC Talent Pathway Program, four of the players will remain in WA while two will move interstate. WAFLW Premiership players Jasmin Stewart and Chloe Wrigley are heading to Port Adelaide and Carlton respectively. A former Docker, Stewart was part of Claremont’s WAFLW triumph last Read More ...

THERE is great excitement entering the 2023 WAFL season on a number of fronts with West Perth looking to go back-to-back, Claremont and East Fremantle trying to take that next step, and the rest all trying to make that leap to put themselves in the mix. On the back of a hugely successful 2022 season with such an even competition, high quality football and capped Read More ...

THERE were plenty of impressive performances from individuals throughout Round 4 of the 2023 WAFLW season once more on the weekend with spots in the Team of the Week hotly sought after. In the wins for South Fremantle, Claremont, West Perth and East Fremantle, plenty of players put their hands up for selection after starring roles in their teams winning. However, even in losses for Read More ...

SOME of Western Australia’s most talented young female players have the chance to impress AFLW recruiters when a WAFLW All Stars side plays the State 18s at the Cockburn ARC on Thursday night. Trent Cooper, Coaching Specialist - Talent Pathways at the West Australian Football Commission, has described the match as a great launching pad for 2023. “It’s multi-faceted in that we’re looking for a Read More ...

TWO of the newer WAFLW teams scored impressive wins over regular powerhouses in Round 4 of the 2023 season while the Grand Finalists from last year continued their strong starts to the new season. It was a weekend of statements to be made across the WAFLW competition leading into this coming weekend's break over Easter. In the end, it saw South Fremantle record a first Read More ...

GOING back more than 30 years and Darren Harris was there when he saw West Perth's culture change which has remained the key component of the club ever since, and he continues to maintain that's the most important aspect that makes the Falcons tick. Harris was at West Perth when Jeff Gieschen arrived as coach back in 1992 and that's when he began to see Read More ...

IN many ways it was remarkable what East Fremantle achieved in the 2022 WAFL season with everything they had working against them, but now the Sharks will be out to build on that with ending a significant premiership drought the ultimate goal. Not only did East Fremantle make a return to finals action in 2022, but the Sharks were only half a game off what Read More ...

CLAREMONT continues its quest for that elusive first premiership since 2012 and the Tigers will again be using the pain of going ever so close in 2022 once more to spur them on to try and achieve that ultimate in 2023. For each of the past five seasons now, Claremont has put itself in premiership contention playing finals in each of those five years, and Read More ...

SOUTH Fremantle has some natural and enforced challenges to overcome entering the 2023 WAFL season, but coach Todd Curley remains optimistic the Bulldogs can be around the mark and play finals for an eighth consecutive season. South Fremantle finished fourth at the end of the 2022 home and away season before losing the elimination final at home to Peel Thunder in what was their seventh Read More ...

PEEL Thunder finished the 2022 WAFL season full of momentum to storm into the finals and now coach Geoff Valentine feels they are in an even better place to make a run at a successful 2023. After winning back-to-back premierships in 2016 and 2017, Peel hadn’t played finals over the next four seasons but that all changed last year with the Thunder picking up plenty Read More ...

ROUND 4 in the WAFLW is spread over Saturday and Sunday this weekend with four fascinating match ups with Claremont attempting to remain undefeated and Swan Districts and East Perth still searching for their first victories of 2023. The Round 4 WAFLW action begins on Saturday afternoon at 4pm with South Fremantle taking on Swan Districts at Fremantle Community Bank Oval. The Bulldogs are yet Read More ...

IT has been a rough couple of years in the WAFL for the West Coast Eagles but there is plenty of reason for optimism that they can be a vastly more competitive outfit in the 2023 season. When West Coast first became a standalone club in the WAFL they made an immediate impact on the competition reaching the finals back in 2019 and going on Read More ...

SWAN Districts might have a new coach in 2023 but their quest to get back to finals is all around building on what they have been doing well, making some improvements and using the frustrations from last year as added motivation. Swans did appear on an upward trajectory under the coaching of Adam Pickering to the point where they reached finals in 2021. In that Read More ...

IT was a rare down season in 2022 for Subiaco but the Lions have taken some tough lessons from that and implemented them into 2023 with premiership coach Beau Wardman confident of a strong bounce back season. On the back of winning a fifth premiership in eight years in 2021, Subiaco hit a speed bump in 2022 winning just seven games and missing out on Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission congratulates local teenagers Arthur Jones and Jacob van Rooyen on being selected to make their AFL debut in Round 3. Jones was taken by the Western Bulldogs at pick 43 in the 2021 NAB AFL Draft and has been named on a wing to face the Brisbane Lions at Marvel Stadium tonight. Originally from Mt Barker, Jones represented Wesley College Read More ...