THE 2017 Bendigo Football and Netball season gets underway this week with four Good Friday match-ups on the agenda.
A number of the league’s 10 clubs have either installed new lights at their grounds or updated their existing structures. Continue reading
WAFL round three…
Away from home. Watching Claremont vs Perth in Jurien Bay.
I DIDN’T go to a game this weekend… work in Jurien Bay (dinkum). Turns out being away from home was all the rage… it was clean sweep for the visiting teams. Continue reading
Adam Faulkner of Swan Districts looks for options while Jake Solomon, Tim Kelly and Brandon Donaldson try to put on some pressure. Photo by Les Everett.
I haven’t checked but reckon this is the first time Peel and Swan Districts have shared the top two spots on the WAFL ladder. Many felt the reigning premiers would stumble this year after everything fell into place in 2016 but they’ve started the season with two powerful victories. Meanwhile Swans have already won as many games as they did in 2016 – two. Continue reading
The Girls Academy provided the guard of honour for the Dockers.
A first AFLW win looked possible for the Dockers on Sunday at Fremantle Oval when they held top team Adelaide scoreless and led by 13 points at quarter time. Continue reading
Walking down to Fremantle Oval from my place is something I’ve done hundreds of times – going to South Fremantle games, going to see the Dockers train and sometimes play, going to see the Fremantle Women’s team, going for a kick on the oval, even going to meetings. But as I walked down on Sunday afternoon I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Continue reading
Turns out I was in Melbourne for Fremantle’s first AFLW game. Unfortunately it clashed with the Bruce Springsteen concert I’d travelled over to see. Continue reading
Subiaco Oval 1937
Even in the very early days of the Swan River Colony there was a need for a sports ground on which to play cricket, run horse races and other contests. Initially a piece of flat, relatively clear ground in East Perth, roughly where Queens Gardens is today, was used for cricket and horse races were run on the downs in Fremantle. Slowly, as the population grew, better facilities for various sports were developed. Continue reading
Five of this year’s winners are at their original WAFL club, four have played in the AFL and two are from interstate.
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