The AFL draft is happening on Tuesday. Time to think about prospects who were running around in the WAFL this year.
Callum Ah Chee has had a pretty standard pathway to the AFL. However he does have the advantage of a bit of time at league level in the WAFL to go with his under age state representation and AFL elite junior opportunities. He’s skilful and exciting.
Callum Ah Chee. Photos by Les Everett
RIGHT from the very get-go the money paid to coaches of Aussie Rules clubs has caused controversy and comment right across the footy community.
Perhaps the biggest kerfuffle in my region centred around St Kilda’s 1925 Brownlow medallist Colin Watson when he was appointed Maryborough coach for the 1927 season at £10 a week. Continue reading
Gisborne’s on the lookout for a coach again.
Jeff Gieschen has pulled out of the Gisborne coaching job shortly after being appointed. The former Richmond and West Perth coach sited health reasons for his shock announcement.
In other Bendigo Football League news Sandhurst has appointed Wayne Primmer for 2016.
GISBORNE has appointed Jeff Gieschen as senior coach for 2016 in the Bendigo football League.
The top five (or as close as we could find to five) in the fairest and best counts at the WAFL clubs in 2015… in premiership order. Continue reading
Cyril Rioli with the North Smith Medal. Photo by Frances Everett
The season is over. The Hawks won the flag, Fyfe won the Brownlow, Rioli won the Norm Smith and the clubs have honoured their finest. The four-way tie at Brisbane muddies things a little but here are some figures: 12 of the winners originate from Victoria, four from WA, two from Queensland and one each from South Australia and Tasmania. Seven of the winners (three Lions) are at their second club and one (Patrick Dangerfield) is leaving.
Peel away the goal post padding…
Peel away the goal post padding
Roll up the white flags
The white coats too
Let the footballs go flat
69 KPI down to zero
STRATHFIELDSAYE did just enough to down Sandhurst and cap an undefeated 2015 Bendigo Football League season in the most bizarre central Victorian grand final I’ve seen.
Shane Yarran kicked five goals for Subiaco and gained plenty of support. Photos by Les Everett
There was a time not that long ago when WA footy fans pitied Subiaco. Poor buggers could barely win a game let alone a premiership. Times have changed – the Lions have appeared in nine of the past 13 WAFL grand finals and won six premierships in that time. No one has Subiaco as their second team anymore, they’re about as cuddly as Hawthorn. Continue reading
Nathan Brown in his days as a Tiger training at Punt Road in 2006. Photo by Les Everett
THE six months of his first pre-season for the Western Bulldogs in 1996-97 were the toughest half a year he’d ever put in, former AFL player Nathan Brown said on Saturday morning. Continue reading
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