WAFL round 9…

PLENTY happened in round nine of the WAFL but when the dust settled we were left with an uneasy feeling that the top four might just stay as it is. Continue reading →

STRATHFIELDSAY ensured Kris Lea’s 100^th game for the club on Saturday was a memorable one with a massive 107-point belting of top five club Kangaroo Flat.

On the wide open spaces of Flight Centre Park elusive forward Stephen Milne booted 8.8 (including two posters) for the Storm while ruckman Michael Pilcher bobbed up with four majors. Continue reading →

FIDA’s annual North v South game is this Sunday 18 May at Jordan Reserve, Chadstone. Continue reading →

WAFL round eight….
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KANGAROO Flat made sure its second trip to the QEO in a fortnight was productive with a convincing 44-point win over South Bendigo on Saturday. Continue reading →

Williamstown FIDA defeated North Ballarat by 47 points in the Division 1  Round 2 game at the Fearon Reserve on Sunday 27 April. Continue reading →

The WAFL season got a bit more interesting after the completion of round five. Continue reading →

Richmond players were up in arms about not wearing their traditional jumper. Text & photo by Vin Maskell.

In what was meant to be the battle of the gold sash, Williamstown defeated Richmond by 70 points in the round three VFL game at Williamstown.

The signs were ominous for the Tigers when the game was shifted from their Punt Road Oval late in the week due to the club not yet having an occupancy certificate for its refurbished grandstand.

Then, when the players ran onto the Morris St ground they were wearing their alternate jumper – gold with a black sash, the same combination they wore when Footscray defeated them by nearly 20 goals two weeks ago. Williamstown, as it has for most of its 150 years, wore royal blue with a gold sash.

Richmond began the game brightly with a goal in the first minute but the Seagulls, with the wind at their backs,  were leading by four goals at quarter time and increased the margin each quarter.

Final scores: Williamstown 19.15 (129) Richmond 8.11 (59)

Best: Williamstown: Charleston, Ferguson, Meese, Jolley, Wheeler.
Best: Richmond: Jack Dyer, Jack Titus, Roy Wright, Kevin Bartlett, Royce Hart, Francis Bourke

Williamstown will face a sterner test next Sunday when they play Port Melbourne at home. Former Hawthorn premiership teammates Andy Collins (Williamstown) and Gary Ayres (Port Melbourne) will be both be coaching, wired for sound, from the boundary.

Richmond is expected to be reviewing its jumper policy.

GISBORNE just managed to hold off a charging Tigers’ side to win a Good Friday Bendigo Football League thriller at the Kyneton Showgrounds by 10 points.

In front of a massive crowd and unable to buy a goal in the first three quarters, Kyneton added 5.5 in a gripping last quarter while holding the Bulldogs goalless.

Nonetheless, with 10 fewer scoring shots the Dogs sneaked over the line: 13.8 (86) to 9.22 (76). Continue reading →

The WAFL had two Good Friday games and they didn’t turn out too good for Peel and East Perth.

Rory O’Brien.

It was tight at Rushton Park but East Fremantle broke away in the third quarter and held on to beat Peel by 18 points. Continue reading →