Big WAFL weekend and my part in a winning goal

• There was interest in the pack forming behind the goals as Peel’s Josh Treacy lined up for the second/third attempt at the winning goal. The young man with the fine head of hair actually marked it under great pressure. Photos by Les Everett

WAFL round seven

The WA Day long weekend is always a big one in the WAFL and this year there was a bonus with Nat Fyfe’s return to football significantly boosting the crowd at Leederville Oval. 

• Subiaco’s Lachlan Delahunty keeps a tight hold on Peel’s Nat Fyfe.
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Sharks dismiss Lions at the WACA

The mighty WACA scoreboard. Photos by Les Everett

WAFL round six

I took in a lot of the WAFL last weekend. All of Peel and Claremont from Rushton Park via Channel Seven’s telecast – it’s good, by the way, their AFL colleagues could take note. And a bit of the East Fremantle-Subiaco game from the WACA and East Perth-West Coast at Leederville Oval.

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Sharks at home in the bush by Les Everett

• WAFL action at Northampton. Photos by Les Everett

WAFL round three

It’s not often a team scores 10 goals in the first quarter and losses. It’s not often a team doesn’t score a goal in two quarters and wins. At Northampton East Fremantle used the howling wind and blew East Perth away in the first quarter scoring 10.4 (64) to 1.4 (10). For the rest of the afternoon, in front of an enthusiastic country crowd, the Royals chipped away and in the end just ran out of time for the impossible victory.

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Breaking the spell by Song List Rat

Erin Rae / Courtney Marie Andrews at Fremantle Arts Centre

quarantine

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noun

  1. A state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.”many animals die in quarantine
• Courtney Marie Andrews at Fremantle Arts Centre

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