OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WAFL ROUND 20 AUGUST 18, 2018 $3.00 » Tigers nod Yu honour » Collectables CONTENTS Every Week 7 Tipping 8 AFL Teams 20-21 WAFC 24 Club Notes 25 Stats 26 Scoreboards and ladders 27 Fixtures Features 4-5 Roar of the Lions 18 WAFL aces head to draft combine Game time 9 Game previews 10-11 East Perth v West Perth 12-13 South Fremantle v Perth 14-15 East Fremantle v Subiaco 16-17 Claremont v Peel 3 LIONS ROAR AS kings of the WAFL jungle There are three media curses in football. Subiaco might only play four more matches to One is a commentator backing in a sharpshooter get to the WAFL holy grail. If they overcome wooden for a goal only for the player to miss, another is a spoon-recipient East Fremantle and Perth and then Publisher radio caller declaring a youngster the next big thing triumph in the Second Semi-Final and Grand Final, This publication is proudly produced and minutes later the tyro goes off injured. Jarrad Schofield’s unit will become the fourth team for the WA Football Commission by to go through a season without dropping a match. Media Tonic. For the print world it is stating a team will go Phone 9388 7844 through a season undefeated. For those that stuck The honour needs some illumination. Fax 9388 7866 out their necks early and forecast Subiaco would win While the 1946 East Fremantle team is hailed as Sales: [email protected] all 18 home-and-away matches, you are saluted. the greatest one-year achievers in the WAFL, West And with two matches to go the Football Perth (1897) and East Perth (1944) can also argue Editor they produced the feat. Ross Lewis Budget is now willing to back recent form and start [email protected] considering a conquer-all Lions list in 2018. West Perth didn’t win all of its 13 matches 121 Technically, to be credited with an undefeated years ago. It drew five games because during that Photography season behinds weren’t counted in final scores. But Andrew Ritchie season a team has to also win all finals and, in the process, claim the flag. none of the other teams, Imperials, Fremantle and Design/Typesetting WAFL fans aren’t willing to back against a Subiaco Rovers, was able to down West Perth that year. Jacqueline Holland premiership. On TABtouch the Lions’ latest price to Another feature of 1897 was that teams featured Direction Design and Print take home the silverware is $1.25. South Fremantle 20 on-field players. Printing is next best at $8. East Perth was unbeatable in 21 matches in 1944 Data Documents when the league was an under-age competition www.datadocuments.com.au because of World War II. And then two years later, the season after Cover Keifer Yu. war’s end, East Fremantle was triumphant in all 21 matches. But it was part of a much hotter streak The Football Budget is printed on with the port club winning 35 consecutive matches Gloss 90gsm paper, which is sourced stretching from midway in 1945 to early 1947. from a sustainably managed forest and In the Sharks’ commemorative 100-year history uses manufacturing processes of the book, Jack Lee writes of the stress the then Old Easts highest environmental standards. and their coach Jerry Dolan were under as the club Bouncedown is printed by an edged towards the undefeated honour. Subiaco Environmental Accredited printer. The magazine is 100% recyclable. hasn’t shown any similar signs 72 years later. “The strain became unbearable, and when relief WAFL admission prices came in the form of the (club’s) 21st premiership after $15 – Adult* two never-to-be-forgotten contests against West $12 – Concession* Perth, coach Dolan said that never again would he Free – Children 15 and under subject players to such an ordeal,” Lee wrote. *Includes a copy of Football East Fremantle won all 19 home-and-away Budget fixtures in 1946 but had to find plenty of spirit to Find us on overcome West Perth by four points in the Second Semi-Final and six points in the Grand Final. Subiaco had its own 2018 scare in Round 17 when Claremont got to three points from the lead before Leigh Kitchin, Chris Phelan, Max Walters, Zac Clarke, Jordan Lockyer and Lachlan Delahunty got the Lions over the line. Copyright © No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system Schofield’s men have already created a record without the permission of the publisher. run. Considering Subiaco’s most recent loss in a Opinions expressed in the Football Budget are not necessarily those of the WAFC. The WAFL qualifying season clash was Round 1 last WAFC or affiliated clubs believe that the year, the Lions have strung together 35 consecutive material produced in this publication is accurate, but gives no warranty in relation home-and-away wins. thereto and disclaims all liability for claims Unfortunately, the two losses in last year’s finals against the WAFC or affiliated clubs, Media Tonic, its employees, agents, or any other series interrupted the run and ultimately denied the person, which may rise from any person team the premiership. acting on the materials contained herein. Since the start of the 2015 campaign, Subiaco is Registered by Australia Post - » Max Walters PP642521/00112 68-8 in the regular rounds. 4 LIONS ROAR AS kings of the WAFL jungle By Ross Lewis ON A HOT STREAK Most Consecutive WAFL Wins Wins Team Started Round Finished Round 35 East Fremantle Swan Districts R13, 1945 Claremont R3, 1947 21 East Perth South Fremantle R1, 1944 East Fremantle GF, 1944 19 East Perth Perth PF, 1958 Claremont R17, 1959 19 Subiaco Perth R12, 2006 East Fremantle R7, 2007 19 Subiaco Perth R2, 2017 East Perth R23, 2017 18 Swan Districts Perth R17, 1979 West Perth R13, 1980 18 Claremont East Perth R7, 1991 Subiaco R1, 1992 17 South Fremantle Subiaco R2, 1953 East Fremantle R18, 1953 17 East Fremantle West Perth R7, 1998 South Fremantle R1, 1999 16 Claremont Perth R10, 1981 East Fremantle R2, 1982 16 Subiaco East Perth R1, 2018 Current - Most Consecutive Home-And-Away Wins Wins Team Started Round Finished Round 35 Subiaco Perth R2, 2017 Current - 31 East Fremantle Swan Districts R13, 1945 Claremont R3, 1947 19 East Perth South Fremantle R1, 1944 East Fremantle R19, 1944 18 East Perth Swan Districts R21, 1958 Claremont R17, 1959 18 Swan Districts Perth R17, 1979 West Perth R13, 1980 17 Subiaco Perth R12, 2006 East Fremantle R7, 2007 17 South Fremantle Subiaco R2, 1953 East Fremantle R18, 1953 17 South Fremantle Claremont R17, 1949 Subiaco R15, 1950 17 South Fremantle West Perth R10, 1955 Swan Districts R6, 1956 16 Claremont East Perth R7, 1991 Subiaco R1, 1992 » Leigh Kitchin » Keifer Yu Milestone moment for Yu Claremont’s medical team will take as have worked hard to get Yu out on the field. much delight from Keifer Yu’s 100th Yet Yu bounces back to remain a key appearance for the Tigers as the player component of a Tigers team still fighting for a place in the finals. himself. The 27-year-old, who has played 96 Because of a willingness to put his WAFL matches and three Foxtel Cup games, body in danger for the benefit of the team, including the 2012 premiership win over Yu has copped his fair share of hard knocks Werribee, chipped away for his initial chance in the WAFL. in the Claremont league team in 2010. There have been knee, ankle, shoulder But the product of Broome, via Hale and head injuries. Even this year he was School, was quickly lauded as his dashes carried from the ground following a physical with the ball down the WAFL ground wings clash in Claremont’s match against South became an exciting part of the Tigers’ play. Fremantle in Albany. So, the support staff 5 by Sean Cowan Collectables During 2018, the Football Budget will again feature a section on WAFL memorabilia and invites you to write or email if you want more information about the football collectables you have tucked away at home. Earlier this year, I asked followers of the WAFL Lindsay Carroll, John Collectables Facebook page whether anyone Crisp, Mark Hann, Wayne had an old helmet that was worn in a WAFL Blackwell, David O’Connell game in the 1980s. and the recently retired I was particularly keen to find out whether Beau Maister. anyone had one of the “bike” helmets that The top price of $320 were made famous by the likes of Swans star was reserved for the Phil Narkle, frightening South Fremantle big Number 14 locker, bearing man Basil Campbell or Subiaco’s David Court. the names of club superstar While they’re unusual items and probably George Moloney, Mike only of interest to a WAFL dieheard, these are Smart, Lindsay Kanther, and the types of things that collectors like myself George “Possum” Pearce. prize the most. There were also two Provided the provenance is good, nothing lockers that were auctioned much beats a player’s helmet, an old jumper, a off in the room – the Number match ball or a trophy. But that provenance is 1 that was worn by the likes of key. John McIntosh, Syd Moloney, Such is the power of social media that it Rory Walton and Ryan Neates, didn’t take long for a couple to surface. along with the Number 19 that One was in South Fremantle’s fantastic was made famous by Wayne historical display at Fremantle Oval and was Harvey, Noah “Dixie” Lee, Ross originally worn by Campbell.