OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WAFL ROUND 4 APRIL 19, 2018 $3.00 » Maister rides bumps on way to Tigers honour » Team lists CONTENTS Every Week 7 Tipping 8 AFL Teams 18-19 WAFC 20 Club Notes 21 Stats 22 Scoreboards and ladders 23 Fixtures Features 4-5 Maister rides bumps on way to Tigers honour 6 Collectables Game time 9 Game previews 10-11 Subiaco v Claremont 12-13 Perth v East Perth 16-17 Swan Districts v West Perth 18-19 East Fremantle v South Fremantle 3 Publisher This publication is proudly produced for the WA Football Commission by Media Tonic. Phone 9388 7844 Fax 9388 7866 Sales: [email protected] Editor Ross Lewis [email protected] Photography Andrew Ritchie Design/Typesetting Jacqueline Holland Direction Design and Print Printing Data Documents www.datadocuments.com.au Cover Beau Maister celebrates his 150th Claremont match this round. 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Registered by Australia Post - PP642521/00112 » Beau Maister 4 Maister ridesTigers the bumps milestone to reach By Ross Lewis Football has always been the driving He rebounded to play 15 matches in 2015 “They are the absolute benchmark since force in Beau Maister’s life. and remain a key component of the Claremont I’ve been back – even way before that. But Indeed, his adult years have revolved forward line. I was fortunate to win a grand final (2011) around the code. He spoke this week about “I’ve done nothing else but have a football against them,” Maister said. “being a long-time retired” and thus why he program to commit to since 2002 when I first “I’ve always remembered them having wanted to be involved in the game for as long moved up (from Albany),” Maister said. “Every such a strong culture with the leaders at the as he can. Naturally, that desire depends on season or pre-season I’m always training two- top, Aidan Parker, Marc Webb, Chad Cossom his 32-year-old body handling the conditions. to-three nights a week. and little whipper snippers under them like As a key position player at AFL and WAFL “The thought of not having that didn’t Kyal Horlsey and Chris Phelan who then step level his 194cm frame has taken some hard sit well and it still doesn’t sit well with me. up to set such a high standard. knocks. I just love the team environment, I love the “That’s what we’re aiming for. We’re Yet nothing compares to the illness in relationships you build and most importantly hunting them – and they know that. 2014 that almost killed him. I love the football club I’m representing. But what better challenge than go “There was never a question of was I going out there and throw everything Even then, it was the thought of being at the benchmark and play amongst his beloved Claremont teammates to get back into it and commit? With how much I could commit was always the issue – your best to hopefully that drove his recovery. And that desire will be become the best.” rewarded this round when Maister notches his and how I was going to manage my load. But 150th match for Tigers. coming back was a no-brainer.” It was a milestone that was in jeopardy Maister isn’t setting any time limits on his when he was rushed to hospital three-and-a playing career although juggling Claremont -half years ago with a blood infection that duties with a growing family, daughter Rylee almost ended everything. arrived last November, and work in a growing construction business takes some clever After finishing his stint with St Kilda, which planning. followed six years on West Coast’s list, Maister returned to Perth to have some clean-up There are some young Tigers who are also surgery and resume his career at Claremont driving Maister to continue. And if he sees the Oval. season out he will graduate to the WA football 200-game club when his AFL and State Instead, on the first week of pre-season matches are considered. training he was in intensive care battling Golden Staph. A new home base at Claremont Oval has also injected life into “It put a few things in perspective,” Maister Maister and his teammates. recounted this week. “I just felt for the people Even the prospect of facing around me, like my family, afterwards. the rampaging Subiaco “I was oblivious to it really. It was right line-up this round has at the last minute that I was diagnosed with the Tiger excited. it and it progressed quite fast. I was a bit stubborn with it in that I was a bit sore but saying I’d be okay. “The drive to the hospital was all that I BEAU MAISTER could remember for a couple of days because I was in intensive care and it was intense. My Claremont 2005 – current poor wife and my mum, what they had to go 149 matches through had the biggest impact on me. “I was in hospital for 10 days on a variety State guernseys of anti-biotics and I lost 12 kilograms. After One match – 2011 that I was on a 24-hour, seven-day-a- West Coast 2005-10 week drip for another month. It was really scary stuff.” 23 matches Once the danger had St Kilda 2012-2014 passed, football was again on 21 matches Maister’s agenda. » Beau Maister with daughter Rylee. 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. Sometimes I find myself wondering exactly what constitutes “football memorabilia”. To some, it might seem obvious, but it’s an important question for anyone with a finite amount of storage space and a growing collection. For instance, it’s clearly a football collectable if it’s a magazine or program from the footy. But what if the item is not about football, but was written by a famous footballer? You see what I’m getting at. One great example from last year’s column was a bookie’s bag belonging to West Perth One of the same badges hit the market Derek Chadwick (EP), Barry Cable (P), Garry star Neville Hebbard. It’s not really footy last week and is being sold as a “1918 West Scott (South Fremantle), Brian Sarre (S), Fred memorabilia, but a keen collector of West Perth Football Club Membership Tinnie Castledine (SD) and Ron Evans (WP). Perth memorabilia could certainly find a Badge”. I also now know that each poster cost reason to keep it in the collection. It could well be a West Perth badge. But I’m three-and-a-half shillings and could be Over the summer, I was hit with such a not 100% convinced. And for $750 I would obtained directly from the Sunday Times conundrum. need to be absolutely sure before I would office in Stirling St, or by mail for an extra Mine related to 1920s East Perth star consider buying it. sixpence. Billy Hilton, who played in five straight Regular readers of this column probably know You could even buy the whole set for 28 premierships for the Royals in just 98 games that I’m a sucker for a mystery. shillings (or 30 if you wanted them posted). with the club. The satisfaction gained from finding out None of that explains why they never turn Back in 1921, the East Perth Football Club when a WAFL collectable was made, or by up on the market, though. Have you ever seen presented Hilton with a beautiful mantel whom, is almost as good as getting a new one of these? clock, which still works when wound. piece for the collection. The clock had been bought some years And one mystery that I had ago by a hobbyist who fixes old clocks for been trying to solve for about fun. And he did a nice job bringing back to its five years was finally put to bed former glory. last week when I came across a Needless to say, I was pretty keen to have a newspaper advertisement from look at a clock presented by the club to Hilton. 1965. But what I found when I finally got to see It finally provided me with a the clock was that it was given to him as a gift full list of posters issued by the to mark his marriage to Gladys Pamment. Sunday Times that year. So, is it a piece of football memorabilia? Or I had only ever seen six is it a wedding present? Or both? of the eight posters, none of which were in great nick.