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Collectables 7 .....................................................................Tipping 7 .......................................Tweets of the Week 22-24 WAFC 27 ..........................................................Club Notes 28 .......................................................................Stats 29 ......................Scoreboards and ladders 30 ................................................................Fixtures Features 4-5 ..........Keeping up with the Jones boy 8 ....................................................... Entertainment 10 ....................................... Steve Bazzo tribute 16-17 ....................................... Peel team poster Game time 9 .................................................. Game previews 11 .............. Western Bulldogs v West Coast 11 ........................... Fremantle v Port Adelaide 12-13 .............................. Subiaco v East Perth 14-15 ............ South Fremantle v Claremont 18-19 .................................. West Perth v Perth 20-21 .......................... Peel v East Fremantle CONTENTS 4 Keeping up with the Publisher This publication is proudly produced for the WA Football Commission by Media Tonic. Phone 9388 7844 Jones boy Fax 9388 7866 Sales: [email protected] Editor Tracey Lewis Team success drives the Peel brains trust. Email: [email protected] But coach Cam Shepherd would also like to guide one of his most loyal servants to Photography a couple of individual achievements during 2015. Andrew Ritchie, William Crabb, Shepherd will witness another in round three when Brendon Jones runs on to Belinda Pike & Duncan Watkinson Bendigo Bank Stadium – the 200th time the midfielder has done so at WAFL league Design/Typesetting level. Jacqueline Holland The next week the Thunder meet Perth at Lathlain Park and it will mark Jones’ Direction Design and Print 100th appearance for the Mandurah club – coincidentally against a Demons jumper Printing he wore 101 times. Data Documents www.datadocuments.com.au The milestones are the mark of a successful State league career. Players don’t last By Ross Lewis that long if they don’t have the talent and nous. However, Shepherd wants two more honours for Jones before the career comes to Cover an end. Kyal Horsley “Brendon Jones has been a great warrior for Perth and Peel but the one thing he hasn’t had is the joy of being part of finals,” Shepherd said. “He has a real passion for that and, hopefully, at some stage we can get him there. The Football Budget is printed on Gloss 90gsm paper, which is sourced “He has never been able to play State football despite winning three fairest from a sustainably managed forest and bests at two clubs. If his form continues to be strong we’d like to think he’d be and uses manufacturing processes of considered strongly for the State side.” the highest environmental standards. A strong endorsement on the longevity of a 28-year-old who made his debut with Bouncedown is printed by an Environmental Accredited printer. The Perth in 2004 and almost quit the competition at the end of the 2013 season. magazine is 100% recyclable. The legacy of playing on-ball on the big WAFL grounds and plans to start a family twins had prompted WAFL admission prices retirement thoughts. $15 – Adult* Peel gave Jones four months of think time. And $12 – Concession* lured by the attraction of helping out Fremantle in their 2 for 1 offer – Student Edge Member* Free – Children U16 alignment with the Thunder Jones played on and was *Includes a copy of Football Budget club champion last September. He was also made captain and Shepherd said he Find us on had been a vitally important link in the Peel playing group. “After Brendon and Leroy (Jetta) our next (most experienced) player is a 35-gamer,” Shepherd said. “There is a big gap and Brendon bears that leadership responsibility very well. Copyright © No part of this publication may “The Fremantle boys that come along are looking be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system without the permission of the publisher. for leadership as well. At the weekend five of them Opinions expressed in the Football Budget were teenagers and they were finding their feet in are not necessarily those of the WAFC. The WAFC or affiliated clubs believe that the game. the material produced in this publication is “So we really appreciate Brendon’s contribution.” accurate, but gives no warranty in relation thereto and disclaims all liability for claims Thunder fans can be confident Jones can play against the WAFC or affiliated clubs, Media a further part in blending the AFL and WAFL talent Tonic, its employees, agents, or any other person, which may rise from any person into the club’s first finals contender. acting on the materials contained herein. “We think he’s got more footy in him even Registered by Australia Post - PP642521/00112 beyond this year,” Shepherd said. 5 Jones boy “He has never been able to play State football despite winning three fairest and bests at two clubs. If his form continues to be strong we’d like to think he’d be considered strongly for the State side.” – Peel coach Cam Shepherd. by Sean Cowan 6 Collectables During 2015, 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. Over in Melbourne, there are plenty of I’m told one of these sold shown an East Fremantle bag that would have collectors who chase after programs from to an East Perth collector a few Sharks collectors salivating. It featured matches played overseas by VFL and AFL a few years ago for about the phrase “Go East Fremantle with Gola” clubs. $300, but I have not seen on the side. Gola is a British sporting goods The earliest of these was in 1963 when one sold at auction. company and I must admit having no memory about 1500 spectators turned out to watch The other piece of of the company making a push into Western Melbourne narrowly defeat Geelong at the memorabilia I have seen Australia. Hickam air force field in Honolulu. The same from this trip is East Perth’s Another unusual collectable to come up teams met again about a week later in San tour itinerary. for sale was a South Fremantle towel, made by Francisco. At 28 pages, it’s actually the Australian company Dickies sometime in Then there was a series of games in 1967 a really interesting record the 1970s. played by the touring Galahs team, which was of the trip, providing every The seller said the previous owner had made up of footballers from across Australia. detail, including the aircraft been given it when he trained at South These were played under the rules of the seating plan and the hotel Fremantle in the early 1970s. It was in great Gaelic game. room allocation for New condition and was sold privately for $50. As But what most of the Melbourne-based Delhi and stopovers in Mumbai, Bangkok, always, I’m now wondering whether these collectors don’t know is two WAFL teams were Hong Kong and Singapore. towels were made for the other seven clubs? next to play football overseas. But what I have not seen is a Subiaco tour Now that the season is a few weeks old, the The visit of East Perth and Subiaco to New itinerary. Can any old Maroons remember usual requests from collectors have started Delhi in October 1969 resulted in two matches whether one was produced for the trip? to mount up in the WAFL Collectables email being played at the National Sports Stadium. Having discussed this tour with a couple inbox. The Maroons, who finished fourth in 1969, of Royals players, it would seem there was a The first was from Dean, of Melbourne, upset the WAFL runners-up in the first match. bit of bad feeling between the two clubs after who collects drinking glasses from all football But the Royals fought back in the second to Mal Brown knocked some of Graham Dearle’s teams, including WAFL clubs. There are six record an easy victory. teeth out in the first match. known sets of WAFL glasses, plus countless And, of course, there were a couple of That doesn’t sound like something Brownie glasses produced by the clubs themselves, so items produced that may interest collectors. would do, does it? please get in touch if you can help Dean with One of these was On the subject of tour itineraries, there any of these. the 75-page match have been other overseas itineraries, though Gerry, of Balcatta is chasing East Perth program, which these largely relate to leisure tours, rather than yearbooks and has a pretty impressive was produced by playing tours. collection already. A lifelong Royals supporter, the India Tourism This one from East Fremantle dates to the he is also very keen on a rare East Perth Development 1970s and was for a players’ tour of South-East bobblehead doll, should anyone be lucky Corporation Ltd Asia. enough to have a few lying around. of New Delhi and There are still plenty of summer sales that And I’m still looking for most of the South features more I haven’t been able to report during the first Fremantle annual reports from the 1970s and advertisements than two weeks of the season.