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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WAFL ROUND 5 AprIL 14, 2017 $3.00 AmesHigh octane energyto 250powers » Country and Community football wraps » East Fremantle team poster CONTENTS Untitled-1 1 23/3/17 7:40 am 3 Every Week 6 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 High octane energy powers Ames to 250 8 Entertainment 16-17 East Fremantle team poster Game time 9 Game previews 10-11 Peel v West Perth 12-13 South Fremantle v Claremont 14-15 Subiaco v East Perth 18-19 East Fremantle v Swan Districts 20 West Coast v Sydney 20 CONTENTS Melbourne v Fremantle 4 PowersHigh octane energy powers ames » Tallan Ames is still a fierce competitior Publisher This publication is proudly produced for the WA Football Commission by Media Tonic. Phone 9388 7844 Fax 9388 7866 Sales: [email protected] Editor Tracey Lewis Email: [email protected] Photography Andrew Ritchie, Duncan Watkinson, Showcase photgraphix Design/Typesetting Jacqueline Holland Direction Design and Print Printing Data Documents www.datadocuments.com.au Cover Tallan Ames The Football Budget is printed on Gloss 90gsm paper, which is sourced from a sustainably managed forest and uses manufacturing processes of the highest environmental standards. Bouncedown is printed by an Environmental Accredited printer. The magazine is 100% recyclable. WAFL admission prices $15 – Adult* $12 – Concession* Free – Children 15 and under *Includes a copy of Football Budget Tributes from the football world: Current teammate Tony Notte – “There are a Tom Smirk – “I love his hair styles.” Find us on few things that come to mind when you think of Amesy – he is the type of player you love to run out Supporter Rick – “A great SD champion and State with on game day because you know he is always player, should be a lock in again this year against going to give 100 percent. My first impression Victoria. Has a career afterwards too as a death of Amesy when I first stepped up to senior footy metal lead singer!” Copyright © No part of this publication may was a positive one. He welcomed myself and a Current teammate Jacob Coniglio – “I love the be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system whole new era of youth that was coming through without the permission of the publisher. $5 Cotton On light pink hoodie he wore last night Opinions expressed in the Football Budget the club at the time. It’s hard to even think of #yuk” are not necessarily those of the WAFC. times when he has been convincingly beaten on The WAFC or affiliated clubs believe that Swans fan Kristy Stewart – “Resilient, passionate, the material produced in this publication is field. 250 games is a massive milestone and it’s accurate, but gives no warranty in relation something very few players get to achieve. The and typifies the fighting black n white spirit. thereto and disclaims all liability for claims Congrats Amesy!” against the WAFC or affiliated clubs, Media playing group will be doing everything it can to Tonic, its employees, agents, or any other cheer him off with a win.” Supporter Ross Wheldon – “Club legend, person, which may rise from any person acting on the materials contained herein. Current teammate Freddie Clutterbuck – “I love supporters’ friend and great leader of people!” Registered by Australia Post - PP642521/00112 his leadership on and off the field.” 5 Powers ames by Tracey Lewis to 250 TALLAN Ames has the same energy, “When his playing days are done he will support from the time he was exposed to passion and love for football now as the no doubt leave a legacy when it comes to the senior football in 2008. day he arrived at Swan Districts. best way to approach your football – mentally “It gave me great confidence to see that a and physically. tall and lean type could manage the demands That sustained energy – on and off the “I also have no doubt he would have been of senior football,” Notte said about his co- field – will put him into an elite field this a terrific AFL footballer. He prepares his body captain. weekend when he runs out for his 250th game well, is highly-professional in every aspect of for the Black Ducks. “He is someone that loves a challenge and the game and has a genuine joy and love for hasn’t lost any of that as he nears the end of The 33-year-old has never been afraid to the game. his career.” put his body, pride or reputation on the line “His dedication to this club, through the – traits that coach Greg Harding said have successful and tough years alike, prove how Swan Districts’ made him a genuine leader at the club. selfless he is as a footballer and as a person.” Top 10 most games played The 2014 State game is undeniable proof Current teammate and fellow lanky that Ames has always been prepared to give Bill Walker ....................................305 games defender Tony Notte said Ames was a great everything to his team – he sustained broken Stan Nowotny ............................278 games ribs and a punctured lung in WA’s 85-point Travis Edmonds .........................262 games win over State game newcomers the NEAFL Keith Narkle ................................254 games (North East Australian Football League). Tallan Ames’ career Tallan Ames ................................249 games “When I first got to Swans in 2011 and met Swan Districts games: 249 (including Tom Mullooly .............................246 games Tallan, his energy was infectious – and it still one Foxtel Cup game) Tim Barker ...................................239 games is,” said Harding whose unbeaten team takes Debut: Round 12, 2002 Don Langsford ...........................237 games on the winless East Fremantle this Saturday. 2010: Swan Districts premiership player Joe Lawson .................................235 games “He has a genuine love for life and for 2011: Swan Districts fairest and best Tony Nesbit .................................233 games the club. He has played a major role in winner developing the young players at the club 2013-present: Swan Districts captain. Thanks to historian Steve Davies for this list and can take a lot of credit for the growth of (Co-captain in 2017 with David Ellard) which includes all official games such as WAFL, players like Griffin Logue, Nathan Broad and 2006, 2011, 2013, 2014: WA State player NFL, Escort Cup and Foxtel Cup games as well as Ethan Hughes who have all been drafted into the two Night Series games in 1967 which were the AFL in the past few years. deemed official WAFL league games. » Tallan Ames Representing WA in 2013 » Celebrating Swans 2010 premiership 6 by Sean Cowan Collectables During 2017, 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. I’ve written a few times previously about the A nice East Perth jumper with an early Paul Rigby cartoons that were put out by 1970s patch sewn on to it sold for $69, while a Walsh’s Menswear in the 1960s. Cardinals patch from the same set sold for $31. But I’ve rarely been able to show any new The strangest result was the 1980 grand ones to readers. final Budget, which was pushed up to $77 by In all my years of collecting (32 of them, to two bidders who obviously got caught up in be exact), I had seen just 13 of these cartoons, the battle. They usually sell for about $15. which were printed on glossy A4 paper and Hopefully, there will a bit more action at given away at Walsh’s stores, until regular this year’s Perth Toy & Hobby Fair – the only reader Kevin this week dug out a couple one I’ve seen that has anything much for WAFL of scrapbooks that he had kept from his collectors. childhood. I’ve just discovered the fair has been Glued on to the pages of one of the neatly booked for the weekend of the 10th and 11th curated books was eight Walsh’s cartoons, six of June and will be held at the Kensington of which I hadn’t seen before. PCYC – the first time it has been held south of As well as effectively dating the cartoons So, the question now is whether they were the river. to 1967 – the year in which all the newspaper issued weekly, fortnightly, monthly or in some Put it in your diary, especially if you collect articles in the scrapbooks were printed - the other pattern. And I would still love to know footy cards or memorabilia. whether they were issued across more than discovery of two new cartoons is particularly Finally for this week, Budget reader Greg just a single season. exciting. emailed us about the sign he has on his patio. Some of the material in the cartoons Kevin’s scrapbooks bring the total number A few years ago, during renovations at appears to relate to incidents in the 1966 of cartoons known to exist to 19. Lathlain Park, Greg spotted the sign in a skip season, meaning they could have been done bin. over a few years, though Rigby left Perth in 1969. He made a small donation to the club and was allowed to take it home. Anyway, if anyone can add to the great information provided by Kevin, it would be “I have promised its return on my greatly appreciated. demise (I’m 71) or the club’s next grand final, whichever comes first,” Greg said. Last year in this column, I wrote about a couple of sets of number plate holders that I hope, for Greg’s sake, he’ll be personally were manufactured in the 1970s and early 80s returning that sign, rather than posthumously by a company called Town and Footy Plates returning it.