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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WAFL PRELIMINARY FINAL SEPTEMBER 16, 2018 $3.00 » Sandover Medal countdown » Finals previews CONTENTS Every Week 7 Tipping 18-19 WAFC 20 Club Notes 21 Stats 22 Scoreboards and ladders 23 Fixtures Features 4-5 Top players vie for WAFL honour 18 WAFL round-up Game time 8 Colts and Reserves previews 9 League previews 10 Colts Preliminary Final – Swan Districts v Peel 11 Reserves Preliminary Final – Subiaco v Claremont 12 League Preliminary Final – South Fremantle v West Perth 14 Fremantle, West Coast season stats 3 » Shane Nelson MeDal battle Publisher This publication is proudly produced for the WA Football Commission by Media Tonic. Phone 9388 7844 How many times can five go into one? Sales: [email protected] That is the question facing Subiaco captain Editor Kyal Horsley as he takes favouritism into Monday’s Ross Lewis Sandover Medal count at Optus Stadium. [email protected] After being undefeated from 18 home-and-away matches, the Lions are expected to dominate the Photography Andrew Ritchie polling for the WAFL fairest-and-best player award. But the hot-team form hasn’t been kind to Design/Typesetting individuals seeking enough five-vote hauls at the Jacqueline Holland Sandover Medal. Direction Design and Print When the Lions won 16 of 20 matches in 2016 Printing the Lions’ best placegetter was Chris Phelan (27) Data Documents in seventh, 22 votes behind winner Jye Bolton of www.datadocuments.com.au » Marlion Pickett Claremont. Cover Last season Subiaco registered 19 wins from 20 2018 INELIGIBLE PLAYERS South Fremantle’s Dylan Main and fixtures but Horsley (39), as the club’s highest vote Aaron Black from West Perth will Player Rnd Charge Penalty puller, was third, 13 votes off the top spot held by captain the Preliminary Final teams. Julian Ameduri (East Perth) R2 Rough conduct Reprimand South Fremantle’s Haiden Schloithe. Albert Dean (Swan Districts) R6 Striking 1 Match It was significant that Lions Leigh Kitchin (37), The Football Budget is printed on Gloss Lachlan Delahunty (34) and Liam Ryan (30) also 90gsm paper, which is sourced from a Joshua Deluca (Subiaco) R4 Vilification 3 Matches sustainably managed forest and uses Brandon Donaldson (South Fremantle) R6 Striking Reprimand polled strongly in 2017. manufacturing processes of the highest Kyle Halligan (Subiaco) R7 Striking Reprimand However, it hasn’t just been the notches in the environmental standards. Michael Johnson (Peel Thunder) R10 Rough conduct 1 Match win column that have made the Lions so impressive Bouncedown is printed by an and clear favourites for the 2018 flag. Only once Nick Kommer (East Fremantle) R13 Rough conduct Reprimand Environmental Accredited printer. was a rival able to get within three goals of Jarrad The magazine is 100% recyclable. Cody Leggett (Perth) R8 Striking 1 Match Schofield’s men at the final siren – Claremont falling Beau Maister (Claremont) R1 Headbutting 1 Match by three points in Round 17. WAFL admission prices Jamie McNamara (East Fremantle) R13 Rough conduct Reprimand So with 270 Sandover Medal votes available from $20 – Adult* Jackson Nelson (East Perth) R17 Striking 1 Match Subiaco’s matches, a pride of Lions should feature $15 – Concession* Kasey Nicholas (Perth) R7 Rough conduct 4 Matches $15 - WAFL*, WCE* or FFC* members on the leaderboard. Free – Children 15 and under Cody Ninyette (Perth) R4 Attempted 1 Match However, will Horsley be able to secure enough kicking *Includes a copy of Football Budget top votes to one, keep his teammates at bay, and Cody Ninyette (Perth) R17 Rough conduct 1 Match two, to hold off the challenges of players from rival Find us on Rhys Palmer (Swan Districts) R14 Striking Reprimand clubs who don’t have the competition for umpire Matthew Parker (South Fremantle) R18 Striking 1 Match attention? Jack Perham (East Fremantle) R16 Rough conduct Reprimand It must be pointed out that Horsley’s 2018 was Steven Potente (West Perth) R9 Headbutting Reprimand superior to his form of last season when he averaged Matt Riggio (Swan Districts) R16 Striking 1 Match 26 disposals from 16 games. This year his possession Copyright © No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system Jayden Schofield (East Fremantle) R1 Striking 1 Match count increased by six touches a game. He also without the permission of the publisher. didn’t miss a match this year. Opinions expressed in the Football Budget Jayden Schofield (East Fremantle) R6 Striking 2 Matches are not necessarily those of the WAFC. The Will Schofield (East Perth) R6 Striking Reprimand Horsley has strong support to claim the medal WAFC or affiliated clubs believe that the Michael Sinclair (Perth) R12 Striking Reprimand among the Football Budget team but so does South material produced in this publication is Fremantle’s Marlion Pickett, whose impressive season accurate, but gives no warranty in relation Jordan Snadden (East Fremantle R16 Rough conduct Reprimand thereto and disclaims all liability for claims has resembled last year’s form of former teammate against the WAFC or affiliated clubs, Media Nicholas Suban (South Fremantle) R2 Rough conduct Reprimand and current Geelong ace, Tim Kelly (45 votes), who Tonic, its employees, agents, or any other Cameron Sutcliffe (Peel Thunder) R7 Striking 1 Match person, which may rise from any person was runner-up to Schloithe for the 2017 prize. acting on the materials contained herein. Steven Verrier (South Fremantle) R16 Striking 1 Match West Perth’s Shane Nelson and Bolton are also Registered by Australia Post - Corey Yeo (Perth) R19 Rough conduct Reprimand given a strong chance of topping the poll. PP642521/00112 4 MeDal battle By Ross Lewis heats up for Lions ROSS LEWIS (FOOTBALL BUDGET) Winner: Marlion Pickett (SF) Runner-up: Shane Nelson (WP) Third: Danyle Pearce (PT) Unlucky: Kyal Horsley (S) has had plenty of teammates battle him for votes. TRACEY LEWIS (FOOTBALL BUDGET) Winner: Shane Nelson (WP) Runner-up: Kyal Horsley (S) Third: Haiden Schloithe (SF) Unlucky: Zac Clarke (Subiaco) had an influential season leading the ruck for Subiaco yet will lose votes to a variety of teammates in a Lions squad littered with even talent. BRETT SPRIGG (ABC RADIO) Winner: Kyal Horsley (S) Runner-up: Shane Nelson (WP) Third: Marlion Pickett (SF) Unlucky: Corey Yeo (P) enjoyed a solid year at his new club but he can’t win as he was reprimanded for rough conduct in Round 19. RUSSELL REID (THE WEST AUSTRALIAN) Winner: Kyal Horsley (S) Runner-up: Shane Nelson (WP) Third: Jye Bolton (C) Unlucky: Michael Sinclair (P) was prominent in 2018 but missed multiple weeks with a broken thumb and he was reprimanded for striking in in Round 12. GLEN QUARTERMAIN (THE SUNDAY TIMES) Winner: Marlion Pickett (SF) Runner-up: Jye Bolton (C) Third: Haiden Schloithe (SF) Unlucky: Cody Leggett (P) copped a one-match ban for striking in Round 8 so is ineligible for award. TOM TAPPING (FOOTY RADIO) Winner: Kyal Horsley (S) Runner-up: Shane Nelson (WP) Third: Jye Bolton (C) Unlucky: The rest of the Subiaco midfield, plus ruckman Zac Clarke, for having to share votes in a dominant season. » Kyal Horsley 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. It’s amazing how often chaos occurs in clusters Badges from 1948, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956 for collectors. and 1957 fetched $100 each. A 1955 badge Just recently, I was talking with another sold for $132, while a 1953 badge sold for collector about how few of the small WAFL $152. Badges from 1958 and 1959 did not sell mascot dolls from the 1980s had turned up at the $100 reserve price. in recent years. I had three at the time, having There were a couple of sales of rare cloth been hunting for them since about 2010. patches on the private market, too. A 1963 I now have six. East Fremantle Daily News patch, which was The three that I have recently added to the about the size of a piece of A4 paper, sold for collection all came from unrelated sources $225, while a mid-70s West Perth Caltex patch who just happened to decide to sell them off of about the same size went for $150. at about the same time. The appearance of the West Perth Caltex patch The same thing happened with this week’s was interesting, in that I’ve not seen many of featured collectable – a set of shield-shaped the Caltex patches before. embroidered badges. Researching the history of specific pieces For a long time, I had none of these. But of memorabilia can sometimes prove very in the past year, I’ve found six of the eight – difficult, and this set has had me mystified for and all were bought from different sellers. some time. I’ve also seen a South Fremantle version (in a Judging by the design, I believe these were very grainy picture), so it’s only the Claremont issued in the 1970s and, obviously, they had version I’m yet to see. something to do with the Caltex brand. I’ve I was also lucky enough to get one in the But a rare 1963 Shell WAFL book of player only seen three different versions of these A4- original packet, which means we now know stamps, featuring the signatures of a group of sized patches (Perth, Swans and West Perth), they were made by a Victorian company called East Fremantle players, but missing several of but each of them features the phrase “Kick off Nucolorvue Productions.