OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WAFL ROUND 14 JULY 6, 2018 $3.00 » Milestone for top Bulldog » WAFL celebrates NAIDOC week 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 WAFL celebrates NAIDOC week 18 East Perth terminates AFL link 19 Cook claims another Bulldogs honour Game time 9 Game previews 10-11 Subiaco v Peel Thunder 12-13 Swan Districts v Perth 14-15 East Fremantle v West Perth 16-17 South Fremantle v Claremont 3 WAFL clubs show off their support for Indigenous players have long made a strong impact of the WAFL. Even this year wonderful contributors such as Swan Districts Kirk Ugle, South Fremantle’s Matthew Parker plus Gerald Ugle and Traye Bennell from Publisher Peel have made their mark at senior level. This publication is proudly produced for the WA Football Commission by So, it is always fitting that the competition Media Tonic. each season recognises Aboriginal and Islander Phone 9388 7844 culture with its own celebration of NAIDOC Fax 9388 7866 week. Sales: [email protected] Even a special commemorative ball will be used Editor in all league matches as mark of respect to the Ross Lewis National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance [email protected] Committee celebration. Photography All four WAFL venues in operation during Round Andrew Ritchie 14 will conduct their own events for the occasion. And, as has been the case in recent seasons, all Design/Typesetting league teams will feature special guernseys with Jacqueline Holland Direction Design and Print » Traye Bennell NAIDOC messages. Printing Data Documents » Matthew Parker www.datadocuments.com.au Cover South Fremantle’s Ryan Cook to bring up 150-gaeme milestone this round. 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Registered by Australia Post - » Kirk Ugle » Gerald Ugle PP642521/00112 4 WAFL clubs show off their support for NAIDOC Week By Ross Lewis MATCH-DAY NAIDOC EVENTS SUBIACO v PEEL THUNDER at Leederville Oval EAST FREMANTLE v WEST PERTH at East Fremantle Oval A Welcome to Country will be performed under lights before the The ground’s centre circle will be painted in honour of NAIDOC Round Friday night contest. and a Welcome to Country will take place before bouncedown of the Also, with the Landmark Country Week Championships taking League Match. place, Leederville Oval will host Division 2 football on Friday afternoon, East Fremantle’s indigenous players will join captain Jonathon with Subiaco’s Goldfields zone, featuring indigenous talent, set to Griffin for the coin toss. play in two of the pool matches on the day. SOUTH FREMANTLE v CLAREMONT at Fremantle Community Bank Oval SWAN DISTRICTS v PERTH at Leederville Oval There will be a special Welcome to Country for the Colts match to be Welcome to Country to feature at start of Colts match. Presidents conducted by Shaun Nannup, who will also make a presentation the luncheon to feature a Welcome to Country with guest speakers and President’s Lunch. past players attending from both clubs. A busy Richard Walley will also head to the port to conduct his On-ground Welcome to Country to be performed by Richard own Welcome to Country before the league match. Walley alongside past Aboriginal players. During the half-time break traditional indigenous games will be There will be a Marngrook (traditional Aboriginal) exhibition game held by members of the Stephen Michael Foundation and Nyoongar to be facilitated at half-time by Stephen Michael Foundation and Wellbeing and Sports. Noongar Wellbeing & Sport. NAIDOC GUERNSEYS CLAREMONT: Claremont senior squad member James Egan designed the guernsey for the club. Egan hails from Wyndham and in the sash on the jumper he has painted campsites which represents a journey, reflecting on the Tigers’ own steps away from Claremont Oval during the ground’s recent redevelopment. EAST FREMANTLE: The jumper was designed by Rostrata Primary School Student Manisha Pillai and includes elements designed by Booragoon student Heidi Mischok and Jonty Bone from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School. The lines represent a track and the circles represent people, together showing the community coming to the club. EAST PERTH: Two boomerangs represent offence and defence, and the past and present of the Aboriginal community. Royals will wear their jumper next week. PEEL THUNDER: Once again, the two boomerangs represent offence and defence, and the paw print represents the wild dog (dingo). PERTH: The Perth design infuses energy waves throughout the original red stripe to signify strength. SOUTH FREMANTLE: The design represents the Swan River, a significant feature to the Noongar people, and the symbols on the outside represent South Fremantle as the main meeting place where people come to play. SUBIACO: Stripes signify moving through the land from campsite to campsite. The jumper symbolises ownership of the lands. SWAN DISTRICTS: Students in the Pilbara region came up with the design in recognition of the Swan Districts regional zone. WEST PERTH: Two snakes symbolise the intertwining of two cultures, and the feet symbolise walking together. The white stars represent the 343 games played by West Perth legend and Djinda Falcons Patron, Bill Dempsey. 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. I love an old footy jumper. And footy jumpers are going for big dollars these days. Unfortunately, the highest prices are reserved for jumpers worn by VFL players in the 1960s and 1970s. But there’s still plenty of interest in jumpers worn by WAFL stars of yesteryear. The big problem is finding them. While I’ve seen a few 1980s jumpers and a couple of 1970s jumpers, it’s very rare that a player jumper from the 1960s or earlier hits the market. That’s why I was so keen to meet Terry recently, who claimed to have a West Perth jumper worn by his uncle’s uncle before WWII. Terry’s relative was Bob Flegg, who played 41 league games for the Cardinals between 1934 and 1938. Flegg was a bit of a fringe player for West Perth, missing out on the premiership sides of 1934 and 1935, but playing about half of all league games during his time at the club. For a start, they made of acrylic material, What Terry had was indeed an old West not metal. And they don’t actually have any Perth jumper. But what was strange was that numbers on them. it was the jumper worn by the club between The seller, who knows his number plates, 1940 and 1945. reckons they were most likely prototypes that By that stage, Flegg had left West Perth were produced to see whether this style of and I’ve been unable to link him to the club number plate would look good. after 1938. It’s something of a mystery as to I think they look great and I would love to why he had this one. have a run of all eight clubs. Terry couldn’t shed any light on it, either. Sadly, the seller thinks it unlikely they exist. But he did dig out some fantastic old West But I would love to hear from anyone who Perth membership badges that also belonged Number plates are another collectable that I knows anything more about acrylic WAFL club to Flegg. keep a close eye on. number plates. The earliest were for Mt Hawthorn Junior Not because I’m a particular collector of The last item on the list for this week is also Football Club and were from 1930, 1931 and them, but because most of the WAFL clubs something of a curiosity. 1932. Then, there were West Perth reserves have had their own commemorative plates at I was reminded of its existence recently badges from 1933, 1934 and 1935. I’ve not one time or another. when I noticed another collector had been seen many reserves badges and it’s great to And there have also been plenty of number buying up children’s bibs that featured a know that they were a regular fixture for at plate holders produced with WAFL logos on caricature of a child in each team’s colours. least one club during the 1930s. them, including two different styles that were The VFL bibs probably date to the early Finally, there were West Perth league made by the Spastic Welfare Association’s 1980s and were made in Hong Kong. badges for 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937. Goodwill Industries back in the late 1970s. They were marketed as “Thistle Baby It’s a great collection and I hope the next But a couple of plates that came my way Football Bibs”.