John Townsend
Competition the winner as WAFL evens out
The evenness of the WAFL was underlined on Sunday when six clubs took part in the three grand finals. And that recent equality was...
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John Townsend
- Sep 20
- 3 min
Old hands, new names make WAFL Team of the Season
Ruckman Ollie Eastland had no doubts whose hands he wanted the ball in when Claremont attempted to produce a miraculous comeback win over...
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John Townsend
- Sep 4
- 1 min
Tigers ruckman claims Siena's WAFL Player of the Round
Ollie Eastland can’t wait for his big test in the first semifinal on Sunday. The Claremont ruckman is in the best form of his career but...
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John Townsend
- Aug 28
- 3 min
Money talks and says Simpson is safe
The breathless speculation about Adam Simpson’s future – whether from allegedly well-informed mainstream media veterans or passionate but...
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John Townsend
- Aug 23
- 3 min
Festival of footy could solve East Fremantle final dilemma
East Fremantle have a problem. It will disappear if they beat Subiaco in the top two clash on Saturday and become minor premier for the...
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John Townsend
- Aug 8
- 1 min
Subiaco CEO Peter Capes in WACA board seat push
Peter Capes, the former WA fast bowler and current Subiaco football club chief executive, is the highest-profile candidate to seek...
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John Townsend
- Jul 19
- 3 min
Rising star fiasco a self-inflicted injury football did not need
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when the WA Football Commission football department realised they had stuffed up the identity of the...
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John Townsend
- Jul 12
- 3 min
Wednesday WAFL: Longer season would keep hope alive
Hope is what keeps supporters coming back for more. Hope that the new coach appointed by your club has the vision, charisma, discipline...
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John Townsend
- Jul 3
- 2 min
Coaching in waiting - Jason Salecic to succeed Darren Harris at Falcons in 2024
West Perth premiership captain Jason Salecic will succeed his premiership coach Darren Harris at the helm of the Falcons next year. The...
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John Townsend
- Jun 23
- 2 min
East Perth lose premiership star Don Langdon
Don Langdon only played four seasons of league football for East Perth but played in a hat-trick of grand finals in his brief career. A...
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John Townsend
- Jun 7
- 3 min
Wednesday WAFL: Challenges at top and bottom of the ladder
Peel were on top of the WAFL ladder when Fremantle gifted them the seventh best eligible footballer in the country. Making the WAFL’s...
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John Townsend
- May 31
- 3 min
Midseason rookie draft - cost significant, return minimal, damage substantial
Today could be the best day in the football lives of impressive young WAFL forwards Jack Buller and Jaiden Hunter. It is the day when...
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John Townsend
- May 24
- 3 min
State football needs to thrive... and survive
Peter Bell came up with one of the great football quotes in 2009 when he said: “It’s not every day you captain your State to a one-point...
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John Townsend
- May 23
- 2 min
Hubble the hero for WA Sheffield Shield triumph
Jim Hubble was the surprise hero of WA’s astonishing Sheffield Shield triumph in 1972-73. A lively all-rounder who bowled brisk left-arm...
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John Townsend
- May 17
- 3 min
Football faces future funding fallout
Premier Mark McGowan doesn’t want to keep paying WA football more than $10 million a year. We know that because he said it six years ago...
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John Townsend
- May 10
- 3 min
History puts Peel in box seat to win premiership
Peel are set to be the team to beat for the 2023 premiership if the objective and unblinking eye of history is as focused this year as it...
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John Townsend
- May 3
- 3 min
Tasmania's AFL team will stretch football; third WA team could break it
As most of Australian football loses its mind over a Tasmanian AFL team that will be built on balsa wood foundations and bleed hundreds...
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John Townsend
- Apr 26
- 3 min
East Perth blueprint starting to take shape
When East Perth and West Coast abandoned their marriage of inconvenience five years ago, powerful Royal president Bronte Howson...
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John Townsend
- Apr 19
- 3 min
Perth and West Coast won't change if nothing changes
One goal. 169 points. Perth scraped the former. West Coast were smashed by the latter. Both clubs can keep their heads in the sand for as...
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John Townsend
- Apr 5
- 3 min
Bolton leads the way in SportFM's WAFL Top 40
Jye Bolton has won two Sandover medals as the WAFL’s best player, three Cook medals as Claremont’s fairest and best and four Simpson...
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