PREVIEW | 2025 WAFLW – Semi-Finals
FOUR teams, a spot in the WAFL Women’s Grand Final and no turning back for two of the sides, finals action gets underway today out west. Claremont is gunning for a fourth straight grand final and third flag in that time, while Subiaco looks to upset the apple cart as the clear biggest threat. Swan […]
2025 RM Central WAFLW Team of the Year: Full Squad
MINOR premiers Claremont headline a top five-dominated WAFL Women’s Team of the Year squad with 75 per cent of the representatives coming from those around the post-season mark. While West Perth – the one team of those five to miss out – had eight representative to share the overall lead with Claremont, Subiaco and East […]
WAFL Colts Player Focus: Koby Evans (Perth)
PERTH prospect Koby Evans made his return to action over the weekend, having missed most of the year due to back stress fractures. The explosive midfielder-forward made an impression with 28 disposals and two goals in Round 1 of the Colts season, but has only played one National Academy game since. Evans is a member […]
Scouting Notes | 2025 WAFLW State Academy: Round 18
FOUR teams were officially eliminated as four remained alive in the WAFL Women’s premiership hunt for 2025. The last round of the regular season took place over the weekend and we took note of how the State Academy members performed. >> WAFLW Round 18: Round review | Player Focus | Team of the Week
2025 AFLW Team Preview: Fremantle
PRODUCING a strong bounce-back season in 2024, Fremantle showed plenty of potential for the future, unearthing a number of talented stars who stepped up in the absences of key players such as Kiara Bowers. LAST SEASON IN A NUTSHELL Position: 5th (lost in semi-final)Wins: 8Losses: 3 B&F: Mim StromLeading Goalkicker: Aisling McCarthy (8 goals) OFF-SEASON MOVES Ins: […]
Scouting Notes: Bulldogs Colts close gap to rivals
AT A rain-sodden Fremantle Community Bank Oval, South Fremantle snapped their crosstown rivals’ eight-game win streak in a four-quarter top-of-the-table slog. After a slow start for the Bulldogs, their talented midfield brigade got to work post-quarter time and proved too much for their counterparts to contain. The Sharks led the way at half time with […]
2025 WAFLW Player Focus: Lexi Strachan (West Perth)
ARGUABLY Western Australia’s top prospect for next year, West Perth dynamo Lexi Strachan finished off her bottom-age season in style. The Falcons midfielder was outstanding in a best on ground performance for the fifth placed side who marginally fell short of a second straight finals appearance when they defeated South Fremantle by two goals last […]
2025 WAFLW Team of the Week: Round 18
MINOR premiers Claremont produced a brilliant win in the wet over Subiaco and shared the league-high five representatives in our WAFL Women’s Team of the Week for Round 18. The Tigers were joined by Friday night winners West Perth with five, while Perth’s last round victory earned the Demons four players in the side. The […]
Falcons fire in shootout with Bulldogs
WHILE it ultimately proved a fruitless venture, West Perth finished off its WAFL Women’s season on a high by defeating South Fremantle by 12 points. The Falcons needed to win against the Bulldogs and hope that Swan Districts beat East Fremantle by roughly a combined five goals, and while the former achieved it with a […]
Up the Grades: Star bottom-agers break through
A PAIR of promising bottom-agers were among the weekend’s state league debutants, headlined by star 2026 prospect Dougie Cochrane. Elsewhere, West Coast blooded another club-tied talent in the WAFL, and a Victorian dasher impressed in his maiden VFL appearance for Richmond. SANFL League & Reserves Round 16 Central District bottom-ager Dougie Cochrane was the talk […]
