E. Tyson - 17 v Swan Districts (1934) All Australian Players. Except when affected by a major injury to star rover Robert Wiley, the Demons dominated in 1977, capping the season off with a record 26.13 (169) Grand Final winning score against East Fremantle. Making the club one of the most successful AFL football clubs in Australia. [citation needed]. In 1987, a Perth-based club the West Coast Eagles joined an expanded Victorian Football League. Their goal was denied by just two points in a grand final marred by very wet conditions. In 1921, the WAFL followed the idea of the SANFL's Magarey Medal and introduced the Sandover Medal, for the fairest and best player over a season, as voted by the field umpires. CENTRE: Ryan Lim (C), Jye Bolton (C), Jesse Turner (SD) South Fremantle Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Fremantle, Western Australia.The club plays in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) and the WAFL Women's (WAFLW), commonly going by the nickname the Bulldogs.Since its founding, the club has won 14 WAFL premierships, the most recent of them in 2020.. INTERCHANGE HAMISH BRAYSHAW (East Perth) Matera. The inSync Product provides both on-premise and cloud solutions to enterprises for end-point devices (laptops, mobiles) backups and archival of data. Australia v India test serie - Page 20 - Forum It was a massive effort from the second we had to shift from Optus. The Sharks once pulled on average 10,000 people to a home game. He has never looked back since and was his team's Player of the Finals in his debut season and then took an even greater leap forward throughout 2022. (Fremantle, Rovers. Views: 1 182. McIntosh crowned his last game winning the Simpson Medal for best on field. Josh Head made his debut for South Fremantle in 2002 and played 121 matches . FORWARD POCKET KEEGAN KNOTT (West Perth) Free just got the nod in the Team of the Year while Meek filled up an emergency spot. Players who are not selected to play with their respective AFL clubs instead play for allocated clubs in the WAFL. 37.17 v East Fremantle 9.7 (13 June 1981) Highest Goal Tally in a Season. Round 2. In 2019 the West Coast Eagles entered the Wafl so the teams are now 10. Around the state leagues: Suns pair dominate, Crows talls fire Check out all the best players from this weekend's VFL, SANFL and WAFL action . For the soccer club, see. INTERCHANGE: Luke Meadows (WP), Kyle Baskerville (EF), Liam Hickmott (S), Hamish Brayshaw (EP) Scott Jones was also named to the Team of the Week three times. There were plenty of other midfielders across the competition unlucky to miss out too including Milan Murdock (East Fremantle, five), Aidan Clarke (Swan Districts, five), Mitch Crowden (Peel, four), Connor Blakely (Peel, four), Tom Blechynden (South Fremantle, four), Jake Florenca (South Fremantle, four), Tobe Watson (Swan Districts, four) and Aaron Black (West Perth, four). Oct 2. Previous Teams of the Year: 6 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The 2020 Sandover Medal winner was right back to his best in 2022 in his third season with Swan Districts. WACA Team of the Century - Forum - OzFooty.net He arrived at South Fremantle in 2021 and spent a season sharing the ruck role with Brock Higgins, but upon his retirement took over the No. Sheffield Shield: Mitch Marsh stars in return to WA put in strong The WAFL has run a simultaneous reserves competition and colts (under-19s) competition for its clubs since 1925 and 1957 respectively. The East Fremantle Football Club was formed in 1898 and is the most successful side in Western Australia, their 29 premierships placing them second behind Port Adelaide in the country. Previous Teams of the Year: 0. At the end of each round of the 2022 WAFL season, a Team of the Week was selected made up of the standout 22 performers from that weekend's action giving players from each team 18 opportunities to put their case forward for a spot in the Team of the Year. [1] McIntosh and Cable both have Legend status in the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Fri Apr 07 14:10. The club under coach Earl Spalding led the Demons to being more competitive after his appointment in 2015, the club's 120 year in 2019 saw them narrowly missed the finals by percentage despite winning their first five games but had to win the last game against Peel Thunder but lost by three points to miss out, the next season Perth made their first finals series in 23 years in Spalding's final season as coach in a shortened season due to COVID winning their final regular season game by 5 points verse the eventual premier South Fremantle before losing to West Perth in a semi final by 11 points. Perth is statistically one of the least successful teams in the competition, and has not played in a grand final since 1978. EPFC Colts Players | East Perth Football Club. Peel actually scored 10.10 (70) for the match, but their score was deleted as a penalty for playing a player with an incorrect clearance. Round 12 Blaine Boekhorst (East Fremantle) The team's home ground is East Fremantle Oval. Private Arthur Henry 'Cock' WRIGHTSON (48th Battn), This page was last edited on 2 January 2023, at 20:28. On 12 March 2004, a West Australian Football Hall of Fame was formed when 81 former players, coaches, umpires, administrators and media representatives were inducted. Previous Teams of the Year: 0. Attendances have recovered slightly and in 2004, the league posted a total attendance of 202,797. The ground-breaking deal will offer viewers access to nearly 200 live matches across the WAFL League, Colts and Women's competition. His passion and intensity was infectious, his ferocity was intimidating and his celebrations were unforgettable as he put together a season of kicking 39 goals including six in Round 3 along with two hauls of five, and kicking four another couple of times. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter 1996 Select AFL Hall of Fame Card: IAN STEWART (AFL Team of the They folded and were immediately replaced by Perth Football Club who were promoted from the Perth First Rate Association. Round 8 Matthew Jupp (East Fremantle) He has played 44 reserves games along the way and only managed 18 league appearances in those first three seasons, but has consolidated himself the last three years and stepped up even further in 2022. [citation needed], However, in those days many young men of Perth's wealthier families were educated in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. GIVEN how close and even the 2022 WAFL season was, spots in the Team of the Year were morehotly contested than ever and that's highlighted by the fact that a whole host of quality players who had terrific seasons couldnt quite sneak in. In 2005 the Demons won only three games, and then recruitment of another high-profile coach in former North Adelaide, Norwood and Adelaide Crows champion Andrew Jarman collapsed completely after a promising 2009 season: the Demons won only two games in 2010 for their fourteenth wooden spoon. He could well be South Fremantle's most decorated player this century and despite retiring following the elimination final loss to Peel Thunder, he remained right at the peak of his powers by the end of the 2022 season. Despite the fact that many involved with Fremantle moved onto South Fremantle the new club is not seen as a continuation of the old and did not lay claim to its proud records to that date. .mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}a During the period between 1946 and 1954, Perth's zone had over twice as many residents as the zones of East Fremantle, South Fremantle, Subiaco and Swan Districtsb from 1925c from 1957d 21 games without win from Round 7, 1922 to Round 13, 1923e Awarded retrospectively by Westar Rules in 1997f Moriarty's Sandover was won in a competition restricted to players under nineteen as of 1 October 1943 owing to the loss of players to World War II. In 2016 the Total Player Payments cap is $294,000 for the non-AFL aligned clubs, while the cap for East Perth and Peel Thunder is $191,100. Times named in 2022: 5 South Fremantle were without dispute one of the strongest teams in Australia during much of the period 1947 to 1954, not only winning 6 premierships but also defeating many touring sides from Victoria and South Australia. He also worked hard around the ground averaging 12.2 possessions and he did manage to kick four goals along the way to ensure that the Bulldogs are in good hands in the ruck department despite the loss of Higgins. Previous Teams of the Year: 1 (2021). His role did change at times and he spent some time setting up play off half-back, but wherever he was playing he was as effective and consistent as ever. The state side enjoyed unparalleled success, downing Victoria in each of the first three post war meetings as well as enjoying the better of their encounters with South Australia. When he is playing well and at his best giving great run and creativity off half-back for the Tigers, it's remarkable how much of a better team they look and that they almost become unbeatable. Averaged another 27.2 touches a game while celebrating his 200-game milestone this season as part of a career that's already seen him win four fairest and best awards and now be named to the Team of the Year squad for an eighth time. There is currently no naming rights partner of the WAFL, so the competition is officially known as the "WAFL Premiership". Now you can cast all elite state league matches from your . The first premiership was awarded in 1885, and was won by the Rovers Football Club, which disbanded in 1899. Suffering from internal dissent as presidents Barry McGrath and Nick Catalano were opposed by the board over not only relocation, which most other members opposed in favour of a better deal from the West Australian Football Commission,[9] but also the admission of Peel Thunder,[10] Perth immediately returned to the basement. The 2023 AFL Season is just around the corner and the Zero Hanger Season Guide is back! [25] The total attendance, including AFL games was a record 1,030,000. South Fremantle Football Club - Wikipedia One of the best afield with 20 possessions. 1971, despite the return of Barry Cable from North Melbourne where he had transferred in 1970, saw Perth decline abruptly to seventh or eight with only eight wins and a draw, and after a return to third in 1972, Cable's last year with the club in 1973 saw them win only six games (their worst year since 1941 when they won only four matches). WAFL Team of the Week - Round 2. However, during this period more and more star WAFL players were looking to head to the Victorian Football League (VFL), enticed by the bigger money and the fact that it was more and more gaining a reputation as the "big" league. Times named in 2022: 8 Corporal Percy Sutherland MOFFLIN (10th Light Horse). The AFL's commitment to live streaming of the 2022 VFL and WAFL seasons ensures greater exposure for players and clubs to a national audience, and makes it easier for fans, families and recruiters to watch some of the best state-league prospects as they push for their AFL opportunity. In a year where his brothers Angus and Andrew continued to star in the AFL at Melbourne and Fremantle respectively, he put together the best WAFL season of his career that has now spanned 60 matches in the competition dating back to his debut in 2018. Round 2 Ryan Lim (Claremont) Gunner John 'Jack' McCARTHY (36th Heavy Artillery). There continue to be players from East Fremantle who move onto AFL/VFL, and AFLW playing careers, see List of East Fremantle footballers who have played in the VFL/AFL. Despite the recruitment of a proven coach in Stan Magro, Perth were not able to sustain improvements to a 50/50 winloss ratio in 2002 and 2004. THE AFL TEAM OF THE CENTURY Backline B. Smith S. Silvagni J. Nicholls Half back line B. Doull T. Whitten (c) K. Murray Centre F. Bourke I. Stewart K. Greig Half Forward A. Jesaulenko R. Hart D. Reynolds Forward L. Matthews J. Coleman H. Bunton Rovers G. Farmer R. Barassi [] Private John Alexander Robertson 'Hooky' DOIG (44th Battn). Had a standout season as the spearhead of the East Fremantle and he had to stand up given most of the forwards he was expecting to play alongside, Hugh Dixon, Brynn Teakle, Luke Strnadica, Dillon O'Reilly and Cody Leggett, all either went to AFL clubs or got injured. Easts were remarkably successful in their early days, winning 11 flags between 1900 and 1918 including four on the trot between 1908 and 1911, a feat they repeated between 1928 and 1931. East Fremantle Football Club - Wikipedia Times named in 2022: 7 [2][3] East Fremantle's last Premiership was in 1998 where they defeated West Perth, 2012 was their last appearance in a Grand Final was against Claremont. FORWARD: Keegan Knott (WP), Jonathon Marsh (EF), Haiden Schloithe (SF) The manner in which the Demons reversed a last round loss to East Perth by eleven goals in the first semi final might have made people think at the very least a grand final berth was forthcoming, but South Fremantle put paid to that with a six-goal win in the preliminary final. [5] In particular Tom Wilson and David (Dolly) Christy from the Imperials along with Sam Thomson were instrumental in the foundation East Fremantle Football club, Wilson as captain and Christy as Vice Captain would play in East Fremantle's first game at the WACA on 11 May 1898. Has shown he's good enough to be a regular AFL ruckman, but should the Thunder be lucky enough to have him at all in 2023, he could dominate further. WAFL Team of the Year 2022Wednesday, September 28, 2022 . From the very first matches played in the late 1850s through to the end of the 20th century, football in Australia was very state league-focussed. Despite an inglorious start with its lowest score since 1952 against Swan Districts, 1997 saw the Demons play consistently enough to record their best home-and-away performance for nineteen years, missing out on the double chance by only five percent from East Fremantle. Team of the Century - Richmond Football Club Watch on. Victory came despite solitary resistance from Jermaine Blackwood, who scored 79 of his team's runs in a one-man effort to give the Windies a chance. Started his career with West Perth as a tough, uncompromising and long-kicking half-back but the longer his career has gone on the more he has turned himself into one of the standout on-ballers in the competition, even more so since returning from his stint playing in the VFL. Recent years have seen the WAFL stabilise itself as a league a step down from the AFL. Join our WA Footy family to receive all the latest news and results A salary cap of A$200,000 per club is in place. . The Sharks' most recent . Highest goal scorer in WAFL 1950 - 91 goals Life Member -1952 East Fremantle Team of the Century -Centre half forward - 1997 Fremantle Football Club Hall of Legends 1997. FORWARD POCKET HAIDEN SCHLOITHE (South Fremantle) With COVID having its impact across the early rounds of the competition for 2022 . Times named in 2022: 6 Stobo's all-round brilliance inspired WA to a nine-wicket Sheffield Shield victory over Tasmania within three days at the WACA Ground to qualify for a home final later this month. In total, nineteen Perth players were killed on active duty in the two wars. Round 16 Stefan Giro (Subiaco) Sandover Medal: (13 total) Lin Richards (1931), Jim Conway (1950), Jack Clarke (1957), Ray Sorrell (1961, 1963), David Hollins (1971), Graham Melrose (1974), Brian Peake (1977), Murray Wrensted (1985), Craig Treleven (1995), Adrian Bromage (1998), Rory O'Brien (2013), Blaine Boekhorst (2022), Simpson Medallists (in Grand Final): (10 total) Alan Ebbs (1945), Frank Conway (1957), Ray Sorrell (1962), Norm Rogers (1964), Dave Imrie (1965), Gary Gibellini (1974), Kevin Taylor (1979), Clinton Browning (1992), Mark Amaranti (1994), Adrian Bromage (1998), Simpson Medallists (in State Game): (5 total) Ray Sorrell (1962), Kevin Taylor (1982), Paul Harding (1991), Craig Treleven (1995), Rod Tregenza (1999), Bernie Naylor Medallists: (20 total) Ernest Kelly (1904, 38 goals), Henry Sharpe (1905, 50 goals), Henry Sharpe (1907, 48 goals), Charles Doig (1908, 26 goals), Charles Doig (1909, 38 goals), Arthur Rawlinson (1917, 46 goals), Joseph Lawn (1919, 55 goals), Dinney Coffey (1923, 36 goals), George Doig (1933, 106 goals), George Doig (1934, 152 goals), George Doig (1935, 113 goals), George Doig (1936, 109 goals), George Doig (1937, 144 goals), George Doig (1941, 141 goals), George Prince (1949, 82 goals), Bob Johnson (1966, 92 goals), Kevin Taylor (1979, 102 goals), Neil Lester-Smith (1989, 90 goals), Rod Tregenza (1999, 86 goals), Rod Tregenza (2000, 86 goals), Prendergast Medallists: (9 total) Bill Taggart (1954), 1977: Joe Angel, 1978: Kevin Taylor, 1994: Jon Stagg, 2002: Leigh Willison, 2007: Morgan Cooper, 2008: Conor Davidson, 2010: James Murray, Timothy Viney (2011), Benjamin Harding (2017), Jack Clarke Medal: (5 total) Mark Amaranti (1985), Graham Ralph (1989), Matthew Cremin (2000), Andrew Green (2001), Jacob Green (2013), Chesson Medallists: (2 total) Greg Brown (1972), Doug Winning (1973), All-Australian team: Jack Clarke (1953, 1956, 1958, 1961), Alan Preen (1958), Norm Rogers (1958), Ray Sorrell (1958, 1961), Brian Peake (1979 (c), 1980, 1986 (c)), Tony Buhagiar (1979), Kevin Taylor (1983), Peter Wilson (1986), Updated: July 2020Source(s): Playing list, Coaching staff. All figures for games and goals refer to premiership (home-and-away and finals) matches only. In 1950 they reversed the 1949 Grand Final result against the Cardinals but lost narrowly to an inaccurate South Fremantle in the premiership decider. Davies, Steve, and Greg Wardell-Johnson (2009). The current coach of the club is Garry Moss, who succeeded Earl Spalding prior to the 2021 WAFL season. Despite Unions/Fremantle being the most dominant club in the WAFA up to this point winning the competition 10 times in its 13 years of existence, problems with debt saw the club disappear and some people involved with the old entity formed South Fremantle Football Club in its place. AFL Hall of Fame - AFL Legends The Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football club based in Lathlain, Western Australia, currently playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).. By the end of the 20 rounds this season, 152 individual players all earned a spot in the Team of the Week with Peel Thunder having the most players to earn a spot at least once. Times named in 2022: 5 And virtually overnight Australian Rules football became the dominant code for the spectator as well. When he's then not there or has a quiet day, the difference is stark. Times named in 2022: 8 Farmer was named as first ruck in the AFL Team of the Century, the WAFL Team of the Century, the Teams of the Century for East Perth, Geelong and West Perth and in the Indigenous Team of the Century. sentence. They then upset South by twelve points and came back on a windy day to defeat East Fremantle by two points in the 1955 WANFL Grand Final for their first premiership in forty-eight years. WAFL | West Australian Football League In his day he was the fastest big man or near big man in the game. Back then though rugby union was the dominant football code, with only one senior club, "Unions", playing Australian Rules. They would rename the club to simply Claremont a few years later. E. Tyson - 143 (1934) R.Scott - 143 (1953) Highest Goal Tally in a Match. To all the die hards, new fans, clubs & players, THANK YOU! In 1996, the VFL/AFL celebrated the Centenary year of the Australian Football League. Unlike many other sporting competitions, the WAFL didn't go into recess during World War I, although two teams North Fremantle and Midland Junction were "casualties" of the war, competing for the last time in 1915 and 1917 respectively. South Fremantle Football Club George had the knack of being able to take the ball out of the . East Fremantle Football Club - Australian Rules Football Wiki In recent years, however the attendances have increased slightly, with 2009 recording the first combined annual attendance of more than 200,000 since 1994.[17]. Recent arrivals East Fremantle became the dominant force in the league winning 11 premierships from 1900 to 1918. Times named in 2022: 7 While the WAFL has not been as keen as the SANFL to include teams from other states, there have been proposals to include teams from regions unwanted by the AFL, and to serve as a second-tier national league. On September the 2 nd, 1996, 21 men achieved footballing immortality when they were named in the V/AFL Team of the Century. ROVER BLAINE BOEKHORST (East Fremantle) In the match when George Young made his century for WA, his team-mates included sometime VFL and/or WAFL footballers Ken McAullay, Graeme Watson . Peel Thunder Football Club His team dominated the competition at the turn of the century topping the ladder in 1999, 2000 and 2001. Claremont Football Club | PerthNow South Fremantle clearly had the best defence throughout the competition this season and he was right at the cornerstone of that. There were two standout ruckmen throughout the season and they were South Fremantle's Hamish Free and Peel Thunder's Lloyd Meek. Friday, April 29, 2022 - 9:00 AM by Chris Pike. Private Roy James 'Nugget' WRIGHTSON (11th Battn). Stream your team: Watch VFL and WAFL games LIVE and FREE HALF-FORWARD FLANK SAM FISHER (Swan Districts) In 1980, the WANFL dropped the "N" and the "ern" and reverted to being called the WAFL. He finished the season on fire with all seven of his Team of the Week selections coming in the last eight rounds of the season and he very nearly claimed a second Sandover Medal. History - West Perth FC | West Perth Football Club Previous Teams of the Year: 7 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), PLAYERS OF THE ROUND There are ten (10) teams that currently compete in the WAFL: Ten other clubs formerly competed in the competition: Fremantle Football Club (II) was known as Unions Football Club from 1886 to 1889. Courageous defender, Mal Day, won the Simpson Medal for an outstanding game. West Perth was next with 58, Claremont 54, South Fremantle 54, Swan Districts 49, Peel 40, Subiaco 40, East Perth 34, Perth 20 and West Coast nine. Join our WA Footy family to receive all the latest news and results At the end of the 1980 season East Perth put in an application to join the VFL. During the war years Perth continued to be prominent, finishing third in each of 1916, 1917 and 1918, but following the end of the war Perth (or Victoria Park as they were known in 1934 and 1935) was to have a long period in the doldrums. East Fremantle's Cam Eardley was the only player to earn a spot nine times with Claremont's Jye Bolton, Sandover Medallist Blaine Boekhorst, East Perth's Angus Schumacher and South Fremantle's Toby McQuilkin named to Teams of the Week eight times. By 1983 the management of the WAFL itself acknowledged that economic crisis loomed. His combination of playing as an intercepting defender and then as an attacking weapon out of defence was fully on show in 2022 where he ended up averaging 27.5 possessions a game. Digging deeper into the Team of the Year and down back, South Fremantle's Noah Strom, East Fremantle captain Matthew Jupp and Perth's Kasey Nicholas were the standout key defenders to earn spots in the back-line. FULL-FORWARD JONATHON MARSH (East Fremantle) George Prince was an ideal football build. Team Store; Membership; Events & Functions. Fremantle thus was required to start from scratch, with no relationship to the two dominant WAFL teams. CENTRE HALF-FORWARD TYLER KEITEL (West Perth) [citation needed]. A shortlist of players was . East Fremantle - Giants of WA Footy - Sports Industry AU Despite the team's lack of collective success, Perth in the inter-war years was home to a number of outstanding players, including ruckman/forward Doug Oliphant, pacy centreman Cyril Hoft and full-forwards Alan Evans (who against East Fremantle in 1921 kicked thirteen of fourteen goals[2]) and Albert Gook. The Goldfields competition (later known as the Goldfields Football League) was hence comparable in status and standard to the Perth competition for many years. [30][31] The proposal was raised again in 1954 but did not proceed.[32]. The club is recognised as one of the most successful WAFL teams . But all he will be worried about is trying to become a dual premiership player on Saturday. Was clearly the best season of his 57-game career. The team includes many names that have become synonymous with East Fremantle. Swan Districts entered the league in 1934. Despite its failures at senior level up to 1946, Perth reached the preliminary final of the 1944 underage competition, and aided by inequitable metropolitan zoning,[4][a] this group of young players allowed the club to become finals regulars along with West Perth, South Fremantle and East Fremantle from 1947 to 1951. WING JESSE TURNER (Swan Districts) [citation needed], On returning home from there they naturally wished to play the sport they'd grown up with and no doubt exerted some influence on their less affluent peers as to such. Just, wow. Saturday April 08 at 2:10pm. 25 years on from the Team of the Century, we look at the best 22-man side since. South Fremantle Team of the Modern Era - Defenders This chronology below is not a definitive outline of . (AP PHOTO) Credit: AP. For most of its existence, the league was considered one of the traditional "big three" Australian rules football leagues, along with the Victorian Football League (VFL) and South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Select grade below. Meanwhile, in the league Swan Districts won another hat-trick of premierships from 1982 to 1984. EMERGENCY LLOYD MEEK (Peel Thunder) Showing just what a quality season he had was celebrated on Tuesday night when he won the Sandover Medal for 2022 and he did that despite only playing 14 of the 18 matches, including missing the last three after rupturing his ACL in Round 16 against West Perth. The league is run adjacent to the WAFL premiership.[34]. At the outbreak of World War I many players from Western Australia enlisted in the armed services, East Fremantle Football Club players killed in action include: Lewis, Ross; Sharks Rule Dunbar Safe: disappointed East Fremantle Fans Smell Coach's Blood But Not Club Bosses; List of East Fremantle footballers who have played in the VFL/AFL, East Fremantle Football Club Premiership Teams, East Fremantle Football Club Hall of fame, Wikipedia listing of East Fremantle Football Club players, "Australian Football - East Fremantle Football Club - Stats", "Australian Football - imperials Football Club - Stats", WAFL site for East Fremantle Football Club, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_Fremantle_Football_Club&oldid=1131152867, 1926, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1951, 1962, 1970, 1989, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2008, 1962, 1966, 1969, 1973, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2001, 2010, 2017. Round 10 Aaron Black (West Perth) BACK POCKET TOBY MCQUILKIN (South Fremantle) On Wednesday 12 October 1927, the WAFL was renamed the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) the "national" concept in the name being adopted by the SANFL, TANFL and other leagues when the Australian Football Council became the Australian National Football Council earlier in the year.[29]. All clubs competed, with the exception of Swan Districts who could not form a team in 1942, although they were back in 1943. EMERGENCY STEFAN GIRO (Subiaco) Simon Beasley to be inducted into the Swans Hall of Fame AFL. Highest Score: Round 17, 1944 33.23 (221) vs. South Fremantle at Fremantle Oval, Lowest Score: Round 13, 1898 1.2 (8) vs. West Perth at The WACA, Greatest Winning Margin: Round 17, 1944 201 points vs. South Fremantle at Fremantle Oval, Greatest Losing Margin: Round 10, 1981 178 points vs. West Perth at Leederville Oval, Most games: Brian Peake 304 (19721981 & 19851989), Record Home Attendance: Round 3, 1979 21,317 vs. South Fremantle, Record Finals Attendance: 1979 Grand Final 52,781 vs. South Fremantle at Subiaco Oval, Most consecutive victories: 35, between 28 July 1945 (Round 13) and 17 May 1947 (Round 3), including the 1945 and 1946 premierships, Most consecutive losses: 13, once between 18 May 1968 (Round 7) and 17 August 1968 (Round 19) and again between 11 April 1970 (Round 2) and 11 July 1970 (Round 14).