WEST Perth has won seven straight matches in the WAFL and it's no coincidence that has gone hand in hand with Shane Nelson dominating winning the ball in the midfield and Dean Munns shutting down the opposition's best player.

The Falcons had a slow start to the season winning just one of the first five matches leading into a do-or-die clash with Swan Districts back in Round 6.

Nelson came in for his first game of the year that day after a finger injury while Munns also received the call up to make his debut, and neither has looked back since and nor has West Perth as a team.

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WEST Perth premiership coach Bill Monaghan discusses Saturday's seventh straight win in a heated clash with Claremont to move the Falcons to seventh spot on the WAFL ladder ahead of a clash this Saturday with the second placed South Fremantle at HBF Arena.

QUESTION: Given you were well on top for more than three quarters, lost a couple of players to injury and were playing a desperate team, I think you would have left pretty happy despite Claremont's late comeback?
ANSWER: Very much so, we would take four points every day of the week. Sometimes you are happy with the way you win, sometimes you're not but you always take the points. For two and three-quarter quarters we were very good and that's why we were 30 or 40 points up. They kicked a couple late in the third quarter that probably gave them a bit of a sniff, and their season was on the line and we were coming off some good form and mentally we just relaxed a little bit. Then as we've shown a couple of times in the last couple of years things can change pretty quickly. I wasn’t overly happy, but not totally unhappy either.

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WEST Perth set up a seventh straight victory in the opening three quarters and held off a fast-finishing Claremont for the three-point win on Saturday in a heated WAFL clash at the Claremont Showground.

Coming off the state game bye with a six-game winning streak, West Perth was full of confidence heading into the clash with a Claremont team desperate to win to remain in the finals race.

The Falcons were on top for the opening three quarters and led by as much as 46 points late in the third term, and then still by 40 early in the last. Claremont finished strongly but West Perth held on for the 14.10 (94) to 14.7 (91) victory.

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WEST Perth returns to action following the state game taking on Claremont at the Claremont Showground on Saturday searching for a seventh straight victory.

The Falcons won their last six games heading into last week's record state game win over Tasmania and now are searching for a seventh in-a-row to potentially move to being just percentage off being on top of the WAFL ladder.

After losing four of the first five games of 2016, the Falcons won their last six matches before the break to now have improved to a 7-4 record.

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COMING off the high of being among the best players in Western Australia's state game win over Tasmania, Luke Meadows has quickly turned his attention back to West Perth's clash with Claremont on Saturday where he hopes the Falcons continue sending messages to the rest of the WAFL.

Meadows made his state debut in Saturday's record 134-point victory over Tasmania at Steel Blue Oval and was tremendous with 25 possessions and seven marks, but quickly attention has turned back to the WAFL season.

West Perth had won its last six matches heading into the state game to improve to a 7-4 record on the season but nobody at the Falcons is content with that.

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THE West Perth Football Club will join the 'Sock it to Sarcoma' awareness campaign this weekend by wearing odd socks in support of Kalin Foley who was diagnosed with a rare soft tissue paediatric following a football injury.

Kalin Foley was in Year Seven in 2012 when he was diagnosed with a rare soft tissue paediatric sarcoma called Rhabdomyosarcoma after a suspected injury in a game of football.

Kalin played for Wanneroo Junior Football Club for many years & attended school at Prendiville Catholic College with many Ocean Ridge Junior Football Club players.

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LUKE Meadows might only be 38 games into his WAFL career but he proved himself one of the best all-round talents in the competition again on Saturday as the 21-year-old starred in Western Australia's record state game victory over Tasmania.

Meadows got his first taste of league football at West Perth back in 2013 and played another seven matches in 2014, but it wasn’t until last year until he found a permanent place in the team.

That was in dual roles as a half-back and half-forward but he found himself out of the team for the Falcons' run to the grand final.

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WELCOME to this week's edition of footballers trying to be journalists, every loyal West Perth supporters' favourite mid-week read.

Pikey has asked me to write a gripping and compelling narrative surrounding the State Game fixture from the weekend, recap the WA derby victory against the arch nemesis the East Perth Eagles, and give a brief insight into the lead up to this weekend's clash against Claremont at the Claremont Showgrounds.

Victories against East Perth are always sweet, but none are sweeter than the WA Day Derby win which always positions itself to be one of the biggest clashes in the West Perth fixtures, year on year. The win against our rivals last weekend was as unyielding performance as you will see across the board, much like Ashley and Martin have done for Mitch Antonio, with all 22 players contributing to get the points.

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A Kingsway oval will be modified to accommodate the Lions v Falcons Round 20 fixture on Saturday 6 August following the City of Wanneroo's recommendation to relocate the ground's central cricket wicket.

This decision now confirms our game against Subiaco on Saturday 6 August will be played at Kingsway. The WPFC would like acknowledge and thank the City of Wanneroo for their proactive approach to attracting future WAFL matches at the Kingsway Sporting Complex.

WEST Perth entered Saturday's state game as the form WAFL team and as a result had the highest representation with all six Falcons players delivering standout performances in the record win over Tasmania at Steel Blue Oval.

West Perth has won its last six WAFL matches and that form was acknowledged by the state selected led by Falcons legend, and premiership captain and coach Darren Harris who was coach for a second year running.

Shane Nelson, Luke Meadows, Jay van Berlo, Andrew Strijk, Aaron Black and Nick Rodda all got the nod to play for WA and didn’t disappoint in the record-breaking 134-point victory.

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