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NINE Perth announced today resolution has been reached and that the broadcast games featuring West Perth for the remainder of the 2015 WAFL season and for 2016 will feature the logo of Variety – The Children’s Charity.
The Nine News logo will remain on the West Perth jumpers for all other matches not being broadcast on television.
Nine Perth Managing Director David Mott said he was pleased a suitable resolution had been reached. Read More [+]
THE West Perth Football Club has two exciting sponsorship opportunities and would like to remind our loyal supporters and members that it's now less than a month until the major raffle is drawn.
The first sponsorship opportunity is for an advertisement in the Grand Final edition of the Football Budget. The size available is 190mm x 75mm and the cost will be $550 including GST.
The Grand Final edition of the Football Budget is the most popular and widely read WAFL publication of any season and often serves to be the historic record of the season, so you can have the chance to be part of that and to get your company noticed.
WEST Perth's league, reserves and colts teams all recorded impressive finals wins last Sunday at HBF Arena and if the Falcons manage to do it again this Sunday, one grand final and two preliminary finals appearances will be the result.
West Perth's league side thrashed Peel Thunder by 109 points last Sunday to move into this Sunday's second semi-final against Subiaco at Medibank Stadium with a grand final berth at stake. A loss and the Falcons will host the preliminary final next Sunday against either Peel or East Perth.
The Falcons reserves beat East Perth last Sunday to move into this Sunday's first semi-final against Swan Districts at Medibank Stadium. The game will be played after the league fixture and a win will see West Perth set up a preliminary final against either South Fremantle or Subiaco.
The colts will be in action at Bendigo Bank Stadium in Mandurah up against Peel Thunder at 11.40am and a win for West Perth will see them move into the preliminary final against either Claremont or Swan Districts.
SEPTEMBER is finally here and nothing beats finals footy. It's why we play the game. One of the greats in Brent LeCras used to always remind us "You play footy for two reasons - footy trips and premierships."
Although we knew he kept quiet on his third reason of "the hot chips from the food van."
All the hard work that the players and coaches have put in since November last year now counts for something and we have the chance to be a part of something special together. There is great enthusiasm amongst the group and the boys want to do what they can to make the most of the opportunity. However nothing will come easy.
A KEY forward target has been something West Perth has been craving for some time and Michael Lourey has delivered just what the Falcons were after in 2015 as the leading tall goal kicker in the WAFL, and now he hopes the ultimate success as a team is only two wins away.
West Perth did win the 2013 premiership without that one key forward target that could hold down full-forward instead relying on a host of different options in attack.
While that proved successful, the Falcons remained on the lookout for a true full-forward who could provide a strong target in attack, kick his two or three goals a week, take some big marks and at least create a contest, and that's where Lourey came into play.
A MAN of lesser character might have let being dropped as a premiership player and life member of his club get the better of him, but West Perth wingman Ray Bartholomew instead knuckled down to earn his position back and now he has a chance to help the Falcons to a second flag in three years.
The popular and hard-running 30-year-old has been a permanent member of the West Perth side ever since 2005, and has now played 185 matches, played in the 2013 premiership, played for Western Australia, been twice fairest and best runner-up and earned life membership.
However, Bill Monaghan hasn’t become the longest serving coach at West Perth in the club's history without making some tough decisions and Bartholomew found himself spending nine weeks in the reserves earlier this year despite the track record he has over the last decade.
WEST Perth premiership coach Bill Monaghan will be conducting a weekly question and answer segment for the club's website. Here he discusses the 109-point qualifying final win over Peel Thunder at HBF Arena and looks ahead to Sunday's second semi-final against Subiaco at Medibank Stadium.
AFTER West Perth's league, reserves and colts teams all recorded impressive wins at HBF Arena on Sunday, it's now on to the road this Sunday with the league to face Subiaco in a second semi-final, and both the reserves and colts to battle in cut-throat first semi-finals.
West Perth's league side will take on Subiaco at Leederville's Medibank Stadium in the second semi-final with a grand final berth at stake.
A win for the Falcons and it's straight through to the grand final for 2015 while a loss will see them host the preliminary final at HBF Arena the following Sunday against either Peel Thunder or East Perth.
WEST Perth made up for a slow start kicking 21 goals to two after quarter-time to thrash a depleted Peel Thunder by 109 points in Sunday's qualifying final at HBF Arena to cap off a perfect day for the Falcons with the reserves and colts both earlier winning elimination finals.
West Perth finished the WAFL season in second position on the ladder to earn a home final on Sunday against the third-place Thunder, and after Peel started strongly with three goals to one in the first quarter, the Falcons dominated with 21 of the game's last 23 goals to win 22.13 (145) to 5.6 (36).
The win means that the Falcons have now won their last three finals matches going back to the 2013 second semi-final and grand final, and it's also the first final West Perth has ever won at HBF Arena having previously lost preliminary finals to Swan Districts in 2008 and Subiaco in 2011.
WEST Perth was the only team who qualified all three teams for the WAFL finals in 2015 and after the first round the Falcons still have that record intact.
The colts posted a strong win against East Fremantle, the reserves held off East Perth by three points and the league team easily defeated a depleted Peel. The results speak volumes for the program that is in place and gives Falcons supporters much to look forward to for the rest of this year and the future.
It would be fair to say that the Falcons were slow out of the blocks in the first quarter on Sunday. Peel dominated the first 10 minutes to race to a 14-point lead. The Thunder's use of the football and run was very good. The first, and only, Falcons goal for the term came at the 10-minute mark when Michael Lourey marked 40 metres out and kicked accurately. This reduced the margin to eight but Peel had the best of the rest of the quarter kicking another major and at quarter-time they led by 12; 3.2 (20) to 1.2 (8).
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