Combined Media/Club Votes
117 Mark Seaby (CL)
115 Paul Johnson (EP)
113 Jarrod Kayler-Thomson (S)
110 Ryan Cook (SF)
106 Brendan Lee (EP)
93 Mark McGough (EF)
91 Mitch Banner (SF)
88 Jason Bristow (S)
87 Sean Tighe (SF)
84 Paul Bevan (P)
83 Andrew Foster (CL), Rory O’Brien (EF)
82 Mark Hutchings* (WP)
81 Jake Murphy (CL)
78 Shaun Hildebrandt (SD), Marlon Motlop (PT)
77 Craig Wulff (EP)
76 Kris Miller (SF), Bradd Dalziell* (EF)
70 Brett Hodge (P)
67 George Hampson (S)
66 Brennan Stack (P), Brett Mahoney (S)
65 Josh Smith (EP)
61 Aaron Black (WP), Andrew Browne (CL), Viv Michie* (PT)
59 Shane Nelson (WP)
58 Rohan Kerr (WP)
57 Matt Orzel (PT), Cruize Garlett (PT)
54 Wayde Twomey (SD), Wes Lammie (SD)
49 Dayle Garlett (SD), Paul Bower (PT)
48 Matt Tedesco (P), Brendon Jones (PT)
47 Anthony Tsalikis (WP), Ali Smith (P), Mitch Brown* (EF)
Rookies Best
76 Sam Fong (CL)
71 Ryan Lester-Smith (EF), Ray Daniels (S)
69 Jacob Martinez (SF)
57 Matthew Johnson (WP)
55 Matt Davies (CL)
48 Cam Symonds (EF)
42 Matt Bogensperger (S)
41 Matthew Boyle (P)
39 Aidan Tropiano (EF)
35 Kingsley Smith (SF)
33 Nic Rodda (WP), Michael Sinclair (P)
32 Chris DeLuca (S)
29 Matt Gordon (EP), Ashley Boyes (EP), Michael Wood (S)
28 Hugo Breakey (CL)
24 Simon Moore (S)
23 Sam Lowrie (SF), Arthur Bennell (EP), Tom Taylor (CL)
Leading Goal Kickers
31 Paul Bevan (P)
30 Josh Smith (EP)
28 Ian Richardson (CL), Brennan Stack (P)
25 Anton Hamp (CL)
23 Ryan Lester-Smith (EF), Anthony Tsalkis (WP)
22 Ian Richardson (CL), Tim Geappen (SD)
18 Chad Jones (CL), Dayle Garlett (SD)
17 Matthew Johnson (WP), Josh Mellington* (WP), Mitch Banner (SF)
15 Brad Dick* (EF), John Sgherza (SF), Brad Holmes (PT)
Round 12 Attendances
Subiaco v South Fremantle at Medibank, Leederville 2,178
West Perth v Claremont at Joondalup 1,937
East Fremantle v Peel at East Fremantle 1,408
Fairly good crowd at Leederville considering that on paper at least it might have seemed like an unattractive game to some. Still worrying that Claremont, with all their success and all their big name players, can’t draw a crowd. God knows what figures they would get if they ever dropped out of the top four. “Peel like” probably.
On a brighter note, the attendance average (2162) is now above the years
Yeah Swans have. I guess their fans think they should be doing better and are voting with their feet. Truth is, they should be doing better too. At least on paper.
Good input mate.. enjoy seeing the figures. Interesting to see 2 Ruckmen on top of the Media/club votes. That must be a first. When you have guys like Hutchings getting 30 plus every game for WP and down a bit
Cook and McGough deserve to be up there from what I have seen.
Not far of the mark with the ratings
Thanks mate.
Yeah the club votes on the stats page on WAFLonline vary a lot from the The Sunday Times and The West Australian. I guess the coaches like to give a best award to a player who did a specific job for the team…shutting down or tagging.
Which there was one more source of best players to be honest - like in the old days we had the Daily News “green pages”, The Sunday Independent and for a while The Western Mail, all sending reporters to the game.
Not enough competition in the written media anymore.
Yeah Swans have. I guess their fans think they should be doing better and are voting with their feet. Truth is, they should be doing better too. At least on paper.
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La H I don’t think that is the reason for Swans’ numbers this year. After two games we were 1 and 1 and played Perth at Basso. The crowd was extremely poor that day.
One would suspect the way the fixtures have been constructed this year where we play three consecutive games at Basso followed by a 5 week hiatus have not helped. Similarly, the number of byes we have had in the first half of the season probably has contributed as well.
Finally, the bizarre pattern of the games where we will be playing Subiaco for the second time in a matter of 3 to 4 weeks and later in the year the pattern of Peel bye and Peel.
Hopefully, our crowd numbers will increase in the second half of the season.
Yeah Swans have. I guess their fans think they should be doing better and are voting with their feet. Truth is, they should be doing better too. At least on paper.
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La H I don’t think that is the reason for Swans’ numbers this year. After two games we were 1 and 1 and played Perth at Basso. The crowd was extremely poor that day.
One would suspect the way the fixtures have been constructed this year where we play three consecutive games at Basso followed by a 5 week hiatus have not helped. Similarly, the number of byes we have had in the first half of the season probably has contributed as well.
Finally, the bizarre pattern of the games where we will be playing Subiaco for the second time in a matter of 3 to 4 weeks and later in the year the pattern of Peel bye and Peel.
Hopefully, our crowd numbers will increase in the second half of the season.
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Perhaps the magics is just gone, you can only drink so much emu export i guess.
swan should the AFL introduce a 3rd AFL club to WA - and they chose the eastern suburbs as its base - what do you imagine would be the impact on the SDFC???
Ben got this out of the Budget and gives a good indication of Possessions etc etc
Gives a bigger picture of the different area’s of the game. Good to supplement your figures.. CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO GET A BETTER VIEW
La H I don’t think that is the reason for Swans’ numbers this year. After two games we were 1 and 1 and played Perth at Basso. The crowd was extremely poor that day.
One would suspect the way the fixtures have been constructed this year where we play three consecutive games at Basso followed by a 5 week hiatus have not helped. Similarly, the number of byes we have had in the first half of the season probably has contributed as well.
Finally, the bizarre pattern of the games where we will be playing Subiaco for the second time in a matter of 3 to 4 weeks and later in the year the pattern of Peel bye and Peel.
Hopefully, our crowd numbers will increase in the second half of the season.
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Perhaps the magics is just gone, you can only drink so much emu export i guess.
swan should the AFL introduce a 3rd AFL club to WA - and they chose the eastern suburbs as its base - what do you imagine would be the impact on the SDFC???
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Have another Swan Draught Chris!
La H I don’t think that is the reason for Swans’ numbers this year. After two games we were 1 and 1 and played Perth at Basso. The crowd was extremely poor that day.
One would suspect the way the fixtures have been constructed this year where we play three consecutive games at Basso followed by a 5 week hiatus have not helped. Similarly, the number of byes we have had in the first half of the season probably has contributed as well.
Finally, the bizarre pattern of the games where we will be playing Subiaco for the second time in a matter of 3 to 4 weeks and later in the year the pattern of Peel bye and Peel.
Hopefully, our crowd numbers will increase in the second half of the season.
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Perhaps the magics is just gone, you can only drink so much emu export i guess.
swan should the AFL introduce a 3rd AFL club to WA - and they chose the eastern suburbs as its base - what do you imagine would be the impact on the SDFC???
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As I said I am not sure exactly why our crowd numbers are lower than expected. Ic ertainly do not subscribe to the view that it is because of our relatively poor start to the season. I suspect that the disjointed nature of the fixturing is having an impact. I also suspect that the alignment issue has had a negative impact as well.
With respect to a third AFL team domiciled in Perth my thoughts are that it is delusional in the extreme. Where would the supporter base come from? There was a difference when the Dockers came in, they were able to draw from the Eagles’ supporter base those people who were more naturally aligned to a Fremantle based team. Secondly, there were non-aligned supporters to draw from. I suspect that of all the people who would support an AFL team are already doing so. Certainly I can’t see how the non-aligned WAFL supporters would suddenly decide to support this third team.
As to the impact it would have on the WAFL: one wouldn’t need to be a rocket scientist to imagine the impact on the WAFL competition and clubs.
