Although Musika was originally a SF boy - was recruited from north Fremantle I believe - Claremont zone 
Well with all your complaining about your club in recent years you must be happy Smarty will be bringing in 6 or 7 recruits.
Rednblack have Perth started a junior club in Byford.Has the local shire built facilities.
Heard the railway station is allmost finished.
Heard in 20 years an insane number will live in that Byford area.Over 200,000 residents in that area.
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Only if they are A grade recruits which will be difficult without the extra concessions only some clubs have received!
Not at last time of asking gtr. My mate lives in the Perth half of Byford that we split with SF. His son is playing for a team in Jandakot. Hopefully my club is pushing for WA Football to get a junior club up and running and a couple of ovals.
I remember as a kid when I started at Bedford u/9s we trained and played at Drummond Reserve, then spent a couple of years at Craven Park before Cook Reserve was built. We then moved there but they planted runners. Like EF Oval took a few years for the yellow sand to be overgrown with grass. Now one of the best looking suburban grounds in Perth.
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Byford has a junior team already. Mundijong Centrals Junior Footy Club, they have about 900 junior members. Obviously, some of those players are zoned to both SF and the new Perth area.
Yes but that’s not actually in Byford being the point.
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It is in the middle of Byford, right next to the Secondary College. The senior club is based in Mundijong, the junior club is in Byford (Just called Mundijong).
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And Court Grammar is straight up the road, they have a specialist footy program
Nicely timed political stunt by Claremont, The Albany Advertiser and The West Australian just before proposed zone changes are due out this month, in a pitch to keep their prized Great Southern country zone off prying hands.
The privileged don’t want to know what it’s like to be ordinary do they?
Great to see Cl putting back into their zones…yeah they are luckier then some…but you reap what you sow I guess.
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Yep if only Perth could run a clinic and see numbers like that turn up.
We had been accused by 1 or 2 Country Folk of not paying due diligence to our Zones in the bush(no,not Raponi).
Were they genuine complaints or folk with an Axe to Grind?
If they were the former,has the Club addressed concerns via our Country Associations?
Made any Statements?
What’s the go here?
I don’t know about that R&B, those Eastern States zones of Perth are producing quite nicely for them, from the looks of things…
What should they do instead?
Have Perth set up development squads within their country zone like other WAFL clubs have? And do they send their League coach and players out to run coaching clinics with these players?
Or has Perth just started catching up with other WAFL clubs development programs which going on Perth Insta post looks like they are starting city and regional based development academies in 2026…
They have had there head in the sand TT and whilst this season they have seen a spike in performance, the key is the sustainability of their plans. Their vision has not often been beyond the quick spike!!
Conversely, I do hope the Tigers do some quality recruiting to get in front of the comp. Relying on locals has never been successful even in Claremonts glory days.
Great to see my post has dragged a couple of Tiger supporters out of their summer slumber.
Of course you are totally right as usual. I’m still scratching my head how we aren’t getting more out of our 12,400 residents in the Shire of Northam with just 6,679 in the Northam town centre compared to 61,880 in Albany, 41,913 in Busselton, 76,452 in Bunbury and 41,182 in Geraldton.
By the way the Northam figures are from 2024, the other figures are from the 2021 Census statistics and those towns south of Perth have been booming since then.
Yep, shame on Perth football club we should be doing better.
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Amazing that Perth are just launching a country academy in 2026, whilst the Great Southern Storm Academy was founded in 2007. But Claremont was really active in the Albany region well before that, we went down the week before a League game v Subi in the mid 90s to run coaching clinics at schools and with the local Albany teams. Before the League game, their was a curtain raiser full of local junior talent including a young Tarkyn Lockyer. Royals a particularly good provider of talent.