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1996 WAFL Season
The 1996 WAFL season was the 112th season of the West Australian Football League in its various incarnations. It saw the league at a crisis point with attendances decimated by the rise of the Eagles and newly formed Dockers of the AFL. With serious financial problems for a number of clubs, especially PerthLewis, Ross; ‘Gerreyn Refuses To Let Demons off the Hook’; in ''The Game''; p. 11; from ''The West Australian''; 29 April 1996 and Swan Districts but also Claremont, East Perth and West Perth, the league intensely debated whether to expand or contract the competition. The upshot was that 1996 would prove the final year of the eight-club competition that had been established with the admission of in 1934. On the field, 1996 was notable for the decline of 1995 minor premiers Subiaco, who with the decline of top goalkicker Jason Heatley and the loss of other key players to the AFL, declined by thirteen wins, the largest in WAFL history since Claremont after the loss of Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dorotich
Jonathan Michael Dorotich (born 27 April 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Known as "Doro" he moved to Carlton in 1986 where he played in the grand final in his first season against Hawthorn Football Club, Hawthorn. In the following years grand final, he played at full-forward in the rematch with Hawthorn where Carlton won the flag. He played in 132 games for Carlton before returning to Western Australia where he co-captained South Fremantle in their 1997 West Australian Football League, WAFL premiership win. He played a total of 151 games with the Bulldogs, and won the best and fairest award in 1985. He won the Bernie Naylor Medal as the WAFL's leading goalscorer twice, in 1996 with 88 goals and 107 the following year. His height was 193 cm and his weight was 103 kg. In interstate g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassendean Oval
Bassendean Oval currently known as Steel Blue Oval for sponsorship reasons, is a sports stadium, located in Bassendean, Western Australia. The capacity of the venue is 22,000 people. It usually hosts Australian rules football matches and is the home of WAFL and WAWFL Swan Districts Football Club. The record crowd is 22,350, for a WAFL match between Swan Districts and West Perth in 1980. The stadium played host to the Big Day Out The Big Day Out (BDO) was an annual music festival that was held in five Australian cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide, and Perth, as well as Auckland, New Zealand. The festival was held during summer, typically in January of eac ... in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001 and the Soundwave Festival show in March 2009 and 2010. References External links *Google Maps aerial image of Steel Blue Oval West Australian Football League grounds Sports venues in Perth, Western Australia Swan Districts Football Club State Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockingham, Western Australia
Rockingham is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ..., located 47 km south-south-west of the city centre. It acts as the primary centre for the City of Rockingham. It has a beachside location at Mangles Bay, the southern extremity of Cockburn Sound. To its north stretches the maritime and resource-industry installations of Kwinana Beach, Western Australia, Kwinana and Henderson, Western Australia, Henderson. Offshore to the north-west is Australia's largest naval fleet and submarine base, Garden Island (Western Australia), Garden Island, connected to the mainland by an all-weather causeway. To the west and south lies the Shoalwater Islands Marine Park. History Rockingham received its name from the sailing ship , one of the thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Donnelly
Andrew Donnelly (born 29 March 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Although Donnelly, a half forward, was drafted by Sydney in the 1992 AFL Draft he remained at WAFL club Subiaco in 1993. He however made the move to Sydney in 1994 but only played in their reserves and returned to Subiaco in 1995. After winning Subiaco's 1995 "Best and Fairest" award, Donnelly was signed up West Coast through the pre-season draft. Donnelly was a solid contributor to West Coast in their run to the second week of finals in 1996, playing 20 games. He had 118 marks, the second most by a West Coast player and kicked 28 goals, the third most. In just his third league game, against Melbourne, he kicked four goals and had 25 disposals to earn best on ground honours at the Brownlow Medal night. He was awarded the best first year player award for 1996 by the Eagles, beating Ben Cousins who also made his debut that y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satellite City
Satellite cities or satellite towns are smaller municipalities that are adjacent to a principal city which is the core of a metropolitan area. They differ from mere suburbs, subdivisions and especially bedroom communities in that they have municipal governments distinct from that of the core metropolis and employment bases sufficient to support their residential populations. Conceptually, satellite cities could be self-sufficient communities outside of their larger metropolitan areas. However, functioning as part of a metropolis, a satellite city experiences cross-commuting (that is, residents commuting out of and employees commuting into the city). Satellite cities versus other types of settlement Satellite cities are different from and are sometimes confused with the following related patterns of development. Suburbs Satellite cities differ from suburbs in that they have distinct employment bases, commutersheds, and cultural offerings from the central metropolis, as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandurah, Western Australia
Mandurah () is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, situated approximately south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's second most populous city, with a population of 107,641 as of the 2021 census. Mandurah's central business district is located on the Mandurah Estuary, which is an outlet for the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary. The city's name is derived from the Noongar word ''mandjar'', meaning "meeting place" or "trading place". A townsite for Mandurah was laid out in 1831, two years after the establishment of the Swan River Colony, but attracted few residents, and until the post-war boom of the 1950s and 1960s it was little more than a small fishing village. In subsequent years, Mandurah's reputation for boating and fishing attracted many retirees, including to the canal developments in the city's south. Along with four other local government areas ( Boddington, Murray, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, and Waroona), the City of Mandurah is included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rushton Park
Rushton Park (also known as Lane Group Stadium under ground sponsorship arrangements) is an Australian rules football ground located in Mandurah, Western Australia. Having been in use as a football ground since the early 1960s, the ground is currently used as a home ground by three clubs: the , competing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), the Mandurah Mustangs, competing in the Peel Football League (PFL), and the Peel Thunderbirds, competing in the West Australian Women's Football League (WAWFL). Rushton Park is the only regularly-used ground in the WAFL that falls outside the Perth metropolitan area. History The area that is now Rushton Park was first gazetted as a sanitation site on 20 August 1926, and was converted to a recreation reserve in September 1958, under the Mandurah Road Board. The reserve was named for Richard Rushton, a former local government commissioner, with the new name approved on 22 May 1972. The park was first used for football in the 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Walker (footballer)
Gregory William Walker (born 8 July 1967 in Midland, Western Australia, Midland, Western Australia) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and Woodville-West Torrens Football Club, Woodville-West Torrens in the SANFL, South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Career Walker is the son of Bill Walker (Australian footballer, born 1942), Bill Walker, who played 305 games for Swan Districts between 1961 and 1976. He was educated at Guildford Grammar School, and played junior football for Midland JFC. He represented the Western Australia Under-18 side at the 1984 AFL Under 18 Championships, Teal Cup, playing as a rover, and made his WAFL colts debut for Swan Districts in 1985. He made his senior debut 1987 WAFL season, in 1987, but his initial career was disrupted by three separate bouts of glandular fever between 1987 1989 WAFL season, and 1989. Walker managed a full pre-season 1990 WASFL season, in 1990, and play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Cousins
Benjamin Luke Cousins (born 30 June 1978) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for and in the Australian Football League (AFL). Cousins is listed by journalist Mike Sheahan as one of the fifty greatest players of all time. During his 12-year, 238-game career with West Coast, he won several of the league's highest individual awards, including a Brownlow Medal, Most Valuable Player and a premiership medallion. He was also selected six times in the All-Australian Team and represented Australia in the International Rules Series. He was West Coast's club champion for four seasons and captain for five seasons. Cousins' football career was marred by highly publicised off-field incidents involving recreational drug use, traffic convictions and association with criminal elements. On several occasions he was fined or sanctioned by West Coast, culminating in his contract's termination in October 2007. The following month, he was banned from AFL for one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Fremantle Oval
East Fremantle Oval (known under a sponsorship agreement as New Choice Homes Park and nicknamed "Shark Park",) is an Australian rules football ground located in East Fremantle, Western Australia. The ground was opened in 1906, and underwent a large redevelopment in 1953. It current serves as the home ground of the East Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). East Fremantle Oval has a capacity of around 20,000 people, but has hosted in excess of this number previously, with a record crowd of 21,317 for a match between East Fremantle and 1979 WANFL season, in 1979. History In 1903, the Town of East Fremantle, East Fremantle Municipal Council received two grants of land, totalling 15 acres, for the establishment of a recreation reserve near the Canning Highway, Canning Road. A sum of £3,579 over three years was expended on improvements to the reserve, which including the establishment of a bowling green, bandstand, croquet lawn, tennis courts and cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Joondalup
Arena Joondalup, known as HBF Arena under a commercial naming rights arrangement, is a multi-purpose sports complex in Joondalup, Western Australia, located on 35 ha of parkland approximately 25 km north of Perth. It was officially opened in 1994. An $11 million indoor aquatic centre, including a 50 m 10-lane competition pool, was completed in 2000. The capacity of the outdoor sports ground, known as Pentanet Stadium, is 16,000 people. Along with aquatic and swimming facilities, the stadium holds seven indoor basketball courts, as well as outdoor netball, field hockey, tennis, and rugby facilities. It is the largest athletic complex of its kind in Western Australia. History As the home stadium of the West Perth Football Club since 1994, HBF Arena is most notably an Australian rules football venue. It became the home of Perth RedStar FC (then known as Joondalup City SC) from 1995. The Joondalup Lakers Hockey Club and the Joondalup Giants (then Joondalup & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claremont Oval
Claremont Oval, also known by naming rights sponsorship as Revo Fitness Stadium, is an Australian rules football stadium located in Perth, Western Australia. The stadium, opened in as "Claremont Recreation Ground", seats . It is the home of the Claremont Football Club, an Australian rules football club that plays in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL), the state's premier Australian rules competition. Before 1925, the stadium served as a cricket and soccer ground, with no fence, native bush on the eastern side, near the Claremont Showground, and the remaining area a sandy wasteland. The council spent A£5000 to bring the ground up to standard for WAFL level football in 1925, including the dumping of rubbish around the perimeter to create the sloping banks, and the construction of a grandstand, as a result of Claremont-Cottesloe's admittance to the "A" Grade of the WAFL competition for the 1926 season. As the new ground and grandstand were not yet ready, during 1926 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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