The 1984 WAFL season was the 100th season of the
West Australian Football League
The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from March to September ...
and its various incarnations. The season opened on 31 March and concluded on 22 September with the
1984 WAFL Grand Final contested between and .
It saw Swan Districts record their sixth WAFL premiership, and its third in a row, after a slow start that had it win only half its games in the first fourteen rounds. East Fremantle returned to the Grand Final after four disappointing seasons with only 28 wins from 85 games. After an unsuccessful decade, Subiaco recalled former coach
Haydn Bunton, Jr., and despite not improving their position in the seniors, were generally considered to have made major improvement with five more victories and a young reserves side winning the club's first premiership in any grade since their 1974 colts win. South Fremantle, who began with a number of spectacular performances fell away from second place with five losses in their final six games. Claremont lost three-time century goalkicker
Warren Ralph
Warren James Ralph (born 25 February 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer who played during the 1980s with great success as a full-forward for Claremont in the WAFL and with lesser success in the VFL and SANFL.
Ralph began his care ...
to , and suffered severely from lacking a target in attack,
[Wainwright, Robert; ‘Ward Turns the Table on Tigers’; in ''The West Australian'', 16 April 1984; p. 72] especially as recruit
Bruce Monteath suffered severely from injuries. The Tigers were last for five weeks early in the season and second from bottom before a winning streak of five games pushed them to third.
Off the field, the WAFL refused requests to allow telecasts of VFL matches in rural WA by the Golden West network.
[‘League Says No to VFL TV’; in ''The West Australian'', 9 July 1984, p. 96]
Home-and-away season
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4 (Easter weekend)
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Round 5
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Round 6
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Round 7
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Round 8
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Round 9
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Round 10 (Foundation Day)
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Round 11
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Round 12
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Round 13
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Round 14
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Round 15
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Round 16
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Round 17
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Round 18
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Round 19
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Round 20
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Round 21
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Ladder
Finals
First semi-final
Second semi-final
Preliminary final
Grand Final
References
External links
Official WAFL websiteWAFL Season 1984
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West Australian Football League seasons
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