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La Hincha wrote: Enjoyed that interview. So glad that Perc still loves the WAFL like we do.

Mate Perc is a deadset legend and a WAFL icon. He is always at Swans games sitting in his deckchair on the wing usually with 1961 SD Premiership player & former umpire Lindsay Johnston. He is always up for a chat about footy is the great man.

Beasley Hutton wrote:

La Hincha wrote: Enjoyed that interview. So glad that Perc still loves the WAFL like we do.

Mate Perc is a deadset legend and a WAFL icon. He is always at Swans games sitting in his deckchair on the wing usually with 1961 SD Premiership player & former umpire Lindsay Johnston. He is always up for a chat about footy is the great man.

Agree met him a couple of times I was always impressed with the common sense he came out with and his words were always so spot on when it comes to footy.

He sticks to the same plan with all his comments.. A couple he uses a bit are
Attack the Footy, Numbers to the ball,Hit your target, A lot of it is in the head Enjoy the game dont get to serious,2ND Efforts important, Sit in your opponents pocket etc etc sure there are a couple more if I could remember them but lets be honest what he says is usually right and many clubs lose a game because they dont follow those principles.

Lets hope Perc is around for a long time.

A bit about PERCY JOHNSON

Percy John Johnson (born 28 January 1933) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who played 13 state matches for Western Australia and 228 games in the WAFL. He is a member of the West Australian Football Hall of Fame.


Johnson was raised in the Goldfields, and learnt football at Aquinas College under Jerry Dolan where he was used at centre-half back or as a forward. In 1951, he joined East Fremantle, where he became a ruckman due to a large number of quality defenders at the club. Johnson debuted for Western Australian against Victoria in 1955. In 1957, he won the WAFL premiership with East Fremantle.

In 1959, Johnson became Captain Coach of Swan Districts, after falling out of favour with the committee at the club, he was replaced by Charlie Doig. He played a total of 19 games in his sole season for the Swans before moving to Claremont in 1960, where he was the club's leading goalscorer for the year. He returned to East Fremantle for one last season in 1962, his final game was a grand final loss to Swans.

After football, Johnson became a respected television critic, working for Channel 7 on their World of Football slow, where he had his own slot "Percys Point of View". He was appointed senior coach at South Fremantle, somewhat out of the blue in 1977, after doing some junior coaching. The following season, he accepted a two-year contract to coach West Perth, being terminated during his second season. In recent years he has been ruck coach at Fremantle and Swan Districts and has been involved in WAFL or AFL football for more than 60 years.[1]

In 2010, he was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame

Well done to West Perth for the great comeback. I think the confidence they would have gained from the win over Box Hill helped them in those last few moments. I just have one question, how would a team dominate a game as much as Peel did in the first half, race to a 7 goal lead, then completely cough it up after half time to get beaten on the siren???. There must be an attitude issue down there because it can't be a lack of talent. The Peel coach would be tearing his hair out I would imagine.

mikeh wrote: Well done to West Perth for the great comeback. I think the confidence they would have gained from the win over Box Hill helped them in those last few moments. I just have one question, how would a team dominate a game as much as Peel did in the first half, race to a 7 goal lead, then completely cough it up after half time to get beaten on the siren???. There must be an attitude issue down there because it can't be a lack of talent. The Peel coach would be tearing his hair out I would imagine.

I'm not happy - everything pointed to a freo win here and they threw it away (along with my tipping) but full credit to the Falcon's on a great comeback.