The West Perth Football club and it's supporters have two reasons to give thanks to Ian Logan. Not only did he give them ten years service as a top quality wingman, but his son, Brendon, was a double centurion for the club.  Between them, they gave the Falcons over 380 games and the pair were part of four premierships. Ian Logan played his early football with Cardinals in the West Perth junior district, where Bill Valli and Stephen Smeath were among his teammates. He developed his talents with the fourths and thirds, before a shoulder injury while playing in the reserves put him out for almost a season.  Ian credits coach Peter Steward for his start in the West Perth league side in 1972. “ He put me in an intraclub scratch match, and he must have seen something, so I got a game,” he recalled. “I played nine games that season, although six of those were on the bench.”  Logan stamped his name on a wing in 1973, and it was a position in which he played for the majority of his career. “I was tried as a rover on a couple of occasions, once on Barry Cable, the other on Billy Walker,” he said ruefully. “ I went back to the wing.” There would have been plenty of players left lamenting in the wake of Cable or Walker.  At five foot nine and a half, Logan was a skillful player, with the ability to run. Add to that his reading of the play, and he was a natural wingman. The 1975 premiership under Graeme Campbell brought a smile to Ian's face when we mentioned it. “The biggest crowd up till then, and a big margin,” was his recollection. “It was a great win.” He also recalls a night out after the National Football Championships in Adelaide, when West Australian teams pitted themselves against the top sides from the other States. “It was after a heavy night out,” he said. “We put a much the worse for wear Ross Prunster to bed in the hotel lift, and he spent the night going up and down the elevator shaft of the hotel.” Logan followed the premiership trophy up with a fairest and best in 1976 and continued to dominate the season after that. His rich vein of form was recognised when the inaugural West Australian State of Origin side was picked in 1977, being named as a reserve. It was indeed an honour to be named as a reserve in a side selected from around the country.  Ian Logan retired from league football in 1981, at the age of thirty, but his association with the game was far from over. He lined up with Thornlie, in the South Suburban League, in 1982 and 83, before heading to Koorda as coach, winning a flag, then returning to Thornlie. He later coached at Beverley as well as playing in a veterans competition.  He then turned his hand to umpiring, having a stint as a field umpire in the Sunday League, before taking on an assistant coaching role with the State Schoolboys, having among his charges future AFL draftees Daniel Rich, Matt de Boer, and Tom Swift. Logan gives credit to some of the top class wingmen he played against over his league career. “Phil Narkle, Phil Kelly, Allan Reid, and John McGuire were all great players,”he said. As has been the case with most West Perth players of that era interviewed on Memory Lane, Bill Dempsey and Mel Whinnen take pride of place among those he played with, with a special mention to Alan Watling.  Talking to the man, the respect he has for those he played against, and to a larger extent those he played with, is evident, but the satisfaction he has gained from his son's career takes pride of place.  A teacher, Ian Logan gets to see West Perth play as often as he can, and still looks pretty fit. “Don't you believe it, my dickey knee keeps me grounded these days,”he laughed. “I have a bike and I get around a bit, though.” If he's as nippy on the bike as he was on a wing at Leederville Oval, Ian Logan would get around quite well, thank you.