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36 man squad named for this game. Surprising to see no Ah Chee may not have qualified.

Looking forward to the game and particularly how the youngsters will adapt and cope with the added pressure of a finals campaign.
Bad luck to the players that will miss, chin up to those that will, you will never know when you may get that opportunity?

M Ah Siu, T Amoroso, M Banks, T Bennell, S Bewick, N Borovac, J Branchi, A Carter, M Carter, A Collica, B Collier, J Dragovich, M Gundry, L Harris, J Laurino, C Luff, J Maskos, B Matera, K Matera, B Mcphail, S Mills, P Mugambwa, S Panizza, L Pearson, D Ross, J Sgherza, B Sokol, T Stewart, K Stewart, Z Strom, N Strom, J Tartaglia, B Verrier, D Warrell,

Good Luck, we need our guys to go all the way this year.

We really need a pick up for the club.

Been another tough year at league level but not all doom and gloom.
The Senior Coach will get a first hand look at the lads under pressure and in the heat of a final.
Apart from Borovac , Luff , Harris , K Matera , Mugambwa , Mills , Ross , Sgherza , Z Strom and Warrell all have graduated from our colts teams in the past 3- 4 years and hopefully will go on and develop into good league footballers for the bulldogs in the next few years, preferably sooner rather than later! All under 21 years of age also.

Selection dilemmas the only headache as Bulldogs reserves begin flag tiltFriday, September 11, 2015 - 9:59 AM by Chris Pike
THE only thing giving South Fremantle reserves coach Tony Walters headaches heading into Sunday's second semi-final against Subiaco is how to fit more than 30 capable and qualified players into the Bulldogs' team to play at Medibank Stadium.

South Fremantle's reserves dominated the 2015 home and away season winning 18 of 20 matches to be four games clear on top to claim the minor premiership, and then earn the week off in the first week of the finals before beginning the quest for a second flag in three years.

With South Fremantle's league side missing finals for a fourth straight season, that means that the likes of Jacob Dragovich, Mitch Carter, James Laurino, Josh Branchi, Zac Strom, Tim Stewart, Kade Stewart and Matthew Ah Siu return for the reserves after finishing the season in the senior side.

With Paul Mugambwa to captain the Bulldogs into the reserves finals as well to finish his career with experienced WAFL players Dylan Ross, Nick Borovac, Chris Luff, Shaun Bewick, John Sgherza and Anthony Collica there as well, there's no shortage of proven performers in the team.
Brendan Verrier, Bailey Matera, Ben Sokol, Matthew Gundry, Simon Panizza, Jason Maskos, Adam Carter and Traye Bennell are among the others looking for a big finals series to give themselves every chance of being in the league side for Round 1 next year.

While Walters couldn’t have been happier with how the season has panned out, he knows it all counts for little now that the finals are here and Subiaco awaits with a grand final spot on the line on Sunday.

"It has been a good season. They certainly are a fantastic group who have come through our colts program, and they love to win and that's what I admire about them as a whole unit. It has been a good season to finish four games clear but the job is only half done and we need to turn that into some finals form and get the results over the next couple of weeks," Walters said.

"It is certainly going to be tough at selection and I've told the players that 31 can't go into 23. I explained to them that I will pick the best 23 players based on form and what we need to win a game of footy.
"It's not personal, I've got a job to do to pick the best team, and I'm sure all those guys who finished in the league side will be part of that so I have some headaches ahead at the selection table."

Walters oversaw the players having an intra-club hit out last week before giving them the weekend off as he watched Subiaco and Swan Districts play for the right to play South Fremantle in this Sunday's second semi-final. He knows the Lions will give them a big test.

"A few guys had some sore spots after the Peel game but having the week off, we gave them the weekend off, and I feel they are all pretty refreshed and keen to play a game footy this weekend," he said.

"They (Subiaco) are a good side and are very well drilled, similar to their league side. They have a lot of strong players and on the weekend they hung in there, and took their chances when they came and they were the better team on the day against Swans.
"We have beaten them a couple of times this year, but we are under no illusions that we have to put our best foot forward this weekend again to get across the line."

Walters has been impressed with the attitude of the senior players who have dealt with the disappointment of being dropped from the league side this season, particularly the likes of Mugambwa, Ross, Borovac and Bewick who have a combined 352 WAFL games between them.

Now Walters has appointed Mugambwa captain for the finals after he announced that 2015 would be the final season of his career that has included the 143 WAFL matches and the 2009 premiership.

"There is a really good blend and I can't fault the senior guys like Rossy and Gumby in the way they have come back and led this side. There's a lot of excitement as well coming from the young guys so I'm looking forward to seeing them come together on the weekend," he said.
"He (Mugambwa) is very keen and I don’t mind saying that he's going to be captain for the finals series. I've known Paul for a long time and he's certainly very keen to finish on a good note. Hopefully he can lead from the front.

"Inside the walls of our footy club, he's just fantastic. I remember in 2009 under John Dimmer some of the one percenters that he did in the grand final were fantastic. That sort of stuff makes us a better side and people lift from watching all his tackling, chasing and competing in the forward-line."

While Walters will have plenty of goal kicking options and a bevy of prolific ball winners in the midfield, the back-line made up of Ross, Luff, Borovac, Maskos, Brad McPhail, Mitch Banks, Adam and Mitch Carter, and Zac Strom if need be would be more than handy to line-up at league level.

"We've had the least points scored against for the season and those guys back there have been fantastic," Walters said.

"There's been weeks when we've picked the side and just think wow about the back-line. It's the future of the footy club and I'm looking forward to seeing them in action in the weeks ahead."


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Your boys have been as dominant in the ressies as Subi has been in the league so massive expectations on them the run through the finals .... but Subi did the same last year and were over run in the GF by Joondy, so anything can happen on the day, but still expect your talent laden Ressies to win Sunday and hopefully we'll get another crack in the GF.

The Dogs line-up looks very strong and Subi would do very well to give them a run for their money. Subi have about 6 players in ressies who aren't good enough. To me if your playing ressies you must be good enough to play league if required or have the potential to play league in the next year or two. There's players who've been there for over 2 years and aren't going to cut it. They should be moved on and others tried out. That doesn't mean they don't have a chance to win 2moro as you never know but I doubt it. We can beat either of the challengers the following week though and I agree, if we make the grand we re a chance possibly but only if we re switched on and want it bad enough ??? We must play as a team and have no passengers. The lesser like players must treat the finals as their last game for the club - as it may well be??? Let's see who shows some ticker and proves they belong. I'd love to be proved wrong by some of these guys. Let's give the Dogs a scare !!!

Absolutely fantastic result today , a thumping victory and storm into the GF ,,,great stuff.

Good even team performance today....out of the blocks quickly good first quarter set up the victory and pretty much controlled the game from there on. Only injury concern was young ruckman Branchi did not re appear after half time with what looked like a hand injury , hope it is not too bad.
Well done to all concerned in the big one , prepare well and the best of luck in two weeks time.

Bazza wrote: Absolutely fantastic result today , a thumping victory and storm into the GF ,,,great stuff.

Congatulations Bazza

Really surprised to not see a number of promising youngsters make the final squad for the 2nd Semi?

Particularly promising youngsters in Brad McPhail (Medium / Tall Defender) , Bailey Matera (Mid/ Forward) both State 18s players from 2014. Mathew Gundry a 20 year old Med Defender, played 6 league games in 2015.
All three are in my opinion very promising youngsters who should be given every opportunity to develop as players as the fast tracking of their development will aid our depth in 2016 , so the decision to leave them out of the 2nd Semi final team is an odd decision? We need to be endeavouring to keep as many of these youngsters engaged with our club going forward. Very difficult to now make changes to the winning Second Semi final team will be a tough call as they won quite convincingly, apart from any forced changes by injury. As we all know with todays younger generation they are not a very resilient lot and if they cannot see any light at the end of the tunnel are very quick to jump ship.
I reckon we might have fluffed this situation with these decisions , I hope I am wrong