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Was it in 76 or 77 where you headed south on the Fremantle train line to the Claremont Showgrounds rather than heading north to $ubi Oval on WAFL GF day Grassy?

Correct me if I'm wrong but Perths score in the 77 grand final is still the highest on record for a WA grand final.

Grassy that great little centreman Malcolm Day won the Simpson Medal in 1976 GF and Wim Rosbender won it in 1977.

smokey wrote: Grassy that great little centreman Malcolm Day won the Simpson Medal in 1976 GF and Wim Rosbender won it in 1977.

Mal Day was a back pocket player Smokey. John Quartermaine's right hand man.

Played a lot of footy thru the centre as well.

Country member wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but Perths score in the 77 grand final is still the highest on record for a WA grand final.

Yep - here the highest gf scores

waflfootyfacts.net/roundscores.php?Round=GF#1

Grassy wrote: Just going through the scores of 1976,which reminded me of 1 glaring error in the scores.

In the Round 16 Loss to East Fremantle,the WAFL Online and Wiki scores gave it as such - East Fremantle 25.17 167 v Perth 14.14 98.

Now if memory serves,the Football Register I had as a kid,had Old Easts winning,but by 10 Goals Less.

15.17 107 - 14.14 98

Add to that,our Percentage in Football Register was about 122%. as opposed to Online and Wiki search.But wait,there's more!Old Easts give Swans a hiding later that year at Bassendean.But not by 115 points,if I remember correctly.It was more like Swan Districts 6.17 53 v East Fremantle 15.18 108.

East Freo was credited with just over 100%,but again,I swear that is incorrect,because I am sure it was in the low 90's.
I won't say who,as I did ring the club late in the year about this and pointed it out to the boys in The History Hall.But I hope they chase up this historical wrong,so as to do justice to our Back to Back Premiers,because in Round 4 of '77,we are only credited with 20.18 against South Fremantle,which is certainly Incorrect,because we kicked our record score that day of 30.18 198,which to this day,remains our Club Record in WANFL/WAFL Club Record.

Grassy, check out my site I have the correct scores as you remember - the only problem I have is that in 1976 I have Perth finishing second with 14-7 and 122.79% and SF 3rd with 14-7 and 122.50% but EP played SF in 2SF so either Perths or SF percentage is wrong- I'll cross check with the official WAFL historians team sheets for 1976 later today and see what scores are on that as I obviously have an error somewhere in my scores too.

waflfootyfacts.net/seasonmatchscores.php?Season=1976

waflfootyfacts.net/seasonmatchscores.php?Season=1977

Yep. Total separate from waflonline - my site is a personal project although I have used the player stats from there though. I have not used scores from there generally.

Thanks Grassy - I now have corrected a couple of my scores for SF which has now edges them into 2nd on my 1976 ladder. I've identified a potential error in points for and against for C and WP so ill do some research tonight to see what's going on there.

We had the '66 Premiership Reunion last week. I think the '76 Reunion is scheduled in for end of June or early July.

Remember a Saturday that one Robert Wiley put 8 on us down at Fremantle Oval - although not sure whether it was 1976 might have been 1977 too ?

Those were days when rovers did kick bags - he was a dead-eye dick shot on the run