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mikeh wrote: I was entranced by that game all afternoon. Nearly 10000 at Bassendean, sunny day, wonderful skills, free flowing play and goals galore. A high flying mark from Kevin Caton (seemed to be one every week) A little bit sad to think Sidey is no longer with us. How good were some of the West Perth players Murnane,Menaglio, Bewick, Bradmore. In truth we nicked that one I reckon. IMHO West Perth were the better team over 4 quarters but they wasted many opportunities.
Great to watch, thanks Sean Cowan, you are providing a great service for WAFL tragics

Spot on Mike.
1985 was an interesting year in reflection we were definitely on the way down but on our day could still play an exciting brand of free flowing football that would cause the top 2 that year SU & EF troubles when on but we could also go through periods of poor footy where we let easy goals through as evidenced in this particular match.
The continual exodus to the East even after this year was pretty much the end of that era of greatness 79-85.

Beasley Hutton wrote:

mikeh wrote: I was entranced by that game all afternoon. Nearly 10000 at Bassendean, sunny day, wonderful skills, free flowing play and goals galore. A high flying mark from Kevin Caton (seemed to be one every week) A little bit sad to think Sidey is no longer with us. How good were some of the West Perth players Murnane,Menaglio, Bewick, Bradmore. In truth we nicked that one I reckon. IMHO West Perth were the better team over 4 quarters but they wasted many opportunities.
Great to watch, thanks Sean Cowan, you are providing a great service for WAFL tragics

Spot on Mike.
1985 was an interesting year in reflection we were definitely on the way down but on our day could still play an exciting brand of free flowing football that would cause the top 2 that year SU & EF troubles when on but we could also go through periods of poor footy where we let easy goals through as evidenced in this particular match.
The exodus to the East after this year was pretty much the end of that era of greatness 79-85.

Was great to hear Dennis Commetti and Keith Slater working together too. Heard a few "centimetre perfects" as well!!

The 88 prelim was a cracker, young wolf took it right up to Keene and Cocker and old man peake was on fire in the second half almost won them the game. But not to be thanks to Kempy. You could see young Heady was going to be a star. Good comeback by old easts and then a good comeback from us, I guess we may have been lucky to win but what a great win it was! Poor crowd for a top match 13k. 83 WA v vic another cracker, Bucky killed them with 7, great performance. 79 dogs v ferals in the wet at freo, some great names in that classic. Pretty rare non finals full game from that time I'd say, 76-79 the era which I started following the WAFL closely. Thanks for that Sean and all!

mikeh wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote:

mikeh wrote: I was entranced by that game all afternoon. Nearly 10000 at Bassendean, sunny day, wonderful skills, free flowing play and goals galore. A high flying mark from Kevin Caton (seemed to be one every week) A little bit sad to think Sidey is no longer with us. How good were some of the West Perth players Murnane,Menaglio, Bewick, Bradmore. In truth we nicked that one I reckon. IMHO West Perth were the better team over 4 quarters but they wasted many opportunities.
Great to watch, thanks Sean Cowan, you are providing a great service for WAFL tragics

Spot on Mike.
1985 was an interesting year in reflection we were definitely on the way down but on our day could still play an exciting brand of free flowing football that would cause the top 2 that year SU & EF troubles when on but we could also go through periods of poor footy where we let easy goals through as evidenced in this particular match.
The exodus to the East after this year was pretty much the end of that era of greatness 79-85.

Was great to hear Dennis Commetti and Keith Slater working together too. Heard a few "centimetre perfects" as well!!

Pretty sure that was his final year at Ch 2 , he was at TVW 7 in 86.

DG wrote: The 88 prelim was a cracker, young wolf took it right up to Keene and Cocker and old man peake was on fire in the second half almost won them the game. But not to be thanks to Kempy. You could see young Heady was going to be a star. Good comeback by old easts and then a good comeback from us, I guess we may have been lucky to win but what a great win it was! Poor crowd for a top match 13k. 83 WA v vic another cracker, Bucky killed them with 7, great performance. 79 dogs v ferals in the wet at freo, some great names in that classic. Pretty rare non finals full game from that time I'd say, 76-79 the era which I started following the WAFL closely. Thanks for that Sean and all!

13K was a OK crowd given it was post WCE, and tbh it would be a massive crowd today for a like game.

Yeah not too bad I guess. About 20k at the 1st semi and 28k gf

DG wrote: Yeah not too bad I guess. About 20k at the 1st semi and 28k gf

Yeah it was Derby 1st Semi, 20k was a so so mob for a derby final, but only 8k more turned up for the GF, the following year the WAFL charged back with nearly 40K at the GF and good H and A crowds as well, quite a few 5k plus attendances.

Possibly because wc were hopeless in 89

Bazza wrote:

DG wrote: Yeah not too bad I guess. About 20k at the 1st semi and 28k gf

Yeah it was Derby 1st Semi, 20k was a so so mob for a derby final, but only 8k more turned up for the GF, the following year the WAFL charged back with nearly 40K at the GF and good H and A crowds as well, quite a few 5k plus attendances.

I think we can put the big 1989 Gf crowd down to South being there. I hope Sean and Ric show the 1988 1st semi final - the prelim was a horror show. My heart sunk when i saw they were showing it yesterday. It should carry an X rating - they should not be allowed to show it. It is the most painful moment for me following East Fremantle. We seemed to be sailing but alas, it was not meant to be. Who says it is only a game - not a true supporter that is for sure.

DG wrote: Possibly because wc were hopeless in 89

Yeah the WCE down turn played a big part and I clearly remember a lot of WAFL people praying it would all fall over.

It was a tumultuous year on that front with the collapse of Indian Pacific the WAFL Board and huge financial issues.