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Had an hour to spare last night so I pored over a few statistics from past WAFL Grand Finals.
This Sundays game will be the 111th Grand final in the history of the WAFL ( prior to 1904 the premiership was decided on a round robin format).

East Perth and Subiaco have previously met on two occasions in Grand Finals with East Perth victorious both times (1926 and 1959).

The most frequent pairing in a Grand Final is East Fremantle V East Perth which has happened 11 times with the Royals having a 7 – 4 advantage, the next most frequent is the Freo derby with 10 Grand Finals with East Fremantle holding a 6 – 4 lead.

Then we go down to a number of clubs who have played 7 times; East Fremantle V Perth with the Sharks leading 4 – 3, EF V Subiaco with EF in front 4 – 3, Same margin for EF against West Perth, The Falcons have a 5 – 2 advantage over East Perth in their 7 grand finals including the win last year and finally South Fremantle have a 4- 3 advantage over West Perth.

The Bulldogs have never beaten the Royals in a Grand Final in 3 attempts and the same with Claremont against Swans in 4 Grand finals. Leaving Peel out of the equation, of the 28 possible match ups in a Grand Final only 3 have never occurred in the 110 years. As a challenge would anybody like to tell us which teams have never played each other in a WAFL Grand final? Shouldn’t take too long to work out.

Please don't make us think !!!

I think West Perth has never played Swans in a Grand Final..

Falcon wrote: I think West Perth has never played Swans in a Grand Final..

Correct Falcon, there are two more......

Have subi ever played swans ??? sorry Perth ???

Chopper wrote: Have subi ever played swans ??? sorry Perth ???

Yep, Subi beat Swans in 2008 and had 2 wins over Perth in 1913 and 1915.

Have Swans taken on EP in a Grandie as yet ???

Southerner wrote: Have Swans taken on EP in a Grandie as yet ???

Yes 1961 for Swans first flag.

Also forgot to mention that the Demons have a 4- 1 advantage over East Perth in Grand Finals which would please the dedicated Perth fans on this forum

Clare v Perth and Swans v Perth have never happened along with the previous mention SD v WP...My guess is the best chance of either of these three combinations occurring anytime soon will be SD v WP