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Young Tom Marshall may be Arthur's Great Grandson I think BH?....not too sure TBH....Custy may know ?

It was the year Laurie Keene debutted for the Lions, kicking nine goals in one game against the Royals. We also played well against Claremont, being one of the teams to have beaten them and kicking another twenty goals against them in another game. They thrashed in the other game.

mikeh wrote: From a Swans point of view, I thought we were in with a real show when we slugged it out with Claremont in the last qualifying game at Claremont Oval. It was a fantastic game which we lost but both teams kicked over 20 goals. Roll on the grand final I thought, but a combination of injuries to key players and loss of form at the wrong time meant that Swans didn't even make the big dance. I don't think I have ever been so gutted after a Swans game than I was after the preliminary final thrashing by South Fremantle, but in retrospect I have to admit that the best two teams in the WAFL that year played off in the GF. And what a game it was.
For Swans it was a case of the darkest time before the dawn and we returned the compliment to the Doggies in the 1983 preliminary final on our way to the flag.

Quite right Mike we were hamstrung by injuries towards the end of 81 with the likes of Richardson, Smith, Williams, Solin, Holmes, Shine, Fitzgerald & Gillespie missing one or both Finals.
Claremont had a very settled side that year and I'm not sure we would have beaten them anyway whilst SF were timing their run late much like 80.

Round 21

Saturday, 5 September South Fremantle 40.18 (258) def. West Perth 12.6 (78) Fremantle Oval (crowd: 6157)
South Fremantle set a still-standing record for the highest score in the WAFL, beating Claremont’s record from Round 17. The Bulldogs become the first team to lead by 100 points at half-time in open-age WA(N)FL football.

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DG wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote: The Subiaco & EF sides of 85/86 would not have got within 10 goals of the CL, SF & SD sides from 80-82.
The WAFL had lost at least 30 superstar players to the VFL from that period of 80-82 by the time of 86 and was a lot lesser standard and even lesser again in 87!

Oh yeah Beas you mean with players like Waterman, McIntosh, Mckenna, Lamb, Jackovich, Worsfold, Matera, Turley, Mainwaring, Langdon, Brennan, Wilson, Evans, Sumich, Heady, Harding, Kemp, Pyke, Lewis, White to name a few running around? Come to think of it that looks like the side that knocked off the mighty cats in 92...

See mate this where I can't compare - most of the guys you list here were educated or influenced by the 80-83 champions , it sort of disrespects either group
I'd definitely bank on the early 80's teams to beat the Viccos - 30 years after 1977 Don Scott & Lou Richards were still talking about number 30 for WA

Very true mate but get off the fence...Jimmy K or Chris Lewis for you?

Jim Krakouer because even at the very end of his career he didn't miss his foot targets - he'd be in that top 2 of rovers ever produced by Claremont

Besides Claremont's great record, the thing that sets the early 1980s apart from, say the mid 1980s, is that three of the best sides in history had to play against each other. This is the real reason that both South and Claremont won only one flag. It is the real reason why another team, which won eighteen games in a row, failled to win the premiership.

ArkRoyal wrote: Besides Claremont's great record, the thing that sets the early 1980s apart from, say the mid 1980s, is that three of the best sides in history had to play against each other. This is the real reason that both South and Claremont won only one flag. It is the real reason why another team, which won eighteen games in a row, failled to win the premiership.

You have nailed it a nutshell AR.
Also on the Krakouer brothers they were still only young when they played WAFL if they had stayed here for their careers instead of going to the VFL they would be held in the same regard as the likes of Farmer, Todd, Michael, Cable, Walker et al they were that good in the late 70s early 80s as teenagers/early 20s imho!

Bazza wrote: Round 21

Saturday, 5 September South Fremantle 40.18 (258) def. West Perth 12.6 (78) Fremantle Oval (crowd: 6157)
South Fremantle set a still-standing record for the highest score in the WAFL, beating Claremont’s record from Round 17. The Bulldogs become the first team to lead by 100 points at half-time in open-age WA(N)FL football.

Gee you were even attracting massive crowds back then in the halcyon days of WAFL.

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Bazza wrote: Round 21

Saturday, 5 September South Fremantle 40.18 (258) def. West Perth 12.6 (78) Fremantle Oval (crowd: 6157)
South Fremantle set a still-standing record for the highest score in the WAFL, beating Claremont’s record from Round 17. The Bulldogs become the first team to lead by 100 points at half-time in open-age WA(N)FL football.

Gee you were even attracting massive crowds back then in the halcyon days of WAFL.

Funny I thought that wasn't the stat that stands out to me in this particularly game!