PFL CEO, Andrew Dawe, joined Ash Brazill and Tim Gossage on this Friday edition of Breakfast to preview the upcoming amateur state game on Sunday.
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SEN WA Breakfast
Perth Football League CEO - Andrew Dawe (05/07/2024)
A big weekend of footy for WA in regards to the Perth Football League, our amateurs, men and women, they take on the big V. Of course, and these games have been played at Steel Blue Oval and the games get underway just after 12 o'clock the girls are first, of course, and followed by the men, free entry at Steel Blue Oval. Andrew Doris, the Perth Football League CEO, the premier community football competition. Andrew, appreciate your time. It's an exciting time for a lot of men and women from Western Australia and Victoria. Thank you Tim and yeah, absolutely excited for a great day of football on Sunday, can't wait for it. Looking forward to it, so it is on Sunday, the 7th of July, again, 12, 15 for the girls and at 2.30 for the boys. Tell us a bit about this WA term, I've had a quick glance at it. There's no Wembley plays in it, which is a real smack in the face for someone like me. But I tell you what, there's a lot of names of a lot of young men who've one played amateur football for some time and others who have played in the waffle and have now gone back and playing grassroots footy for the Perth Football League competition. Yeah, that's right. I mean, you'll probably be familiar with a lot of names from Suviakko. We've got some guys like Cole Halligan, Trey Kennedy, Jackson McGowan have sort of all played a lot of Suviakko and a lot of good football for them, the guys that were already excited about it. Probably the two old bulls that have played a lot of amateur football in how in Brooks is who's the captain and he's played a lot of good football for the Kingsway Football Club, sort of reigning, sort of premiership player, and also two-time best and fairest Chris Leonard. They'll play in the middle and hopefully man up against some of the big bodies of the Victorins. I just will have to put a link on. Absolutely. And Craig White, of course, who played for South Tremantor at a very good level, is a very good footballer. He's the coach who coaches Curt Nune as well. Just tell us how the process, if you can, Andrew, just in regards to selection. How many players start out in the squad? How is it Cole Dannon? And there's a lot of clubs represented for both the men and women across the whole competition. Yeah, that's right. I'll start with the women. Obviously, there's a lot of clubs that are represented with kind of gone deep in the grades. I think that's a really good indication of how strongly our competition in the women's competition is deep in the grades, obviously a lot of representation. There's some players from the Wembley side in the women's side, but also we've got players sort of is deep into our sort of C1 and C2 competitions. Sorry, and what was the rest of the question? But there's a lot of clubs. So how many clubs are being represented here? We've got 22 clubs right there across the men's and women. Yeah, it's quite a, again, a great representation of the depth of the competition that we've got and the things that we're doing in the purple ball league. Yeah, and you've talked up the men's team, but I'm just having a look at the W team. Steph Walding as the head coach, she was actually in my captain at Ace Freo. So loving seeing her coach, what are they looking like this year? Yeah, fantastic. I mean, what a great coup for the purple league to get the reigning women's waffle W coach, and Premier League coach to coach our team. We've got a couple of XASL players there in Sabrina McKinnon, Ashley Sharp, who had probably the standouts, and obviously the Victorians will be keeping a close eye on those girls. The one I really like is Ciara Mila. She's probably goes under the radar for us a little bit, plays in a lower grade. I think she's done a little bit of time at the East Purple Club, but she's a real quiet achievement. I think she might be one to look out for. All righty. And both out of the P of L sides lost last year to Victoria. The men got been an extra time, so there's a bit to play for. Where's the confidence levels inside the group for both the girls and the guys? Yeah, really. I think there's a real quiet conference there. I think, like you say, last year, there was a new concept for the women's last year, hadn't been done before. And so we didn't really know what to expect. And I think we got jumped a little bit in that first quarter, and that probably just sort of played out for the rest of the game. The men's, again, the last time we played these sort of games was 20 years ago at Subiaco Overland. The men's got absolutely belted. And we managed to sort of draw after full time and sort of went down in the extra time. But this year, I think there's a bit of an area of quiet confidence. The girls have had an opportunity to play against the country state team. And that was a draw. I think it was a really good opportunity for them to get together and play, you know, start to learn their brand of football and sort of play the Steph Waldingway. The men's side of things, you know, why he kind of, he doesn't like to, so he doesn't like to spend a lot of time out in the track and sort of work through the X's and O's. But he likes to get the guys in the changer and really get them to jail, get them to buy into the program, and I guess to the heritage of the state program, which has been around since '94. So there certainly is a love the M.O.'s, as you know, I'm rusted on Wembley Guy. We'll be back in the B grade, but we'll be back in the A grade the following year. And just look out. Look out. We're coming. And also, just in regards to the game, so you can get along to Steel Blue over Sunday, the women start at 12, 15, the men's 2, 30. If you can't get to the games, both matches are streamed on streamer, which is absolutely brilliant. You can get that wherever you are. And there's going to be a lot of people tapping in to that coverage as well. So it's going to be a great example of WA's strength at the Perth Football League level and also the men and women's going head-to-head over that weekend. Well done. Dorey, you're doing a fantastic job at the Perth Football League. I hosted an event recently for the West Coast Amos. I had a premiership reunion. I just love the grassroots footy mate. I'm looking forward to the final series, which are rapidly approaching at all levels for the Perth Football League men and women's mates. So congratulations on what you've done in your role as CEO, and we look forward to a big weekend for WA against the VAFA. Thank you very much, Gosser. A passion. And thanks for the support from SCN. It's been fantastic the last couple of weeks. Yeah. And we look forward to building on that. I'm sure. The Perth Football League, the premier community football course, and if you want to get to look at fixtures and results and see a lot of these young men and women playing, fixtures are at Perth Football dot com dot au. And at the netball centre, down at the netball centre down at the odd Mathews where the West Coast fever, our train and play, is where the Wembley Football Club are based. And on weekends, you cannot get apart. I was about to say that. You're going to say how good the facility is. I'm like, yeah, if you can get a cast spot. Brooke actually plays it. We drive up from Mandrash. She plays up there on a Saturday, and we have to drive there earlier, drop her off and I just do Boggler. Yeah. You've just got to wait. You've got to wait for someone. You've just followed someone. And if you, I did once park on the strip, and I just got to find her, so they are on you. They certainly are. And it is tough going. So if you are looking for something to do on Sunday, Perth Football League men and women's football, 15, and 2.30, free entry to Esteal Blue Oval. And looking forward to seeing the mighty Black Swan of the Perth Football League WA team take on the VAFA. Let's stick it up. The VIX 22 clubs feature across the two teams, which is absolutely brilliant. 22 clubs represented at state level on one day. That's huge for the local competition. Oh, it's so special. And I love that. You know, Amateurs. Yep. We love the Amateurs. Didn't think I'd be on that. I'm heading there. Yeah. Yeah. Somewhere to go back to. It doesn't stay in AMOs. A lot of people play at the elite level and come back down and there's nothing wrong with AMO football. It's played for the right reasons.