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After the COVID-19 pandemic started to infect large numbers of the population, the decision was made to “temporarily” call a halt to proceedings for major sporting leagues around the world, including the AFL (Australian Football League), A-League (Australian Soccer League), and the EPL (English Premier League).
For someone like myself, this was devastating. Sport has played such a big role in my life for so many years, and I’m not the only one who was/is sad that the major sporting codes have taken a break. Now, on a Friday or Saturday evening, we don’t know what to do with ourselves; the stable source of entertainment, joy and at times sadness was no longer an option.
What was worse, for me, was that it also meant that I could no longer play sports. Even at school. I endured 5 weeks of lockdown, away from my trainers and friends, and when I kicked a football for the first time last Wednesday, I was shocked at how much my skills had disappeared. Over the next few days, after maniacal, repetitive kicking drills after dinner, my skills slowly began to return, but what didn’t was the games themselves.
When I heard that the league would be restarting in mid-June (just over a month away), I was on the oval at school. It was 3.15pm. I jumped up and started screaming. Since I’d last had training on the 12th of March, I’d barely seen any of my mates from the team. There had been one round of AFL before that, too, closed down; I decided that if our league would be opening this early then the AFL - the premier league in Australia - would surely follow suit, which gave me great anticipation for the weeks to come.
It was never going to be easy, after having the preseason that we did, to be able to just flick a switch and suddenly we’d have the free-flowing, run-and-carry football that won us two finals and a third-place finish. With Trent’s decision on whether to remain a blue or to go to the Falcons hanging over us, we should have done some more recruiting and attempted to search for players to poach from other clubs (I planned to mainly target Coolbinia, because I had a good relationship with some of their players, and due to the unfair monopoly that they had over the other teams in the division). But we had three or four weeks of training with scarcely any inclination that Trent was planning to leave. Then, I rocked up to training and I told him how glad I was that he had come back, and he said to me
You’re not going to like what I have to tell you....I’ve gone to Coolbinia. The deal’s done, it’s finished.
Regardless of the circumstances in which he left the club, Trent Fleming was an absolute jet for us and this was the reason why I pushed so hard to try and keep him. He tackled hard, he never shied away from any contest, and he was a top bloke. But he felt that the mutterings about the events pre-grand final last year were going to have a negative impact on his new family and the team as a whole, and he quit. A few weeks later, training ended and suddenly we had lost a player.
This was not to say that we had not picked up anyone in the off-season. Three or four new recruits, including Elijah Gardi (who seems to be versatile enough to play in any part of the field), did help to dampen the blow of losing Trent, but then we found out that Zac Broxton was leaving as well to go to CBC. And with the details around Tyson’s senior contract still to be finalized, we could face on of the major problems that we did last year - having no bench.
Last Wednesday, training started - at last! It was great to see most of the boys down at training, and some new faces appeared as well. We have a new manager, Mogan Jenyns. Mogan took the top job from Keilan Marshall, who had coached us since the beginning and guided us to a grand final appearance last year.
Both Mogan and the Willetton Football Club recognize and acknowledge the mighty effort from Keilan Marshall as the inaugural coach and building this team for the last 3 years. The club also acknowledges the respect that Keilan is held in with the group and their support network and that many are sad to see Keilan leave the position. The club is more than confident that Mogan will bring a positive attitude and build on the great work that Keilan has started. It's taken us a while to find the right individual for this unique position, in Mogan so we look forward to the entire Willetton Football Club getting behind her from Wednesday.
What’s changed?
A lot has changed. Outgoing manager Keilan Marshall has left his position to focus on getting another call-up to the seniors team at Burrendah Oval, while the popular team co-ordinator Georgie Steacy, while still an active figure at the club, is no longer in an active role in the Integrated team, being completely replaced by a new face towards the end of last season.
Our new manager, Mogan, joins Willetton with an impressive footy background having played football herself at the womens WAFL level where she was twice Best & Fairest for the Peel Thunderbirds before moving over to the Perth Angels. Unfortunately, she injured her ACL which brought her playing career to a halt.
The only player that left the club was Aaron Richardson. After joining Willetton in the summer of 2019 with Trent “The Enforcer” Fleming from CBC Green, “Richo” played 11 games for us in what was an enjoyable season for the club. However, the presence of Richo in the clubrooms became a little too much for some of the players, and it was determined that his position was untenable, being forced out by the playing group. It remains unclear if he will retire from integrated football and continue with his cricket career, which is currently going very well, or if he will try to join a third club to keep his footballing career on life support.
For a while, it was believed that The Enforcer would be leaving us as well, after only one season at the club. The differences between Trent & Richo had reached boiling points the week leading up to the preliminary final, with both players receiving 1-week suspensions. During the grand final against Coolbinia, Trent was forced off with a suspected broken back after acting as the stepladder for Coolbinia’s number 1 and, in the weeks after the grand final, was courted by as many as 4 possible clubs. These included reigning champs Coolbinia, his former club CBC, and Kingsway & High Wycombe. He was due to sign on the dotted line for Coolbinia on February 1st, however, he showed up to training last week when a number of the players at Willetton made it clear that he was still welcome at the club. The transfer deadline day is the end of February - while there is still a possibility that Trent will still try to force through a move, it’s looking promising for the team in the navy blue.
The incoming players are yet to be confirmed, due to the current league rules concerning player trades & swap deals, however it is likely that there will be at least 3 new players that will make Willetton their first footballing home. Pat Amato, who plays soccer (football) for the Western Australian Paralympics team (Pat has a mild form of Cerebral Palsy), has agreed to come down to training sometime in February. We will continue to keep this blog updated with transfer news until the window closes.
New teams?
There have been 3 teams that have joined the league in the last 2 years - North Beach, Willetton & Mandurah. While there was a suggestion that Coolbinia should split into 2 teams due to their large team like CBC did (after losing the first grand final to CBC, Coolbinia forced CBC to split into 2 teams due to their large team. Coolbinia currrently have a total of 5 more players than CBC did before splitting), Coolbinia have successfully rocked the investigative boat and will start the season as one club.
No other clubs will be joining the league as far as we know.
Finals Smokeys?
Last season, no-one expected us to be able to make the finals, let alone come within a whisker of winning the flag. While in hindsight, we’d had the best off-season after the 2018 season with our recruiting and development of our current players, even amongst the club the goal was not very high - just to do better than in 2018 (where we won 4 out of 12 games). In our first match of the 2019 season, which was against the Kingsway Kangaroos, we swamped them with our speedy run-and-carry style of play that has since become our trademark. Every team that we played last season struggled to combat our fast and slick ball movement (we were the first team to beat every other team in the league in a single season), however, the stronger teams will be ready for us this season.
Every so often, a new style of play comes into the league from one team that changes everything. In the mid-2000s in the AFL, Sydney was the team that mastered “flooding”, or putting almost every player into the defensive 50 to clog it up. There were some teams in 2019 in the WAAIFL that had some interesting play styles, including Warnbro, who combined their strength with a series of short kicking chains, to keep possession. Warnbro were probably the “best of the rest” in 2019, and they were rewarded with their best season to date with a slot in the new Top 5 finals format; they were eliminated by High Wycombe in the elimination final.
CBC Green was also a team that threatened our finals spot for a number of weeks. Until the final round (which was against North Beach for us), we assumed that the format of the finals would be the same as it had always been - a top 4 system, where 1st played 4th, 2nd played 3rd, and whoever won those 2 games would play off in the grand final. The league’s governing body changed that to the top-5 system that was in place in the VFL in the 1980s. We hadn’t secured our top 4 spot until round 11, when we played Kingsway again (while we lost, CBC & Warnbro also lost. This meant that there was no way that they would be able to bridge the points gap between us. The match was also a shocker for us. Due to injuries and the state series occurring (we were missing our top 5 players, Kingsway had no state players so were at full strength), we lost by 5 goals. If we had of won that match we would have finished 1st, not 3rd).
I personally think that Warnbro are the team with the best chance to do what we did last season, and break into the top set of clubs. Coolbinia, who haven’t lost many players, are highly likely to remain one of the top teams throughout the season. CBC Green dominated us because they had a good, dedicated ruckman, who was able to cost us time and avoid us getting the clearances. It’s funny to say that a team that you beat by over 100 points dominated you in any area, but as they had a ruckman who was dedicated - meaning he would participate in every ruck contest - and we didn’t, we lost a lot of time after stoppages. Due to the incoming faces for Willetton, it is unlikely that we will face this issue again.
Ladder Predictions
It’s always bad to do these predictions when you’re a player, but due to popular request from my teammates (who will definitely give me a lot of flack for this), I’m going to do it anyway.
Here’s the ladder from 2019:
1. Coolbinia (Premiers)
2. Kingsway (Semi-finalists)
3. Willetton (Grand Finalists)
4. High Wycombe (Preliminary Finalists)
5. Warnbro (Finalists)
6. CBC Green
7. CBC Gold
8. Wembley
9. North Beach
10. Mandurah Mustangs
With that out of the way, here’s my predicted table for 2020
1. Coolbinia
2. Willetton
3. Kingsway
4. High Wycombe
5. Warnbro
6. CBC Green
7. Wembley
8. Mandurah Mustangs
9. CBC Gold
10. North Beach
As you can see, the ladder is mostly unchanged. Out of the 10 teams, 4 remain in their spots from 2019, and every team that made the finals in 2019 will (according to me) make the finals in 2020. I think that Coolbinia will have too much in the locker for when we come to play them (and I really hope that we don’t play them 4 times like we did in 2019!), but if the fixture congestion after the state games is fixed we won’t face the same sort of problems that we did in the loss to Kingsway last season. High Wycombe will struggle this year if Graemme Guvan leaves, which is predicted to happen.
Mandurah last year, while winless, were probably one of the most promising teams in the league. 2019 was their first league campaign, and their greatest losing margin was 35 points. They actually almost beat Coolbinia (Mandurah had 14 players against Coolbinia’s 40+ to choose from), and even after their captain broke his leg in Round 12 they still persevered and almost beat CBC Green in the final round. On the other hand, North Beach, who won 2 and lost 11, had an average losing margin of 67 and lost to us twice, both times failing to score more than 3 goals. I have had a bad history against North Beach - in my 3 times playing them, I’ve only scored 4 goals...and 11 behinds (in my first match against them in 2018, I scored 1.7. But in my defense, it was hailing at the time). North Beach was a happy hunting ground for us as a team, though, as we are undefeated against the yellows.
I hope that these predictions come true...and most of all that we win a flag...finally!
It's been a great season. Last year we were 4-8, this year we're 12-4 and are into the Grand Final. We couldn't have done it without all of your support and the noise today was fantastic. We will continue to build on this season throughout the week and over next season as we strive to establish ourselves as legends at this proud club.
Me after winning the “Best on Ground” award for last week’s Preliminary Final win over High Wycombe in the clubrooms.
It wasn’t our day in the end, but a terrific season in the Western Australian Amateur Integrated Football League ended in a grand final defeat to Coolbinia. We played hard and I’m proud of the team. We will be back stronger next year.
