The 2007 WAFL season was the 123rd season of the various incarnations of the
West Australian Football League
The West Australian Football League (WAFL "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting f ...
. The season saw Subiaco, confounding the critics who expected them to slip after winning their second premiership in three years, win their second consecutive premiership for the first time in ninety-four seasons,
History Timeline: Subiaco Football Club
/ref> with injury-plagued forward Brad Smith overcoming two reconstructions that wiped out 2005 and 2006 to kick 126 goals for the season, the most in the WAFL since Warren Ralph
Warren James Ralph (born 25 February 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer who played during the 1980s with great success as a full-forward for Claremont in the WAFL and with lesser success in the VFL and SANFL.
Ralph began his caree ...
kicked 128 for Claremont in 1983.[Reid, Russell; ‘Two Medals Cap Goal Ace Smith’s Big Comeback’; in ''The Game'', pp. 6-7; from '']The West Australian
''The West Australian'' is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, ''The Sunday Times''. It is the second-oldest continuousl ...
''; 24 September 2007 Smith also achieved the unique feat for a full-forward of winning the Simpson Medal in the Grand Final.
The top three teams between 2004 and 2006 – the Lions, Claremont and South Fremantle – maintained their tight grip in 2007, though there were notable improvements from East Fremantle, who had won a mere nineteen games between 2003 and 2006 but rose to nine victories in 2007, and East Perth, who returned to the finals for the first time in four seasons. Claremont won eighteen of nineteen matches after two opening losses before their inexperience told against the hardened Lions in the Grand Final, resulting in a short but quite steep fall in the following two seasons.
Home-and-away season
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3 (Easter weekend)
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10 (Foundation Day)
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Round 23
Ladder
Finals
First semi-final
Second semi-final
Preliminary final
This was also the last preliminary final held at Subiaco Oval From 2008 it was moved to the loser of the major semi final.
Grand Final
References
External links
Official WAFL websiteWest Australian Football League (WAFL) Season 2007
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