WAFL can wheel out the publicity with Leederville Oval playing its part

Posted May 24, 2004 - 16:47 PM

By Russell Dower

An assembly of exciting and at times remarkable finishes in games at Leederville Oval this season will provide a positive publicity boost for the WAFL.

With the WAFL hiding behind the big shadow of the Australian Football League, the results of matches at Leederville Oval in the past month can authorise a statement that the competition has plenty to provide the football fraternity.

For so long the WAFL meanders forward during a season in the hope of attracting some semblance of publicity off the back of the AFL.

But now the WAFL can affirm to providing a competition that has seven sides, equal on their day to one another, jostling for a finals position with the half way mark of the season approaching.

Leederville Oval with co-tenants East Perth and Subiaco now occupying what once was a red and blue fortress has become the mecca of unpredictable football matches.

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