Memory Lane
Each week we will display an interview with one of the past Western Australian players. The players will be remembered by football followers for their talents from the past. You will find out where they are now and what they feel about the game today, plus, relive the times in their era.
Keep a look out each week as we catch up with a past player on Memory Lane.
Jun 24, 2010
by Ron Head
Barry Chittleborough can boast the unique record of playing in a grand final in each of his four years of league football.
Recruited from Brookton, the third generation farmer led the Perth ruck in three consecutive premierships in 1966, 7, and 8, before a year’s break due to farming commitments, but returned to… more »
Jun 22, 2010
by Ron Head
After a slow start to his league career, Norm Uncle found a niche at full back, but it was a Mal Brown-inspired move to the other end of the ground that brought him instant success, as the WANFL’s leading goalkicker in his first season as a spearhead, and in doing so became the first Claremont… more »
Jun 17, 2010
by Ron Head
Swan Districts defender of the sixties, Peter Downey, was a multi-talented sportsman, who was a State football squad member as well as a State water polo player, and also represented Western Australia at rugby union after not taking the game up seriously until after retiring from league football.
Despite the rigours of combining… more »
Jun 15, 2010
by Ron Head
To say that recruiting Geoff Taylor to West Perth wasn’t a bed of roses would be an understatement.
From his days as a sixteen year old playing at full forward in Wickepin’s senior side in 1965 until he finally made his league debut with West Perth in 1973, there were similarities to the… more »
Jun 10, 2010
by Ron Head
The recruitment of Haydn Bunton jnr, and Billy Walker in the sixties followed by John Todd a decade later were momentous for Swan Districts, and not only had a profound influence on the club’s transition from perennial uHead
The recruitment of Haydn Bunton jnr, and Billy Walker in the sixties followed by John… more »
Jun 8, 2010
by Ron Head
An outstanding player with Chapman Valley, in the Great Northern Football League, Merv Carrott already had three senior premierships under his belt before making his WANFL debut with East Fremantle in 1975, as a member of the Chapman Valley hat trick of flags in 1972, 3, and 4.
At the age of nineteen… more »
Jun 3, 2010
by Ron Head
Doug Farrant came from North Melbourne to give Perth tremendous service between 1974 and 1979, heading the goalkicking list in his first season at the club, and was a part of two premierships, in 1976 against East Perth, and 1977 over East Fremantle.
It was East Fremantle who had good reason to feel… more »
Jun 1, 2010
by Ron Head
Like another country star in Don Langdon, Keith Doncon enjoyed only a short seventy five game career with East Perth, but it was long enough to stamp his claims as one of the greatest rovers in the club’s proud history, verified in 2006, when the Royals named him in their Team of the Century 1945… more »
May 27, 2010
by Ron Head
When Perth ruck rover Bob Page began his run down the players race onto Subiaco Oval to face East Perth in the 1968 grand final, he had no idea that he was about become part of football folklore.
Halfway down the race, Page pulled a hamstring, and was declared unfit to take his… more »
May 25, 2010
by Ron Head
Brendan Barrows was under the notice of Claremont Football Club talent scouts from an early age.
Son of outstanding Borden forward, Brian Barrows, who was a three hundred and fifty game plus player in the Ongerup Association, the young Barrows impressed in his five years at Hale School, playing for the College’s first… more »
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