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.
Dec 8, 2009
by Ron Head
When South Fremantle stalwart Dick Woodgate recommended a promising young player from Melville Island, across the Clarence Strait off the Northern Territory coast, to the Bulldogs in 1971, he would have had no idea of the ramifications that would follow over a period of thirty years, and are still continuing.
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Dec 3, 2009
by Ron Head
When Stephen Curtis played his eighty fifth game for Port Adelaide Magpies in the South Australian National Football League, he became the youngest player in any of the major football States to play three hundred games of league football.
A product of the Dianella Junior Football Club, where his Dad, Dudley, was coach,… more »
Dec 1, 2009
by Ron Head
When Ross Gibbs made his debut for West Perth in 1979 at the age of nineteen, he wouldn’t have contemplated that it would be the first of almost five hundred senior appearances in the game.
A player of great skill, Gibbs made his mark with the Cardinals as a back pocket player, before… more »
Nov 25, 2009
by Ron Head
John Watts(or John K. Watts, as he is better known) is one of football’s great entertainers, who turned a guest spot on a Geelong Football Club show broadcast by a Victorian country radio station into a lifelong profession. He became one of Perth’s most sought after comedians, worked with and wrote lines for the celebrities,… more »
Nov 24, 2009
by Ron Head
Claremont player Denis Marshall was not only a champion of the game in two States, but was also the first of the West Australian footballers of the sixties to be wooed by checkbook. His was the signing that was the catalyst for the changing of the VFL signing rules, and opened the…
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Nov 19, 2009
by Ron Head
League football has been littered over the years with stories of potential never being realised due to constant injury problems. East Perth have had their share of hard luck stories ending the careers of champions prematurely. Don Langdon, Derek Chadwick, and Keith Doncon are three examples of stars who were cut down…
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Nov 17, 2009
by Ron Head
The Curley name is held in high esteem at the West Perth Football Club. Yet if it hadn’t been for the enthusiasm of the original player of that name to wear the cardinal colours , the family association with the club may not have been.
Peter Curley was first invited to West Perth… more »
Nov 12, 2009
by Ron Head
When the Collard brothers moved to the Fremantle area to serve out the residential qualifying period of eighteen months to enable them to play with South Fremantle, it was Derek and Cliff who were the stars of the family.
Cliff played State schoolboys football, while both represented Western Australia in the Teal Cup,… more »
Nov 10, 2009
by Ron Head
The beginning of Brad Collard’s career at South Fremantle was anything but promising.
“You’ve got no skills, mate, you’d be better off somewhere else,” were the jarring words from coach Mal Brown on one of the Quairading recruit’s first training nights at Fremantle Oval.
“It was a bit of a rocket… more »
Nov 5, 2009
by Ron Head
Darrell Panizza was a long time servant of the Claremont Football Club who amassed a Tigers record 274 games over a period of sixteen years, and coached them to a premiership.
Yet his junior days were far from settled. Starting as an eight year old at Kirup, he played with… more »
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