SOUTH Fremantle is back home at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Saturday to host the first derby of 2019, the now annual ANZAC Round clash with East Fremantle, as the Bulldogs look to consolidate a strong start to the season.

The ANZAC Derby has now become an annual fixture between the Bulldogs and Sharks. That will now continue despite there only being two derbies per season and will keep running alongside the WA Day Foundation Derby.

South Fremantle comes into the clash on Saturday afternoon in commemoration of ANZAC Day having won two of its three games this season as well while East Fremantle has lost its opening three matches under new coach Bill Monaghan.

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WHEN I was asked to write a column this week I thought a good place to start would be with why I've decided to come back to South Fremantle this year and how much I'm enjoying being back after three years away.

Firstly, my decision to come back to Souths was to get back into real competitive footy again and also grow my footy again after the delisting of Hawthorn. Souths was going to be the club where I was going to get my footy back to its best again. 

The group has been really good, except Haiden Schloithe and his shit jokes. 

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SOUTH Fremantle coach Todd Curley speaking following the Easter Sunday WAFL victory over West Perth and looking ahead to this Saturday's ANZAC Derby against East Fremantle also at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

QUESTION: A little bit of a slow start and you didn’t kick straight in the last quarter, but I'd think you would be pretty happy aside from that?
ANSWER: I think we continued the vein of improved. In Round 1, we were pretty average, in Round 2 we were a bit better for a half and I thought we were pretty good for the most part this week. We were a bit fumbly early and then didn’t convert after dominating the early part of the last quarter. Then we were a couple of man down and got a bit tired to keep inviting them to stay in the game. But we'll certainly take it. We thought we got better so that's something to hang our hat on.

Q: The style of footy was closer to how you want to play too, especially through the second and third quarters? 
A: There's no doubt there is going to be ups and downs, and challenges, just because there's so much new personnel. A lot of guys haven’t played much league footy and there's a few who have played a bit but not with us. That connection and synergy of playing together with the same group of guys is going to build so we think the longer the season goes that will improve. But we want to get better quickly. We're all impatient but we want to tick off some wins along the way as we continue to improve. We've got some young guys which is exciting.

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SOUTH Fremantle dominated the second and third quarters on Easter Sunday to set up a comfortable 16-point win over West Perth at Fremantle Community Bank Oval to make it two wins from three to open 2019.

There has been plenty of change at South Fremantle from last year's preliminary final loss to West Perth and Sunday's clash, but the Bulldogs were impressive to make it 10 wins in the last 11 starts against the Falcons.

Despite the turnover in senior players over summer, it's now been a good start to the season for South Fremantle with two wins from the three games and the one loss to Perth could very well have gone the other way.

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