ROUND 14 WAFLW PREVIEW V EAST FREMANTLE

The derby weekend at New Choice Homes Park gets underway on Saturday with three women’s matches in the WAFLW, Reserves and Rogers Cup competitions between South Fremantle and East Fremantle.

It’s a big weekend of rivalry football across the WA Day long weekend for the Fremantle clubs and it all gets underway when the Sharks host the Bulldogs on Saturday afternoon.

The two teams might be occupying the bottom two places on the WAFLW ladder with two rounds remaining, but East Fremantle remains an outside chance of reaching finals while South Fremantle is still searching for that history-making win.

East Fremantle is coming off a loss to Swan Districts to remain outside the top four with a 4-9 record.

It remains decidedly unlikely that the Sharks can still reach the finals for a third straight WAFLW season, but there is a slight hope should they win their last two games by massive margins and if Subiaco lose both theirs by significant deficits as well.

South Fremantle will also see this as a golden opportunity to not only end East Fremantle’s finals hopes once and for all but to also record their first ever win in their second season as part of the WAFLW competition.

The two teams have already met twice this WAFLW season so far with East Fremantle winning by 46 points at Fremantle Community Bank Oval back in Round 5 while the Sharks also prevailed over the Bulldogs in Round 11 by 24 points.

East Fremantle has made several changes from the team that lost to Swan Districts last week with Lea Caccamo, Cadian Lodge, Skye Prentice, Roxy Roux and Elle Sanders into the team to face South Fremantle.

Georgia Bett, Nadya Browne, Julie-Anne Norrish, Paisley Prentice and Anjelique Raison are players out for East Fremantle.

At South Fremantle following their loss last week to Claremont, Tahlia Holtze, Reanne Pickett and Chae Salbie come in for the Bulldogs at the expense of Gabrielle Canicosa, Kiara Templeman Kara Turley.

The big day on Saturday at Shark Park begins with the Youth Girls clash bouncing down at 10.20am before the Reserves clash between the Sharks and Bulldogs will begin at 12.05pm.

ROUND 14 – WAFLW OPTUS PREMIERSHIP SEASON
SOUTH FREMANTLE v EAST FREMANTLE – NEW CHOICE HOMES PARK, SATURDAY

WAFLW LEAGUE – 2.00pm
WAFLW RESERVES – 12.05pm
YOUTH GIRLS ROGERS CUP – 10.20am