ROUND 4 WAFLW PREVIEW v SUBIACO

IT is a big weekend for South Fremantle’s female teams at Leederville Oval against Subiaco starting with two games on Friday night and then the WAFL Women’s encounter on Saturday morning.

South Fremantle will leave Fremantle Community Bank Oval for the first time in 2020 after starting life in the Optus WAFL Women’s competition with three home matches against East Fremantle, Peel Thunder and Claremont.

Round 4 in the WAFLW action gets underway on Saturday morning at Leederville with Subiaco hosting South Fremantle. The game gets underway from 10.30am.

Meanwhile, the South Fremantle reserves take on Subiaco on Friday night at Leederville Oval from 7.20pm and that follows on from the Youth Girls Rogers Cup clash that gets underway at 5.30pm.

It’s a daunting challenge for South Fremantle up against a strong and determined Subiaco outfit who has already opened the season defeating Claremont, East Fremantle and Swan Districts.

They aren’t short on motivation having missed the Grand Final in 2019 after finishing the home and away season as minor premiers.

So a win for Subiaco on Saturday will go a significant way to securing the Lions a finals spot already to get underway in a months’ time.

South Fremantle went scoreless in its opening two matches in the WAFLW competition against East Fremantle and Peel Thunder.

The Bulldogs did manage to score last Sunday against Claremont and made history with their first ever goal courtesy of Chloe Taylor despite going on to lose by 57 points.

This will be the first ever away game for South Fremantle in their new life in the WAFLW competition and will also be the first time that Subiaco and the Bulldogs have faced off with one another at this level.

Hannah Felton, Ella Higgins and Mim Strom are the three players to come in for South Fremantle while Casey Byrne, Jaymi Karapetkov and Kara Turley go out.

The inclusion of Strom is a significant one for South Fremantle and the addition of the Fremantle Dockers AFL Women’s ruck will immediately make them more competitive.

Having come through at South Fremantle, Strom did move to Swan Districts to play in the WAFL Women’s competition last year, but she has come back at the Bulldogs in 2020 and now for the first time she will play on the same day for the club as her brothers Noah and Zac at senior level.

From the Subiaco team that beat Swan Districts last week, Taylisha Brown, Lara Filocamo and Aimee Schmidt come into the team. Beatrice Devlyn, Tylor McIntosh and Caitlin Walker are the players to go out for the Lions.

ROUND 4 – WAFLW OPTUS PREMIERSHIP SEASON
SOUTH FREMANTLE v SUBIACO – LEEDERVILLE OVAL, SATURDAY AUGUST 8

WAFLW LEAGUE – 10.30am
WAFLW RESERVES – 7.20pm (Friday)
WAFLW ROGERS CUP YOUTH GIRLS – 5.30pm (Friday)