NAIDOC ROUND PREVIEW | v CLAREMONT

SOUTH Fremantle will be hosting the now traditional NAIDOC Round clash with Claremont on Saturday at Fremantle Community Bank Oval with it doubling as the 100th game for premiership defender Noah Strom.

The Bulldogs return home to Fremantle Community Bank Oval to host the NAIDOC Week contest against the league-leading Claremont on a big day of celebration and acknowledgement.

The day begins with the colts contest at 9.10am between the Bulldogs and Tigers with the reserves to follow at 11.40am and then the league contest gets underway at 2.20pm.

South Fremantle will be attempting to snap a three-game losing streak on return home on Saturday afternoon and to score a fifth win of the season.

The challenge for the Bulldogs is a Claremont team sitting a game and percentage clear on top of the WAFL ladder with a 9-2 record following last week's win against Subiaco which meant the Tigers have won four matches in-a-row.

On top of the NAIDOC Week celebrations, it's the 100th WAFL game for premiership defender Noah Strom and he can't wait for the occasion.

"Playing the game at home is really nice so it's somewhere familiar, and somewhere that I know our fans are going to come to and our family can easily come to," Strom said.

"Then for it to be NAIDOC Round, it's pretty big. We've done a few things already this week at the footy club to celebrate NAIDOC Week which has been great and we haven’t done too much of that in the past.

"Seeing the Indigenous boys really get around it and be so proud of it has been pretty special. So that's great and Claremont is going so well and the only thing I'm looking at the game is just focusing on the job ahead of us. 

"We've got nothing to lose really and people might not expect us to win but it's a special occasion and being at home we're definitely setting ourselves to beat them, and we think we're capable of doing that."

South Fremantle and Claremont began the NAIDOC Week concept in the WAFL back in 2007 by playing off for the Jimmy Melbourne Cup and with both teams wearing specially designed Indigenous themed jumpers to mark the occasions.

They have continued to do it every year since and will clash for the 17th time in NAIDOC Week this Saturday at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

Claremont has won 10 of the previous 16 battles over the Jimmy Melbourne Cup since 2007 but South Fremantle has won the last three with two of those at home at Fremantle Community Bank Oval, and last year in a terribly wet day at Revo Fitness Stadium.

South Fremantle is hunting a win to snap a three-game losing streak and will welcome back Brendon Ah Chee for Saturday's match up with Claremont for NAIDOC Round.

Jaxon Bellchambers, Seth Connor, Aaron Drage, Jermaine Pickett, Jacob Sax and George Wessels have all been added to the Bulldogs squad as well to take on the Tigers.

Going out of the South Fremantle team that lost to Peel last week are Jack Blechynden, captain Dylan Main and Matthew Parker.

There's little reason for change at Claremont on the back four consecutive wins to be a game and clear on top of the WAFL ladder coming into Round 13.

Ben Edwards, Steven Miller, Louis Passera and Felix Rogers have all been added to the Tigers squad for Saturday's match with South Fremantle but at this stage there are no outs from the side that beat Subiaco last Saturday.