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The Board of Directors of the South Fremantle Football Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Tom Bottrell as the new Chief Executive Officer of South Fremantle succeeding outgoing Chief Executive Officer Stuart Kemp.
Tom most recently held the role of Chief Executive Officer at the Swan Districts Football Club, a position he has held for the past five years.
The move to South Fremantle marks a return for Tom who is a former Player, Read More [+]
SOUTH Fremantle ruckman Tim English couldn’t be happier to have landed with the AFL premiers following last Friday's draft and he has no doubt that the Western Bulldogs could end up being a perfect fit for what he provides.
This time 12 months ago, English had not played colts football and an AFL career in 2017 was a fair way away. He had played some encouraging football at Christ Church Grammar but that was as far as his exploits went.
But he was not only completing a growth spurt that now sees him stand 203cm but he kept his mobility, co-ordination and the rare ability for a player his size to get around the ground and play virtually as an extra midfielder who just happens to be supremely tall.
SOUTH Fremantle has produced another two players to enter the AFL system with ruckman Tim English and exciting small forward Shai Bolton selected in Friday's NAB Draft in Sydney.
English was the first of the Bulldogs pair to be selected when taken at pick 19 by reigning AFL premiers the Western Bulldogs.
Bolton was then taken by Richmond with pick No. 29.
THE 2016 NAB AFL Draft takes place this Friday in Sydney and there's every chance South Fremantle products will feature heavily in proceedings.
South Fremantle had 11 players that it has produced listed with AFL clubs in 2016 with Kade Stewart (Hawthorn), Callum Ah Chee (Gold Coast), Billy Frampton (Port Adelaide), Jarrod Pickett (Carlton), Cam McCarthy (Fremantle), Brendon Ah Chee (Port Adelaide), Shane Kersten (Fremantle), Ben Newton (Melbourne) and Brandon Matera (Gold Coast) to again feature in 2017.
But following Friday's National Draft to be held in Sydney there is set to be several more Bulldogs players entering the AFL.
SOUTH Fremantle is again to feature heavily in Friday's NAB AFL Draft and it will continue a rich history of the Bulldogs providing some of the very best players over the years.
The Bulldogs have a strong history of producing player to the AFL dating right back to 1988 when Peter Sumich and Scott Watters were among the draftees from South Fremantle. The pair went on to play a combined 269 AFL matches.
Other player drafted from South Fremantle since include Peter Matera (253 games, West Coast), Glen Jakovich (276, West Coast), Brad Hardie (150, Footscray/Brisbane), Darren Gaspar (228, Sydney/Richmond), Phil Matera (179, West Coast) and James Clement (230, Fremantle/Collingwood).
PRE-season training at South Fremantle has commenced this week with the Bulldogs looking to build on the momentum created in 2016 when they returned to the WAFL finals for the first time since 2011.
Following four years out of the finals mix, South Fremantle put together a tremendous 2016 campaign ending the home and away season in second position before beating West Perth in a qualifying final and going down to Peel Thunder in the preliminary final.
Nobody at the Bulldogs is content with those achievements, though, and the work has already begun on improving further in 2017 with the commencement of pre-season training at Fremantle Community Bank Oval this week.
SOUTH Fremantle Football Club Chief Executive Officer Stuart Kemp has called time on his successful career for the Bulldogs, leaving the organisation in great shape as it targets continuous improvement in the future.
After four years in the WAFL with South, Kemp has been a driving force to the resurgence of the club in many areas. With the Bulldogs now turning a regular profit, winning the coveted Rodriguez Shield ‘for the most amount of wins across all grades by a WAFL club’, he feels it’s the perfect time to move on.
Kemp emphasised the club had been very good to him, but it was the right time for someone else to steer the ship.
THE South Fremantle Football Club is delighted to announce the return of Jarrod Garlett from the Gold Coast Suns in the AFL with the exciting small forward signing with the Bulldogs for the next two WAFL seasons.
It is another exciting announcement from South Fremantle heading towards 2017 with the Bulldogs looking to build on a strong 2016 season.
South Fremantle won 15 games to finish second at the end of the 2016 home and away season before beating West Perth in a qualifying final and only coming up short against Peel Thunder in the preliminary final at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.
SOUTH Fremantle held another Corporate Partner Event this week, with a Networking Breakfast at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle.
Guest speaker for the day was James Clement who began his career with South Fremantle before going on to play 230 AFL matches with both Fremantle and Collingwood before retiring after the Magpies' 2007 preliminary final defeat to Geelong.
The Bulldogs product is currently Chief Operating Officer at Mareterram.
THE South Fremantle Football Club is delighted to continue to welcome back home grown talents to the Bulldogs with Jermaine Miller-Lewis to return in 2017 following two years in the AFL with Hawthorn.
The signing of Miller-Lewis to return to South Fremantle comes on the back of Tom Vandeleur (Fremantle), Mason Shaw (Port Adelaide), Dylan Main (West Coast) and Blaine Johnson (Carlton) all returning to the Bulldogs last year after time in the AFL.
During the 2016 season, the four managed to combine for 63 WAFL league matches in strong returns to South Fremantle following their AFL journeys.
