SOUTH Fremantle had five players line-up in Saturday's record-breaking state game win over Tasmania and all delivered strong showings led by 29 possessions from Ashton Hams and six goals by Ben Saunders.

Hams, Saunders, Tim Kelly, Ryan Cook and Marlion Pickett all played for WA with the WAFL side beating Tasmania by a record 134 points that eclipse the 122-point triumph at North Hobart in 1964.

It was a dominant performance from the outset by WA after Tasmania kicked the game's first goal. The WAFL then kicked the next 11 goals of the game and then after Tasmania booted three in the third term, WA kicked the final 13 majors to end up winning 25.14 (164) to 4.6 (30).

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IT has been a week of ups and downs for me so far. The massive low coming off the loss to rivals East Fremantle, and then the massive high in being selected to represent the state against Tasmania.
 
The honour of playing state football for Western Australia is massive. Only last night we had legends of state football stand in front of us and recount their favourite memories. It really shows how much it means to them and how passionate people are about it. 
 
I have great memories of playing against NEAFL in my first state game, but even better memories of the people I played with and the celebrations we had after the win.

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SOUTH Fremantle is on top of the WAFL and will have five players representing Western Australia in Saturday's State Match against Tasmania at Steel Blue Oval with the WAFL looking for a fourth straight win in interstate contests.

The WAFL representative side takes on the best of the Tasmanian State League at the Bassendean venue on Saturday looking for a fourth successive victory following wins over the VFL, NEAFL and SANFL the past three years.

The WA team will again be coached by Darren Harris and captained by East Perth ruckman Paul Johnson who were both in the same roles in last year's 45-point win over South Australia. East Fremantle defender Andrew Stephen and South Fremantle skipper Ryan Cook are the vice-captains.

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VERY few players have the combined abilities to win the hard contested ball, lay crunching tackles, be a clearance machine and then break the lines, but that all sums up Tim Kelly with the young South Fremantle star to make his state debut for the WAFL on Saturday.

Kelly is one of five players from the league-leading South Fremantle picked in the final 23 for Western Australia to play in the 2016 state match against Tasmania at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday.

Of the five Bulldogs players selected, it is Kelly the only one set to make his state debut with captain Ryan Cook to play for WA for a fifth time, Ashton Hams a third and then it will be the second time for both Marlion Pickett and Ben Saunders.

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WHAT South Fremantle coach Todd Curley had to say following the WA Day Foundation Derby loss to East Fremantle ahead of this Saturday's WAFL state game against Tasmania and then a clash the following Sunday against Peel Thunder.

QUESTION: The day started well with the first couple of goals but after that it turned into a pretty tough game?
ANSWER: We weren’t very good and they were very good. We will take nothing away from East Fremantle, they were much cleaner with the ball, obviously much more efficient kicking at goal and probably when the conditions deteriorated for a while they were probably tougher than us.

Q: It's easy to point at the shots on goal you missed but they probably didn’t really allow you to play the way you have been for most of the season?
A: We did have six or seven shots running in without pressure that we missed. That is deflating for the team and we kicked 12 straight points in the second and third quarters. We certainly didn’t play well and didn’t deserve to win the game, but you have to convert to keep yourself in the game when things aren’t going your way.

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A GOALLESS drought lasting two and-a-half quarters despite plenty of gettable opportunities left South Fremantle no chance of winning the WA Day Foundation Derby against East Fremantle, but the Bulldogs remain on top of the WAFL ladder heading into the state game break.

South Fremantle started the WA Day Foundation Derby at Fremantle Community Bank Oval with the opening two goals of the game through Blaine Johnson and Steven Verrier, but things didn’t quite go to plan after that in the difficult conditions.

The Bulldogs still led by a goal at the five-minute mark of the second quarter after Mason Shaw kicked his second goal, but they wouldn’t kick another goal until the 21-minute mark of the fourth term.

East Fremantle kicked 10 goals in that period on the way to the 13.12 (90) to 6.15 (51) victory.

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SOUTH Fremantle can further extend its lead atop the WAFL with a WA Day Foundation Derby win over East Fremantle at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Monday but to do so the Bulldogs will need to become the first home team to win a derby in 13 attempts.

It is first against third and just six weeks after a classic in the Anzac Day clash, South Fremantle and East Fremantle do battle in the Foundation Derby for 2016 on WA Day at Fremantle Community Bank Oval in what promises to be an exciting and pivotal contest.

Both clubs might have finished the 2015 season in horror fashion with the Bulldogs losing their last five games and the Sharks 12 of their last 13, but the opening half of 2016 has been dramatically better for both leading to what should be an exciting Foundation Derby in the most traditional WAFL fixture.

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SOUTH Fremantle's Adam Guglielmana will play his 118th WAFL match in the WA Day Foundation Derby against East Fremantle but what he desperately craves is the first final of his career that a win could bring one step closer to reality.

Guglielmana made his league debut with the Bulldogs in 2008 and had to do a long apprenticeship to earn his stripes in a side that was a regular finals participant and the premiers in 2009.

By 2011, he had become a regular member of the line-up as a hard-running wingman and midfielder, but he wasn’t part of the finals campaign of that year after undergoing a knee reconstruction.

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SOUTH Fremantle coach Todd Curley has understandably been impressed with the Bulldogs start to the 2016 WAFL season to sit on top of the ladder, but he knows that counts for little in Monday's Foundation Derby at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

South Fremantle has put together an outstanding start to the season winning eight of its opening nine matches prior to the bye last weekend and now ahead of the traditional WA Day Foundation Derby against East Fremantle.

It has been the consistent performances right across the board that has been the great highlight of South Fremantle's season both in terms of the team performance overall, but also the evenness of strong contributors all over the field.

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THE Foundation Derby on WA Day is always the biggest occasion of any WAFL season outside of finals and South Fremantle is guaranteed of heading into the clash with East Fremantle at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on top of the ladder.

The Sharks could very well be second too depending on what happens this weekend while the Bulldogs have the bye leading into the clash.

We are going to countdown to the Foundation Derby on WA Day, which falls on Monday June 6 by taking a look at 15 of the greatest wins by South Fremantle over East Fremantle on the famous occasion.

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