SOUTH Fremantle could very well have the richest Indigenous heritage of any football club in the country and this Saturday the Bulldogs host Claremont in what has now become the traditional NAIDOC Week match at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

South Fremantle's heritage of Indigenous players includes the club having named its own Indigenous Team of the Century in 2009, having four Bulldogs players named in the AFL's Indigenous Team of the Century and had around 100 players of Aboriginal backgrounds representing the club.

South Fremantle and Claremont have set the standard in the WAFL with NAIDOC celebrations largely because of the Indigenous players historically who have come through their ranks, including Stephen Michael, Wally, Phil and Peter Matera, Jeff Farmer, Maurice Rioli, Nicky Winmar (South Fremantle), and Jim and Phil Krakouer, Irwin Lewis and son Chris (Claremont).

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SOUTH Fremantle is again on track to provide multiple draftees to the AFL later this year with Tim English, Shai Bolton, Dylan Brown and Kyle Russell all taking part in Western Australia's recent National AFL 18s Championships.

WA played four matches in the 2016 championships beating Victoria Country and the Allies while going down to South Australia and Victoria Metro on the road. Vic Metro ended up winning the 2016 title following its win to finish the campaign over WA at Geelong's Simonds Stadium last Wednesday.

South Fremantle was again well represented in the WA team across the four games with English and Bolton playing in each of them, Russell appearing in two and Brown once.

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SOUTH Fremantle never quite got going at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Saturday against East Perth with the Royals ending up recording an important 16-point victory.

The win keeps East Perth in the finals race for 2016 and it also sees South Fremantle lose top spot on the WAFL ladder at the expense of Subiaco. But the Bulldogs have played one game less than the Lions with the two teams to meet on a Thursday night in Round 18 at Medibank Stadium.

South Fremantle did kick the first two goals of the game to start well and were still right in the contest after the opening goal of the last term and then 10 scoring shots for the quarter. But nine of those turned out to be behinds with East Perth ending up winning 12.14 (86) to 9.16 (70).

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SOUTH Fremantle can further consolidate top spot on the WAFL ladder by beating East Perth at Fremantle Community Bank Oval but the Royals will arrive desperate and with a team mostly made up of West Coast-listed players.

South Fremantle and East Perth do battle at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Saturday with the Bulldogs needing to win to stay on top of the ladder while the Royals must win to remain in the finals race.

South Fremantle returned to the top of the WAFL ladder last week with a 35-point win over West Perth at HBF Arena but the Bulldogs do need to keep winning to stay there ahead of Subiaco even though they have played a game less than the Lions.

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MY foot injury is coming along nicely now. I started running again on Tuesday so hopefully over the next couple of weeks I can pick it up and start training to push for selection and play again just after our next bye in Round 17.

I had been dealing with the foot hurting for two or three weeks before I spoke up to the medical staff on the Foundation Derby weekend. It was just an aching sort of pain in my foot so we got it scanned and the timing was pretty good because if I kept playing it probably would have turned into a stress fracture that needed surgery meaning I would have been out for the rest of the year.

I was in the boot for a couple of weeks to keep the pressure off it and when we got the results of the scans back during the week, Swanny and the doc Rach wanted me to stay in the boot to calm it down a little bit.

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SOUTH Fremantle hosted its second ever Red Cap Day on Sunday with the event well attended by current and past players alike along with plenty of family members and long-time supporters making it a tremendous success.

With the day being graced with ideal weather conditions, players from every South Fremantle premiership back to the 1940s were on hand with some players receiving the new red caps, some receiving caps for the first time and some receiving multiple caps for family and friends. 

Two special presentations were made on the day with the club's No. 1 Ticketholder Eileen Bond receiving a special cap as did his long-time supporter Joe Rotondella for his association to the club. 

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WHAT South Fremantle coach Todd Curley had to say following the Round 14 WAFL victory against West Perth at HBF Arena with some emerging players standing tall and the forward-line on fire. He also takes a look forward to this Saturday's clash with East Perth at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

QUESTION: You know it was going to be tough against an in-form team but to dominate after half-time must have been pleasing to see?
ANSWER: They've been in really good form and put really good pressure on. It was a pretty tight first half but I thought our pressure after quarter-time lifted a bit and we were able to get some pressure on the ball, and then the game opened up a bit in the second half. It certainly helps when you've got some key forwards who kick 10 between them and were pretty dominant with help from the small forwards. We were able to give them some good supply as well.

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SOUTH Fremantle returned to the top of the WAFL ending West Perth's seven-game winning streak with a strong performance at HBF Arena on Saturday winning by 35 points.

Despite beating Peel Thunder last Sunday, South Fremantle dropped to second spot on the ladder by percentage but the Bulldogs again replaced Subiaco on top with a game in hand also on the Lions with Saturday's 16.6 (102) to 9.13 (67) victory over West Perth.

The win improves South Fremantle to a 10-2 record on the season and was more impressive considering the Bulldogs' last two fairest and best winners Ashton Hams and Haiden Schloithe were out injured along with reliable defender Adam McIntosh.

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SOUTH Fremantle has a good record up at Joondalup's HBF Arena ahead of Saturday's clash with an in-form West Perth with the Bulldogs looking to maintain its hold on a top two position and potentially regain first place.

The Falcons are currently the form team in the WAFL having won seven matches in succession and now another win on Saturday over the Bulldogs would see them just percentage off a top two position.

Meanwhile, the Bulldogs bounced back from losing the WA Day Foundation Derby prior to the state game beating Peel Thunder last Sunday at Bendigo Bank Stadium.

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WA football legends Maurice Rioli and Ray Sorrell have been recognised with induction into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

The pair were inducted last night during a gala event in Melbourne.

1959 Brownlow medallist Verdun Howell (St Kilda), SANFL star Paul Bagshaw (Sturt) Adelaide defender Ben Hart and Brisbane Lions midfielder Nigel Lappin were also inducted.

WA and AFL Hall of Fame Legend Barry Cable was added to the Australian Football Hall of Fame selection panel after playing an important role advocating for greater national recognition of the history of WA Football prior to the introduction of the AFL competition.

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