THE only thing giving South Fremantle reserves coach Tony Walters headaches heading into Sunday's second semi-final against Subiaco is how to fit more than 30 capable and qualified players into the Bulldogs' team to play at Medibank Stadium.

South Fremantle's reserves dominated the 2015 home and away season winning 18 of 20 matches to be four games clear on top to claim the minor premiership, and then earn the week off in the first week of the finals before beginning the quest for a second flag in three years.

With South Fremantle's league side missing finals for a fourth straight season, that means that the likes of Jacob Dragovich, Mitch Carter, James Laurino, Josh Branchi, Zac Strom, Tim Stewart, Kade Stewart and Matthew Ah Siu return for the reserves after finishing the season in the senior side.

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THIS year hasn’t been the greatest for myself personally. I've had a few challenges to go through and it's come to the pointy end of the season now where I've hit some form, but unfortunately the league boys aren’t in the finals.

I'm just putting all my concentration now into the finals series with the twos. Everyone goes through a tough year from time to time, but you just have to deal with it and push on from it.

I reckon my last three or four games in the twos had been really solid and I put some good numbers up, played some good footy and my defensive side was really good as well. If the league team was still alive I'd like to think I'd be knocking on the door to get a game by now, and if I got selected or not that would be up to the match committee.

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SOUTH Fremantle might have lost its last game of the WAFL season against Peel Thunder but it was an exciting look into the future with a host of young players standing up and it was also a day to remember for Katanning with six players from the town playing for the Bulldogs.

South Fremantle has long been touted as the 'Premier Family Club' in the WAFL and that has again been evident on the field throughout the 2015 season with the number of brothers playing together.

The obvious is dual premiership winning twins Kyle and Ashton Hams who both had outstanding seasons playing together for the first time since 2010.

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SOUTH Fremantle coach Todd Curley's weekly question and answer session during the 2015 McDonald's WAFL Premiership season.

Curley speaks following the Bulldogs' final round loss to Peel Thunder and looks back on some of the positives from his first season in charge, what needs to improve, who might not be back in 2016 and the chances of the reserves in the finals as minor premiers.

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IT was a familiar story for South Fremantle in 2015 in the final game of the season against Peel Thunder at Bendigo Bank Stadium with the Bulldogs blooding another debutant and having some momentum early in the last quarter but ending up overrun to lose by 39 points.

South Fremantle had fallen out of finals contention despite an overall improved 2015 season, but the Bulldogs took on the finals bound Peel in Mandurah and with the first two goals of the last quarter had some momentum.

However, once again South Fremantle couldn’t maintain that intensity and Peel ended up kicking the last five goals of the game to record the 16.12 (108) to 9.15 (69) victory.

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SOUTH Fremantle will unveil yet another debutant to have two sets of brothers and six players from Katanning in the team to take on Peel Thunder to close the 2015 WAFL season at Bendigo Bank Stadium on Saturday.

Peel Thunder can secure third position and a finals double chance by beating South Fremantle for a third time season in the Round 23 clash at Bendigo Bank Stadium on Saturday.

Peel has now won five of its last six matches to have guaranteed its place in the finals for the first time in the club's history since entering the WAFL in 1997, and now the Thunder can secure third position with a win over the Bulldogs on Saturday.

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SOUTH Fremantle coach Todd Curley's weekly question and answer session during the 2015 McDonald's WAFL Premiership season.

Curley spoke following Saturday's loss to West Perth in the final home game of the season and looks ahead to the last game of 2015 this Saturday against Peel Thunder in Mandurah.

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SOUTH Fremantle couldn’t quite finish the job against the second-placed West Perth at Fremantle Oval on Saturday in Craig White's final game at home and with a host of youngsters showing exciting signs for the future.

South Fremantle might have been out of the finals race no matter the result and West Perth needed to win to guarantee second spot on the ladder, but the Bulldogs stuck pace with the Falcons all afternoon and even hit the front early in the last quarter.

However, West Perth managed to kick the last four goals of the game to win 12.13 (85) to 9.8 (62) with South Fremantle to now finish the 2015 WAFL season on Saturday against Peel Thunder at Bendigo Bank Stadium looking to avoid ending with a four-game losing streak.

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SOUTH Fremantle will host its final home game of the 2015 WAFL season this Saturday at Fremantle Oval looking to put in an improved showing against the second-placed West Perth.

South Fremantle is now out of finals contention having lost its last three matches but Saturday will be the Bulldogs' final game for the season at Fremantle Oval and they will be looking to find some form, and to build some momentum into the pre-season and to build on in 2016.

West Perth, meanwhile, is now looking solid in second position having beaten East Fremantle and Swan Districts the last two weeks to be in pole position to remain in that second spot and to secure a home final at HBF Arena in the first week.

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SOUTH Fremantle life member and dual premiership star Craig White looks set to finish his decorated career against Peel Thunder and that could be a fitting end after it was only the efforts of Marty Atkins that saw him not play with the Mandurah-based club in the first place.

Having grown up in Williams and having his parents live in Mandurah once he'd finished school at Aquinas College, White was weighing up whether or not to remain at South Fremantle or join Peel Thunder ahead of the 2004 WAFL season following the colts premiership.

A meeting with Peel coach and former Geelong AFL champion Garry Hocking had him on the verge of agreeing to join the Thunder, but the efforts of Bulldogs games record holder and then football manager Atkins ended up seeing White remain at South Fremantle.

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