President’s Report

The 2019 season was another great year for the club.  We had over 280 registered players from Pre Primary to Year 11, with teams in almost every age group.  We also had two successfully merged sides with Rossmoyne Junior Football Club, which we continue to have a good interclub relationship with.  Our players went about their football in the right way, our coaches developed them in the right way, and our supporters encouraged them in the right way.  We are a great club!

We saw continued growth in female football.  In 2016 our inaugural girls’ team took to the field with just 11 players in their first game.  This season we saw 40 girls play matches in all female teams, and almost 50 girls play at the club overall.  This is one of the highest proportion of girls in any club in the Metro South region.  For the first time in our club’s history we celebrated a group of female players reaching their 50th game milestones.

We have a strong community at our club; a community focussed on our players first and foremost.  We easily filled all of our coaching, manager and other team official positions this year, and have amazing teams of officials supporting the development of our players across all age groups. Football is different to most other sports in terms of the sheer number of volunteers it takes to run a club and put teams on the field each week.  The effort that all of our volunteers put in each week is incredible and hugely appreciated, particularly the amount of work our coaching teams put in to training and match day, and the volume of organisation and the level heads that our team managers bring.

I’d also like to call out the contributions that our committee make over the year; contributions that start long before everyone else begins to even think about football and end after everyone else has moved on from the season. I am privileged to have a wonderful group of people around me who make me appear far better at my role than I really am.

I feel very proud to be involved with this club, and after 3 years at the helm, I really understand what people mean when they say “Be Navy Blue”

Dave Blechynden

President WJFC

Youth finals results

Year 9 Team made it to the Grand Final and were defeated on the day.
Year 7&8 All Female team won their Grand Final. MVP Georgie Cleaver. Coaches Mathew Green and Steve Burgess.

Jake Duffield, Year 6 Coach, named East Fremantle District Coach of the Year.

Fairest and Best WAFC Fremantle Conference
Zoe Anderson- Year 9-11 All Female Blue Division.
Christian Wilson- Year 9 Red Division

Top 5 WAFC Fremantle Conference finishers

Jaxan Bibaeff  – Year 8 Red Division

Kyron Eales – Year 11/12 Red Division

Isaak Wittkuhn Year 6, represents WA in the 12 years and under State School Boys AFL team.
Georgie Cleaver Year 7/8 all Female, represents WA in the State School Sports Under 15’s Female AFL Team

Chad Warner (WJFC Junior Life Member), Trey Ruscoe (who played some of his Junior Footy at WJFC) played for WA in the Under 18s Australian National Championship and won the competition.

National AFL Draft
Draft Pick 39 Chad Warner to Sydney Swans
Draft Pick 55 Trey Ruscoe to Collingwood