2020 Season has been one to remember with the threat of the COVID-19 virus causing restrictions and a delay to our usual Season start.

President’s Message

2020 was a year that I’m sure we’ll all never forget; a year scarred by a global pandemic which touched every aspect of our lives.  This of course included football.

Thankfully we live in Perth and had a football season up and running, unlike some other states. Our pre-season was interrupted, our season start delayed, and we ran a shorter season overall.  This included forgoing a traditional finals format in favour of more regular season rounds, with just a Grand Final played between the top 2 teams in each Youth division.

Our committee recognised that many families were financially impacted by the pandemic. In light of that, we decided to run the club at a loss in 2020, targeting a loss of $7000 offset by the profit we made in 2019 of the same amount, This decision allowed us to greatly reduce our fees to help our football community out, and we additionally offered fee free registration for any families that needed it. A number of families opted to donate their partial fee refund back to the club, and we greatly appreciate their generosity- thank you so much.

Player numbers across many clubs were down notably from 2019, assumedly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our membership remained fairly steady. We had teams through all Auskick and Juniors age groups, Youth boys teams from Year 7 to Year 10 with a Rossmoyne JFC/Willetton JFC merged side in Year 11/12, and expanded our all-female program with a third girls team. Our girls now have Year 7/8, Year 9/10 and Year 11/12 options which reflects the growth of this competition.

We had amazing on field success again this year, with our Year 9 Boys finishing runners up, and our Year 9/10 Girls and Year 10 Boys bringing home the Premierships in their respective competitions. Our Year 9/10 Girls won their Grand Final match against a team that had gone undefeated all season, seeing many of these girls repeat their efforts of last season where they also won a flag against a team that went undefeated prior to the grand final.  Our Year 10 boys were frontrunners all season, going one better than they did in 2019.  Congratulations to all our teams.

2020 marks my fourth year as President and my fifth and final year on the committee. I truly appreciate the efforts of all of our volunteers each season; our coaches and managers, our first aid officers and runners, parents who help with set up, goal umpiring, pack up and everything else needed, and our committee.  I would like to thank you all for everything you have done to continue to make our club the wonderful, strong and inclusive club we share today. I’s also like to thank our players for continuing to play the “Willo Way” each and every week.

Over my time as President, two people in particular have done so much to support me and our club, Nat Fay and Robyn Eade have held several roles on the committee each.  They are two amazing women who just get in and get things done, and a large part of why our club is in such a strong position. Thank you both for everything you continue to do for our club and all you’ve done to counsel me and keep my head in the right place.

I’ve always been very proud to be associated with this great club, and even though I’m retiring at the end of the season, I’ll always be Navy Blue.

Dave Blechynden

President

Games Milestones

50 Games

Jack Murray         Hunter Bergmans         Jarvis Repper       Toby Ahn       Summer McCann                        Eric Kingston     Troy Warner       Athena Mendoza

Joshua Nomlatyu    Tyler Hind   Yuri Huntly    Sebastian Ruane    Alicia Blizard    Taj Hurley             William Feeley    Jarvis Faulks    Luke Ogden   Ben Dunkley

Rachael Anderson    Yaminah Hourani     Hayden Osterberg    Sophie Jasckson    Phoebe Millgate    Connor Thompson    Ricardo Haddow    Shelby Bartlett

100 Games

Christian Wilson    Andrew Hanson    Baylee Homewood    Ethan Clifford    Ashton Bank       Nicholas Verbruggen    Thomas Katic

 

WJFC Youth Results 2020

Year 7 Did not play finals

Year 8 Did not play finals

Year 9 Finished 2nd on the ladder

Year 10 Finished on top of the ladder

Year 11/12 Rossmoyne JFC/Willetton JFC  Did not play finals

Year 7/8 All-Female did not play finals

Year 9/10 All-female Finished 2nd on the ladder

Year 11/12 All-Female Finished 3rd on the ladder

WJFC Finals Series 2020

Year 9 Boys

Runners-Up- defeated by Roleystone by 24 points

Year 9/10 All-Female

Premiers- defeated Mundijong JFC by 2 points

Madison Deuble was Most Valuable Player

Year 10 Boys

Premiers- defeated Jandakot Jets by 28 points.

Christian Wilson was Most Valuable Player

2020 Individual Achievements

WAFC Fremantle Conference Fairest and Best count.

WJFC is proud to acknowledge the following players who all polled in the top 10 Fairest and Best players in their respective competition.

Jaxan Bibaeff – Year 9 Green Division

Lucas Godfrey – Year 9 Green Division

Christian Wilson – Year 10 Red Division

Boyd Perkin – Year 10 Red Division

Nadya Browne  Year 11/12 All Female Division

Alessia Schmiedgen – Year 11/12 All Female Division

We would like to congratulate Jaxan and Christian for winning their 2020 District Fairest and Best awards

and to Nadya for winning the 2020 Runner Up Fairest and Best.