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Daryl Penizza

Darrell Panizza is a WA football legend — record Claremont WAFL player (274 games), 1996 premiership coach, and WA Football Hall of Fame inductee.

Sep 19, 2026

85:04
Could you talk to us a little bit about this idea?
85:08
Well, it's not an idea.
85:09
We've been doing it in the country for the last 22 years.
85:12
We have a pathway which is being developed, obviously, with Claremont in mind, and we start training in the middle of October and We get all the kids in and we start teaching them the pathway of and what's required if you want to get to and play footy at the Claremont Footy Club, which obviously it's a huge step coming out of the bush and the transition and all the rest of those things are really difficult.
85:41
So we go through those things with them as well.
85:44
And basically the fundamentals, we teach the fundamentals of footy so that when they do get up here, it's that they've got this ability to be able to compete with the boys from Perth who get exceptional coaching, whether they're at their community footy or at a PSA school or at Claremont through the development group.
86:07
And then we also then come back in February.
88:30
Is that just the reality of the modern world, that the talent gets identified and pushed into the schools, or is that a concern for footy about it, the channel is getting narrower?

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