East Perth FC

Boys, I thought just before we get into it, obviously there was a little bit of sad news out of the WA football community over the last 24 hours or so, maybe by the time you've been listening to this.

And, look, we just wanted to send our thoughts and our prayers out to everyone at East Perth Football Club on the passing of Gary Morrell, a well-known football kind of personality, did a lot for East Perth, lovely all-round guy from all reports.

And, well, you know, None of us, particularly the football community, is immune from pain or tragedy, and we've all got various connections, and we all know each other around the traps.

So, look, it's a really tight-knit kind of community, the WA football community, and this one I felt just probably hit a little bit hard when I saw the news on this afternoon, being Tuesday afternoon.

So, yeah, just sending...

Sending a few thoughts out to everyone at East Perth Football Club.

Let's get into our good, our bad and our ugly to kick us off.

Neil, did you want to get us going, mate? Sure.

Ken was also one of the last sportsmen to be able to combine football and cricket at the highest level.

He was a champion of the East Perth Football Club, winning a premiership, Simpson medals for the best on ground in state games versus Victoria, and also best on ground in a grand final, together with a Tassie medal for the best player in a national carnival.

Neil, or Sticks, also played 88 first grade games for the club and captained the seconds.

Neil also served as secretary for six seasons and was awarded life membership in 1985-86.

Did you have a favourite, Noddy, or

how did this sit with you? Yeah, well, I loved them both, obviously.

everyone does because it was summer and winter but I was getting to a stage before I finished when I got injured I was getting a stage where I was going to have to make a decision and I was going to concentrate on cricket because I'd achieved everything possible I could even beyond my expectations for football but in cricket the big difference is that you're in control of your own destiny and I was knocking on the door for test selection, and really I knew that I needed to focus purely on cricket because East Perth were always in the finals, so it meant you started off behind everyone else in the cricket season, and Basney Bayswater were also in the finals a lot of the seasons I played.

So cricket, great game, and also the longevity aspect is more in cricket than football.

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... on this day in 1980, uh, East Perth Football Club applied to join the VFL.

East Perth.

How does that work?

They just put in a, they put in a f- a plan to the VFL saying, "We wanna join you."

Mm.

They were the fourth best team in the WAFL that year, and they said, "We wanna come in." They're the Royals East Perth Football Club.

Uh, and the VFL sorta said, "Well, I don't think we're really ready to be a national-

I see North Melbourne's interested with him.

He's done a few interviews here and there, uh, as well, so hopefully he can, uh, get a good run at it after a, a massive year for, uh, East Perth, uh, in the WAFL.

Uh, just lastly, uh, on some cricket before I do, uh, let you go on the Friday Perspective, uh, this afternoon.

It's a massive week of cricket on Sport FM, uh, starting next week on Monday, uh, Western Australia and New South Wales in the Shield.

Yeah, good, thanks.

And today we've got Jake Suter, East Perth.

I don't want to say great, but he's just one of best and fairest, so he might be on the way if he continues on the trajectory that he's planning to over the next month or so.

Jake, firstly, hello to you.

But, yeah, it's a massive relief for me.

So, yeah, really keen to see what happens.

As I said, best and fairest for this year for East Perth as a 20-year-old.

When did you feel like it really started to click for you and it really started to come together in terms of your whole game?

Mm.

They were the fourth-best team in the WAFL that year, and they said, "We wanna come in." They're the Royals East Perth Football Club.

Uh, and the VFL sorta said, "Well, I don't think we're really ready to be a national-

Doesn't make sense

So for a fan favorite, uh-

Yeah

... it's a very uncertain 12 months, just as is for the, uh, the senior boys at the Melbourne, uh, Football Club.

Oh, what's happening to Melbourne now?

... interim coach between-

He coached East Perth

... uh, Simpson and Longmire

... yeah, but that's nothing

And Sid, Sid, um, as, as, uh, we've, we've named it the Sid Jackson Cup since, so we wanna rotate it a bit.

Um, but also Sid, as you know, went on to play for East Perth and he was equal, um, highest vote in the Sandover medal too, be- um, he, he unfortunately couldn't win it that year, but, um, because of a little incident that he really shouldn't have copped heat for.

Mm-hmm.

Um, but, uh, and Sid of course went on to be an absolute champion with Carlton Football Club.

He, he's a big supporter of young people in the community, right across from the Eastern Board to WA and so on.

But Sid's acknowledged in the Hall of Fame in the South West Sporting Association in, based in Bunbury.

Um, he's, he's a Hall of Famer in the South Bunbury Football Club Hall of Fame with, um, the East Perth and also Western Stone Football League.

So he's, he's really well acknowledged.

I think there-

... with an East Perth connection

...

I think there's some dirty tactics at play.

Well, I think he's dismissed.

Well, I'll let, rest easy.

Let me just tell you, East Perth, be a 12 pointer, you can bugger off.

We've dismissed.