Subiaco Oval

The margin 24 points in favor of East Fremantle.

The 1992 Waffle Grand Final featured the competition's two oldest and most fiercest rivals, South and Easter Manor battling it out at Subiaco Oval for premiership glory.

The Port Clubs were only separated by a percentage at the end of the 1992 home and away season.

The Sharks minor premiers with a 14-7 win-loss record.

It's a goal.

A clever snap from the South Romano vice captain.

Perhaps the most infamous moment of the 1992 decider happened after the quarter-time siren as Mel Brown strode out onto Subiaco Oval and made a beeline for Sharks players.

Standing in his way was Easter Mantle enforcer Damien Condon.

It reminds me of- Mark LaCroix.

Oh, yeah? So we're playing West Coast Subiaco Oval, so like a while ago, and he went down, broke his arm.

Yeah, I remember.

He played with that bulky – Well,

But just watching that game with just a huge smile on my face, just thinking, you know, like 20 years ago, or more than 20 years ago now, when Perth Glory were playing in the NSL against these clubs, when did you ever think we were going to see him again, number one? And number two, did you ever think that a club like Bayswater was going to play against him? I think 20 years ago they may have still been called the Bayswater Panthers.

I guess sitting at the 2003 A-League Grand Final there at Subi Oval against when we beat the Sydney Olympic or Olympic Sharks, as they were

known

back then.

Absolutely not.

My beloved Subiaco Oval, a 100-year-old ground, was replaced in 2018 by the new Perth Stadium or Optus Stadium, depending if you want to go with the naming rights.

And I remember being quite sad because all the memories you have from Subiaco Oval, watching, for me, 20 years of football there...

I was kind of devastated to be leaving that behind, a little bit like, well, I can't believe we're going to this new thing, this shiny new thing that has no memories, no texture.

And then immediately you sit down to watch your first game and you're like, oh, the sight lines are impeccable and the food offering is much better.

to St Kilda games here at Subian at Optus

Stadium? Yeah, I used to go down to Domain Stadium, Subiaco, yeah, watch the Saints play when we could.

Do you ever say, Dad, why did you do this to me? Oh, I wouldn't say it to him.

He'd get a bit upset, but yeah.

I

remember years ago, Subiaco, when we were playing at Subiaco Oval, and, of course, I think they had about 250 seats that they could sell off when the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle were playing there.

And I remember hosting some of the AFL functions there in the Subi route, and they used to make some good cash.

It was

Um, then Thursday, um, Uh, I had about, like, I had a bit of time before I had to pick up Parker from Soph's like work crash, um, after my shift.

So I went to Subiaco Oval.

Um, have you? Yeah.

So now it's not like the stadium.

All different sort of like actual road sized paths that you can loop through all different ways if you want.

Yeah.

Um, the Subi Oval, Subiaco Oval, I'm very keen to get to.

Yeah.

Now...

Of course, the key thing here is going to be the stadium agreement, which persuaded football to leave Subiaco Oval and then relocate to Optus Stadium in the first place.

That is coming up for, well, I think the end of the first agreement is looming.

Now, is this likely to be a factor in any talks that take place? And you did mention this as a as I think you called it a pressure point in any talks between the state government and WA footy going forward.

looming like a sword of Damocles over football as a whole in this state.

You've got a state government that basically now determines how much football gets.

And I always found that really weird when the deal was signed back in 2017. to get football out of Subiaco Oval, that they would operate on five consecutive 10-year funding deals, the amount of which was not determined.

So you don't know what you're going to get.