West Perth

I think those two as a combination.

And what we've got to see at times this year for West Perth in defence will give clubs, and particularly a club like Freire, a lot to consider in that space.

So Fremantle taking local boy Harvey Sporting guy with pick 41.

If

Eagles versus Richmond was the curtain raiser.

It was East Perth, West Perth after you.

Is that right? I think.

Yeah, that's right.

We stormed home from 33 points down.

It was this electric, incredible game.

And then sadly, and I remember Kimeti saying it to me, I think that might be the death toll for the waffle because straight after I went to hospital with a broken cheekbone as I'm leaving everyone else is leaving as well as soon as the Eagles game ended it got down to 5,000 so 22,000 people left because they'd seen the main game and West Perth played East Perth afterwards and it was the first sign that wow the world's a different place we're not in Kansas anymore and And even though they wouldn't let us train on any of their grounds, we couldn't even train on Subie.

We were playing at Subie.

He's played some promising games.

waffle footy for West Perth, which, by the way, is a club that Essendon have targeted in recent drafts.

That has to be noted.

It's not just WA that the Bombers have targeted.

West Perth is where we drafted Jacob Farrow and Cale Durine, one in each of the last two years.

He's a player, by the way, sporting guy, who has played behind the ball as well, so maybe there's a thought that it's not just a key forward you're drafting, it is a swingman.

John T. Rousmith from Zero Hanger reports that the club have done their work on Jack Pickett.

We recently, you know, signed a coach.

Jack Gibson was the coach who will, anyone who listened to the 12th man will also get a Jack Gibson reference there.

And in the South Australian National Football League, Norwood beat Glenelg and in the Waffle, West Perth beat South Fremantle.

And in the Melbourne Cup, because this is November we're talking about, I think Big, I should have actually asked you if you knew who won the Melbourne Cup because that was a pretty famous win, Bart Cummings' second, I think it's his second Melbourne Cup win.

And what else happened? Picnic at Hanging Rock premiered on the 8th of August and Cyclone Tracy happened in 1975, quite an eventful year.

Yeah, pretty much played there throughout my whole juniors until around year eight where a few of us boys moved up the road to Ocean Ridge and played a few more years there.

And then through those next few years, the West Perth sort of development squad start and then was lucky enough to be involved with a few of the state squads.

And then, yeah, here I am.

196 centimetres, you're a tall lad.

I reckon I've grown for a good year now, but still hoping.

Now, tell us a bit about your game as a big key forward.

You've played some league footy this year for West Perth, which would have been exciting.

But, yeah, give us an insight for those listening and watching as to what sort of player Harvey Sporting Guy is.

Okay.

So you've still got now, you've got Peel, West Perth with Todd Curley, Dunbar, Perth, Isha Mantle.

Tyler Keitel could go to Swan District.

Now you've got connections at Swan District.

He'd be good.

He'd be good.

What would the West Perth supporters be thinking? Well, they should look after your greats a bit better.

Okay.

That's what it is.

[laughs] So, uh, so his uncle's Mark, uh, Lacroix, who obviously everyone knows from West Coast, but his dad's Brent, who, uh, Brent got drafted from West Perth, uh, same year as me to North.

Uh, so I got drafted at 17.

Brent, I was 22, so I thought, "Oh, we're gonna have nothing in common." Um, I realized Brent, I was 22 going on about 15, so we've ended up pretty good mates.