Before the Footy (18/07/2026)

Have you seen much publicity for Aaron Black's 300th game?

Oh, bits and pieces on social media, but nothing major out there.

He'll be the last player to get there.

Only eight players have actually done it, and then there's only a handful who've done it at AFL level in WA.

Mundy, obviously, recently, and Pavlic and Hearn, but very few.

So it's a dozen or so footballers in the history of WA football have got to 300 league games, and Aaron Black gets almost no publicity.

I think it's absolutely gobsmacking that you can get to that level in a semi-professional league.

We know it's not at the highest level of the game.

But to get to a triple century and almost have no recognition, certainly by the body that runs football in this state, I think is just flabbergasting.

Yeah, I mean, he's got to play to get to the 300, you know, official league games officially recognised by the Waffle.

He's got to play... pretty much all of his games for the rest of the season.

Are they

including Foxtel Cup in that? No, they don't.

But they

include Foxtel Cup for Mel Winnon's official record, Bill Dempsey's official record, Brian Peake's official record, Tony Knott's official record, and a lot of other players.

So it's been an issue for some years.

And we'll ask Aaron about it, about why he wanted to go for the... 300 games at Waffle League level as a recognition of the milestone.

Even though he's played 300 games, today will be his 300th game for West Perth as an official player.

Why Mel Winnon is recognised for them, but Aaron Black isn't.

I cannot comprehend the mental gymnastics that have gone, that have occurred to get to this stage.

Does he break the record for West Perth? No, no, Winnon's

371.

I don't think anyone's going to break that.

Okay, that was

many, many years ago.