Paddy Sweeney
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Mark McGowan:
"It appears to me Victorian clubs aren't willing to leave their comfort zone and come over here, yet they expect our teams to go over there.
It's a little bit rich and it seems to me they're a little bit pampered."
@9NewsPerth
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Bailey Smith carrying his rare finals form into the off season at the Dogs Sunday session.
👍🖕🥃
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Josh Kennedy since Chris Judd played his last game:
💯games
🏈294 goals
🏆Premiership
🎖️2 x Coleman Medals
🦅3 x Club leading goalkicker
🇦🇺3 x All Australians
@WestCoastEagles
32
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480
.
@AustralianOpen
locked in for February 8-21.
Qualifying begins next month, Melbourne to host
@ATPCup
lead-up tournament.
@9NewsPerth
🎾
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Jeremy McGovern needed injections to play Grand Final. He had torn obliques and internal bleeding, the pain excruciating. He then broke his ribs during the game. It’s all part of footy folklore with his match-saving mark setting up Dom Sheed’s winning goal.
@WestCoastEagles
#AFL
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An accountant and a teenager lift
@ScorchersBBL
to their 5th
#BBL
title.
Think about that for a minute.
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Yeh..
@matt_pavlich
isn't in WA footy's 50 most powerful people:
✅
353 games-most by WA-based player
6x Doig Medallist
6x All Australian
3x Glendinning-Allan medallist
3 years
@AFLPlayers
President
@freodockers
,
@AFL
life member
@FOXFOOTY
commentator
❌
@9NewsPerth
employee
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Tom Barrass is poised to depart
@WestCoastEagles
, set to join Hawthorn on a five-year deal.
The premiership player flirted with a Sydney move last year and was also in talks with the Bulldogs thi syear.
Barrass is contracted until 2027.
@9NewsPerth
@FootyonNine
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•Ball of the century.
•Pietersen around his legs in Adelaide.
•Strauss 700th on Boxing Day.
•99 at the WACA.
The list is never ending.
He made things happen, when others couldn’t.
The ultimate entertainer, the best I’ve seen.
#Warnie
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BREAKING NEWS: Griffin Logue has requested a trade to leave
@freodockers
with
@NMFCOfficial
set to land him.
Darcy Tucker likely to follow suit and join Kangaroos.
Club expected to announce shortly.
@9NewsPerth
@6PRbreakfast
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When named skipper, Shannon Hurn was asked what type of captain he wanted to be.
His reply: “A premiership one.”
5 years on, he hit the job brief and some:
2018 Premiership🏆
2 x All Australian🎖
5 x Finals campaigns 🏉
3 x Ross Glendinning Medals 🏅
Well played Bunga 👏
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☀️SONNY SWEENEY☀️
Born October 27,2022.
Pure joy, love and happiness.
In awe of my strong, beautiful wife Ness.
Life is so much better ❤️
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Actual footage of
@matt_pavlich
listening to
@RalphyHeraldSun
describe the “nightmare” scenario Melbourne players face having to travel on game day.
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Luke Edwards appears an inspired selection by
@WestCoastEagles
at pick 52.
Composed, skilful and quality decision maker - like his old man.
27 touches against the reigning premiers in second game = Round 13 Rising Star
#AFLEaglesTigers
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On the road.
Separated from families.
COVID hit.
4/25.
Best of the lot.
#MADETOUGH
how appropriate!!
🏆🏆🏆🏆
@ScorchersBBL
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.
@freodockers
captain Alex Pearce reveals the umpire told him he didn’t hear exactly what Jordan Clark said despite paying a free-kick paid for umpire dissent in the dying moments of the loss to Carlton.
@9NewsPerth
@FootyonNine
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How
@freodockers
are underdogs for
@westernbulldogs
game is beyond me.
-Beat them 7 weeks ago.
-Naughton + Darcy combined for 5/10 goals, neither are playing and Freo's defence is best in comp.
-No Alex Keath.
-Freo are 2/2 at Marvel, 4/6 interstate this year.
#AFL
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Interesting to see if all
@AFL
clubs will follow the same training restrictions
@WestCoastEagles
and
@freodockers
must adhere to this week.
Both clubs closed tomorrow, one hour training a day with one training partner.
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What a shambles 🤷♂️😷
Tonight’s
@PerthWildcats
game WITH crowd, in ENCLOSED venue, with masks.
Tonight’s
@westernforce
game WITH crowd, masks only after first 15 minutes.
Tomorrow’s
@freodockers
and
@NMFCOfficial
goes ahead, NO crowd.
@9NewsPerth
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Life is pretty good for Max Duffy 🏈
He’s dominated American football and considered the best College punter after leading
@UKFootball
to multiple successes🏆💍
His transformation from dumped
@freodockers
, to potential NFL hopeful 🏟⬇️
@Max__Duffy
@ProkickAus
@9NewsPerth
📺9️⃣
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.
@WestCoastEagles
Liam Ryan should be an All Australian forward pocket.
As important as his 25 goals is his score involvements.
Top 10 for competition, hardly ever wastes a ball, so dangerous.
#AFLNorthEagles
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Harley Bennell’s first
@WAFLOfficial
game in 9 months for
@PeelThunderFC
.
🏉30 disposals
🏉2 goals
🏉5 marks
Should
@freodockers
pull the trigger and give the 26-year-old another crack at the
@AFL
?
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Wishing former
@freodockers
Max Duffy all the best in his endeavours to make it as a punter with
@UKFootball
. A huge opportunity awaits and he heads to the States with a big reputation already.
@Max__Duffy
@ProkickAus
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Josh Draper. Recalled to replace the injured skipper and he delivered in the most intense moments in dying minutes.
Brilliant win, fuels belief, shapes
@freodockers
season.
#AFLSwansFreo
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I’ll never know how this
@CollingwoodFC
side lost to
@WestCoastEagles
in Round 4.
Biggest head-scratcher of 2022.
#AFLDeesPies
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Let’s lock in a Grand Final rematch to start the every season.
No debate, no discussion, just do it.
#AFLDeesDogs
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Seven years, seven long years, but
@freodockers
fans it was worth the wait.
41 points down, dead and buried.
A young team with rising confidence and no fear.
Epic showing.
#AFLFreoDogs
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Reuben Ginbey takes out the first running drill as
@WestCoastEagles
pre-season begins for 1-4 years.
Beat Campbell Chesser.
Plenty of seniors players and leaders on deck too.
Gov, Barrass, Allen, Duggan, Cripps, Sheed among them.
@9NewsPerth
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Jayden Hunt and
@WestCoastEagles
have agreed to a 3-year deal after meeting Adam Simpson in Perth this week.
Hunt’s an unrestricted free agent, meaning Eagles don’t need to trade for him.
He’s 27, with 114 games experience and adds much needed pace.
@9NewsPerth
@6PRbreakfast
Melbourne's Jayden Hunt could land at
@WestCoastEagles
as early as tomorrow when free agency period opens.
Eagles have been keeping an eye on Hunt for some time, coach Adam Simpson meeting with him.
His pace would be welcome off half-back or wing.
@6PRbreakfast
@9NewsPerth
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Open and honest, excited yet bitterly disappointed. A few emotions for former
@WestCoastFever
goal attack Nat Medhurst as she embarks on a new challenge at
@magpies_netball
.
@natmedhurst
@SuperNetball
@9NewsPerth
⚫️⚪️
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Jacob van Rooyen comes out of contract in 2025, the same year we’re likely to get a result from his AFL’s Appeals Board hearing.
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So Michael Christian has concluded:
*Nat Fyfe elbow - no issue ✅
*Gary Ablett elbow - no issue ✅
*Jeremy McGovern - $2000 fine ❌
Lead with your elbows kids.
#AFL
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Jeremy Sharp is keen to be a Docker.
Believe
@GoldCoastSUNS
want
@freodockers
future second round pick from losing Griffin Logue, Dockers instead keen on offering their second rounder.
Sharp is contracted, but believe a deal is still likely.
@9NewsPerth
@6PRbreakfast
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Nic Naitanui made it through today’s main training with flying colours. The trademark leap was back, so too running at full speed during the 90-minute session. The
@WestCoastEagles
star ruckman is set to return for
#AFL
finals.
@9NewsPerth
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Adam Simpson is going nowhere.
The
@WestCoastEagles
won't be moving on their premiership coach, who is contracted until 2025.
Understand a statement from the club will be released shortly stating exactly that.
@9NewsPerth
@FootyonNine
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Melbourne's Jayden Hunt could land at
@WestCoastEagles
as early as tomorrow when free agency period opens.
Eagles have been keeping an eye on Hunt for some time, coach Adam Simpson meeting with him.
His pace would be welcome off half-back or wing.
@6PRbreakfast
@9NewsPerth
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Jake Waterman takes out
@WestCoastEagles
brutal running drill.
Huge effort considering his serious health battle to end last year.
Beat home Gaff, Duggan and Cole.
Younger group doing seperate running session.
Draftees being eased into pre-season.
@9NewsPerth
@FootyonNine
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Cameron Zurhaar copped a $2000 when pushing David Mirra into the fence last year. Could easily argue this was worse than McGovern’s shove on Guelfi.
#AFL
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Much loved and respected
@freodockers
Alex Pearce set to sign multi-year deal.
Battled serious leg injuries, restricting him to 75 games over 9 seasons.
Captained in Nat Fyfe's absence, huge part of Fremantle push for first flag.
@6PRbreakfast
@9NewsPerth
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Nic Naitanui becomes a three-time All Australian.
Monty to add a second Worsfold Medal this year to go with 200+ games.
Stellar career considering two knee reconstructions and plays the game like no ruckman before him.
@WestCoastEagles
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Connor West to make debut against Crows on Sunday.
Tough, hard-running midfielder who tackles. Arrived at
@WestCoastEagles
in last month's mid-season draft.
@6PRbreakfast
@9NewsPerth
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.
@OptusStadium
is a sea of blue this morning for tonight’s match between
@ChelseaFC
and
@PerthGloryFC
. We’re live at 7am for special coverage on
@9NewsPerth
⚽️ 🥅
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At 37, Shaun Marsh has been named Male Domestic Player of the Year....wait for it.....for the second straight year!!!!
#AusCricketAwards
@WACA_Cricket
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An indigenous Australian on debut, in front of his home crowd at the mighty MCG at the Boxing Day Test, brings the old enemy to their knees to retain the
#Ashes
Scott Boland, one of the great stories of 2021.
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.
@freodockers
Neil Erasmus spent a night in hospital this week due to severe dehydration, paying the price after winning two of the 4 x 1km time trials.
Erasmus is expected to return to training next week.
Not the best birthday present, who turned 19 today.
@9NewsPerth
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Gold Coast's Jeremy Sharp is keen to move back to WA after 23 games in three seasons.
.
@GoldCoastSUNS
hold the upper hand given he's contracted for 2023.
Believe
@freodockers
are better placed than
@WestCoastEagles
could get a deal done.
@9NewsPerth
@6PRbreakfast
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Positive signs for
@freodockers
Darcy Tucker, walking laps after suffering a seizure in Sunday’s Western Derby win.
@9NewsPerth
@6PRbreakfast
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Out of contract
@freodockers
Adam Cerra will recommit to club.
Working through details and may take time, but likely to be 4-year deal.
Recently purchased Vic property, but happy and settled in WA.
Brayshaw, Serong, Young, Chapman all locked in🔒
@6PRbreakfast
@9NewsPerth
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Anyone with me in thinking Shannon Hurn should captain
@WestCoastEagles
in Western Derby 52?
Breaks
@WestCoastEagles
games record, premiership skipper, missing Shuey + McGovern.
Think it would be a hit with fans, might spark WC after Cats performance.
@6PRbreakfast
@G_Parker
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One of the big questions in 2019 is can Garrick Ibbotson get through another year as a poster boy on
@freodockers
Subi team store? Retired August 2017.
#notdonewithyet
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And to think this
@ScorchersBBL
outfit is missing Marsh, Green, Agar, Du Plessis, Salt, Mills and Evans.
Crazy and scary good.
#BBL12
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.
@PerthWildcats
captain Damian Martin has agreed to go around for a 13th
@NBL
season. Jesse Wagstaff set to follow suit, the veterans chasing their 6th ring. 🏀🏆
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.
@WestCoastEagles
have begun talks to extend Reuben Ginbey’s contract past 2024.
The 18 year-old has played every game in his debut year, winning a Rising Star nomination in his first Western Derby.
Key piece of the Eagles rebuild.
@9NewsPerth
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Superstar
@samkerr1
is back on home soil.
The West Aussie champion chats exclusively to
@9NewsPerth
.
Tune in now.
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Blowing a final quarter lead, at home, against the last-placed team.
Tonight’s
@WestCoastEagles
defeat may just be the worst of the past three weeks.
#AFLEaglesNorth
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Mitch Marsh is tonight on his way to
#CWC19
to join
@cricketcomau
teammates, replacing Marcus Stoinis who has a side strain.
@9NewsPerth
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Luke Jackson won’t request trade to
@freodockers
, but it’s what he wants, touring facilities today.
@melbournefc
playing hard ball, turning down Freo’s pick 13 and 2023 first.
@WestCoastEagles
only chance is if he walks to pre-season draft.
@9NewsPerth
@6PRbreakfast
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Dom Sheed facing 15 weeks out - syndesmosis injury and will have surgery this week.
Campbell Chesser’s bone and ligament damage likely to be a 3 month setback for the highly touted
@WestCoastEagles
recruit.
@9NewsPerth
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Jhaniele Fowler’s mother, daughter and brother have watched all year in Jamaica, but they’ve finally arrived in Perth for good. Get the feeling Dorothy, Drehannah and Devante will make
@SuperNetball
best player even harder to stop.
#FeverFamily
#GotGrit
@WestCoastFever
🏐🇯🇲
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An unvaccinated French backpacker was allowed into WA? 🤔🤷♂️😷
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Massive improvement from
@WestCoastEagles
.
Highest score of year, brought pressure and fight.
Question is can they maintain that going forward?
Harley Reid big chance for Rising Star nomination.
Great goal, 18 touches, 7 tackles, 6 score involvements.
#AFLEaglesSwans
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The goal umpire appears to have made the wrong call and the ARC isn’t working.
Side on replay shows ball was above the goalpost padding, other angles show ball clear of post.
Surely
@AFL
must investigate, given the Crows season depends on it.
#AFLCrowsSwans
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Hugh Dixon gets an AFL lifeline with
@WestCoastEagles
.
Played one game for
@freodockers
in 2019.
@6PRbreakfast
@9NewsPerth
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171 points......a new record loss for
@WestCoastEagles
.
You would expect significant fallout and change is coming.
#AFLSwansEagles
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From finals hopefuls to premiership contenders.
Been a bloody big fortnight for
@freodockers
#AFLFreoLions
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.
@WestCoastEagles
would jump at trading their future first round pick, IF it meant securing Daniel Curtin.
But why would Alastair Clarkson meet Curtin on Draft eve, only to twice overlook him tomorrow, when Ben McKay has just left?
Curtin fills a need for North.
#AFLDraft
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Noah Long says close mate Harley Reid would have no issues fitting in with young group and life in WA if
@WestCoastEagles
take him in Draft.
Also talks about taking Luke Shuey’s
#13
and why Reuben Ginbey is setting the pace this pre-season.
@9NewsPerth
at 6.
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Jack Darling laid a career-high 12 tackles today.
His previous best was 10, a decade ago.
Reward for effort too on the scoreboard, his three majors the best return this season in
@WestCoastEagles
upset win.
#AFLEaglesDees
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EXCLUSIVE: Don Pyke will become
@WestCoastEagles
new CEO, announcement expected today.
Takes over from Trevor Nisbett, who leaves by Christmas at the latest.
A dual Eagles premiership player, Pyke is highly touted in footy and business circles.
@9NewsPerth
@6PR
@FootyonNine
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It’s becoming increasingly like Tom Barrass has played his last
@WestCoastEagles
game, set to seek a trade to Hawthorn.
Very timely signing with his successor Harry Edwards recommitting for 3 years, turning down east coast interest.
@9NewsPerth
@FootyonNine
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Luke Ryan
2016: Pick 66, mature age recruit.
2020: All Australian, Doig Medalist
@freodockers
#DoigMedal
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Shannon Hurn to play on in 2023 for an 18th season.
Parties agreed on new deal for the
@WestCoastEagles
games record holder + premiership captain.
The 34 year-old played 19 matches this year, ending with 32 touches against the Cats - his season high.
@6PRbreakfast
@9NewsPerth
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Recently retired
@freodockers
great David Mundy one of five judges to vote on the Norm Smith Medal.
Andrew McLeod, Jonathan Brown, Abbey Holmes and Michael Gleeson the others.
#AFLGrandFinal
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Multiple footy watchers rate Elijah Hewitt as WA’s best talent in this year’s
#AFLDraft
.
Great selection at 14. Adding another quality mid in Reuben Ginbey at 9 and
@WestCoastEagles
decision to split pick 2 was warranted.
Both keys to fast-tracking rebuild.
@9NewsPerth
@6PR
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Consecutive
@WestCoastEagles
wins for the first time since Rounds 18 and 19 in 2021.
Think many of the fan base will be especially pleased it’s been broken by victory over arch-rival
@freodockers
#AFLEaglesFreo
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Jack Darling’s career is in serious doubt.
@9NewsPerth
understands the 28 year-old remains unvaccinated, having missed several planned appointments by
@WestCoastEagles
to receive the jab.
Today was the day all WA based players had to meet the AFL’s second jab deadline.
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20 years in the making.
Ashley Sampi receives his 2003 Glendinning-Allen Medal from Ross Glendinning at
@WestCoastEagles
Derby lunch.
@9NewsPerth
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My understanding is Jordan Clark will be at
@freodockers
next year.
Cats tried the Hail Mary with chasing Dockers pick 8, but will eventually settle on a deal, allowing Clark to return home.
Still a bit to work through, but Clarke to run out in purple in 2022.
@9NewsPerth
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Nic Martin.
Jan, 21' - Pre-season with
@WestCoastEagles
, overlooked.
2021 WAFL season - 24 goals in 17 games +
@subiacolions
flag.
Jan, 22' - Pre-season with
@essendonfc
.
Feb, 22' - Signs with Bombers.
March 19, 22' - 5 goals, 27 disposals on debut at MCG.
#AFLCatsBombers
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A gun filly from the West could replace Winx as Australia's Queen of the Turf.
Arcadia Queen is chasing glory in the richest race on turf and has joined the same Sydney stable as the mighty mare.
@PerthRacing
@racing_nsw
@atc_races
@cwallerracing
@royalrandwick
#TheEverest
🏇
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Winners are grinners.
@natmedhurst
gets the W on her return to Perth as
@magpies_netball
close the gap on the top four in their bid for a maiden finals campaign.
@SuperNetball
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Nick Kyrgios showed more application, care, emotion and vulnerability this summer than we’ve seen his entire career 👏💪
The platform is set for Nick to become the genuine star many believe he can be.
#AusOpen2020
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