2007 WAFL season
| 2007 WAFL season | |
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| Teams | 9 |
| Premiers |
Subiaco (9th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Claremont (12th minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 94 |
| Bernie Naylor Medallist | Brad Smith (Subiaco) |
| Sandover Medallist | Anthony Jones (Claremont) |
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2008 →
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The 2007 WAFL season was the 123rd season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League. The season saw Subiaco, confounding the critics who expected them to slip after winning their second premiership in three years, win their second consecutive premiership for the first time in ninety-four seasons, with injury-plagued forward Brad Smith overcoming two reconstructions that wiped out 2005 and 2006 to kick 126 goals for the season, the most in the WAFL since Warren Ralph kicked 128 for Claremont in 1983. Smith also achieved the unique feat for a full-forward of winning the Simpson Medal in the Grand Final.
The top three teams between 2004 and 2006 – the Lions, Claremont and South Fremantle – maintained their tight grip in 2007, though there were notable improvements from East Fremantle, who had won a mere nineteen games between 2003 and 2006 but rose to nine victories in 2007, and East Perth, who returned to the finals for the first time in four seasons. Claremont won eighteen of nineteen matches after two opening losses before their inexperience told against the hardened Lions in the Grand Final, resulting in a short but quite steep fall in the following two seasons.
East Fremantle break a record sequence of thirteen straight losses against their derby rivals, with their previous win having been on Foundation Day of 2002.
Subiaco’s 154-point win is their biggest over former rival South Fremantle and Bradley Smith’s thirteen goals a record for any Subiaco player against the Bulldogs
For the first and only time in their history, Swan Districts lose three consecutive matches by over 100 points.
Peel record their highest aggregate score on record of 290 points, beating their previous 2000 record against Swan Districts by nineteen. East Perth amazingly kick 7.11 (53) in the third quarter but 5.0 (30) in the last.
Seventeen-year-old rover Daniel Rich dominates around the ground to crush the Bulldogs, who kick only 3.5 (23) to 17.9 (111) after half-time.
Two medals in the Grand Final cap an amazing comeback for Brad Smith and give Subiaco a thoroughly deserved premiership.
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