A crowd of 7279 turned up to Medibank Stadium on 6th March to watch a pre-season AFL NAB Challenge game hosted by the Town of Vincent together with the Subiaco and East Perth Football Clubs.  West Coast Eagles delighted their fans with a comprehensive win over Carlton.

Medibank Stadium (formerly Leederville Oval)  has proved to be a first choice of venues to play big games that cannot be hosted at Subiaco Oval.  This is the second AFL pre-season game played at Medibank Stadium with the first being between West Coast Eagles and Hawthorn in 2005.  In recent years this venue has also hosted numerous State games and WAFL finals.

The teams were very complimentary of the first rate facilities at Medibank Stadium.  Subiaco CEO Jeff Lind said “the investment by the Town of Vincent and the improvements made by the Subiaco and East Perth Football Clubs has ensured that Medibank Stadium is regarded as the best community based sporting venue in WA”.  On the 22nd May this year Medibank Stadium will host the State game WA vs Victoria.

A highlight of the day was the opportunity by Town of Vincent CEO, John Giorgi, to toss the coin.  It was a rare opportunity to meet two greats of the game in Darren Glass and Chris Judd, the respective captains of Westr Coast and Carlton.

Haydn Bunton Jnr is regarded as one of Subiaco's all time coaches and last night was elevated to Legend Status in the WA Football Hall of Fame.

Bunton had a successful coaching career and is Subiaco's longest serving coach having coached for 14 years over two periods, from 1968-1972 and 1984-1992.  In that time he coached Subiaco to contest the finals on nine (9) occasions and to five (5) grand finals. Under Haydn subiaco won WAFL premierships in 1986 and 1988.Bunton was also selected as coach of Subiaco's Team of the Century.

Bunton joins Barry Cable, George Doig, Graham Farmer, Stan (Pops) Heal, Steve Marsh, George Moloney, Merv McIntosh, Graham Moss, Jack Sheedy,
John Todd, Williams (Nipper) Truscott & Bill Walker in one of WA's most prestegious lists.

Haydn Bunton was regarded as a tough and skilful player and was a very successful coach in both Western Australia and South Australia.  He was inducted into the coaches section of the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, as well as the Western Australian Institute of Sport Hall of Champions in 2003 and he was made an inaugural member of the WA Football Hall of Fame in 2004 and SA Football Hall of Fame in 2002.

He was named an All-Australian player at the age of 19, in 1956, while at North Adelaide in the SANFL.  In 1956 he finished runner-up for the Magarey Medal.  In 1957, as a 20 year old he was a non-playing coach of Norwood, having "stood out" as a player for the year due to a transfer dispute with North Adelaide.  In 1958-60, he played for Norwood, in spite of a serious knee injury sustained in a car accident in Tasmania in 1959.

Haydn enjoyed another remarkable year in 1961, when he was recruited by Swan Districts in the WAFL as captain-coach, captained Western Australia to a rare win at the Australian championships, and he oversaw Swan Districts' first ever premiership, the first of three consecutive premierships for the club. The following year he won the Sandover Medal, completing a unique father and son achievement.  In 1965-67, he returned to Norwood.

Jeff Lind said “Haydn Bunton has a special place in the history of the Subiaco Football Club. He is highly respected by everyone and we consider ourselves very fortunate that Haydn continues to have an active interest in our Club.  He is a true legend in every sense of the word."

 

2010 WAFL VARIETY PRESEASON CHALLENGE

Round 4: South Fremantle vs. Subiaco  – Saturday 13th March

League - 3.25pm
Reserves- 5.50pm

Colts hit it out under lights at South Fremantle Oval this Friday night. Come down and show your support for the future of the club with bounce down at 5.30pm

Entry is $5 & Children under 16 are FREE

 

Played at Leederville with good conditions

We had a young side in again. We got off to a good start. We played some good attacking footy kicking six goals in the opening quarter.

Our second and third quarters we went away from our game plan instead off attacking we started to chip the ball around which suited the Sharks game plan and they got to far in front.

The last quarter we started to play to our game plan and we outscored them in the last quarter.

Next week we must try to be consistent for a full 4 quarters.

Josh Wooden

Reserves Coach 

The Colts have their jumper presentation next Monday night (15th March) at Medibank Stadium.The night will commence at 6pm, with Paul Tonich as the key speaker for the evening.  The boys will be congratulated on all their efforts for far and it will be a good opportunity to get everyone together (players, parents and coaches) before the season commences.

This Thursday night (11th March) the 16's Program will have their jumper presentation evening at Medibank Stadium.This will be an informal evening with the coaches congratulating the players on their training for far in the program.  The carnival for the 16's will then get underway the following week.