Subi Lions Supporters Thread

Remove this Banner Ad

Neuromancer said:
Just read the thread, thanks mate. Disappointing from Hampson. Seems Subi hasnt really missed a beat after dismantling Souths on the weekend. Although we did have that heavy loss to the Royals so maybe it won't be all smooth sailing this year.
Click to expand...

They lost a lot of experience over the pre season and before the season started I really thought they'd struggle in the ruck. Based on only seeing his H/O stats David Madut looks to have made a smooth transition from colts and reserves to regular league but averaging 27 H/O's a game. Brett Robinson was obviously a key midfield inclusion as well and averaging 20 touches a game.

Shane Yarran is someone who has showed consistency so far in 2015, 6.1 from 7 kicks on the weekend and an early bolter for the Bernie Naylor
 
Neuromancer said:
Hey guys, whats the go with George Hampson playing for East Freo this year? I read an article saying that he "had to get away from the coach". I had no idea until today that he'd moved!
Click to expand...

getgaff said:
This came from Ljp86 in the 2015 WAFL Player Movements thread http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/2015-player-movements.1081679/page-2



Couple of people with associations at Subi mentioned that he wasn't willing to pull his weight at a pre season camp which was effectively the straw that broke the camel's back. Made him unpopular amongst his team mates who already had indifferences with him.

Got what he would of wanted out of Subi with a flag than decided enough is enough maybe.
Click to expand...

Neuromancer said:
Just read the thread, thanks mate. Disappointing from Hampson. Seems Subi hasnt really missed a beat after dismantling Souths on the weekend. Although we did have that heavy loss to the Royals so maybe it won't be all smooth sailing this year.
Click to expand...

He'd had a few issues with Jarrad Schofield in the past and the incident at pre-season training where he was told off for wearing the wrong pre-season training shirt was the last straw for him. There was also issues between him and other members of the football department and also with other players. So he decided it would be best for him to leave and duly headed to East Fremantle.
 
getgaff said:
They lost a lot of experience over the pre season and before the season started I really thought they'd struggle in the ruck. Based on only seeing his H/O stats David Madut looks to have made a smooth transition from colts and reserves to regular league but averaging 27 H/O's a game. Brett Robinson was obviously a key midfield inclusion as well and averaging 20 touches a game.

Shane Yarran is someone who has showed consistency so far in 2015, 6.1 from 7 kicks on the weekend and an early bolter for the Bernie Naylor
Click to expand...

Madut has been thrown in the deep end this season and is doing a reasonable job. He had to take the lead role on the weekend with Delahunty out injured and also Stockley out for the season.

Still have Delahunty, Horsley and Boland to return over the next few weeks.
 

Log in to remove this ad.

Ljp86 said:
He'd had a few issues with Jarrad Schofield in the past and the incident at pre-season training where he was told off for wearing the wrong pre-season training shirt was the last straw for him. There was also issues between him and other members of the football department and also with other players. So he decided it would be best for him to leave and duly headed to East Fremantle.
Click to expand...

Yeah the version I heard was more along these lines in being a fair bit more sympathetic to Hampson as opposed to what was written on the preivous page. Both he and Schofield are very set in their ways that have made them successful, sad that they felt they couldn't continue working together.
 
Congratulations to Austin Robertson Jr who was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame tonight. :thumbsu:

Robertson Jr is a legend in WA football circles and is arguably the greatest full forward that Western Australia has ever produced and is perhaps one of the best ever. Over his career he kicked 1211 goals for Subiaco from 251 games in the then WANFL which remains the league record. This included a record haul of 162 goals in 1968. He won the WANFL's Bernie Naylor medal (leading goalkicker award) eight times, a feat which stands far apart from the other multiple award winners of the medal. He also won Subiaco Leading Goalkicker award 12 times which was every season he played at the Lions. Robertson Jr also played in a premiership with Subiaco in 1973 which was his only Grand Final over his career which spanned from 1962 to 1974.

He also spent one season in the VFL at South Melbourne in 1966, the same club his father Austin Robertson Sr played for from 1927 to 1937. To add to that, Robertson Jr played 10 games for Western Australia, booting 44 goals.


Austin Robertson Jr

Games: 279 (Subiaco 251, South Melbourne 18, Western Australia 10)
Goals: 1315 (Subiaco 1211, South Melbourne 60, Western Australia 44)
Bernie Naylor Medallist: 8 (1962, 1964-1965, 1968-1972)
Subiaco Leading Goalkicker: 12 (1962-1965, 1967-1974)
Subiaco Best and Fairest: 2 (1965 & 1968)
South Melbourne Leading Goalkicker: 1 (1966)
Premierships: 1 (1973 - Subiaco)
Subiaco Team of the Century: Full Forward

2015 Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee


:thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu:
 
Last edited:
Ljp86 said:
Congratulations to Austin Robertson Jr who was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame tonight. :thumbsu:

Robertson Jr is a legend in WA football circles and is arguably the greatest full forward that Western Australia has ever produced and is perhaps one of the best ever. Over his career he kicked 1211 goals for Subiaco from 251 games in the then WANFL which remains the league record. This included a record haul of 162 goals in 1968. He won the WANFL's Bernie Naylor medal (leading goalkicker award) eight times, a feat which stands far apart from the other multiple award winners of the medal. He also won Subiaco Leading Goalkicker award 12 times which was every season he played at the Lions. Robertson Jr also played in a premiership with Subiaco in 1973 which was his only Grand Final over his career which spanned from 1962 to 1974.

He also spent one season in the VFL at South Melbourne in 1966, the same club his father Austin Robertson Sr played for from 1927 to 1937. To add to that, Robertson Jr played 10 games for Western Australia, booting 44 goals.


Austin Robertson Jr

Games: 279 (Subiaco 251, South Melbourne 18, Western Australia 10)
Goals: 1313 (Subiaco 1211, South Melbourne 60, Western Australia 44)
Bernie Naylor Medallist: 8 (1962, 1964-1965, 1968-1972)
Subiaco Leading Goalkicker: 12 (1962-1965, 1967-1974)
Subiaco Best and Fairest: 2 (1965 & 1968)
South Melbourne Leading Goalkicker: 1 (1966)
Premierships: 1 (1973 - Subiaco)
Subiaco Team of the Century: Full Forward

2015 Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee


:thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu:
Click to expand...
This is a very proud day for me as a Lions supporter since birth and (as I am a Member For Life) to death. Ooby ******* dooby!
 
Ljp86 said:
Congratulations to Austin Robertson Jr who was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame tonight. :thumbsu:

Robertson Jr is a legend in WA football circles and is arguably the greatest full forward that Western Australia has ever produced and is perhaps one of the best ever. Over his career he kicked 1211 goals for Subiaco from 251 games in the then WANFL which remains the league record. This included a record haul of 162 goals in 1968. He won the WANFL's Bernie Naylor medal (leading goalkicker award) eight times, a feat which stands far apart from the other multiple award winners of the medal. He also won Subiaco Leading Goalkicker award 12 times which was every season he played at the Lions. Robertson Jr also played in a premiership with Subiaco in 1973 which was his only Grand Final over his career which spanned from 1962 to 1974.

He also spent one season in the VFL at South Melbourne in 1966, the same club his father Austin Robertson Sr played for from 1927 to 1937. To add to that, Robertson Jr played 10 games for Western Australia, booting 44 goals.


Austin Robertson Jr

Games: 279 (Subiaco 251, South Melbourne 18, Western Australia 10)
Goals: 1313 (Subiaco 1211, South Melbourne 60, Western Australia 44)
Bernie Naylor Medallist: 8 (1962, 1964-1965, 1968-1972)
Subiaco Leading Goalkicker: 12 (1962-1965, 1967-1974)
Subiaco Best and Fairest: 2 (1965 & 1968)
South Melbourne Leading Goalkicker: 1 (1966)
Premierships: 1 (1973 - Subiaco)
Subiaco Team of the Century: Full Forward

2015 Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee


:thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu:
Click to expand...

Well overdue recognition!! Enjoy reading his article in the Western Suburbs Weekly.
 
Glory glory Subiaco, the team is striving on!! What a wonderful performance, the last couple of seasons has been fantastic. No question now that this club has had such a prosperous time over the past 30 years and is easily the club's most successful era.

Great8 said:
Best side of the season, deserved Premiership.
Was there a decent crowd there?
Click to expand...

13,094 according to the west.
 
Ljp86 said:
Glory glory Subiaco, the team is striving on!! What a wonderful performance, the last couple of seasons has been fantastic. No question now that this club has had such a prosperous time over the past 30 years and is easily the club's most successful era.



13,094 according to the west.
Click to expand...
Sorry to hear.
Hope you enjoy the well earnt celebrations.
Has the crowd been affected by the inclusion of the AFL reserves or was it as simple as everyone in Perth all footied out this weekend?
 
Great8 said:
Sorry to hear.
Hope you enjoy the well earnt celebrations.
Has the crowd been affected by the inclusion of the AFL reserves or was it as simple as everyone in Perth all footied out this weekend?
Click to expand...

Thanks, its certainly been a period of great joy for the club, particularly after going through a long drought during the middle of the previous century.

I think it has been to a point. Last year was the first full year of the alignment between West Coast Eagles and East Perth and also between Fremantle and Peel Thunder. I know that the remaining seven unaligned clubs (the "G7" as they've been dubbed) aren't happy with the arrangement and I think a fair portion of the public aren't either. As a result the crowd last year in the game between East Perth and Subiaco was very low at around 11,000 which is the lowest it's been for a long time although the 35mm of rain we had that day didn't help either. There were also people who didn't go the game last year as a "protest vote" to an aligned team being in the Grand Final.

This year though that reason probably doesn't have as much of an influence as no aligned teams were in the Grand Final. The weather was good today as well so it was a really good day to go to the footy. The main reasons for today's lower drawing crowd would be down to Subiaco generally being a lower crowd drawing club, the Perth Royal Show being on plus the fact it's a long weekend with tomorrow being a public holiday. With the AFL GF being a week later than normal, the WAFL GF is also a week later as well. Normally the WAFL GF is held a week before the Perth Royal Show begins and also the weekend before the long weekend we get at the end of September.
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

Ljp86 said:
Thanks, its certainly been a period of great joy for the club, particularly after going through a long drought during the middle of the previous century.

I think it has been to a point. Last year was the first full year of the alignment between West Coast Eagles and East Perth and also between Fremantle and Peel Thunder. I know that the remaining seven unaligned clubs (the "G7" as they've been dubbed) aren't happy with the arrangement and I think a fair portion of the public aren't either. As a result the crowd last year in the game between East Perth and Subiaco was very low at around 11,000 which is the lowest it's been for a long time although the 35mm of rain we had that day didn't help either. There were also people who didn't go the game last year as a "protest vote" to an aligned team being in the Grand Final.

This year though that reason probably doesn't have as much of an influence as no aligned teams were in the Grand Final. The weather was good today as well so it was a really good day to go to the footy. The main reasons for today's lower drawing crowd would be down to Subiaco generally being a lower crowd drawing club, the Perth Royal Show being on plus the fact it's a long weekend with tomorrow being a public holiday. With the AFL GF being a week later than normal, the WAFL GF is also a week later as well. Normally the WAFL GF is held a week before the Perth Royal Show begins and also the weekend before the long weekend we get at the end of September.
Click to expand...
Cheers, we have a heap over here who refuse to go since the AFL sides entered. Our GF only drew 25k today and the weather was amazing. VFL GF had low 20k today also. Unfortunately the days of the 40-50k crowds may have passed:(
 
Great8 said:
Cheers, we have a heap over here who refuse to go since the AFL sides entered. Our GF only drew 25k today and the weather was amazing. VFL GF had low 20k today also. Unfortunately the days of the 40-50k crowds may have passed:(
Click to expand...

Yeah, it's a league-wide thing for us over here. Ever since the full alignment came in for the last two seasons, crowds for the GF have dropped off considerably.

25K is still a pretty good effort. Our GF's used to get 25K till about a few years ago, if a high drawing club like West Perth, Swan Districts, South Fremantle or East Fremantle were playing we'd crack 30K. You're right though, it's hard to see a state league GF drawing crowds of 35K+ anymore.

Nonetheless though, a fantastic performance by Subiaco today. A deserved 13th premiership. :thumbsu:
 
Ljp86 said:
Congratulations to Austin Robertson Jr who was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame tonight. :thumbsu:

Robertson Jr is a legend in WA football circles and is arguably the greatest full forward that Western Australia has ever produced and is perhaps one of the best ever. Over his career he kicked 1211 goals for Subiaco from 251 games in the then WANFL which remains the league record. This included a record haul of 162 goals in 1968. He won the WANFL's Bernie Naylor medal (leading goalkicker award) eight times, a feat which stands far apart from the other multiple award winners of the medal. He also won Subiaco Leading Goalkicker award 12 times which was every season he played at the Lions. Robertson Jr also played in a premiership with Subiaco in 1973 which was his only Grand Final over his career which spanned from 1962 to 1974.

He also spent one season in the VFL at South Melbourne in 1966, the same club his father Austin Robertson Sr played for from 1927 to 1937. To add to that, Robertson Jr played 10 games for Western Australia, booting 44 goals.


Austin Robertson Jr

Games: 279 (Subiaco 251, South Melbourne 18, Western Australia 10)
Goals: 1313 (Subiaco 1211, South Melbourne 60, Western Australia 44)
Bernie Naylor Medallist: 8 (1962, 1964-1965, 1968-1972)
Subiaco Leading Goalkicker: 12 (1962-1965, 1967-1974)
Subiaco Best and Fairest: 2 (1965 & 1968)
South Melbourne Leading Goalkicker: 1 (1966)
Premierships: 1 (1973 - Subiaco)
Subiaco Team of the Century: Full Forward

2015 Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee


:thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu:
Click to expand...

On Ockers table that night was Wally Martin who sadly passed away a couple of days ago:

Vale Wally Martin
Thursday, 28 April 2016

2016%20Wally-Martin-490x350.png


The Subiaco Football Club is saddened by the passing of former Subiaco Wingman and Life Member Wally Martin on Thursday April 27th,2016.

Wally ‘Milo’ Martin retired after playing 131 game spanning over nine seasons (1959 -1967) for the Lions. The Tall and polished Martin was indisputably one of Subiaco’s finest wingmen in the post-war era. He had underlined his class by recovering from a knee injury in 1961 to win two fairest and best awards (1963 & 1964), represent Western Australia (1964), notch 131 league games, was a member of The Champion Team 1946-1976 and became a life member in 2012.

This bloke was an artist with a football, always had plenty of time, think Pendles in the modern day. :thumbsu: One of the many A grade cricketers in his time.

Thanks for memories Wally.
 
For those unaware the Subi vs. Peel has been rescheduled to tomorrow at Domain, bounce down at 2:15.

Peel deemed the ground unsafe for there Reserves and League teams to play on...
 
Good luck boys, consign those Bulldogs to a thrashing tomorrow.

Time marches on & Subi has lost one of its greatest ever:
Laurie Kettlewell, who played 205 matches for Subiaco and was the club’s joint player of the century alongside Johnny Leonard, has died after a long illness.
He was 80.
http://www.wafootballhalloffame.com.au/inductees/5061-laurie-kettlewell

I was lucky enough to see Kettle :thumbsu: play, one of 3 brothers, think his daughter married Laurie Keene.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Ljp86
2022 WAFL Predictions Thread
Replies
5
Views
1K
sdfc
sdfc
Ljp86
2022 WAFL General Discussion & News Thread
2
Replies
45
Views
3K
Freezin
F

Remove this Banner Ad

Back
Top