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- 1997_Westar_Rules_season abstract "The 1997 Westar Rules season was the 113th season of senior football in Perth, Western Australia. It featured a number of dramatic changes to a competition whose popularity had been dramatically reduced by the drain of players to the Eagles and Dockers of the AFL. The competition’s name was changed from the prosaic ‘West Australian Football League’ to ‘Westar Rules’ in an attempt to update the local competition for a more sophisticated audience. However, this change became regarded as unsuccessful and was reversed as per recommendations of the “Fong Report” after four seasons. West Perth also changed their name to Joondalup to recognise their location in Perth’s growing northwestern suburbs, but changed back after the ninth round.More significantly, after intense debate for a number of years about whether to expand or contract the competition, a new team, Peel Thunder, was added, despite requests from the holders of Peel’s license that they not be required to enter before 1998. This was the first change to the number of teams in the WA(N)FL for sixty-three years, and in eighteen seasons Peel have won only seventy-three matches out of 354 and have never won as many as they lost in any season, finishing bottom nine times. Along with occasional serious financial difficulties, this has produced some serious criticism of the decision in subsequent years. A proposal to limit Westar to players under 25 and a few older veterans in order to allow a better flow of players to the AFL was made during the season but rejected.Affected badly by the erratic availability of a number of AFL-listed players, reigning premiers Claremont had their worst season since 1975 and equalled East Fremantle’s decline in 1980 from premiers to only five wins, whilst Swan Districts, brilliant but erratic during 1996, began with nine wins in their first ten matches before losing eight of their next nine to miss the finals for the third successive season.On a more positive side, the season saw South Fremantle win its first premiership in seventeen seasons in a thrilling comeback Grand Final win over traditional rivals East Fremantle, and Perth have after a disastrous opening its only season with more wins than losses since 1988.".
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- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink 1973_WANFL_season.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink 1975_WANFL_season.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink 1988_WAFL_season.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink 1996_WAFL_season.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink 1998_Westar_Rules_season.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink 2000_Westar_Rules_season.
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- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Bassendean_Oval.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Brady_Anderson_(footballer).
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Bunbury,_Western_Australia.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Category:1997_in_Australian_rules_football.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Category:West_Australian_Football_League_seasons.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Claremont_Oval.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink David_Hynes.
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- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink John_Todd_(footballer).
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Jon_Dorotich.
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- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Matthew_Burton.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Perth_Oval.
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- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Scott_Simister.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Simpson_Medal.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Subiaco_Oval.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Thunderstorm.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Travis_Edmonds.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Troy_Ugle.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Troy_Wilson_(Australian_rules_footballer).
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Wayne_Blackwell.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink West_Coast_Eagles.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink West_Perth_Football_Club.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLink Winston_Abraham.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLinkText "1997 Westar Rules season".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLinkText "1997 season".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLinkText "1997".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLinkText "In 1997".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLinkText "Westar Rules".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLinkText "during 1997".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLinkText "in 1997".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season wikiPageWikiLinkText "since 1997".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season awayFinal "13.7".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season awayQ "3.1".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season awayQ "6.2".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season awayQ "8.5".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season bogAward Simpson_Medal.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season bogWinner "David Hynes".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season competition "wafl".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season count "11".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season crowd "32371".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season date "--09-19".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season homeFinal "11.13".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season homeQ "10.1".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season homeQ "5.4".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season homeQ "8.6".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season matches "94".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season mpcount "10".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season nextseason "1998".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season prevseason "1996".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season sandoverMedal "Brady Anderson".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season teams "9".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season title "1997".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season topGoalScorer "Jon Dorotich".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season venue Subiaco_Oval.
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- 1997_Westar_Rules_season winner "A".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season year "1997".
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season subject Category:1997_in_Australian_rules_football.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season subject Category:West_Australian_Football_League_seasons.
- 1997_Westar_Rules_season hypernym Season.