WA Football

The West Australian Football Commission, in partnership with the Subiaco District, has appointed Cindy Dunham as Chair of the Subiaco District Football Development Council to replace long serving volunteer Wayne Morling.

Ms Dunham is the General Manager Operations, Australia West, for Rio Tinto Procurement and has worked in senior procurement roles in the resources industry in Western Australia for the past 12 years. More recently her responsibilities have included procurement planning and execution of Newmont’s $3.3 billion Boddington Gold Mine Project.

WAFC Director of Game Development Warren Nel said the WAFC and Subiaco District were very excited to welcome Ms Dunham aboard and looking forward to the wealth of business knowledge and acumen she would bring to the role of District Chair.

THERE is four big games in Round 10 of the 2013 WAFL season on Saturday with top taking on bottom, second spot up for grabs, the two AFL-linked clubs battling and two others in a clash just to stay in touch with the top-four.

The unbeaten Claremont heads to Fremantle Oval to take on a South Fremantle side coming off its first win of 2013 while West Perth hosts Perth at Arena Joondalup, Peel Thunder takes on East Perth at Mandurah's Bendigo Bank Stadium and Swan Districts battles Subiaco at Bassendean's Steel Blue Oval.

The fourth-placed East Fremantle has the bye following its Foxtel Cup victory over Norwood at AAMI Stadium in Adelaide on Tuesday night.

SOUTH Fremantle coach Paul Hasleby was relieved to get the Bulldogs' first win of the season over Peel but was most proud that his team responded to being challenged in the third quarter to run away with the 15-point victory.

The Bulldogs came out on fire on Saturday at Fremantle Oval kicking the first five goals of the game against Peel and still led by 20 points at half-time.

However, the Thunder hit back during the third quarter and closed to within a point during the last.

That same scenario has happened several times so far this season with South Fremantle unable to get over the line, but on Saturday it was the Bulldogs who finished the stronger to win by 15 points much to the relief of Hasleby.

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RYAN Lester-Smith has been East Fremantle's surprise packet up forward all season in the WAFL to date and he stepped up when it mattered on Tuesday night to kick the winning goal in the Sharks' seven-point Foxtel Cup victory against Norwood at AAMI Stadium.

In driving rain and on a slippery surface in Adelaide, goals became increasingly hard to come by as the game went on but it was East Fremantle who kicked the only two of the second half, to Adrian Ricciardello in the third quarter, and Lester-Smith in the last to secure the hard fought 6.6 (42) to 4.11 (35) win.

Both sides were well below full strength with reigning SANFL premiers Norwood coming off a 25-point win over South Adelaide on Saturday night while last year's WAFL grand finalists East Fremantle lost to Claremont by 42 points on Saturday before flying to Adelaide on Monday.