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 LOCK in Sunday, September 21 as WAFL grand final day. Since 2002 the biggest game on the WAFL calendar has been played on a Sunday and despite West Coast and Fremantle not participating in this year’s AFL finals, 2008 will be no different. Attracting an atmosphere-creating crowd was the impetus behind the WAFC chief executives voting again for a Sunday grand final. By avoiding any clash with a live telecast of the AFL preliminary final was another primary reason for not playing the game on Saturday.
However, as a way of maintaining some long-running WAFL tradition, the semi-finals and the preliminary final will still be played on a Saturday. “It is an event that people want to come to and by playing the game on Sunday we open up the possibility of attending to potentially thousands more people who don’t have work or sporting commitments on that day of the weekend. “Last year we had entertainers around the Subiaco Oval precinct to entertain the families and we will be doing the same thing this year.” The WAFL semi-finals will be played at the home grounds of the first and third-placed teams on Saturday, September 6 with the preliminary final to be played at the home ground of the winner loser of the second semi-final on Saturday, September 13. |
