EAST Perth continued its massive turnaround this season to beat Claremont on Saturday to book a finals berth as Subiaco, Swan Districts and West Perth also record final round WAFL victories.
East Perth had to beat Claremont to make the finals and overcame some inaccurate kicking to do so with a 12.23 (95) to 11.13 (79) victory at Medibank Stadium.
That made for a disappointing day for West Perth, who beat Perth 16.16 (112) to 14.3 (87), but missed out on finals with the Royals' win.
Subiaco also beat South Fremantle 33.9 (207) to 21.18 (144) in a massively high scoring contest at Fremantle Oval and Swan Districts thrashed Peel 22.25 (157) to 7.5 (47).
The results set up this week's finals that will see Claremont take on Swan Districts at Claremont Oval in the second semi-final and East Fremantle host East Perth at East Fremantle Oval in the first semi-final.
West Perth finishes fifth, Subiaco sixth, South Fremantle seventh, Peel eighth and Perth ninth.
The round was also the farewell for a host of star WAFL performers including Subiaco's Marc Webb, and West Perth's Clayton Lasscock and Callum Chambers.
THE BIG WINNERS
East Perth started the 2010 season disastrously slipping to a 2-7 record, but since then has hit back hard to now have won six straight games to book in a first finals spot since 2007.
The Royals' have now only lost to Claremont and Swan Districts since being at 2-7, and have played some inspired, tough and uncompromising football to be looking like a team capable of causing plenty of havoc come finals time.
With veterans Craig Wulff, Craig Glancy, Michael Swan, Luke Webster, Zach Beeck and Adam Pickering leading the way with the help of youngsters Aaron Sweet (pictured), Brendan Lee, Don Stirling, Tom Howlett, Jordan Eastwell, Jye Keath and Luke Sampey who are standing up strongly.
THE BIG LOSERS
Peel Thunder suffered its ninth 100-plus point loss of the season on Saturday against a Swan Districts' side that was clearly desperate to make a statement coming into the finals.
Peel has made some progress in 2010 in terms of building a better culture that should help turn the club around in the long-term once the new facility is up and running, but they have struggled to be competitive at times.
That was again the case on Saturday with Swans' simply dominating with 47 scoring shots to 12, 172 more disposals and 37 more inside-50 entries.
Peel finishes the season with nine losses of over 100 points and an average losing margin of 94, but the Thunder did win three matches and avoided the wooden spoon.
THE SHINING LIGHTS
East Perth pulled off its win over Claremont with Ben McKinley kicking four goals and Zac Clarke and Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls two each.
Aaron Sweet picked up 28 possessions, Craig Glancy 27, Brendan Lee 27, Craig Wulff 25 and Brendan Hancock 22.
Ian Richardson kicked four goals for Claremont with Byron Schammer collecting 28 disposals, Lewis Stevenson 26, Tom Swift 25, Ian Rowe 24 and Andrew Browne 22.
Marc Webb (pictured) picked up a game-high 37 possessions in the final match of his decorated career as Subiaco beat South Fremantle in an incredible shootout. Ryan Crowley and Chad Cossom also picked up 30 possessions each while kicking seven and three goals respectively.
Darren Rumble, Phil Read and Blake Broadhurst all kicked four goals each as well with Allistair Pickett, Adam 
Campbell and Ben Keevers adding three.
Toby McGrath (pictured) picked up 29 possessions in his 200th game for South Fremantle with Toby Bairstow collecting the same amount and kicking three goals. Josh Head kicked four and Kris Miller had 24 disposals, Craig White 18, Anthony Collica 17, Adam Guglielmana 17 and Sam Hunt 17.
Shane Kersten and Thomas Motlop kicked three goals each as well.
Quinten Lynch had a terrific game for West Perth with 33 possessions, 10 marks and two goals. Dustin Burns worked hard for 28 disposals, Shaun Bewick had 27, Rohan Bewick 25, Dan Hunt 22, Brent LeCras 20 and Josh Pearce 20. Anton Saylor kicked four goals.
Justin Bollenhagen kicked four goals for Perth and Matthew Moody three with Ross Young collecting 31 possessions, Tendai Mzungu 29, Dene White 28 and Michael Florio 27.
Sandover Medal favourite Andrew Krakouer (pictured) had an amazing 51 possessions for Swan Districts as it tuned up for the finals against Peel. He also took eight marks, laid five tackles, had 11 inside-50 entries and kicked a goal.
Ashley Hansen kicked five goals and Tim Geappen four with Wayde Twomey adding three to go along with 36 possessions. Clancee Pearce also had 34 touches, Josh Roberts 34, Justin Simpson 23, Stephen Coniglio 22, Graham Jetta 22, Matt Riggio 20 and Brett Robinson 20.
Tony Notte also found form with 22 touches, 21 hit outs and three goals in the absence of suspended ruckman 
Llane Spaanderman.
Brodie Filo led the way for Peel with 23 possessions and two goals. Rory O'Brien also picked up 22 touches, Kieran Butcher 21, Harley Bennell 16, Michael Holmes 16 and Blake Piggot 16.
PUSHING FOR A SPOT
Swan Districts' reserves won its first and only game for the season downing Peel by 64 points on the back of 25 possessions from Dean Ipaviz, and four goals to Johnson, Lance Daly and three to Jeremy Robinson, Josh Pullman, Daniel McDonald and two to Sylvester Calley.
Brody Culpitt kicked two goals for Peel as did David McPhan and Matthew McMahen.
West Perth's reserves had a good win over Perth with Frank Stockley kicking four goals, Jack Darling two and Alex James picking up 25 disposals and Aaron Black 24.
Brad Fry kicked five goals for Perth with Scott Siekierka collecting 28 possessions, Kade Lang 27 and Jason Brennan 24.
Tim Noakes, Jamie Del Borrello and James Farrell kicked two goals each for East Perth with Fred Clutterbuck picking up 24 touches.
Jake Murphy had 34 disposals and kicked a goal for Claremont with Tom Ayton and Henry Roberts picking up 23, Matt Orzel 18 and Nic Chidgzey 18 to go with two goals. James Thomson (pictured) also returned from an ankle injury that has kept him out since Round 7 and had 16 possessions.
Subiaco's reserves had a good win with Marty Smith kicking three goals and Rob Forrest gathering 25 possessions, Chris Phelan 24 and Tim Viney 23.
Mitch Cornell was best for South Fremantle with 15 possessions and three goals with Adam McIntosh, Dylan Bairstow, Adam Doughty, Blake Dunkeld and Joel Palumbo others to work hard.
