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1997 Westar Rules season
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.〔Devaney, John; ''Full Points Footy’s WA Football Companion''; p. 96. ISBN 9780955689710〕 However, this change became regarded as unsuccessful and was reversed as per recommendations of the “Fong Report”〔Barker, Anthony J. ''Behind the Play: A History of Football in Western Australia''; pp. 358-360. ISBN 0975242709〕 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,〔See Casey, Kevin (1995); ''The Tigers’ Tale: the origins and history of the Claremont Football Club'', p. 201. ISBN 0646264982〕 a new team, , was added, despite requests from the holders of Peel’s license that they not be required to enter before 1998.〔See Lewis, Ross; ‘Margin Could Cost Falcons’; in ''The Game'', p. 11; from ''The West Australian'' 11 August 1997〕 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,〔(‘WAFL club Peel Thunder found to have $300,000 loss’ )〕 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〔Lewis, Ross; ‘Pair Show Virtues of Age’; in ''The Game'', p. 11; from ''The West Australian'', 18 August 1997〕 was made during the season but rejected.
Affected badly by the erratic availability of a number of AFL-listed players,〔Stocks, Gary; ‘Part-Time Tigers Make a Difference’; in ''The Game'', p. 11; from ''The West Australian'', 16 June 1997〕 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 win its first premiership in seventeen seasons in a thrilling comeback Grand Final win over traditional rivals East Fremantle, and have after a disastrous opening its only season with more wins than losses since 1988.
==Home-and-away Season==
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