East Perth premiership player Dean Cox has been inducted as a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Cox arrived at the Royals via Dampier in the Pilbara, more than 1500 kilometres north of Perth.

Despite the physical distance, Cox was by no means in new territory. His mother Mary’s three brothers George, Richard and Eddie Michalczyk all played for Read More [+]

Patrick McGinnity gives an insight into East Perth's preparations ahead of the WAFL Season.

Players have recently returned to Leederville Oval to begin training in bigger groups - albeit still with restrictions. How good was it to be back?

PM: We were in groups of 10 for a few weeks before that, which was also a great step up from running on Read More [+]

Patrick McGinnity will take the reins as sole captain of East Perth, following the retirement of Kyle Anderson in May.

Jackson Ramsay will support McGinnity as vice-captain, elevated to a leadership role for the first time.

It is the first time in almost a decade that the club has reverted to a sole captaincy model after implementing a co-captaincy format Read More [+]

Devan Perry’s uncompromising approach was the hallmark of East Perth’s hat trick of premierships in the early 2000s.

Originally from Lara, just outside of Geelong in Victoria, Perry played 123 games for the Royals, arriving at club via North Adelaide and St Mary’s.

He made his debut under Robert Solin in 1995 and despite missing out on a finals berth that year, Perry Read More [+]

Mark August 1 on your calendar – a start date has been set for the 2020 Optus WAFL Premiership Season.

The West Australian Football Commission met with WAFL club officials on Friday to decide the future of this year’s competition, which has been postponed since March 16, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Not too many players cut a more imposing physical presence in the WAFL than East Perth’s Eddie Simpson.

At 199cm and 105 kilos, Simpson is still relatively new to the club having arrived via Claremont midway through last season.

Under Jeremy Barnard, he made his Royals league debut in Round 11, playing nine games.

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East Perth league coach Jeremy Barnard has confirmed his players returned fit and healthy to training at Leederville Oval this week.

As part of the State Government’s roadmap to recovery, sporting clubs were able to begin non-contact training in groups of 20 from Monday.

“It’s great to be back into some formal training,” Barnard told SportFM on Read More [+]

Veteran defender Kyle Anderson has called time on his WAFL career.

The 29-year-old is a Life Member of East Perth, having played 124 league games over a career spanning ten seasons.

“I spent a lot of time thinking about it all but in the end, I had to start listening to my body and what’s going on with it.

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Rohan Kerr believes that the AFL needs to work harder to recruit mature age players from across the state leagues, arguing that there are a number of talented, ready-made players, who wouldn't look out of place if given an opportunity on the national stage.

Kerr said the recent examples of Tim Kelly (South Fremantle), Marlion Pickett (South Fremantle), Nathan Broad (Swan Districts) and former Northern Blues teammate Kane Lambert, who is now a dual-premiership player Read More [+]

When Warren Parker took the reins as Football Operations Manager at East Perth earlier this year, he couldn’t have predicted how his first couple of months would unfold.

Parker started with the club in the first week of March, and a little over a fortnight later, the WAFL season was postponed as restrictions were put in place to slow the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

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