WA Football

PEEL Thunder has suffered some big losses in 2010 but first-year league coach Trevor Williams is in the process of creating a culture that he is sure will lead the club to some success in the not to distant future.

Williams has been a strong part of Peel's history guiding the colts to back-to-back premierships in 2004-05 and has now taken on the task of developing a league side virtually from scratch.

The 2010 season was always going to be tough without a facility and after key senior players Simon Rosa, Luke Hammond, Ben Howlett, Kane Bloxsidge, Kain Robins and Damien Lock were among the departures as he took over, but Williams has stayed firm on creating a strong culture.

SUBIACO'S star premiership wingman Chad Cossom reaches a rare feat in modern day WAFL football when he plays his 200th match this Saturday and it's an achievement that highlights his quality that has now lasted more than a decade.

Cossom made his debut in 2000 under Kevan Sparks having come through the colts and found his niche as one of the hardest running and most dynamic wingmen in the competition in 2003 when Peter German arrived at the Lions as coach.

He has been out on the wing ever since tearing up opposition sides with his trademark runs of several bounces that often end in one of his 138 career goals.

PERTH Football Club will team up with Diabetes WA once again to raise awareness for diabetes in their Round 16 match as part of National Diabetes Week 2010.

The team will act as ambassadors for National Diabetes Week at this weekend’s WAFL game against Swan Districts at EFTel Oval on Saturday, July 10.

Type 2 diabetes is a disease that can be prevented in 60% of cases through developing healthy lifestyle choices and keeping active.

WEST Perth stayed right in the finals hunt by beating Perth with a side far from the one that it would consider its best 22 and coach Bill Monaghan hopes to now build on that momentum.

West Perth's 19-point win at EFTel Oval takes it to within a game of third and fourth-placed East Fremantle and Subiaco, while having played a match less than the Sharks, ahead of matches with South Fremantle (twice), Subiaco, Peel, East Perth, Claremont and Perth in the run home.

THE West Australian Football League can confirm that Dean Cadwallader from the East Perth Football Club has received notification from the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) of a positive result in relation to an out-of-competition sample taken from him during the State team program this year.

Both the “A” and “B” sample have been reported as positive to an anabolic steroid, Nandrolone.