Round 4 WAFLW Preview v South Fremantle

Swan Districts will head to Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Saturday afternoon hunting their first win of the WAFLW season and to remain undefeated so far against South Fremantle in the competition.

Swans will take on the Bulldogs on Saturday at Fremantle Community Bank Oval with the game to begin at 4pm.

Swan Districts' Rogers Cup team will also be back in action taking on South Fremantle at the same venue from 6pm.

Throughout the first three seasons South Fremantle has been in the WAFLW competition, Swan Districts have beaten them on all six occasions and outscoring them 44.31 (295) to 11.10 (76) in those six meetings.

However, things could be different coming into this Saturday's game with South Fremantle having two wins and a draw from the opening three matches while Swan Districts have lost all three matches to date of 2023.

Swan Districts is still chasing a first win for the 2023 season on the back of beginning with a five-point loss to Peel Thunder in Round 1 before a 47-point defeat at home to Subiaco and then last week also losing to Claremont by 24 points at Steel Blue Oval.

In that loss last week to the reigning premiers, Carys D'Addario and Ruby Mahony both were named to the Team of the Week for the first time.

The goals for Swans came from Courtney Zappara and Riley Fisher while D'Addario racked up 21 possessions, Mahony 17, Kayley King 16, Jaime Henry 16 and Sarah Wielstra 15 to go with 13 hit outs.

South Fremantle opened the 2023 season with a draw in Round 1 with Subiaco before beating East Perth by 66 points in Round 2 and backing that up with a 28-point win also at home last Saturday against West Perth.

From that win last week against the Falcons, Bethany Bond, Tahleah Mulder, Zoe Huggett and Lauren Vecchio were all named to the Team of the Week.

Bond ended up kicking three goals in the win for the Bulldogs while Huggett kicked 1.4 from 14 possessions and seven marks while Mulder gathered 23 disposals, Vecchio 19, Luci Gilchrist 18, Kloe Bassett 16 and Charli Wicksteed 16.

Swan Districts is yet to lose to South Fremantle in the last three seasons in the WAFLW competition. Going back to when the Bulldogs entered in 2020, Swan Districts beat South Fremantle by 42 points in Round 5 at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

Then in 2021, Swan Districts had a thumping 53-point win over South Fremantle also down at the port with Swans then also winning by 37 points at Steel Blue Oval in Round 9 having held the Bulldogs to just one behind for the game.

Their third meeting of 2021 was also at Fremantle Community Bank Oval in Round 15 with Swan Districts winning by 63 points.

South Fremantle became significantly more competitive in 2022 highlighted in Round 7 when Swan Districts scored just a 14-point win under lights at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

The second meeting of 2022 took place in Round 15 at Steel Blue Oval and it was another more competitive affair even with Swan Districts still winning by 20 points on the way to another finals campaign.

With Swan Districts chasing a first win of the season, the black-and-whites have made four changes from the team that lost to Claremont last week.

Erin Brown, Chanti McHenry, Cassie McWilliam and Ava Stewart coming into the Swan Districts team.

Going out are Riley Fisher, Demi Liddle, Jasmine Ware and Courtney Zappara.

South Fremantle has added Megan Bain, Hunter Cronin, Leila Fotu, Makaela Tuhakaraina, Zoe Wakfer and Ella Ward to its squad from the team that beat West Perth last week.

Cali Hunt and Molly O'Hehir are the two players going out of the South Fremantle team at this stage.