NAIDOC Round Match Report v East Perth

Swan Districts came up against a powerful East Perth unit on Saturday at Steel Blue Oval and suffered a 48-point loss, but there were still plenty of positives to take turning attention to final six games.

It was a tough afternoon for Swans at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday but it's also an East Perth team that continues to be flexing its muscles this season with the Royals winning 11.14 (80) to 4.8 (32) to score their sixth consecutive win.

While it was a difficult loss for Swans coming off the bye last weekend and an impressive win at Joondalup against West Perth, the focus turns to the rest of the season starting this coming Sunday back at home against Subiaco.

Swans' four goals for the day were kicked by Jesse Palmer, Chris Jones, Jackson McLachlan and Jiah Reidy.

Despite the disappointing final scoreline, there were some impressive performers for Swan Districts led by vice-captain and reigning Swan Medallist Jesse Turner who had 44 possessions.

Aidan Clarke also racked up another 31 disposals, McLachlan 27, Jarvis Pina 24, Tobe Watson 18, Josh Cipro 17 and Nathan Blakely 17 to go with 25 hit outs while Jehb O'Donohue did another good job running with Mitch Crowden to keep him to the 16 disposals.

Both teams were fresh off the bye and coming off good wins before the break, but it was East Perth who dominated from the outset. The Royals just couldn’t put the score on the board with their first five scores all being behinds in the first 12 minutes.

Eventually East Perth did kick the lone goal for either team in the opening term and that was courtesy of Hamish Brayshaw.

That saw East Perth lead by 10 points at quarter-time despite just the one goal and the Royals extended that lead with an early goal in the second quarter from Tom Medhat.

Jiah Reidy responded soon after to put Swan Districts on the board but the home team couldn’t build any momentum and the Royals kicked the last goal of the half from Mitch Schofield to go into half-time on top by 20 points.

Brayshaw then continued his huge afternoon by kicking the first two goals himself to start the second half to extend the East Perth lead to 32 points before Swans did get one back from co-captain Chris Jones.

There wouldn’t be another goal from either team the rest of the quarter with the Royals remaining in control by 23 points.

The two teams might have combined for only seven goals in the opening three quarters, but things really opened up in the last term with East Perth ending up running away with things.

East Perth ended up piling on six goals to just two from Swan Districts in the final quarter to see the Royals winning by 48 points to make it six wins in-a-row.

Meanwhile, Round 13 of the Reserves saw East Perth beat Swan Districts 10.11 (71) to 3.11 (29) at Steel Blue Oval with Sandon Page and Tom Graham kicking two goals for the Royals.

Swan Districts' goals came from Jack Saunders, Patrick Farrant and Tristen Burgess with Lawson Humphries picking up 26 possessions, Tarir Bayok 21, Ayden Cartwright 21, Max Chipper 17 and Jacob Sideris 16.

Then in the Colts, Swan Districts had an impressive 15.9 (99) to 7.11 (53) win against East Perth.

Lewis Zolnier-Owens kicked four goal for Swans, Judd Cheshire three, Colby McDonald three and Harry Creighton two. Chayse Martinson racked up 26 possessions, Creighton 24, Otis Harvey 19, Tom Cathcart 19 and Owen Carroll 17 to go with 34 hit outs in the ruck.