Round 17 WAFL Preview v South Fremantle

Swan Districts is attempting to beat South Fremantle twice in a season for the first time since 2014 on Saturday with the black-and-whites playing host to the Bulldogs at Steel Blue Oval.

Swan Districts is fresh off the bye last weekend and now will be looking to begin the last month of the WAFL season on a winning note when hosting South Fremantle at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday.

The day begins at Bassendean with the colts clash beginning at 8.40am followed by the reserves match up at 11.10am and then the league match for Round 17 of the WAFL season will begin at 2.10pm.

Swan Districts comes into the game fresh off the bye last week and prior to that beat the West Coast Eagles after the siren on the back of a goal from Tom Edwards.

The week before that and Swans also finished strongly thanks to four last quarter goals from Edwards to defeat the finals bound Subiaco.

So Swan Districts bring winning form into Saturday's match up with South Fremantle having won two straight matches and looking to not only make it three in-a-row, but to also score a second win in a season against the Bulldogs for the first time since 2014.

Swan Districts has now won two of the last three meetings with South Fremantle including winning by 18 points earlier this season by 18 points in Round 4 at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

That was a first win at the venue for Swans since 2014 with Jesse Palmer kicking four goals for Swan Districts, Chris Jones three and Tom Edwards two.

Tobe Watson finished with 22 touches for the black-and-whites, Jesse Turner 20, Jarvis Pina 19 and Jackson McLachlan 19 in what was also Brayden Noble's 100th game for Swans.

Dylan Main kicked three goals on that afternoon for South Fremantle with Zac Strom and Brendon Ah Chee adding two apiece.

Toby McQuilkin racked up 29 possessions, Tom Blechynden 27, Jacob Dragovich 25, Brendon Ah Chee 25 and Main 21 along with those three goals.

Prior to that and the two teams split their meetings in 2022 with a home win apiece but before that and South Fremantle had dominated proceedings against Swan Districts.

The Bulldogs won nine straight matches against Swans by an average of 34.8 points between Round 17, 2017 and Round 21, 2021.

Swan Districts escaped with the win two weeks ago with the after the siren goal from Tom Edwards and from that team, the black-and-whites have made no changes to take on South Fremantle at home this Saturday.

Mitch Bain, Ayden Cartwright, Riley Hardeman and Tom Smith are the four emergencies for the game for Swan Districts while Greg Ottaviano, Brandon Erceg, Jarrod Cameron, Sam Fisher, Will Collins and Seb Bright remain out of the team.

South Fremantle is looking to bounce back from a first derby defeat in seven years with the Bulldogs adding Aaron Drage, Jacob Dragovich, Ed Graham, Toby McQuilkin and Mitchell Sinnott to the squad to face Swan Districts at Bassendean on Saturday.

Going out of the South Fremantle team that lost last week's derby is Jordan Gallucci.