Round 18 WAFL Preview v Perth

Swan Districts is attempting to make it four wins in-a-row this WAFL season and to make it seven straight against Perth when taking on the Demons at Mineral Resources Park on Saturday.

Swan Districts will now face Perth at the Lathlain venue on Saturday afternoon with the game to begin at 2.10pm. The day will start with the colts contest at 9.10am before the reserves gets underway at 11.40am.

Swans come into the Round 18 WAFL match up having now won their past three matches against Subiaco, West Coast and South Fremantle to have now improved to a 7-8 record on the season with three matches now to go.

Coming into Saturday's clash and Swan Districts is attempting to win four straight matches for the first time since 2017 and at the same time to make it seven in-a-row against the Demons for the first time since winning eight consecutively between 2013 and 2015.

Saturday's game will be the second time the two teams have faced off in 2023 with Swan Districts winning a heartstopper back in Round 9 at Steel Blue Oval.

Just before the siren, Swan Districts small forward Jarrod Cameron received a free-kick and went back to slot the goal after the siren had sounded. That saw Swans score the 9.11 (65) to 9.5 (59) victory to break the hearts of the Demons.

In that game, Chris Jones, Aidan Clarke and Jesse Palmer kicked two goals each for Swan Districts while Jackson McLachlan racked up 35 possessions, Jarvis Pina 28, Jesse Turner 28, Jehb O'Donohue 19, Lawson Humphries 19, Tobe Watson 18 and Josh Cipro 18.

Sam Stubbs kicked three goals for Perth and Michael Sinclair two with Jack Cooley collecting 34 touches, Charlie Thompson 23, Jack Avery 20 and Jye Clark 20.

That victory for Swans made it six in-a-row against the Demons dating back to 2020. Swan Districts has won those six matches at an average of 21.5 points.

Only two of those games have taken place at Mineral Resources Park, though, with Swans winning at the Lathlain venue over the Demons by five points in Round 3 last year and then by 50 points back in Round 2 of 2021.

The last win for Perth against Swan Districts came in Round 8, 2019 and that was the third victory in-a-row at the time for the Demons against the black-and-whites.

Perth is attempting to bounce back from a 40-point loss to West Perth last week but the Demons did finish that game well with the only six goals of the final quarter to now look to bring that momentum into Saturday's match up with Swan Districts.

From that team, Perth regains Regan Clarke for Saturday's game with Brodie Gray earning a recall and then Oscar Hine-Baston coming in to make his WAFL debut.

Going out of the Demons line-up to face Swans at home on Saturday are Deklyn Grocott, Daniel Hill and last week's debutant Ben Stubbs.