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Draws & Fixtures - NRL WA

For up to date draw and fixture information for all our competitions please click here - https://www.playrugbyleague.com/Competitions/Association/western-australian-rl-15 Perth - Fuel To Go & Play Senior Men's Competitions 2025 FTG&P Premiership Draw2025 FTG&P Val Murphy Trophy Draw2025 FTG&P...
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RISE U15 Boys – Origin Curtain Raiser​

NRL WA is proud to announce that an opportunity has been provided to our WA players to play as the curtain raiser to State Of Origin on 18th Of June, here in Perth.
Wanting to show off the potential pathways here in WA, U15 Boys participants that have been identified in the Perth RISE Development program will be taking centre stage.
Please see the two sides below, which includes our U15 Boys state team, and those players selected by the coaching staff to make up the two 20 player squads for this fixture. Unfortunately we could not include everyone.
Seen as an opportunity for our State players to also get another run before we leave for Townsville, it is a great chance for WA players to play on a huge occasion.

RISE U15 Boys – Origin Curtain Raiser - NRL WA

NRL WA is proud to announce that an opportunity has been provided to our WA players to play as the curtain raiser to State Of Origin on 18th Of June, here in Perth. Wanting to show off the potential pathways here in WA, U15 Boys participants that have been identified in the Perth RISE Development
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North Beach's fullback Bailey Millar (son of x-Red's player Jared Millar) scored for WA in the corner.

Bailey has dominated the local first grade competition since the age of 17 debuting in 2021.

Perfect example of WA talent that lost exposure to high level junior rep. systems.
 
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Red&BlackBear said:
Very cool. Also Rod Fielding, I heard yarns about him in the mid 90’s.
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Last I knew was still heavily involved in Rockingham Sharks. That was up until my last direct involvement in running Joondalup Giants nearly 5 years ago.
 
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One of our newest clubs is booming but shows the challenges our sport in WA faces for facilities. We are competing against huge well established amateurs sports like soccer, AFL and basketball for council funding. Hopefully the WA govt support can help with some of these growing pains. RL is set to boom again in WA and wont happen unless we have the pitches, changing rooms and club houses we need.


 
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Perth Red said:
One of our newest clubs is booming but shows the challenges our sport in WA faces for facilities. We are competing against huge well established amateurs sports like soccer, AFL and basketball for council funding. Hopefully the WA govt support can help with some of these growing pains. RL is set to boom again in WA and wont happen unless we have the pitches, changing rooms and club houses we need.


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Leveraging investment from state government and local councils into all local clubs is critical over the next few year.

To have one of our first grade teams in Giants (30 years of history) still playing out of a basic community hall with no real bar is a real issue. The City of Joondalup have let them down.
 
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Dragonwest said:
Leveraging investment from state government and local councils into all local clubs is critical over the next few year.

To have one of our first grade teams in Giants (30 years of history) still playing out of a basic community hall with no real bar is a real issue. The City of Joondalup have let them down.
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When I was Giants President in either 2019 or 2020, myself, my Giants Juniors President (I think?), and the NRL WA Operations Manager met with the City Of Joondalup to see what they could do for us in terms of either an upgrade of Admiral or a new setup at another location.

Their reply was that they had, a few years prior, given us new ground lighting for night matches and safely training, and had turned our storage shed on the hill into a community hall that we could use. As such, we were down the bottom of the list and were many years away from being considered again.
We walked out of there, looked at eachother, and said "We have to consider looking at moving to the City Of Wanneroo". It was clear that CoJ were not going to be on our side.

We have to book and pay for our clubrooms every time we open them, by the way. Likewise for the ground lighting. Every training session, every home game at night, we have to book and pay to use them. To my knowledge, even to this day.

Unless you're soccer, netball, or aussie rules, CoJ are not interested in your sport.

35 years in (just to correct Dragonswest there!), and this is us. Hamstrung by our local council, and quite literally having to clean up the dogshit off our ground before a home game day.
 
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Nuke said:
When I was Giants President in either 2019 or 2020, myself, my Giants Juniors President (I think?), and the NRL WA Operations Manager met with the City Of Joondalup to see what they could do for us in terms of either an upgrade of Admiral or a new setup at another location.

Their reply was that they had, a few years prior, given us new ground lighting for night matches and safely training, and had turned our storage shed on the hill into a community hall that we could use. As such, we were down the bottom of the list and were many years away from being considered again.
We walked out of there, looked at eachother, and said "We have to consider looking at moving to the City Of Wanneroo". It was clear that CoJ were not going to be on our side.

We have to book and pay for our clubrooms every time we open them, by the way. Likewise for the ground lighting. Every training session, every home game at night, we have to book and pay to use them. To my knowledge, even to this day.

Unless you're soccer, netball, or aussie rules, CoJ are not interested in your sport.

35 years in (just to correct Dragonswest there!), and this is us. Hamstrung by our local council, and quite literally having to clean up the dogshit off our ground before a home game day.
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I hope this can be corrected into the future with the right pressure coming from the state government
 
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I hope this can be corrected into the future with the right pressure coming from the state government
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I hope so too. There's also a few other clubs running around that would benefit from not playing on a community park / based out of very basic clubrooms. I suspect the days of clubs purchasing their own ground and clubrooms are all gone. I hope the North Beaches, South Perths, Fremantles, Rockinghams, ect, don't take for granted how fortunate they are to have what they have. If I were a multimillionaire, I'd love to buy and donate the Giants a home ground and proper clubrooms that they can call their own, but even if I could do it, I think local councils these days would all knock me back anyway, so it's a flight of fancy, sadly. Plus, I'm an aged care worker who only just manages to get by week by week, so it's not happening anyway..! Haha!
 
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Nuke said:
I hope so too. There's also a few other clubs running around that would benefit from not playing on a community park / based out of very basic clubrooms. I suspect the days of clubs purchasing their own ground and clubrooms are all gone. I hope the North Beaches, South Perths, Fremantles, Rockinghams, ect, don't take for granted how fortunate they are to have what they have. If I were a multimillionaire, I'd love to buy and donate the Giants a home ground and proper clubrooms that they can call their own, but even if I could do it, I think local councils these days would all knock me back anyway, so it's a flight of fancy, sadly. Plus, I'm an aged care worker who only just manages to get by week by week, so it's not happening anyway..! Haha!
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North Beach had their own members build their club house. It a continuous fight to maintain ownership of the building. We've seen the consequence over the fence with the NB Football Club getting a shiny new building but losing control and ownership of the facility. I think Freo face some similar issues now at Treeby, not sure on the details of proposed SP upgrades.
 
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I don't know how far back you go in WA League circles, but the basic toilet block / changerooms that Admiral has was, likewise, all built by Giants members in the early 1990s. Maybe 10yrs ago the CoJ added to it, buiding the community hall and storage sheds, and extended the changerooms. As you say, all control has virtually been handed across to CoJ now to the point where if we wanted to use our own clubrooms for training nights, game days, committee meetings, ect, we have to book and pay to use them.

I did wonder what the go was with Freo's new ground. I've not been there, but did wonder if it was theirs to use as they pleased or if it was a similar situation to what we're discussing now.
 
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2025 Perth FTG&P Senior Preliminary Finals – Fixtures - NRL WA

Perth - Seniors - Preliminary Finals - PDF here
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2025 Perth FTG&P Junior Grand Finals – Fixtures - NRL WA

Perth - Juniors - Grand Finals - PDF here
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Lions hit 50 to reach Grand Final - NRL WA

MAJOR SEMI-FINAL: South Perth Lions 50 - North Beach Sea Eagles 22 By PETER ROWE The South Perth Lions became the first team to claim a grand final spot on Saturday evening, after comfortably defeating the North Beach Sea Eagles in the NRLWA Fuel to Go and Play Premiership major semi-final. Led...
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