ANDREW Strijk has plenty of highlights throughout his decade-long career but his two best State game memories have now been wins over South Australia following Western Australia's 45-point win at Lathlain Park on Saturday.

 Strijk has now played 155 games for West Perth since making his WAFL debut in 2006 and he added 13 matches in the AFL with the West Coast Eagles, and has now represented the WAFL four times in State matches.

And along the way he has become a WAFL premiership player, won a West Perth fairest and best awards and had plenty of career highlights, but the wins over the SANFL in State matches are right up there.

Strijk was part of the WA team that beat South Australia by a point in 2009 to break a 15-year drought and then again on Saturday, he starred in WA's 45-point win over the Croweaters at Lathlain Park.

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WEST Perth might have only had two representatives in Western Australia's team that beat South Australia by 45 points in Saturday's State game at Lathlain Park but Aaron Black and Andrew Strijk were two of the best players on the field.

The two Falcons stars had tremendous games for the WAFL State team as they ended up beating the SANFL 18.13 (121) to 11.10 (76).

West Perth initially had six players named in the State squad before Falcons co-captain Jay van Berlo had to withdraw due to work commitments.

Premiership small defender Laine Rasmussen and star ruckman Chris Keunen were then informed early in the week that they wouldn’t be playing despite being in terrific form and having done well representing the WAFL last year in the 85-point win over the NEAFL in Sydney.

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WEST Perth premiership trio Aaron Black, Shane Nelson and Andrew Strijk will be looking to lead the WAFL to a State game victory over the SANFL at Lathlain Park on Saturday.

Black, Nelson and Strijk have been the three West Perth players selected in the WA team to take on the Croweaters and all enter the State game in outstanding form.

Black is coming off winning the Sandover Medal in 2014 on the back playing in the 2013 premiership and also representing the WAFL in the State game win over the VFL, where he was one of the best afield.

He is backing that up with another outstanding season so far with the Falcons and has now been selected to play for WA again after missing out in 2014.

Nelson continues to be an in-and-under ball winning machine and clearance maestro for the Falcons.

Despite having played in the 2013 premiership, won the last two club fairest and best awards, representing WA last year and finishing runner-up in the Sandover Medal, Nelson has taken his game to another level again this year so far.

And Strijk is also back to his very best form so far this season with his running ability and damaging right boot seeing him already deliver a host of best on ground, and match-winning performances for the Falcons.

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ONE of the toughest aspects of WAFL football is juggling work and football and it is not uncommon for players to be up before dawn for work and not get home until after training finishes late that night.

It is a massive commitment but one that players will do because of our love of the game and will to get the best out of our football, and of course to pay the bills.

I am a business development geophysicist for Australia and New Zealand regions for a geoscience company called DownUnder GeoSolutions. My work often requires me to travel interstate and overseas and this obviously complicates things for football.

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WEST Perth premiership coach Bill Monaghan will be conducting a weekly question and answer segment for the club's website. Here he discusses the strong 32-point win over East Fremantle that improves the Falcons to a 5-3 record in second position heading into the State game break.

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THE Butler Falcons continue to break down barriers in 2015 with five players moving through the female football pathway and joined the Joondalup Falcons Youth Girls team.

The transition has been a close collaboration between the Edmund Rice Centre and the Joondalup Falcons and is supported strongly by the West Australian Football Commission and Junior and Youth Girls Teams within the West Perth District.

The journey began for these girls in 2013 and 2014, when they joined the Butler Falcons. Their intensity and determination to succeed left them undefeated at Junior Girls level throughout 2014. In 2015, when the girls were finally old enough, five of them joined the Joondalup Falcons and were supported heavily by the club.

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THERE was a lot to like about West Perth's 32-point win against East Fremantle at HBF Arena on Saturday. The Falcons defended well and took advantage of their opportunities when they arose. It must give the coaching staff a great deal of pleasure to see the way that the young players have taken their opportunities and run with them. There will be times during the rest of the year that things don’t go to plan but Falcons supporters can be sure that this group of players will stick to the game plan and give the team every opportunity to succeed.

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WEST Perth put together a strong four-quarter performance on Saturday at HBF Arena and the result was a terrific 32-point win over East Fremantle to see the Falcons improve to second position on the WAFL ladder.

West Perth will now remain in second position with a 5-3 record heading into the WA Day derby clash with East Perth at Medibank Stadium with the State game break next weekend as Western Australia plays South Australia at Lathlain Park.

The Falcons have pulled off two remarkable comebacks against Swan Districts and East Perth in the past month, but on Saturday they delivered a much more consistent four-quarter performance to end up beating East Fremantle 16.9 (105) to 10.13 (73) at HBF Arena.

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WEST Perth has pulled off two remarkable wins the last three weeks and now another four points this Saturday against East Fremantle at HBF Arena will see the Falcons enter next week's State game break in second spot on the WAFL ladder.

With the winner set to sit in second position heading into the State game break, there is plenty at stake heading into Saturday's clash between West Perth and East Fremantle with both coming off performances that were both disappointing and scintillating at different times.

Perhaps the simplest way to describe why the match should be fascinating is the fact that East Fremantle kicked 10 goals in the first quarter last Sunday while West Perth booted 10 majors in its last quarter on Saturday.

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SATURDAY’S come from behind victory against East Perth definitely rates as one of the best wins I have been involved with.

The most pleasing aspect from a captain’s point of view was the player’s response to the challenge thrown down by the Royals. We are creating a bubble of genuine confidence within our group that with the right execution and willingness to compete, anything is possible.

That said, we have now faced three significant deficits in as many games and whilst the end results were two incredible wins over Swan Districts and East Perth, and one fairly close loss to Claremont, we need to strive for more consistency over longer periods.

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