RYAN Cook came to South Fremantle looking for a one-year adventure after his time in the AFL but now sees himself a Bulldogs player for life as he prepares for his 100th WAFL appearance this Saturday.

Cook spent four years playing 14 AFL matches with Collingwood but once he was delisted at the end of the 2010 season, he was looking for a new adventure in life and when the offer came to join the WAFL and play with South Fremantle, it was an opportunity he jumped at.

But he only saw himself playing with the Bulldogs for that 2011 season before returning home.

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SOUTH Fremantle delivered a stunning comeback from 25 points down early in the last quarter to beat Claremont by eight points at the Showground on Saturday to return to the top of the ladder.

Coming off its first loss of the season to Subiaco the previous week, South Fremantle looked set to lose for the second time in as many weeks on Saturday at the Showground.

Claremont opened up a 25-point advantage at the two-minute mark of the last quarter when Jack Bradshaw kicked his fifth goal, but that only served to bring the Bulldogs to life.

Inspired by captain Ryan Cook, the Bulldogs delivered a scintillating finish to the game to kick the last five goals to come away with the 12.13 (85) to 12.5 (77) victory.

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SOUTH Fremantle heads to the Claremont Showground on Saturday to take on Claremont with the Bulldogs looking to bounce back from their first loss of the WAFL season.

South Fremantle will be hungry to bounce back from its first loss of the season last week as well suffered at the hands of Subiaco by 31 points at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

The Bulldogs had won their opening five matches of the season impressively up until that point and now they will be determined to show it was just a blip on the radar and not the start of a trend to kick off a losing slide like what happened in 2015.

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SOUTH Fremantle's colts have made an outstanding start to the 2016 WAFL season and Shai Bolton, Tim English, Dylan Brown, Mitch Dzelebdzic, Kyle Russell, Chad Pearson and Jimmy Miller have been named in the initial 40-man State 18s squad.

The Bulldogs have won five of their first six colts matches to open the 2016 season under new coach Mark Foster with some new players coming into the group and making their mark, and those remaining from last year's team that fell agonisingly short of playing finals performing strongly.

There have been plenty of standout performances in the colts team to date and the Western Australia selectors have taken notice adding Bolton, English, Brown, Dzelebdzic, Russell, Pearson and Miller in their initial 40-man squad ahead of the 2016 NAB National 18s Championships.

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PRESIDENT'S Function guests of the South Fremantle Football Club were treated to another great day on Saturday as a host of special guests and great food led to another successful match day event.

On a jam packed schedule guests were treated to a wide ranging series of guests and interviews as club legend Steve Marsh, current league player Brendan Verrier, recruit Zephaniah Skinner and Paula Curley, wife of league coach Todd.

They all spoke on their unique perspective to the game and to the club. 

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OUR senior squad came away from the weekend’s loss to Subiaco with some important feedback as to where we’re at. 

As a club, we know we’ve made some significant inroads in 2016 across areas like our leadership, game-plan, preparation and performance.

A game against a club like Subi always acts as a good stress test and although the result wasn’t the one we were after, we come away with some clear things to work on.

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WHAT South Fremantle coach Todd Curley had to say following the Bulldogs' first loss of the 2016 WAFL season against Subiaco on Saturday and looking ahead to this Saturday's clash with Claremont at the Showground.

QUESTION: What did you take out of that game when you got back into it to be two points down in the last quarter after a slow start?
ANSWER: I think we won a bit more of our own ball after half-time. We got smashed in the contested ball in the first half and their pressure was pretty good. Our first half was pretty poor so the positive was that at half-time we thought we had a lot of growth in us. It was a good effort to get back within two points, but when you have to work that hard to get back into the game it takes a few tickets.

Q: It could have been different had you hit the lead but Subiaco kicked away again?
A: We know what they're about. They play consistently well and grind games out. They are a very well organised and an experienced team. They played four quarters and we couldn’t go with them. That's OK, we're obviously not at their level yet but we'll keep working hard to get there.

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SOUTH Fremantle's league and reserves teams put their undefeated starts to the season on the line at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Saturday and both came up short against Subiaco.

South Fremantle's reserves saw its 14-game winning streak come to an end courtesy of the Lions to start the day at Fremantle Community Bank Oval in a tight affair.

The Bulldogs' league side then did battle in the meeting of the two undefeated sides and despite South Fremantle closing to within two points early in the last quarter after earlier trailing by 37 points, the Lions ended up prevailing 15.16 (106) to 10.15 (75).

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SOUTH Fremantle might have recruited strongly on the field for the 2016 WAFL season but there has been another new addition this year that has been generously donated by Welshpool Fiat Professional and WA Hino.

Shane Hockey, Steven Edwards, Mason Shaw, Blaine Johnson and Dylan Main might all be playing huge roles on the field as new arrivals for the undefeated Bulldogs so far this season.

But regular attendees of South Fremantle games so far this season would have noticed another significant addition in the form of a new property van that has been donated by Paul McGovern.

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SOUTH Fremantle and Subiaco have both made unbeaten starts to the 2016 season and put those perfect records on the line when they meet at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.

Subiaco is coming off winning the last two premierships and it's no surprise to see the Lions win their opening five matches against Peel Thunder, East Perth, West Perth, Perth and Swan Districts by an average of 34 points.

But for South Fremantle, the Bulldogs are attempting to make the finals for the first time since 2011 and they have been supremely impressive in victories over West Perth, Swan Districts, East Perth and Perth, and then a heart stopping seven-point win over East Fremantle in the Anzac Derby.

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