MIDLAND JUNCTION

Affiliated: 1st Rate Junior Association prior to 1905; WAFA/WANFL 1905-10 and 1914-17

Home Ground: Midland Junction

Colours: Black and gold (see footnote 1)

Premierships: Nil

Most Games: 105 by Charles 'Wagga' Gast (pictured below)

Midland Junction enjoyed, or perhaps that should be endured, a total of ten seasons in two separate stints in Western Australian football's elite competition.  Never a finalist, the side's overall success rate was a meagre 24.8%, and only once - in 1915 - did it manage to win more games than it lost during a season.

Some Midland Junction Players

Highlights, such as the feat of keeping West Perth goalless in a 12.16 (88) to 0.10 (10) win in 1916, were few and far between.  From midway through the 1916 season the club was decimated by the loss of key players to the Australian expeditionary forces, and in 1917, although it stuttered on, it failed to win a single game, losing for the most part by substantial margins.  At the conclusion of the 1917 season the club went into mothballs, never to resume.

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Footnotes

1. I am indebted to WA football historian Greg Wardell-Johnson for supplying me with this information, as well as informing me of Charles Gast's 'games played' record.   Apparently, Midland Junction wore black and gold hooped jumpers for the last nine of their ten league seasons.  Return to Main Text