Western Force
Western Force is a rugby union team from the Australian city of Perth. She plays in the international Super 14 League. The home games are played at Members Equity Stadium.
- 3.1 Super Rugby
History
The team took first in 2006 at the Super 14 in part and finished last. The following year, could be improved to seventh place. Coach is former All Blacks coach John Mitchell. Despite their short history the team has more than 20,000 members, most in the Super 14
Back in 2002 there were the first efforts to establish another Australian team in the league. The contract was awarded to the Regional Association of Western Australia, who was able to prevail against the from Victoria. After the first disappointing season of financially strong association, however, high-profile players such as Matt Giteau was standing that has the highest paid Australian rugby player, Drew Mitchell and commit.
Player
Current squad
The squad for the 2009 season:
Pillar
- Paul Alo -Emile
- Pekahau Cowan
- Matt Dunning
- Tim Fairbrother
- Kieran Longbottom
Hooker
- Nathan Charles
- Siliva Siliva
- Ben Whittaker
Second - row players
- Phoenix Battye
- Tom Hockings
- Nathan Sharpe ( c )
- Sam Wykes
Winger
- Richard Brown
- Matt Hodgson
- Jono Jenkins
- Tevita Metuisela
- Ben McCalman
- David Pocock
Scrum half
- Brett Sheehan
- Justin Turner
- James Stannard
- Mark Swanepoel
Connector
- Mark Bartholomeusz
- Willie Ripia
Indoor Three Quarter
- Gene Fairbanks
- Mitch Inman
- Rory Sidey
Outer three-quarters
- Nick Cummins
- Alfie Mafi
- Cameron Shepherd
- David Smith
Final Men
- Pat Dellit
- James O'Connor
Well-known former players
- Brendan Cannon
- Scott Fava
- Matt Giteau
- Digby Ioane
- Drew Mitchell
- John Welborn