Presenting the Walyalup Football Club
The Fremantle Dockers are proud to announce it will be known as the Walyalup Football Club for future games played during Sir Doug Nicholls and AFLW Indigenous Rounds. The renaming has been in the works for the past two years and follows in the footsteps of Melbourne, who played as the Narrm Football Club in 2022.
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We reveal our Walyalup logo for this years Sir Doug Nicholls round.
Wargyl
Wargyl is the major spirit for Noongar People and central to our beliefs and customs. The Wargyl is a snake or rainbow serpent recognised by Noongar as the ‘Giver of Life’, maintaining all fresh water sources. It was the Wargyl that made Noongar People custodians of the land.
Yondock
Yondock is the ancestral crocodile that travelled from the North to Noongar Country during the Dreamtime. Yondock caused floods and disturbances, creating Wadjemup (Rottnest Island), Ngooloormayaup (Carnac Island), Derbal Nara (Cockburn Sound), and flooding the Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River) with salt water.
The Centre
The small-sized circles and dots on the outer layer of the artwork represent the different places people have come from to get to Walyalup. The 14 medium-sized circles and dots, symbolise the number of First Nation Groups within Noongar Country. The four large-sized circles and dots recognise the four groups within Whadjuk Noongar Country. Mooro, Mandoon/Moorda, Beeloo, Beeliar. The lines connecting these circles are Bidi's (tracks and pathways) leading to the central meeting place (Walyalup). At the centre of the design is the central meeting place which represents Walyalup (Fremantle). The shape surrounding the central meeting place depicts the people that have travelled from near and far to Walyalup.