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The Peel Thunder Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The team is based in Mandurah, Western Australia, with their home ground being Rushton Park. The club joined the WAFL as an expansion team in 1997. Since the 2014 season, Peel has served as the host club for the Fremantle Dockers of the Australian Football League, an arrangement which will see Fremantle’s reserves players playing WAFL football for Peel. ==History== Peel Thunder was formed in 1996 after the West Australian Football Commission (WAFC) granted a ninth licence in the WAFL to the Mandurah-Peel region. The licence was issued on the condition that the club be ready to compete in the 1997 Westar Rules competition. Geoff Miles was appointed as the club’s inaugural coach and Phil Gilbert appointed captain. The Thunder in 1997 won only one game against Claremont in the satellite town of Rockingham and finished last, with Scott Simister winning the inaugural best and fairest, and won only one further game in their next two seasons against East Perth at Perth Oval. In 2011, Peel Thunder were fined A$10,000 for breaching the league’s salary cap rules.〔(Peel fined for salary breach ) - FootyGoss. Written by Mr Dandalooa. Published 24 March 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.〕 In the first seventeen years of its existence, to the end of 2013, Peel Thunder won only 69 matches out of 334 played, or a 20.6% winning percentage,〔(Peel Thunder ) - WAFLOnline. Retrieved 17 July 2011.〕 one of the poorest prolonged periods in any state-level club's history in Australia. During that time, the club won nine wooden spoons, finished outside the bottom two only twice, and never won as many games as it lost in a season. Its best season during that period was a sixth-place finish with a record of 8–12 in 2008. In 2014 season, Peel signed a deal to serve as the host club for the Fremantle Dockers of the Australian Football League for at least five years, an arrangement which allows reserves players from Fremantle's AFL list to play senior WAFL football for Peel. In 2015, the second season of this arrangement, Peel reached the finals for the first time in its history, finishing third on the ladder with a record of 13–7.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=McDonald's WAFL Qualifying Finals Preview )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peel Thunder Football Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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