SWAN Districts star Andrew Krakouer has made a scintillating return to WAFL football in his first three games back but he's just focused on helping the black-and-whites reach their potential in 2010.

 Krakouer has returned to Swans this year after a much-publicised near two-year absence after playing the first nine games of 2008 following a successful 102-game AFL career with Richmond where he showed some of that best form he has brought back with him so far this year.

 Last Saturday's performance summed up perfectly what he is offering Swans this year as the 27-year-old collected 27 possessions between playing across half-forward and through the middle, kicked three goals and laid 12 strong and tenacious tackles on his helpless Shark rivals.

 It was no surprise that Swan Districts thrived on the energy of Krakouer to make it two straight wins by beating East Fremantle by 37 points at Fremantle Oval and he was just happy to see the team continue to bounce back from its slow start to the year.

 "In the last couple of weeks we know what we've done well, which is getting our pressure up on the opposition and running and carrying the ball, and then using the ball and our teammates. We didn’t do that in the first round so it's nice that we've been able to the last couple of weeks," Krakouer said.

 "The bye wasn’t a bad thing in that instance because we trained well and made sure we came back and got the result last week against South, which we did. It was then very good that we backed that up with another one against East Fremantle who didn’t have a loss yet this year. It was good.

 "We played our game plan well where we ran and carried the ball, and pressure the opposition. Then we got the ball in the hands of our runners and kickers and Timmy Geappen was able to finish off that work up forward, so it was all really pleasing."

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WOODBRIDGE LAKES HOUSE A WINNER FOR SWANS

 By Chris Pike

Swan Districts' house in Woodbridge Lakes has been a long project over the last five years, but now one that is a tremendous success with the property sold and the new owner set to move in any time now.

 The Midland Redevelopment Authority provided the Swan Districts Football Club with the chance to purchase the land in the Woodbridge Lakes area and the property sold for $1.1 million to Henrika (Hennie) Misiani and will return the club a handy profit of in excess of $100,000.

 The house was sold by the Professionals Wellstead team and thanks to the work of builder Kerry Hegney, all of the Swan Districts' wonderful sponsors who donated materials to the construction of the house and then the club's wonderful volunteers, it has proven a great success.

 Newcrest Mining partners with the Swan Districts Football Club

The Swan Districts Football Club has announced a three-year, cash and in-kind partnership worth $215,000 with Newcrest Mining Limited (Newcrest). Newcrest operates one of the largest gold mines in Australia, located 485km east of Port Hedland in the Western Desert region.

 For many years, Newcrest has been working in cooperation with the Martu, traditional owners of the Western Desert region, and the Department of Sport and Recreation, introducing a number of programs and carnivals culminating in the establishment of the Western Desert Sport & Recreation Committee. The Swan Districts Football Club has set itself apart from other WAFL and AFL clubs through its development of V Swans, an innovative sports-based education model of programs. Through the Swan Districts Football Club’s active commitment to community and youth development, V Swans are able to deliver a range of programs that facilitate a variety of education, career and development opportunities.

SWAN Districts bounced back from a slow start to 2010 with an impressive win over South Fremantle and coach Brian Dawson was delighted to see his team respond in that fashion.

 There was high hopes on Swans for a successful 2010 campaign, but Dawson was a little concerned when he saw his team thumped in each practice match and then in Round 1 by West Perth at Arena Joondalup, but the effort against the Bulldogs after a bye was tremendous.

 Captain Josh Roberts, Andrew Krakouer, Clancee Pearce, Michael Walters, Ben Colreavy and Travis Casserly all knocked up getting the ball, Garth Taylor booted three goals and the defence led by Tallan Ames (kept Ryan Murphy to one goal) and Tony Notte (McCarrey goalless) was terrific.

 Swans fell 20 points down at quarter-time, but South Fremantle did have the advantage of the breeze in that first quarter.

 From there, the black-and-whites dominated to run out convincing 42-point winners with virtually every player on the field making a good contribution, which pleased Dawson.

 "Our last three quarters were really strong. I guess we were OK in the first quarter, but I thought we could have been a little closer and we coughed up some easy goals to them. Our second quarter was strong, though, and our second half was really good so I was pretty pleased with it," Dawson said.

 "They responded and they are a good group. They've got plenty of character amongst them and for whatever reason we were very ordinary in Round 1 and that wasn’t a reflection of the ability in the team by any means. We knew that and the players knew that, but there's only one way to show it and that's by responding on the field and they did that.