6th October 2025 - Did you play in the State Fours and not progress like the other 90% of us? So your free on the 19th October? Dalkeith Nedlands are still looking for teams to play in their Spring Fours and it won't include those left in the State Fours, so why not put a team together! Details on the flyer
6th October 2025 - We are down to our semifinalists to be held at a venue to be confirmed on Sunday the 19th October.
In the mens our tipsters had it right with 3 of the top 4 favourites all progressing. Blake Nairn, Corey Bessant and Anthony Williams are there and joined by an unfamiliar name to me Jordan King from Cockburn but he does have some familiar names with him.
The women though is a different story with the favourite teams being defeated. Only 1 team, that of Donna Blackwell made it on the tippers list and her team will take on Liz Matthews. In the other semi sees Kerry West playing Dot Glass.
4th October 2025 - Carnage today in the state fours in some of the worst conditions I can remember playing in for a state event. So not all sections are known, men will continue at Mt Lawley and the womens sections head to North Beach. Some big scores around as well as some handled the conditions better.
3rd October 2025 - Waroona have sent details of their recent carnival
2nd October 2025 - The draws have been released for all the competitions, for all the draws. For the Saturday Open Gender 1st division games for the year all 18 rounds are listed.
1st October 2025 - The huge Leeming Stockland Halcyon Cup was played over 2 days this weekend, who won?
29th September 2025 - Our Western Australian qualifiers were decided yesterday, we have 2 represtnative teams going to Pine Rivers in a month or so.
26th September 2025 - The State Fours draw has been released
26th September 2025 - And when the draw gets released, so does the tipping! Great news this year, we have 3 prizes available to tippers. 1st prize of $100 bowls voucher from Active Bowls in Willetton, thanks again to Dennis who has now sponsored our tipping for a couple of years. Coming on board this year is a new sponsor - the Perth Poker League. Ash Warner is sending more details about in the coming weeks but Belmont and Mt Lawley currently use this Poker League both with great success so look forward to hearing more about it for our fellow Perth Bowlers. They have also donated $100 in bowls vouchers from Active bowls, $60 for 2nd and $40 for 3rd. The same rules as normal apply -
-If there is a withdrawal from a section and you have tipped them then that tip will count as a loss, unless you re-enter. (I will try to announce replacements if known)23rd September 2025 - The Bassendean Spring Fours has been completed over the weekend
23rd September 2025 - Congrats to our winners Daniel Trewhella and Lisa Featherby.
20th September 2025 - We are down to the semi finalists and waht cracking games we have lined tomorrow.
20th September 2025 - Day 1c is done for the men, we are down to the top 32 for the men and top 16 for the ladies being played today. Some good match ups and a fine day as well. Look forward to seeing the semi-finalists at the end of today
14th September 2025 - Day 1b has been completed now for the Ladies
12th September 2025 - The first day of the Ladies Mt Lawley consistency was completed today
18th September 2025 - East Fremantle have had some recent changes and they have sent this snippet about the club
17th September 2025 - More movements continuing to happen, this time for Dalkeith
17th September 2025 - Armadale continue to attract bowlers to their club. They are looking to become the powerhouse club down south.
17th September 2025 - The Denison Batavia Classic has been run and won
15th September 2025 - Another departure from Cambridge?
15th September 2025 - Kellerberrin have sent details of their upcoming carnival in October
14th September 2025 - Are Innaloo starting a rebuild back up the grades?
11th September 2025 - The North Perth charity fours has been completed, they raised an amazing $62k for Neuromuscular WA. Amazing effort from Ben Horwood and the team down there at North Perth
10th September 2025 - Mt Lawley are looking for some players to fill withdrawals through illness or other.
Womens - Friday 12th September - 1 spotIf want to fill those spots contact Ray Povey on 0481 396325
8th September 2025 - Some results are starting to filter through
8th September 2025 - Dalkeith have sent details of their annual Spring Fours
4th September 2025 - Hearing murmurings about about a state player shifting clubs
4th September 2025 - The draw for the Consistency singles has been released for the women, huge numbers entered this year, I've been told record numbers which is great news for the Ladies comp.
1st September 2025 - An old rumour comes true
31st August 2025 - Day 1b is now done and seems to be a more regular results with the fancied players all looking like getting through. Another glorious day weather wise for the bowlers as well, this is not like Mt Lawley Consistency!
30th August 2025 - Day 1a of the Mens Cons singles has been completed, we saw some upsets and some favs get through. Day 1b keeps going tomorrow and the ladies draw will be released soon.
25th August 2025 - The draw for the Consistency singles has been released for the men, full draw here, you can plot who you are coming up against in future rounds.
25th August 2025 - Must be nearly the start of the season, the Mt Lawley Classic Fours was decided over the weekend
20th August 2025 - North Perth have 6 teams to fill their upcoming carnival on the 30th.
11th August 2025 - The Australian Indoors qualifying started today, how did our Western Australian players fare?
7th August 2025 - Some more potential moves
7th August 2025 - Eaton have sent through the details for their Mens Mental Health Pairs in October
7th August 2025 - With the season fast approaching, some gala days have been sent to me, anyone reading should start sending theirs in from their own club.
29th July 2025 - Been told of a few moving players this week
27th July 2025 - I have resisted doing this since the site started up but I will going forward trawl through Facebook to get all the carnivals coming up. My view is that it's good to broadcast all our carnivals in the state and people can either use Facebook or Bowls360 to find a carnival for them. So thanks to Perth Pennants and Bowling Events WA for these carnivals. Safety Bay have their annual John Biglin memorial fours coming up, as well as the very popular Kardinya Shots Up in August. Finally some country events at Capel and Busselton.
24th July 2025 - Bassendean have sent the flyer for their Spring carnival
22nd July 2025 - Quinns Rocks have a new member...
22nd July 2025 - We have sadly lost a couple of bowlers in the past few days, funeral details now provided for Barry Crawford
15th July 2025 - The PBA has been played over the past 2 weekends in Mandurah, Dave Rankin does a great job of putting this together and even attracted Ali Forsyth to come over and try and qualify. How did he do? Who are the Australian qualifiers. See below for full results.
SCOTTISH OPEN Glenn Martin def Lisa Featherby 8-9, 8-6, 2-111th July 2025 - Massive news coming out of Osborne Park
10th July 2025 - Bunbury have sent details of a big tourney in Sept/Oct. 2 day carnival midweek after the AFL carnival.
4th July 2025 - I'm stoked to announce that one of the nicest and most generous guys in bowls has jumped on board with the site. Bill Brandsma from Crediflex is a mortgage broker and is your go to guy should you be requiring someone to help with bank lending, whether it be the purchase of a property or a re-finance, Bill will be able to help you out. First hand knowledge with me, he has helped me and my family on numerous occasions and on every occasion, takes the pain out of dealing with banks and the red tape they make you jump through. Bill will give you plenty of optioins for banks and rates and will advise on the best course of action but leaves the decision entirely up to you. He is so flexible with his time and always willing to help out.
Keep Bill in mind should you requiring a bank loan and mention the site for some extra special help. His contact details are ph: 0402534808 and email: billbrandsma@crediflex.com
4th July 2025 - Eaton have a split fours carnival in September for those wishing to enter
25th June 2025 - More sponsors for the Kalamunda carnival means more prizemoney! Not too late if you want to enter a team
23rd June 2025 - The defence of the title for Mt Lawley will start a man down
17th June 2025 - South Perth have picked up a fairly handy recruit.
10th June 2025 - Don't forget I will be broadcasting WA results live on my Youbube channel at about 4pm WST every night of the Australian Open. Join me live, say hello and I will look up anyone that played that day for you for some scores. for the channel and click the live tab to view.
7th June 2025 - The Australian Open of 2025 starts today. Record entries for Western Australian players, I count 513 entries, probably about 150-200 people which is excellent. for my google sheet which will be updated after every round for the whole tournament.
Bowls Australia have changed their live streaming platform (no they haven't as it crashed, back to Youtube!), to catch their streams
I will also endeavour to do a daily Youtube live video, probably around 4pm daily for a wrap of the days results and preview the following day. Waiting for Youtube to approve the live streaming capability so we'll try and get that up and running for Sunday 8th June
7th June 2025 - Pinjarra are looking for entries for their 1-bowl Fours tournament in a couple of weeks.
4th June 2025 - NSW have recently announced their over 40's state side. We don't have one here in WA, should we? I got a short note about this topic.
4th June 2025 - Yet to confirm sources but Sorrento might be losing someone
23rd May 2025 - Kalamunda have sent details of their carnival in September
20th May 2025 - The womens state teams has now been announced
20th May 2025 - The Mens Masters singles was completed on the weekend at Mt Lawley, congratulations to Blake Nairn who is in some rare form at the moment defeating Rhys Cummings in the final. Full results can be found on the results page.
19th May 2025 - The Australian Open kicks off in a couple of weeks, there is a google sheet above which collates all the WA players and their scores and progress through the event. If I have missed someone or changes made after the release of the teams, please let me know. It will be updated at the end of each day.
18th May 2025 - The Mens State team has been announced, with 2 changes made and loads of rink changes. Congratulations to Clive Adams who will play his 250th game for WA on this campaign and also to Kyle McIlroy who retired during the week
14th May 2025 - Our winners of the State Mixed Pairs!
13th May 2025 - The final event of the year has been released, the Mens Masters Singles. With the Rosenthal medal potentially on the line, it looks like a pretty good field.
5th May 2025 - The draw for the last state event of the year, the Mixed Pairs, has been released.
2nd May 2025 - It's the off season and we have started hearing some movement rumours, some true, some false and some yet to be confirmed. I try where I can to confirm the stuff I hear but if something is posted, don't be offended if you find your name here. If a rumour is posted here it means it is spreading around the bowls world so if it is false, let me know and I can squash the rumour straight away.
1st May 2025 - The Ladies State and Over 60's team have been announced. to see the article from Bowls WA