High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1987 WAFL season was the 103rd season of the West Australian Football League and its various incarnations. The season opened on 4 April and concluded on 19 September with the 1987 WAFL Grand Final contested between Claremont and Subiaco. The 1987 Sandover Medal was won by Mark Watson of Perth. This was the first season in which a Western Australia-based team, West Coast, was one of two interstate teams (along with the Gold Coast-based Brisbane Bears) to make their debut in the Victorian Football League (VFL).