1993, July 6, Western Australian Newspaper, Looking at family connections in the WAFL Clubs.  Several stories from Claremont and 2 photographs, one a young John Mcintosh and the other Phil Krakouer.  The headline is “Krakouers fired at Tigerland”.

Claremont has been one of the best-connected family clubs in their 68 years.    Several family connections mentioned and these include Jim Krakouer and his brother Phil Krakouer.  Younger brother Billy also played with the Club in later years.  Several other brothers include Kevin Mitchell and Michael Mitchell.  Irwin Lewis was a member of the 1964 Claremont side and has had the pleasure of watching his three sons play for Claremont Clayton, Cameron and Chris.   Michael and David O’Connell made their debuts in 1982 and 1984 respectively and their father John O’Connell who is the current Club president was a champion player at Claremont and Geelong.  Mark Brayshaw son of 1964 premiership player Ian Brayshaw  is back with the Tigers after a stint with North Melbourne.  His brother James was a State Cricketer and played reserves for Claremont.

George Moloney ranks as one of Claremont’s all time greats and his brothers bert and Syd also made their names at Claremont.  Others include Robbie and Vic Melville, Russell, Wayne and Brad Reynolds, Brett and dean Farmer, the Goodings, Dalton, Malcolm and Graham; Scott and Mark Edwards, Ken and Jeff Mann, Denis and Warren Marshall, Rick and Kim Malcolm, Peter and Arthur Crisp, John and Michael Hutton, Kevin and colin Clune, Steve and Michael Malaxos and Tom and Jeff Sargant are some of the brothers.

father and son connections are headed by John McIntosh and his son Ashley.  John played in the 64 premiership side along with Brayshaw, Lewis, Dale Edwards and Ken Mann.  Edwards soon Scott also plays with Claremont, while Peter Mann has moved from Claremont to the AFL.  Other father-son combinations are Alf and Ian Fisher, Ian and John Grieve, Ben and Lorne Cook, Jack and Jim Hooper, Gavin and Jeremy Guard, Bert and John McPartland, Brian and David Ham and John and Maurie Bridgewood.

Claremont’s Michael Prindiville may not have cracked a league game but he is certainly a star at Claremont.  As the reserves captain for the day he had to present awards to the players and whether it was joke telling or story-telling of his team mates, he had the members in stitches.