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Camera IconSNESA’s new blue and gold league kits were stolen on Wednesday. Credit: Emily-Jane’s Photography<\/p>\nA local Perth football club has been dealt a crippling blow after their league jumpers were allegedly stolen.<\/p>\n
SNESA football club play in the C4 division of the Perth Football League, the league side currently sits fifth on the ladder after a 2-2 start to their season.<\/p>\n
But they have been dealt a devastating blow after their new jumpers were allegedly stolen on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Former president and club legend Vice Paparone said blue and gold kit was taken out of a player\u2019s car.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter each game we allocate someone to take the jumpers home and wash them,\u201d Mr Paparone said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the boys who lives in Cloverdale took the jumpers, washed them, and put them in his car on Wednesday night so he could bring them to training on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that time overnight someone\u2019s broken into his car and stolen the jumpers along with some of his personal items . . . they\u2019re still not recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a tight turnaround for their next game on Saturday, the club had to quickly scrounge old jumpers so the boys can run out and compete on the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got some old kits from previous years, but that kit was brand new last year,\u201d Mr Paparone said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe burden of having to scrape together old kits which we\u2019ve on sold or given away, so trying to get enough numbers to play on the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
While they managed to gather enough guernsey\u2019s for their league side to play going forward, the impact to the club will be detrimental if not recovered.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Many local footy clubs around Perth are already doing it tough to keep their head above water.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s $2000 for a full kit, so it is quite a financial burden,\u201d Mr Paparone said.<\/p>\n
\u201cInsurance doesn\u2019t cover it and also the club\u2019s insurance won\u2019t cover it because it\u2019s not at the facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have sponsors who paid to be on the back of the kit, it\u2019s a burden to them as well . . . they, understandably, probably wouldn\u2019t want to fork out any more.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the club\u2019s probably going to have to fund the cost itself to replace them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camera IconSNESA’s new blue and gold league kits were stolen on Wednesday. Credit: Emily-Jane’s Photography<\/p>\n
The club has reported the incident to WA Police and are urging members of the public to help recover these new kits to relieve the added stress.<\/p>\n
SNESA president Rafic Aoun took to the club\u2019s social media, informing the public about the incident and calling out the perpetrator.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a disgraceful, cowardly act so this is the culprit\u2019s chance to redeem themselves and do something good with their life,\u201d he said on Facebook.<\/p>\n
WA Police have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local Perth football club has been dealt a crippling blow after their league jumpers were allegedly stolen.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[638,64,63,596,588,85,45],"class_list":["post-657412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}