Curse Watch is well and truly on. The Cheats have now lost four in a row, this time to a Fitzroy side that didn't even submit a team. Losing to an opponent that literally couldn't be bothered is a special kind of footballing humiliation. They're now fifth on the ladder, percentage wobbling, and the curse shows no sign of lifting. The Phils, last-placed coming in, pulled off the upset of the season - the kind of thing the 1990 WAFL Grand Final crowd would remember, when Swan Districts toppled four-time minor premier Claremont. Daicos, Parish and Ashcroft did the midfield work for the Phils while the Pirates' forwards combined for only eleven points. Brodie Grundy in the ruck was about all that was working at the other end. Flannie kept the dream alive, accounting for the Boner to move to sixth. Cheats and Corio both lost - the percentage edge is starting to matter, Flannie now sitting ahead of both Fitzroy and the Cheats on that metric. Cazzu edged the Village by a point; Western Suburbs Walkabout cruised past the Sinners to stay top.