17/09/2026
The Augusta Margaret River Football and Netball Club would like to extend our sincere condolences to all family and friends on the passing of Jim Blain.
We were fortunate to receive these memories of Jim from Laurie Praed, reminding us of the incredible contribution he made to the Augusta Margaret River Football Club over the years.
Jim was an inaugural player when the Club entered the SWFNL in 1966 and went on the build an impressive football career, including:
League Fairest & Best Runner Up - 1969
Reserves Fairest & Best Runner Up - 1974
Reserves Fairest & Best - 1975 & 1978
Reserves Captain - 1979
Reserves Premiership Player - 1980 - Our Club’s first ever Premiership
Assistant League Coach across several seasons
Life Member of the Club
Jim also represented the Club in Superules in 1989, where, as Laurie recalls, he shared plenty of laughs and good times with old teammates and opponents.
“In SWFNL footy, our archenemies were the Collie teams, and behind play incidents were legendary. Frequent incidents involved players carried off the ground unconscious. Well, our first Superules game against Collie was at home, we lent them some players - Peter Bayliss, Peter Walker, Peter Beech - all same first names, then Laurie Craven & Laurie Praed - they started thinking we were somehow taking the p**s! Before the bounce down someone reckoned we should stage a mock punch-up to get their girls involved (about the first and only time we had their support) and of course they were aghast, thinking it was dinkhum. What a laugh - as fate would have it, I was lined up on Jimmy and we just couldn’t do it. But enjoyed the moment.”
Beyond the football achievements, stories like Laurie’s remind us of the character, mateship and sense of humour that Jim brought to the Club.
Rest peacefully Jim.
