SWAN Districts take on Peel Thunder in a home preliminary final this Sunday after losing the second semi-final to East Perth last Saturday.

On the back of a stirring qualifying final win in Mandurah against Peel Thunder, Swan Districts moved to within one win of reaching the 2024 WAFL grand final.

But trying to beat the Royals without Aidan Clarke, Jesse Turner and Tom Edwards proved a challenge with East Perth ended up prevailing 11.6 (72) to 6.8 (44) to be the first team to advance to the 2024 grand final at Optus Stadium.

Swan Districts colts will also play against Subiaco with a grand final spot on the line.

Leigh Kohlmann kicked the first three goals for Swan Districts of the second semi-final with the 32-year-old having now kicked 51 goals in 2024.

The other goals on the day came courtesy of Brad Lynch, Jiah Reidy and Bryce Watson.

Gun recruits Jye Chalcraft and Nik Rokahr again did a power of work in the midfield for Swans with the former finishing with 29 possessions and three tackles, and the latter 28 touches and six tackles.

Rokahr was named a joint Sandover medal winner on Monday evening.

Max Chipper returned to the team to play on the wing in the absence of co-captain Jesse Turner and compiled 22 possessions with Josh Cipro ending up with 22 touches, Tony Notte 20, Jake Pasini 19, Jehb O’Donohue 18 and Jackson McLachlan 18.

Ruckman Nathan Blakely was giving up plenty of size to East Perth’s Scott Jones, but battled hard to finish with 19 touches, 13 hit outs and five tackles.

It took only a minute into the second semi-final for East Perth to kick the first goal of the game but it didn’t take Swan Districts long to respond courtesy of Kohlmann.

After the Royals added their second, Kohlmann kicked his second for Swans before East Perth captain Christian Ameduri added another before quarter-time to give his team the five-point edge.

East Perth also managed the first goal of the second term but again it was Kohlmann keeping Swans in touch when he booted his third of the contest already.

Reidy then got on the board to tie scores up at the 14-minute mark of the second term, but the Royals managed four goals in the space of nine minutes in response to go into the half-time interval leading by 25 points.

It was just one goal apiece in the third quarter with the major for Swan Districts courtesy of Watson with the black-and-whites then able to manage just the one goal in the final term too through Brad Lynch with the Royals advancing to the grand final with the 28-point victory.