![]() ![]() ![]() To his football credit, after only playing a few reserves matches, Watts debuted for the East Perth Football Club on a half back flank against Subiaco at the age of 17 in 1954 and would become a regular player with the club. He was soon noticed and at a young age was selected to play in the Junior Reserves for his beloved East Perth Football Club. It was during these years he worked on developing his skills as a footballer to be selected at the professional level. With his dream of one day playing league football with his favourite club firmly in his mind, he signed up to play with the Bayswater Junior Football Club. John Watts' love of Australian rules football came at a young age when he would take the tram with his grandfather to Perth Oval to see East Perth Football Club play. John resigned from the Western Australia Police when he moved to Geelong, Victoria to play for the Geelong Football Club. To date, the Watts family remains one of longest and largest serving Police families in Australia. John would serve in the Western Australia Police (while playing professional league football with East Perth Football Club) alongside many family members including hisįather, Uncles and cousins. Upon reaching minimum recruitment age, John Watts joined the Western Australia Police (Police number: 2998) after successfully graduating from the WA Police Academy. Work as an apprentice carpenter and joiner, later gaining a trade qualification in his mid-teenage years. He grew up in the Maylands area and attended Maylands State School (along with Graham Farmer). John Watts was born on 21 January 1937 in East Perth, Western Australia to Western Australia Police Superintendent James Albert Watts and Eileen Sylvia Watts. ![]()
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