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Cannot see how they will have enough players, arent the lists getting cut next year?

They could form half a team from the amount of players they've cut already. As long as we can keep McInness, Grey and Fisher and pick up Schofield and Vardy if he get's cut then that's all I care about. No doubt WC are going to make that hard now.

So we know WCE will get their way whatever they decide. WAFC are always willing to accommodate needs of the AFL teams.
Sadly, having a national football league has actually diminished just about all state leagues. There's more money in the game than ever before, yet the very competitions which kept football alive for over 100 years had to be sacrificed. Why?
I guess at the end of the day they were able to convince enough people that only the AFL mattered.
George G. used to talk about snouts in the trough when it came to the AFL - and he was dead right. If you're getting your fill at the trough why worry about the state of state leagues? I hate the AFL media most of all. Spineless. I mean afl.com.au sanctioned a journalist for having the temerity to report the news. And, of course, since snouts are in the trough, no one raised an eyebrow (oh yes it was wrong some said, but that was just for appearances). afl.com.au is worse than the Chinese CCP press.

PD: good post; to this day I don't understand, how, my club, voted for it in 86. How could they have voted in favour of something, when at the time of voting, we were not even sure what would happen to our lease at Subiaco? Our rights were guranteed only after the vote, and, after some bitchy from all sides

Perhaps it was because Michael Carlisle was a Victorian?

there is a little bit more to the Subi angle too, because from memory, in the late 80s the new commission put a proposal to the board that it recommend to members a merger with the WCE. This was rejected by David Williams, surely under pressure from nearly all members.

stt: thanks for your kind words.

ArkRoyal wrote: there is a little bit more to the Subi angle too, because from memory, in the late 80s the new commission put a proposal to the board that it recommend to members a merger with the WCE. This was rejected by David Williams, surely under pressure from nearly all members.

Spot on Ark, at least the members had a say unlike at East Perth, we were in a pretty good financial state by then, after Merryfield and successive quality presidents turned the club around, so had no need to attach ourselves to the evil empire.

Senior Seagull wrote:

ArkRoyal wrote: there is a little bit more to the Subi angle too, because from memory, in the late 80s the new commission put a proposal to the board that it recommend to members a merger with the WCE. This was rejected by David Williams, surely under pressure from nearly all members.

Spot on Ark, at least the members had a say unlike at East Perth, we were in a pretty good financial state by then, after Merryfield and successive quality presidents turned the club around, so had no need to attach ourselves to the evil empire.

Subi have made the most of a good thing and congrats to them. While you ended up with good managers, Subi also had a chair ride out of poverty. The WA footy community threw money into tins to help. (That was brilliant buy the Community - any other state done that before?). Then an insurance company threw in a couple hundred grand (?) back then. Can’t remember the details....quite happy to be corrected if wrong. Then of course, there’s the Eagles/Subi seats deal.
So yes, Subi has worked at it and come out on top, but it was far from totally a club effort.

shark:

we got the following:

our own pub in the late 70s, some clubs had had them since the 40s
community monies
a zone including Peel
a ten cent deal with our creditors -- this was what saved the club
200,000 for Buckenara
the western underwriters monies -- we would not have got any of those monies had we not made the four in 85 had if EF won the flag in 86; they did not just give it to the club.

SD have saved themselves twice by just raising money, it is just that, for whatever reason, no fuss is made. You did it this year