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swan42 wrote:

Senior Seagull wrote: You'd hope the sponsorship dollars or some of it currently going to the Force could end up at the WAFL but don't kid yourselves, The Force are/were in a national comp, nationally televised so the money will go to the 2 local AFL empires, have no doubt.
Maybe the old Lotons ground can be reconfigured for real footy and an un-aligned Eas purf can head back there

SS internationally telelvised; not just national.

That sums it up, they are the only ones interested, as they were virtually invisible in the local media.

BH..Played at night under lights.Couldn't play during the heat of day.The Wafl no longer has control of its own destiny.It hasn't since the AFL infiltrated the Wafc.

Grassy wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote:

Bazza wrote: More wasted money, stuff the Force, where is Twiggy and his Squilions in true WA Sport, the WAFL..come on Grassy get real, if this bloke was fair dinkum about WA sport he would be pumping the dough into WAFL Clubs and giving us a CRACK v the AFL monster, no he pisses it up against the wall on a sport foreign to W A , a little Western Suburbs hobby for the Christ Church and Scotch eleite mobs and his Yarpie Pom public school mates

What a load of BS, come on Twiggy back WA and WAFL not this crap.

Sorry Grassy but Bazza has actually nailed it with this one....Forrest, Rinehart and all the other Billionaire families in WA and not 1 puts a single red cent in to WAFL footy..they all show their true blue blood colours by only financially supporting the old school tie favs raa raa, hockey, polo, swimming et al tripe!

Most likely true BH,but it doesn't change the issue at hand,that the Force got Shafted by SANZAR's and the ARU's Incompetence!

Oh well,I still have the ALL BLACKS and the CRUSADERS,who recently Cantered to their 8th Super Crown!

The ARU own the Farce, they bought the licence back over a year ago because no one else wanted it.

The don't own the Melbourne Franchise. The ARU on sold it.

There's a lot that stinks of "Victorian under the table"

Curious how the week before Rebels owner sold out to the VRU - all of a sudden they're saved

Hard not to feel for the Force playing staff - most of them are farked now , wait for the raid by Melbourne to prop it's dog of side up

Time for another fence - a Victorian dog fence

The Victorian State Government bought the Rebels licence and transferred it to the VRU on the understanding it would underwrite the huge loses its making, that was done to prevent the ARU buying it back and closing them down, that was the difference between the two set ups.

Nobody was willing to do the same with the WF.

I didn't mind watching a bit of "ruggers" now and then - they should have ditched that snorefest called soccer.
What were they thinking? They had a foothold in WA and now it's becoming an NSW/Vic sport. Sporting suicide.

58shark wrote: I didn't mind watching a bit of "ruggers" now and then - they should have ditched that snorefest called soccer.
What were they thinking? They had a foothold in WA and now it's becoming an NSW/Vic sport. Sporting suicide.

It takes a particularly "special" sporting body to make the WAFC seem at all competent. Amazingly the ARU have done exactly that.

One can only imagine what a SC/QC would do to the people in the ARU to justify the culling of the Force compared to the Rebels.

The big winners out of this will be the NRL and the biggest losers will be the ARU that will be bankrupt prior to this fiasco ending.

every one to their own I guess but I used to enjoy watching the Force.....was pretty happy when they beat the Rebels over here but unfortunately it didn't count for much.

BC wrote: every one to their own I guess but I used to enjoy watching the Force.....was pretty happy when they beat the Rebels over here but unfortunately it didn't count for much.

BC They just got an injuction until next Wednesday for the SCWA to decide if they have a case, fortunately most of the SCWA judges like in Dalkieth and Nedlands, you never know they might be in with a sniff..lol

yep...saw that Baz....it's the players I feel for not knowing whether to look for another club or just sit it out and see what happens.