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Which zone do you want to swap - city or country? 

Claremont has 3 PSA schools in our city zone - Perth has 2? Or is it 3? But players aren’t locked into WAFL zones based on what school they go too, it’s their primary address that matters so a Claremont resident that goes to Wesley is still our player but on the flip side lots of the Boarders at our PSA schools aren’t linked to us. 

DD, do wealthier households create more stable families? Plenty of unhappy relationships and divorces in the western suburbs. Plenty of high earners in the Perth district too, it’s not cheap to buy on the river. 

Nathan Buckley was educated at a private school, has a uni degree and has a lot more life experience than Stack or Taylor and he also broke the AFL Covid restrictions so I don’t get your point. 

 

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Which zone do you want to swap - city or country? 

Claremont has 3 PSA schools in our city zone - Perth has 2? Or is it 3? But players aren’t locked into WAFL zones based on what school they go too, it’s their primary address that matters so a Claremont resident that goes to Wesley is still our player but on the flip side lots of the Boarders at our PSA schools aren’t linked to us. 

DD, do wealthier households create more stable families? Plenty of unhappy relationships and divorces in the western suburbs. Plenty of high earners in the Perth district too, it’s not cheap to buy on the river. 

Nathan Buckley was educated at a private school, has a uni degree and has a lot more life experience than Stack or Taylor and he also broke the AFL Covid restrictions so I don’t get your point. 


 

What percentage of students attending the PSA schools within the Claremont zone are domiciled in the Claremont zone compared to those attending any PSA school within the Perth zone are domiciled in the Perth zone?

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Which zone do you want to swap - city or country? 

Claremont has 3 PSA schools in our city zone - Perth has 2? Or is it 3? But players aren’t locked into WAFL zones based on what school they go too, it’s their primary address that matters so a Claremont resident that goes to Wesley is still our player but on the flip side lots of the Boarders at our PSA schools aren’t linked to us. 

DD, do wealthier households create more stable families? Plenty of unhappy relationships and divorces in the western suburbs. Plenty of high earners in the Perth district too, it’s not cheap to buy on the river. 

Nathan Buckley was educated at a private school, has a uni degree and has a lot more life experience than Stack or Taylor and he also broke the AFL Covid restrictions so I don’t get your point. 




 

What percentage of students attending the PSA schools within the Claremont zone are domiciled in the Claremont zone compared to those attending any PSA school within the Perth zone are domiciled in the Perth zone? I 

You’re taking the piss aren’t you swan........aren’t you???  

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Which zone do you want to swap - city or country? 

Claremont has 3 PSA schools in our city zone - Perth has 2? Or is it 3? But players aren’t locked into WAFL zones based on what school they go too, it’s their primary address that matters so a Claremont resident that goes to Wesley is still our player but on the flip side lots of the Boarders at our PSA schools aren’t linked to us. 

DD, do wealthier households create more stable families? Plenty of unhappy relationships and divorces in the western suburbs. Plenty of high earners in the Perth district too, it’s not cheap to buy on the river. 

Nathan Buckley was educated at a private school, has a uni degree and has a lot more life experience than Stack or Taylor and he also broke the AFL Covid restrictions so I don’t get your point. 




 

What percentage of students attending the PSA schools within the Claremont zone are domiciled in the Claremont zone compared to those attending any PSA school within the Perth zone are domiciled in the Perth zone?

 

You’ll need to go ask the School Registrars. 

Given that there is very few public high schools in the Claremont District you’d have to suspect it would be higher. 

In regards to the PFC zone, I'm led to believe that there is meant to be a recommendation for change on this in the coming months.  The club, originally led by former board director Neil Darby, has been working hard behind the scenes over the last 3-5 years to get the WAFC to change the zones as the zones they are currently allocated isn't as fruitful with new families as others are.

Now with all that being said I was involved with a junior club for around 15 years but haven't been involved for the last 3-4 years.

I remember when the late Brett Claudius was coaching a couple of development squads around 2004-2006.  Players that didn't make the squad got a hand written piece of paper from the coach and he spent time talking to them, explaining the reasons as to why they hadn't made the team this time.  The paper had three things you did well and three things you needed to improve on.  The three things you needed to improve on where specific as well.  For instance it wasn't just the coach writing down kicking.  It would be more specific like ball drop is too high etc.  So even though the player didn't make it that time they went away knowing the areas of the game they needed to work on over the next 12 months before the next development squad.

Around 2010/11 the year 11/12 player group at my junior club got notified by a text message that they didn't make either a development squad or the colts squad.  A text message!!!!!!!!

I was speaking to the current president of the junior club at the time and the coaching group of those boys and the overwhelming popular opinion from the playing group was why go back to Perth if this is how the treat us.  There was a very tense relationship between junior clubs and the PFC District for a very long time.  Junior clubs felt like they weren't listened to and the district basically did as they wanted and only paid token interest to the clubs when and where it suited them.  This was still the feeling back when I left in 2015 so it may have improved over the last 6 years, I don't know.

From memory I don't think each club has there own District Officer or District Manager like they used to back in the day.  I think it's split up into zones like Northern, Central and South etc... 

I remember Percy Johnson a coupe of years ago talking about a District Officer or Talent Manager that was working at Swans.  Percy said that this individual would get up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday and head out to Swans country zones.  Usually Bunbury and the like.  This individual would watch anywhere from 3-5 games before heading back for the day.  It was this type of attitude Percy said that saw young players wanting to come to Swans to further their development.  This wasn't a once off either according to Percy.  There'd be 5-6 visits, possibly more like this each year.  Could the same be said about anyone from Perth putting in this kind of effort over the years?

I have and still maintain this argument that the Perth Football Club has done no where near enough work in their zone, even though it isn't as fruitful as other clubs.  In my opinion unless you've exhausted your whole zone and worked it to within an inch of its life and after all that still come back with nothing, then that's when you really should be complaining.

Fark you love writing the word domiciled 42. Love it Mate. Enjoy. Though the prevalence dose make one wonder if you are not so well read as you may try to seem.  

Thanks Mr AFL for putting the effort in to share your knowledge and experience those of us that have no idea. I’m not trying to make excuses or be a smart arse, but would Swans like to swap Bunbury with us? Well give them Northam. I dare say well have a couple of blokes stationed in or near Bunbury permanently. The wheatbelt is just shadow of what it used to be in golden years post WWII.

It’s not just our metro zone it’s our country zone as well.

Lets not forget when country zones were being allocated no-one wanted Geraldton so we took it on. The rest is history!!!

I cant believe that "lets swap zones"  is your solution??? Listen to what some Perth folk here are saying and put some effort in improving what you got. 

I remember the WAFC use to revisit the clubs zoned areas every 5 years and adjust it accordingly? I haven't seen anything for ages. 

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Yes Northam ain’t Bunbury or Gero or Albany etc etc.

You need some coast. We have none.

Doesn’t Perth have the Midlands district which includes Dongara, Cervantes, Jurien etc...aren’t they along the coast?? 
 

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How hard do you think it is to find someone in the zone to complain about a WAFL club, any WAFL club?

That is not an argument, it’s just a bunch of stories.

The problem is the depth in our zone and these problems relate to socio -economic issues.  Do you really  , honestly believe that the PFC has been treating its zone sooo badly for sooo long that it explains our lack of success. It is systemic it has nothing to do with this week or that or this person or that.  Where are all the pfc 19 yr kids killing it at other clubs??? Jesus H Christ.

If anyone else wants to swap let’s do it!!

Yes you are right about the depth in our zone not being as strong as other clubs and the socio-economic issues our zone faces another zone might not. 

You may be as flippant to dismiss these as stories but they still happened within the Perth zone and at one junior club. I cannot speak on behalf of other junior clubs as I wasn’t involved with them. However with some of the information coming through it does appear to be a recurring problem.  The two issues are linked in my opinion StT, not seperate. 

And yes I do believe the people in charge of the Perth zone haven’t been as proactive as they could have been. As for this relating to the lack of success well that will always be the great unanswered question won’t it.