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There aren't enough juniors/clubs in the Northern Suburbs to support an extra Club/zone/colts/16's, 15's, 14's development squads. Subiaco, East Perth and West Perth don't have 10 junior clubs even at this stage.

East Perth, West Perth and Subiaco would be uncompetitive very quickly in all grades from league to 14's development squad and the Joondalup side would be a rabble in every grade but league and totally smashed at development squad and colts level which is the last thing anybody wants to see in WA football.

The entire comp would be in an even worse state than even now and in no time the WAFC/AFL would be demanding a please explain at the constant thrashings at colts and development squad level for these sides - probably resulting in a restructure that would see the WAFC take a larger role in district development and the WAFL clubs having less and less input.

G7 clubs accept revised deal
Mark Duffield,
The West Australian
January 26, 2013, 10:22 am

The WAFL's self-titled G7 clubs will get access to an extra $120,000 a year as part of a fresh financial package related to the East Perth and Peel alignments with West Coast and Fremantle respectively from 2014.

And there will be a long-term push to "naturalise" the East Perth and Peel lists over time so that, other than AFL-listed players, they will eventually contain no out-of-zone players unless they become uncompetitive.

These were the key concessions won by the seven unaligned clubs over the past two weeks at a series of meetings.

Yesterday, after East Perth and Peel were briefed on the rule modifications in the morning, the seven unaligned clubs unanimously agreed to accept the revised conditions in the afternoon, removing the threat that clubs would boycott practice games against the Royals and Thunder.

The original financial package offered to the WAFL clubs as part of Peel's and East Perth's alignments allowed for an increase of $70,000 in the cash component of their annual management grant from the WAFC, with $20,000 to go on each club's balance sheet annually, $10,000 per club to go towards investigating cost savings and shared services and $50,000 per club to go into a competition development fund.

The revised financial package will still see clubs receive the equivalent of a $150,000 financial package but it will include an extra $120,000 cash in management grants to go with the other elements.

Peel and East Perth will be able to retain out-of-zone players on their lists as of June 30 this year, and will be able to follow through on recruiting players they have formally approached already provided transfers can be finalised through normal WAFL channels, enabling Peel to continue to pursue Cruize Garlett.

But they will not be able to approach any more out-of-zone players and the aim will be to eventually have teams which consist entirely of local and AFL-listed players.

If uncompetitive, they could apply to the WAFC's football affairs committee to recruit out-of-zone players at the end of a season.

WAFC chairman Frank Cooper and G7 spokesman Haydn Raitt hailed the agreement last night and called for everybody to get on with the business of playing and promoting the 2013 WAFL season.

"The players they (East Perth and Peel) have got now will play with them. There is no migration of those players at this stage," Raitt said.

"What we are concerned about is if that they do start off too strong and end up one and two in the first year, we will have members and sponsors thinking it is a contrived competition and not having a bar of it.

"We are happy and it is now important that we push forward and make sure that our sponsors get behind the WAFL now and our members join up."

Cooper labelled the outcome a "reasonable starting point" that would be under regular review.
"We are happy and it is now important that we push forward.""G7 spokesman *Haydn Raitt *

Seems that the 7 other clubs took no notice of the people, well a very small group at last!

I'd say that result is about as good as it gets given they've already been included. Denying them the right to recruit out of zone players is brilliant.

Not that I agree with them being included.

That seems to sum the situation up nicely. All the talk from the non aligns about a boycott has all been a damned furphy. The old money is certainly doing the talking within this deal!

Grump wrote: Seems that the 7 other clubs took no notice of the people, well a very small group at last!

It was always going to be about the money and rightly so to some extent. Wonder what the membership numbers are like at present. Glad that out of zone players can't be recruited either.

I suppose its now time for everyone to move on and get on with the game, anything else will be flogging a dead horse

Swandog wrote: I suppose its now time for everyone to move on and get on with the game, anything else will be flogging a dead horse

Yep, I agree. Doesn't seem be much mileage left in the argument.
We all move on and support our own club.

It is still a bullshit deal and is detrimental to the WAFL as a Whole.
The barstards wanted to have two AFL Clubs in our comp - lost that but in the ends still have it. We are being conned big time.
I feel 2013 WILL be the last WAFL season for me as after that it is not an even playing field. Money will not make a difference.

The presidents although trying hard for a good deal have not done enough.
I will no longer be a WPFC member after 2013.. RIP WAFL.

I still get the feeling that Cooper knob isnt happy about the 2 AFL Reserves sides not being able to recruit out of zone ..I mean blind freddy could see that should have been one of the first points that happened from the start of this host club bull$hit & in the meantime players like Garlett, McKinlay, Jacky, Motlop et al have all been signed up ffs!