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swan42 wrote:

Barney wrote: No difference to WAFL clubs poaching talent from their metro and country zones mid year to fill holes in their reserves teams.

Accepting your premise that WAFL clubs do it to fill holes in their reserves team; how is it the same as taken potential your best player from a WAFL league club and its impact on their chances in the second half of the year and/or finals?

Jeepers, think I might have to include illustrations from now on, you seem to struggle a fair bit.

Firstly of course they take players away from country and amateur teams to fill holes. Do you think WAFL teams use the same 45 players every week of the year?

Secondly when they take these players would they prefer to take the best players available or any players? They take the best players. So let's say a country team built around the abilities of 1 or 2 players is disrupted because his WAFL club has a few injuries and the players want to follow their dream of playing the highest possible level they can reach. Then this country team has a huge hole to fill for the second half of the season having to replace their best players with reserves players.

if you don't think this is what happens then where do the top up players mysteriously appear from mid season?

Beasley Hutton wrote:

swan42 wrote:

Barney wrote: No difference to WAFL clubs poaching talent from their metro and country zones mid year to fill holes in their reserves teams.

Accepting your premise that WAFL clubs do it to fill holes in their reserves team; how is it the same as taken potential your best player from a WAFL league club and its impact on their chances in the second half of the year and/or finals?

You would be better off asking that question to 'Ron' & 'Bruce' 42 not to their stool pigeon Barney!!

The three of us are having lunch again next Wednesday BH. You can join us if you like but be warned we tend to have fairly adult conversations. That's ok though, you can bring crayons and sit there colouring in if you like.

Barney wrote:

swan42 wrote:

Barney wrote: No difference to WAFL clubs poaching talent from their metro and country zones mid year to fill holes in their reserves teams.

Accepting your premise that WAFL clubs do it to fill holes in their reserves team; how is it the same as taken potential your best player from a WAFL league club and its impact on their chances in the second half of the year and/or finals?

Jeepers, think I might have to include illustrations from now on, you seem to struggle a fair bit.

Firstly of course they take players away from country and amateur teams to fill holes. Do you think WAFL teams use the same 45 players every week of the year?

Secondly when they take these players would they prefer to take the best players available or any players? They take the best players. So let's say a country team built around the abilities of 1 or 2 players is disrupted because his WAFL club has a few injuries and the players want to follow their dream of playing the highest possible level they can reach. Then this country team has a huge hole to fill for the second half of the season having to replace their best players with reserves players.

if you don't think this is what happens then where do the top up players mysteriously appear from mid season?

Perhaps you can provide 2 or 3 examples with respect to Swan Districts in the last couple of years.

What an opportunity for a player to go from the Minors (no matter what you say it is unfortunately that is reality) to the Majors and get a crack. Could kick start a career. How can you begrudge someone of that?

They make movies out of those stories.

At the moment once the draft at the beginning of the year is done that's it. 1 year you have to wait before you get a shot. That's a long time in footy. Anything could happen.
This allows players to strike while their iron is hot.

I like it.

swan42 wrote:

Barney wrote:

swan42 wrote:

Barney wrote: No difference to WAFL clubs poaching talent from their metro and country zones mid year to fill holes in their reserves teams.

Accepting your premise that WAFL clubs do it to fill holes in their reserves team; how is it the same as taken potential your best player from a WAFL league club and its impact on their chances in the second half of the year and/or finals?

Jeepers, think I might have to include illustrations from now on, you seem to struggle a fair bit.

Firstly of course they take players away from country and amateur teams to fill holes. Do you think WAFL teams use the same 45 players every week of the year?

Secondly when they take these players would they prefer to take the best players available or any players? They take the best players. So let's say a country team built around the abilities of 1 or 2 players is disrupted because his WAFL club has a few injuries and the players want to follow their dream of playing the highest possible level they can reach. Then this country team has a huge hole to fill for the second half of the season having to replace their best players with reserves players.

if you don't think this is what happens then where do the top up players mysteriously appear from mid season?

Perhaps you can provide 2 or 3 examples with respect to Swan Districts in the last couple of years.

You are kidding aren't you? Surely no one is this stupid.

Got no time to put up with you so yes you are 100% correct, in the last couple of years Swans have only used 45 players for the year. When they had injuries and suspensions they just played short in the reserves so they didn't disturb country and amatuer clubs in their zone.

The AFL is the premier competition in the land, and as such it will get its way. No one gives a stuff what happens to minor leagues, because they will always be around in some way, shape or form to supply players to the AFL.

That's the end goal of the WAFL, its how any club survives, by getting players drafted and making money. I'm sure the clubs wont be to upset, because as barney has said, they will go to the lower comps in the country and amateur leagues to fill their gaps, and those leagues will find players from somewhere else.....Been happening for some time.

Barney wrote:

swan42 wrote:

Barney wrote:

swan42 wrote:

Barney wrote: No difference to WAFL clubs poaching talent from their metro and country zones mid year to fill holes in their reserves teams.

Accepting your premise that WAFL clubs do it to fill holes in their reserves team; how is it the same as taken potential your best player from a WAFL league club and its impact on their chances in the second half of the year and/or finals?

Jeepers, think I might have to include illustrations from now on, you seem to struggle a fair bit.

Firstly of course they take players away from country and amateur teams to fill holes. Do you think WAFL teams use the same 45 players every week of the year?

Secondly when they take these players would they prefer to take the best players available or any players? They take the best players. So let's say a country team built around the abilities of 1 or 2 players is disrupted because his WAFL club has a few injuries and the players want to follow their dream of playing the highest possible level they can reach. Then this country team has a huge hole to fill for the second half of the season having to replace their best players with reserves players.

if you don't think this is what happens then where do the top up players mysteriously appear from mid season?

Perhaps you can provide 2 or 3 examples with respect to Swan Districts in the last couple of years.

You are kidding aren't you? Surely no one is this stupid.

Got no time to put up with you so yes you are 100% correct, in the last couple of years Swans have only used 45 players for the year. When they had injuries and suspensions they just played short in the reserves so they didn't disturb country and amatuer clubs in their zone.

I may need to type this very slowly for Barney (Ron/Bruce) to comprehend but Swans bring boys up from our own Colts not from the country is the point 42 is making!
In actual fact Swans lose more players going back to country/amateur leagues halfway through the season!

swan42 wrote:

thefalconstrike wrote:

swan42 wrote: If they want a mid-year rape and pillage let it be confined solely to the players currently in the AFL and any player external to the AFL system should be considered persona non grata.

So you wouldn't be happy if say a Connor Blakely was selected to play AFL after a great WAFL half year?

In the context of this topic and in a word: NO.

Well lets hope for your sake that your kid or relative doesn't get drafted this way because of course you would be against that.

thefalconstrike wrote:

swan42 wrote: If they want a mid-year rape and pillage let it be confined solely to the players currently in the AFL and any player external to the AFL system should be considered persona non grata.

So you wouldn't be happy if say a Connor Blakely was selected to play AFL after a great WAFL half year?

What is wrong with the drafting system as it now stands with players only being able to be selected at the end of the season in the draft/rookie draft and thus not interrupting WAFL/SANFL/VFL sides during the football season?
As someone else commented on this is just Buckley trying to take the heat off his own side/own coaching at the moment!

Beasley Hutton wrote:

Barney wrote:

swan42 wrote:

Barney wrote:

swan42 wrote:

Barney wrote: No difference to WAFL clubs poaching talent from their metro and country zones mid year to fill holes in their reserves teams.

Accepting your premise that WAFL clubs do it to fill holes in their reserves team; how is it the same as taken potential your best player from a WAFL league club and its impact on their chances in the second half of the year and/or finals?

Jeepers, think I might have to include illustrations from now on, you seem to struggle a fair bit.

Firstly of course they take players away from country and amateur teams to fill holes. Do you think WAFL teams use the same 45 players every week of the year?

Secondly when they take these players would they prefer to take the best players available or any players? They take the best players. So let's say a country team built around the abilities of 1 or 2 players is disrupted because his WAFL club has a few injuries and the players want to follow their dream of playing the highest possible level they can reach. Then this country team has a huge hole to fill for the second half of the season having to replace their best players with reserves players.

if you don't think this is what happens then where do the top up players mysteriously appear from mid season?

Perhaps you can provide 2 or 3 examples with respect to Swan Districts in the last couple of years.

You are kidding aren't you? Surely no one is this stupid.

Got no time to put up with you so yes you are 100% correct, in the last couple of years Swans have only used 45 players for the year. When they had injuries and suspensions they just played short in the reserves so they didn't disturb country and amatuer clubs in their zone.

I may need to type this very slowly for Barney (Ron/Bruce) to comprehend but Swans bring boys up from our own Colts not from the country is the point 42 is making!

The players you select to fill the gaps made in the colts, where do they come from? Do you grow them in terracotta pots behind the can bar?