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BC wrote: I think Dale Miller sums it up pretty well in the WAFL Show on The West website....Peel with have some seriously good players at WAFL level available and imo, we'll see a repeat of last year where the chunder sail through the finals untouched.

Which get back to the question. If the 7 Wafl clubs are seemingly not bothered, it's probably not worth discussing?

Its disappointing to see an inappropriate topic being posted with so many ill-informed comments.

Its all about the kid playing football. Its not about Freo or Peel winning premierships. For heavens sake how long has it been since he played any footy. If he can get back and play some footy late in the season then this is a good thing for Harley and his footy career.

Thanks Rookie Draft alias John Ditch for your words of wisdom:ohmy:

How can you say its all about the kid plaing football when he is named on the team sheet but sitting in the coaches box? I've only followed the game for 40 years but it was always my understanding if you wanted to get a game, you get changed into your club jumper amd run on the ground with your team mates.

swansfan4life wrote: How can you say its all about the kid plaing football when he is named on the team sheet but sitting in the coaches box? I've only followed the game for 40 years but it was always my understanding if you wanted to get a game, you get changed into your club jumper amd run on the ground with your team mates.

Didn't Swans sit Phil Narkle on the bench, without him actually playing, when he was about 9 or 10 in a fourths game to make sure that he was a Swans player?

Think narkle was 13 but at least he was suited up and ran out on the ground with his team mates. I dont have a problem with that and if Bennell had done the same then i wouldnt have an issue with that either.

Rookie draft wrote: Its disappointing to see an inappropriate topic being posted with so many ill-informed comments.

Its all about the kid playing football. Its not about Freo or Peel winning premierships. For heavens sake how long has it been since he played any footy. If he can get back and play some footy late in the season then this is a good thing for Harley and his footy career.

So its not about Peel winning premierships... Well why the hell am I bothering to follow the comp?

Custodian wrote:

swansfan4life wrote: How can you say its all about the kid plaing football when he is named on the team sheet but sitting in the coaches box? I've only followed the game for 40 years but it was always my understanding if you wanted to get a game, you get changed into your club jumper amd run on the ground with your team mates.

Didn't Swans sit Phil Narkle on the bench, without him actually playing, when he was about 9 or 10 in a fourths game to make sure that he was a Swans player?

I was wondering when Phil Narkle's name would crop up on this topic. As SS said I believe he was 13 at the time. It needs to be placed in the context of his older brother and was in no way an attempt to qualify for finals in dubious circumstances. And I suspect that G Logue's name might be mentioned but it would also be out of context and not even remotely similar.

One of the differences between the earlier Freo and the West Coast Eagles was that they had a soul; that is rapidly reducing to the situation where they are both tarred with the same brush. What Freo is doing with respect to Bennell is mirroring their actions of last year. It was contemptible then and is equally contemptible now. And of course the gutless, insipid, lily-livered, fawning and sycophantic WAFC will do nothing as per usual.

Rookie draft wrote: Its disappointing to see an inappropriate topic being posted with so many ill-informed comments.

Its all about the kid playing football. Its not about Freo or Peel winning premierships. For heavens sake how long has it been since he played any footy. If he can get back and play some footy late in the season then this is a good thing for Harley and his footy career.

RD I will take your words on face value and ask you to explain the motivation of placing Bennell's name on the reserves' team list if he was not able to play. The only rational explanation for that action is they want him to qualify for the finals at Peel.

What sort of mockery would it be if the Dockers in their infinite wisdom though that it would be advantageous to Freo if Fyfe was to play in the finals for Peel and went down the same route and listed Fyfe five times in the reserves?

i don't think that will ever happen 42 as it would mean he'd miss 5 games for Freo given you can't play 2 games on a weekend.