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smokey wrote: I hope that Bob Shields and the Board will knock any suggestion of an alignment on the head. If there were a vote by members I would vote against it.
The danger is that the WAFC will stick the club with it.
However there are pros and cons for an alignment:
Pros.- 1. Additional revenue for the club as EP experienced when they were aligned. Now they have a huge war chest perhaps to rival Subiaco.
2. Think of players who will have limited time in the WCE side. We would have potentially the most potent ruck combination in the WAFL eg Tom Hickey and Bailly Williams with another tall in Nathan Vardey. Defensive players like Tom Cole, Josh Rotham and Jackson Nelson. Tough nut Brady Gray, small forward in Brendan Ah Chee. And we would be re-assured of having Fraser McInnes.
Cons: 1. Huge blockage of transition paths for developing players from our junior and country zones.
2. PFC would not be master of it's own destiny going forward. Coaching and other football department staff would be WCE appointees and WCE players would get priority over many of our own players who would become disillusioned and seek opportunities elsewhere.
3. Sure the possibility of a flag or 2 would be high ala East Perth and Peel Thunder but for mine that would not mean the same as if we won a flag as a stand alone club.
4. An alignment might make sense to some given that the two clubs co-habit MRP but IMHO, in time, the danger is that PFC would simply be merged with WCE to give them their own WAFL team. PFC (Inc) would sink slowly into the west to become an amateur club. albeit probably a pretty good one.
Anyway, I don't know where this all started. Perhaps it will never happen. I hope so.

There are absolutely no "Pros" to any alignment with the Meth Coke Eagles or anyone else. If that happens I'm out of here.

Like a lot of discussions on here.
Start in people's imagination.
Usually shit stirring crap.

PROS:

Money
Success

CONS:

Complete loss of identity, independence, integrity and credibility
Earning the justified contempt of the entire WA football community.

Like EP.

You'd hope it wouldn't happen- Perth have shown to be on the rise on and off the field- unless they're in big trouble financially, why would they?

It's not a question of "Why?", I doubt there'd be any enthusiasm at all amongst supporters apart from a few loonies who support Meth Coast anyway. It wouldn't be a choice, it'd come from above from the 9 Million Dollar Man.

It's not on the agenda move on

Demons Forever wrote: It's not on the agenda move on

It is on the agenda. Don't delude yourself. Where do you think the AFL leftovers are going to play next season with a 35-player list? They are going to be the priority, not the PFC or any other WAFL club. We've seen enough of those frauds at the WAFC to know AFL interests come first.

It may be on WAFL agenda but not on ours.

“Shields would not comment on the possibility of Perth considering an alignment with West Coast next year.”

West online: Perth recruit Fraser McInnes....

TN: success would not be guaranteed

I would be less hostile to it, if the PFC members did vote heavily in favour. In the end, I think, they will be after your name.