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rl -- very true; looking back, that generation of soccer players was a bit flukey; time will tell I guess, if they can ever repeat it in the future.

royallucky wrote: The soccer lobby has always talked itself up about how they will take over Aussie Rules,and although they have impressive junior numbers its not reflected in the quality of the current national team,when you consider they had players like Viduka,Kewell,Bresciano,and Schwartzer running around 20 years ago.

True, though Mooys from Brighton is a good soccer player nowadays. Thing about soccer is it has been and will be around forever , with big $$$ attached. It will chug along in the backgoround, and not have to worry about expansion etc. Thing is that AFL has nowhere else to go apart from here in Aus. Thats the thing i see

ArkRoyal wrote: rl -- very true; looking back, that generation of soccer players was a bit flukey; time will tell I guess, if they can ever repeat it in the future.

What gets me AR is people go on about that group like they won the World Cup Final or something?.......

Durtle is a funny one, he has been banging on for months about WP being replaced by a Freo reserves team...
We all know this is a crock of chit and the other idiot STD just craps on about what ever comes into his stupid head.
What these guys don’t realise is that you offend the supporters of the club you are bagging, I am sure I could write all sorts of stuff about other clubs but I don’t because I know it will offend someone...
So fark off you ass clowns ?

UNKA2 wrote:

royallucky wrote: The soccer lobby has always talked itself up about how they will take over Aussie Rules,and although they have impressive junior numbers its not reflected in the quality of the current national team,when you consider they had players like Viduka,Kewell,Bresciano,and Schwartzer running around 20 years ago.

True, though Mooys from Brighton is a good soccer player nowadays. Thing about soccer is it has been and will be around forever , with big $$$ attached. It will chug along in the backgoround, and not have to worry about expansion etc. Thing is that AFL has nowhere else to go apart from here in Aus. Thats the thing i see

No doubt about it Unkaz soccer is the world game but AFL has the advantage of subsidizing the grass roots which makes it alot more affordable than joining a junior soccer club,and i can safely say it will never be the no.1 sport here or the U.S.as the fans prefer indigenous football codes that display more physicality.

Bh-- don' t get me started on that soccer group, it annoys me as well. In the end they did bugger all. One only has to look at Viduka's record for Australia to see it clearly. He never scorred for Australia in the WC finals. Says it all really

The fact is the northern corridor continues to grow and Joondy have a very very big growing zone and that needs reassessment by the WAFC.

There needs to be a reshuffle, take away some of their southern most zones and every club gets pushed further north, Subi gets WP's southern most zones, Claremont takes some of Subi's, EF takes some of Claremont's, Perth gets some of EF's.....

Anyone disagree?

DD wrote: The fact is the northern corridor continues to grow and Joondy have a very very big growing zone and that needs reassessment by the WAFC.

There needs to be a reshuffle, take away some of their southern most zones and every club gets pushed further north, Subi gets WP's southern most zones, Claremont takes some of Subi's, EF takes some of Claremont's, Perth gets some of EF's.....

Anyone disagree?

Fair go mate, next you’ll want our Geraldton zone.

DD wrote: The fact is the northern corridor continues to grow and Joondy have a very very big growing zone and that needs reassessment by the WAFC.

There needs to be a reshuffle, take away some of their southern most zones and every club gets pushed further north, Subi gets WP's southern most zones, Claremont takes some of Subi's, EF takes some of Claremont's, Perth gets some of EF's.....

Anyone disagree?

Claremont dont need any extra DD sheesh, ditto EF.
They have the best metro zone plus the Great Southern League (Albany etc), Ongerup League and the Kimberley Leagues x 3 (West Kimberley, Central Kimberley & East Kimberley), whilst EF have the very lucrative Great Northern League on top of their lucrative metro area.
When was the last time Claremont's Colts team finished outside the Top 5?....1974?

Beasley Hutton wrote:

DD wrote: The fact is the northern corridor continues to grow and Joondy have a very very big growing zone and that needs reassessment by the WAFC.

There needs to be a reshuffle, take away some of their southern most zones and every club gets pushed further north, Subi gets WP's southern most zones, Claremont takes some of Subi's, EF takes some of Claremont's, Perth gets some of EF's.....

Anyone disagree?

Claremont dont need any extra DD sheesh, ditto EF.
They have the best metro zone plus the Great Southern League (Albany etc), Ongerup League and the Kimberley Leagues x 3 (West Kimberley, Central Kimberley & East Kimberley), whilst EF have the very lucrative Great Northern League on top of their lucrative metro area.
When was the last time Claremont's Colts team finished outside the Top 5?....1974?

True BH those clubs have rich country zones but I am just trying to be realistic when a club like mine has very little scope for growth while clubs north and south of the river are benefiting from constant rapid growth in their zones then something has to give and it wouldn't be practical to say for example allocate Kingsley and Whitfords to Perth would it?

Perth should get Canningvale and Piara Waters which I think belong to EF, we might also pinch one off SF. EF could be compensated with say Cottesloe/Swanbourne, Claremont gets Floreat/City Beach, Subi gets Kingsley/Whitfords. You get my drift?

Maybe Swans get Belmont, I'm not sure TBH exactly who has what as it stands but there needs to a shuffle around to try to make it more equitable and fair.