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Im surprised there hasnt been more commentary about how bad the WCER are. They were embarrassing. Swans clearly locked off early and Pickering would be filthy. Swans should have won by 100 points if not for terrible goal kicking and basically stuffing around.
I know the Eagles have a few injuries but I left disappointed with their next tier. 
Jamison, Ainsworth, Williams, Edwards x2, Jones played like they didnt care.
They didnt look fit which is an indictment on them as professionals.
Swans should be in the finals on the last 2 efforts.
Lets hope it continues




 

The lack on interest from the wce reserves was often the case during the alignment, they're playing for match practice and fitness not anything else

As someone who is a little coy in expressing my views, well maybe not too coy at all, the reserves team for the Eagles adds nothing to the WAFL.  The team should not have been allowed back into the competition after 2020.

And what is the alternative you offer? The AFL clubs will never go back to spreading their players out across the 9 WAFL clubs.

They can play tiddlywinks.

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Im surprised there hasnt been more commentary about how bad the WCER are. They were embarrassing. Swans clearly locked off early and Pickering would be filthy. Swans should have won by 100 points if not for terrible goal kicking and basically stuffing around.
I know the Eagles have a few injuries but I left disappointed with their next tier. 
Jamison, Ainsworth, Williams, Edwards x2, Jones played like they didnt care.
They didnt look fit which is an indictment on them as professionals.
Swans should be in the finals on the last 2 efforts.
Lets hope it continues





 

The lack on interest from the wce reserves was often the case during the alignment, they're playing for match practice and fitness not anything else

As someone who is a little coy in expressing my views, well maybe not too coy at all, the reserves team for the Eagles adds nothing to the WAFL.  The team should not have been allowed back into the competition after 2020.

And what is the alternative you offer? The AFL clubs will never go back to spreading their players out across the 9 WAFL clubs.

They can play tiddlywinks.

Well you clearly haven't accepted the reality of the structure of the game in 2021. 

Given WCE doesn't have a zone or an area allocated so they can source players, clearly they need to delve into the $30m in the bank and get hold of some decent top up players from other WAFL clubs, ammos or the country for the good of the comp and the development of their own.

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Im surprised there hasnt been more commentary about how bad the WCER are. They were embarrassing. Swans clearly locked off early and Pickering would be filthy. Swans should have won by 100 points if not for terrible goal kicking and basically stuffing around.
I know the Eagles have a few injuries but I left disappointed with their next tier. 
Jamison, Ainsworth, Williams, Edwards x2, Jones played like they didnt care.
They didnt look fit which is an indictment on them as professionals.
Swans should be in the finals on the last 2 efforts.
Lets hope it continues






 

The lack on interest from the wce reserves was often the case during the alignment, they're playing for match practice and fitness not anything else

As someone who is a little coy in expressing my views, well maybe not too coy at all, the reserves team for the Eagles adds nothing to the WAFL.  The team should not have been allowed back into the competition after 2020.

And what is the alternative you offer? The AFL clubs will never go back to spreading their players out across the 9 WAFL clubs.

They can play tiddlywinks.

Well you clearly haven't accepted the reality of the structure of the game in 2021. 

What benefit to the WAFL is accrued from the presence of a WCE's reserves team playing in the WAFL?

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Given WCE doesn't have a zone or an area allocated so they can source players, clearly they need to delve into the $30m in the bank and get hold of some decent top up players from other WAFL clubs, ammos or the country for the good of the comp and the development of their own.

Please BC....is not having access to the best young footy talent in the country through the afl drafts not enough of an advantage (including 3 of OUR OWN SD boys on the weekend- J.Cameron, Z.Trew & H.Edwards) already?!
Why on earth should they then also be able to target better WAFL listed players thus further diluting the talent at WAFL clubs for their own selfish purpose just in the WAFL competition which should be secondary or less to their own comps ambitions?!
At the moment their "League" team have a stack of injuries (Shuey, Yeo, Hurn, Ryan, Rioli, Petrucelle, Ah Chee etc) but wait until they all come back later in the year then 7 or 8 of those who beat Collingwood would be back playing in their WAFL team and they will once again be very hard to beat!

Correct BH, as I said in my report it was men against boys really and the final score really flattered WCE because Swans went to sleep in the last 15 minutes of the game. When the Eagles senior team gets some of their injured players back then they will improve but my understanding is that this is not imminent. Unfortunately for them they are coming up against Subiaco on Saturday and they will be shown no mercy by this ruthless team. I'd be very surprised if the margin is less than 15 goals.
The other thing that I noticed about them was that their so called "top up" players are nowhere near as good as the ones that were running around for them in 2019. Most  of these guys would struggle to get a game with any other WAFL club.