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Beasley Hutton wrote:

SH I must admit I have been astounded at how poor the WAFL standard has been this season across pretty much all of the games I have seen both live and on tv.
The skill level at times is so poor it has to be seen to be believed, just ugly football to watch.
And we are the worst side by a long way.
And the club cant blame inexperience with the side they are putting out resembling Dads Army in age!

Sounds like round 6 S v Sd in a couple of weeks will be a gOoD gAmE Beas!!!
It will be your first win.
Let’s face it Subi, Swans, Peel and Wc are sub standard atm. 
My young nephew in the SF colts system says him and his mates can’t watch the WAFL league anymore, it’s too shit a standard was his words…

the drop off in standard has been brought about by coaching
and coaching styles
don't bother with the lies or thinking it's anything else
players are actively being told to kick anywhere but forward in plays and this is why we see so many intercepts now
don't think I've ever seen so many leads ignored in general play as is evident now
and then some shitty short 15 to 20 metre chip which doesn't even get to a player or is just intercepted
players look behind every single time now don't even think about what's ahead
then there's the deliberate tactics of rugby maul on the ground just about every single play
it is a VFL disease a syphilis on the game of football
which was once a beautiful thing 

*Caporn 

mikeh wrote:

Perth were playing a good brand of footy last night from the bit I saw.
The only other WAFL footy I have seen this year has been with Swans playing and to be honest I think they are dragging other teams down to their level. It is just so boring to watch. I would rather see a group of young guys go out there and play a braver more attacking system, which will probably mean a few 10 goal floggings if it doesn't work but everything we seem to be doing at the moment is about damage control and trying to bore the opposition in to submission. I don't look forward to Saturday afternoons like I used to because it is just going to contain more frustration

Hit the nail on the head there mate.

Round one, watched South and thought wow, this is a great standard, really good pace, then came the Swans game and it was like a different mob, dullest contest out and a world away from the previous standard. 

What happened to Danger's post? I didn't agree with everything they said, but they made some good comments.

Success Hill wrote:

What happened to Danger's post? I didn't agree with everything they said, but they made some good comments.

Yeah it was a good post and probably reflected what many Swans supporters are feeling at the moment. I'd say its likely that Danger deleted it himself for reasons that only he knows. Doubt if OFA would have wiped it, there was nothing really controversial, just an opinion about the current regime at the club.

I missed it but I suspect, like me, he is tired of the excuses coming out of the club and their warped priorities.
If they keep playing WAFLW as curtain raisers - they may aswell wind the club up. Nobody will turn up. Sunday is their day not the colts who then clash with community football.
Unfortunately our once proud club has been hijacked by do-gooders and wokism and will never be the same.
Too many numptys living off the WAFC wages in club land that really have no idea on how a footy club should be run esp a successful WAFL club. Also too many long-termers living off the odd past good year.
They are happy to tick inclusion and LGBTQI boxes and sing kumbaya over being competitive in the flagship mens comp. The comp the club was founded on.
Girls teams incl futures get right of way to use the once great Basso Oval whilst boys that have played the game since they were toddlers get to go to Midvale or other off site venues to train.
Prepare for decades in the doldrums for SDFC. Its bad
 

Thats a bloody good post MRod, Swans was the club that has held firm on the Womens shit and suffering the Reserves around, we are all rooted now they are bending over:(

mroddson wrote:

I missed it but I suspect, like me, he is tired of the excuses coming out of the club and their warped priorities.
If they keep playing WAFLW as curtain raisers - they may aswell wind the club up. Nobody will turn up. Sunday is their day not the colts who then clash with community football.
Unfortunately our once proud club has been hijacked by do-gooders and wokism and will never be the same.
Too many numptys living off the WAFC wages in club land that really have no idea on how a footy club should be run esp a successful WAFL club. Also too many long-termers living off the odd past good year.
They are happy to tick inclusion and LGBTQI boxes and sing kumbaya over being competitive in the flagship mens comp. The comp the club was founded on.
Girls teams incl futures get right of way to use the once great Basso Oval whilst boys that have played the game since they were toddlers get to go to Midvale or other off site venues to train.
Prepare for decades in the doldrums for SDFC. Its bad

 

If this off season is anything to go by it looks like we even have to get the girls teams approval for any potential WAFL recruits fmd!
We could have had the best player in the comp running around for us but instead......

Its a convenient scapegoat to blame all the other community, diversity and inclusion programs that the club has been involved in. The club has had to go down this path to remain relevant and stay in business. 
One fact overlooked in all this is that Swans have been very much an underperforming club since the Todd era of the mid 80s, well before anyone had dreamt of WAFLW or Integrated football or other programs. Other clubs do this sort of stuff as well and still manage success at WAFL level
2 premierships in 40 years is very little to show and apart from one good period (2008-10 under Dawson who was the only top class coach we have had since Toddy) it has been slim pickings for the Swans supporters. Baffling recruitment of interstate players who were not committed to the club and invariably leave after a few seasons, sub standard skills season after season, over defensive game plans by coaches with no imagination. My criticism of the club is more about the quality of the football I see week after week as opposed to what the club is trying to do off the field