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when I saw the heading anchor I thought you were being facetious and posting about changes to the Newstart allowance which would be particularly relevant to our Mandurah based friends....glad I was mistaken.

I dibs Anchorman to be the moderator of the Peel thread.....all those in favour please click the thank you box

I second that

OK the Peel team contains the following players from the Fremantle Dockers
Ibbotson
Collins
Nyhuis
Clancee Pearce
Hughes
Morabito
Suban
Deluca
Uebergang
Tanner Smith
Yarran
Hannath

That makes 12 with the probability of De Boer and Langdon coming in as well unless they have to rush to Adelaide last minute. Not a lot of room for Peel players really.

mikeh wrote: OK the Peel team contains the following players from the Fremantle Dockers
Ibbotson
Collins
Nyhuis
Clancee Pearce
Hughes
Morabito
Suban
Deluca
Uebergang
Tanner Smith
Yarran
Hannath

That makes 12 with the probability of De Boer and Langdon coming in as well unless they have to rush to Adelaide last minute. Not a lot of room for Peel players really.

I will predict right now the GF will be between Peelmantle and $alaryaco, with about 5k rolling up

Today Peel had 6 players in their 22 man league side who were from the Peel metro or country zone. Their reserves team was belted by a team that had previously not won a game this year. Their colts were beaten by 40 points although this wasn't too bad because Perth is the top side. Peel have won 2 and lost 4 in the colts but their percentage is only 53%. This is a club that has very little player depth and is being literally propped up by the Fremantle Dockers. They would have been far better putting more resources into developing the youngsters from the growing population in the Mandurah area. I would imagine these players would be going elsewhere or giving up footy because of the lack of opportunity at the league level.

Given the obsession the Commission has with Peel, noting their apparent determination to avoid the realities of past errors, in truth, I would rather have Fremantle prop them up.

In saying so, I am working, on a couple of assumptions particularly post 2018; the integrity of all nine clubs is protected in return the Eagles and Dockers can join the competition.

Many people have advocated this idea on here for a long time, and, for my part, I have come around to the idea because I think it is the only way to protect the PFC.

Swandog wrote:

mikeh wrote: OK the Peel team contains the following players from the Fremantle Dockers
Ibbotson
Collins
Nyhuis
Clancee Pearce
Hughes
Morabito
Suban
Deluca
Uebergang
Tanner Smith
Yarran
Hannath

That makes 12 with the probability of De Boer and Langdon coming in as well unless they have to rush to Adelaide last minute. Not a lot of room for Peel players really.

I will predict right now the GF will be between Peelmantle and $alaryaco, with about 5k rolling up

I agree with you Swandog. With Freo out of the finals race, they will start to blood their younger players in order to commence their re building phase, which would mean some of their senior players will make room and be dropped to Peel. Making Peel league team even stronger.

When the WAFL finals commence and with Freo out of the finals, Peel will have a record number of Freo players eligible to play in the finals. This time there wouldn't be the distraction of the AFL finals to interfere with their WAFL finals campaign.

Even though I hate to say it, Peel will the dark horse for the GF!

This topic merely reinforces how appalling the host club alignment is and what a complete prostitution of the WAFL competition and its integrity due to the host club alignment.

A couple of other points worth noting is where are the legitimate Peel players based on Mikeh's statistic that there were only 6 local players playing in the league team? If as is expected that the more experienced players like de Boer, C Pearce, Suban etc will be playing a significant number of games for "Peel" one would have to project that they will finish in the top 3 at the end of the year. What happens when Freo have finished their season will the Freo players play in the WAFL players or will Peel be required to fill their team with their ressies' players that have been totally underwhelming thus far this season?

Good question Swan , would not be surprised if they pull them out and get forced to use ressies.