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Grassy wrote: Hey,he's free to come in here and chat all he wants.Unless it's Tash.In which case,she's free to come in and chat.

haha...that's gold grassman

DD wrote: But seriously back on the topic, how can anyone who supports Peel possibly claim any joy or pride from making the finals, winning finals and possibly going all the way? I couldn't imagine Zac Clarke, Tanner Smith etc... even local WA boys Clancee Pearce, Matt de Boer and Tendai Mzungu going to premiership reunions at Peel when their true loyalty is to another WAFL club.

Are you deluded.They are loyal to the Dockers who pay them not to their former wafl club. How many Peel players went to a certain club and ended up with a premiership. Showed no loyalty to Peel.I can think of only one player who showed loyalty to his former wafl club and that was Ashton Hams who retired rather then have to play for a aligned club.I will be a keen observer to see where Tendai ends up next year if he is delisted.Will he be at Perth or some other wafl club.

Rookie draft wrote: No surprises in the responses from the stuck in the mud tragics. Pretty sure the alignment decision was made in 2012. Time to get over it boys And wasn't it after all the prezos voted against stand alone WC & Freo sides. Whether you like it or not AFL is the premier brand and basically funds the WAFL clubs who most would die without it. The alignment gave all WAFL clubs more money.

Not sure what posting 11 months apart or Eagles media has to do with my post. I did post a few new topics on the Peel thread last season but they were hijacked by a number of derogatory posters.

Here's a bit of tucker for mutter that some of you don't seem to get. Football clubs are made up of much more than a dozen or so players that are in the league side. There's the 30 odd busting their gut in the colts the same for the ressies then there's the coaches, staff, volunteers, parents, friends, members, supporters etc. We have never had a large supporter base but I've got mates there and I enjoy supporting them. Do you guys expect us Peel supporters and them EP supporters to give up because there's been a change that isnt what everyone wants.

I'm sorry but that's not the Aussie way. We stick by our mates and teams no matter what.

Perhaps you can give an appraisal of how Peel played against Swans down at Mandurah when you had a reducedn number of AFL aligned players.

No doubt injuries played a huge part in that Peel loss to SD 42?......good to see Peel bounce back tho and still make the finals.

Grassy wrote:

chaddy22 wrote:

DD wrote: But seriously back on the topic, how can anyone who supports Peel possibly claim any joy or pride from making the finals, winning finals and possibly going all the way? I couldn't imagine Zac Clarke, Tanner Smith etc... even local WA boys Clancee Pearce, Matt de Boer and Tendai Mzungu going to premiership reunions at Peel when their true loyalty is to another WAFL club.

Are you deluded.They are loyal to the Dockers who pay them not to their former wafl club. How many Peel players went to a certain club and ended up with a premiership. Showed no loyalty to Peel.I can think of only one player who showed loyalty to his former wafl club and that was Ashton Hams who retired rather then have to play for a aligned club.I will be a keen observer to see where Tendai ends up next year if he is delisted.Will he be at Perth or some other wafl club.

Not quite.

Kyle Hams retired after 2 Stints at South and 1 at Swans.Ashton Hams is Still playing,but on a 1 week holiday.

You are wrong again.Ashley Hams officially retired from the eagles so as to play for South Fremantle.There is a article online from November 2013 stating his reasons.


TWO MORE West Coast players have announced their retirement.

Eagles squad members Ashton Hams and Brad Dick told teammates of their decision in the aftermath of Saturday night's 86-point flogging.

They join Andrew Embley, Adam Selwood and Mark Nicoski in retirement after the trio revealed they were hanging up the boots in the lead-up to the Eagles' last match of a dismal 2013 season.

swan42 wrote:

Rookie draft wrote: No surprises in the responses from the stuck in the mud tragics. Pretty sure the alignment decision was made in 2012. Time to get over it boys And wasn't it after all the prezos voted against stand alone WC & Freo sides. Whether you like it or not AFL is the premier brand and basically funds the WAFL clubs who most would die without it. The alignment gave all WAFL clubs more money.

Not sure what posting 11 months apart or Eagles media has to do with my post. I did post a few new topics on the Peel thread last season but they were hijacked by a number of derogatory posters.

Here's a bit of tucker for mutter that some of you don't seem to get. Football clubs are made up of much more than a dozen or so players that are in the league side. There's the 30 odd busting their gut in the colts the same for the ressies then there's the coaches, staff, volunteers, parents, friends, members, supporters etc. We have never had a large supporter base but I've got mates there and I enjoy supporting them. Do you guys expect us Peel supporters and them EP supporters to give up because there's been a change that isnt what everyone wants.

I'm sorry but that's not the Aussie way. We stick by our mates and teams no matter what.

Perhaps you can give an appraisal of how Peel played against Swans down at Mandurah when you had a reducedn number of AFL aligned players.

No worries I really enjoyed that game. Alex Bray debut and we played 13 locals with 9 or less games. Only had 1 Fremantle listed player with AFL experience and we out scored Swans 11 goals to 10 in 3 of the 4 quarters. Bad 2nd term from memory lost by 5 or 6. Interestingly despite it being Swans best result for the year there was a bigger crowd at Bendigo for that game than Swans next home game.

Grassy, lots of assumptions and errors in your post nvm hey look I'm sure the 70's and 80's were great times in the WAFL but times have changed. You need to too otherwise youll get left behind and become upset frustrated and disgruntled.

chaddy22 wrote:

DD wrote: But seriously back on the topic, how can anyone who supports Peel possibly claim any joy or pride from making the finals, winning finals and possibly going all the way? I couldn't imagine Zac Clarke, Tanner Smith etc... even local WA boys Clancee Pearce, Matt de Boer and Tendai Mzungu going to premiership reunions at Peel when their true loyalty is to another WAFL club.

Are you deluded.They are loyal to the Dockers who pay them not to their former wafl club. How many Peel players went to a certain club and ended up with a premiership. Showed no loyalty to Peel.I can think of only one player who showed loyalty to his former wafl club and that was Ashton Hams who retired rather then have to play for a aligned club.I will be a keen observer to see where Tendai ends up next year if he is delisted.Will he be at Perth or some other wafl club.

I'm talking about when their footy careers are over you tool. Do you think those players would feel motivated for a 10 year reunion if Peel won the flag this year just because they played for Peel while they couldn't crack a league game with Freo? Not a chance. Playing in a premiership for Perth would mean a hell of a lot more to Tendai Mzungu than winning one with Peel I can assure you.

But then you are an EP supporter and want to delude yourself that a premiership with 12 to 20 Eagles players is an East Perth premiership.

Grassy wrote:

DD wrote:

chaddy22 wrote:

DD wrote: But seriously back on the topic, how can anyone who supports Peel possibly claim any joy or pride from making the finals, winning finals and possibly going all the way? I couldn't imagine Zac Clarke, Tanner Smith etc... even local WA boys Clancee Pearce, Matt de Boer and Tendai Mzungu going to premiership reunions at Peel when their true loyalty is to another WAFL club.

Are you deluded.They are loyal to the Dockers who pay them not to their former wafl club. How many Peel players went to a certain club and ended up with a premiership. Showed no loyalty to Peel.I can think of only one player who showed loyalty to his former wafl club and that was Ashton Hams who retired rather then have to play for a aligned club.I will be a keen observer to see where Tendai ends up next year if he is delisted.Will he be at Perth or some other wafl club.

I'm talking about when their footy careers are over you tool. Do you think those players would feel motivated for a 10 year reunion if Peel won the flag this year just because they played for Peel while they couldn't crack a league game with Freo? Not a chance. Playing in a premiership for Perth would mean a hell of a lot more to Tendai Mzungu than winning one with Peel I can assure you.

But then you are an EP supporter and want to delude yourself that a premiership with 12 to 20 Eagles players is an East Perth premiership.

Official Cheating is Still Cheating!

Bit like the Bummers but they got caught

DD wrote:

chaddy22 wrote:

DD wrote: But seriously back on the topic, how can anyone who supports Peel possibly claim any joy or pride from making the finals, winning finals and possibly going all the way? I couldn't imagine Zac Clarke, Tanner Smith etc... even local WA boys Clancee Pearce, Matt de Boer and Tendai Mzungu going to premiership reunions at Peel when their true loyalty is to another WAFL club.

Are you deluded.They are loyal to the Dockers who pay them not to their former wafl club. How many Peel players went to a certain club and ended up with a premiership. Showed no loyalty to Peel.I can think of only one player who showed loyalty to his former wafl club and that was Ashton Hams who retired rather then have to play for a aligned club.I will be a keen observer to see where Tendai ends up next year if he is delisted.Will he be at Perth or some other wafl club.

I'm talking about when their footy careers are over you tool. Do you think those players would feel motivated for a 10 year reunion if Peel won the flag this year just because they played for Peel while they couldn't crack a league game with Freo? Not a chance. Playing in a premiership for Perth would mean a hell of a lot more to Tendai Mzungu than winning one with Peel I can assure you.

But then you are an EP supporter and want to delude yourself that a premiership with 12 to 20 Eagles players is an East Perth premiership.

State facts never had anywhere close to 12-20 eagles players in any of our 2000,2001 premierships.We were only partly aligned.We had the interstate recruits and any east perth boys who were eagles.In 2000 7 eagles were in the premiership team including former east perth colt player Dean Cox.In 2001 we had five including Turnball who had been moved to East Perth years before.Thank goodness we didn't have this alignment model as we wouldn't have won premierships.

DD wrote:

chaddy22 wrote:

DD wrote: But seriously back on the topic, how can anyone who supports Peel possibly claim any joy or pride from making the finals, winning finals and possibly going all the way? I couldn't imagine Zac Clarke, Tanner Smith etc... even local WA boys Clancee Pearce, Matt de Boer and Tendai Mzungu going to premiership reunions at Peel when their true loyalty is to another WAFL club.

Are you deluded.They are loyal to the Dockers who pay them not to their former wafl club. How many Peel players went to a certain club and ended up with a premiership. Showed no loyalty to Peel.I can think of only one player who showed loyalty to his former wafl club and that was Ashton Hams who retired rather then have to play for a aligned club.I will be a keen observer to see where Tendai ends up next year if he is delisted.Will he be at Perth or some other wafl club.

I'm talking about when their footy careers are over you tool. Do you think those players would feel motivated for a 10 year reunion if Peel won the flag this year just because they played for Peel while they couldn't crack a league game with Freo? Not a chance. Playing in a premiership for Perth would mean a hell of a lot more to Tendai Mzungu than winning one with Peel I can assure you.

But then you are an EP supporter and want to delude yourself that a premiership with 12 to 20 Eagles players is an East Perth premiership.

What part of he retired from afl footy don't you understand you ninny.Hams played a handful of games for West Coast in 2013 and the rest with South.If he wanted to stay on the Eagles listfor 2014 providing he didn't get delisted he would have had to play for east perth in 2014.He realised he wouldn't get the opportunies at west coast so he decided to retire from afl footy and stay with souths.All the articles say he retired from afl footy.Simples unless you are a demons supporter.