Footy349, I know there are some meetings this week to make a final decision. Looking at things as they are though you wouldn't be too hopeful though would you.
Birdman and Disco Knight. Birdman, it appears you are from very deep in the Gosnells camp. My source is adamant that Gosnells Football Club transferred the outstanding fees to our club's account. You seem to agree with that in your post. So all we have is your word that the 3 players concerned first gave you the cash. I will leave it to others to judge whether those 3 players did that when they couldn't find the money to pay those outstanding fees to Kelmscott for the last month or two. I can only assume Gosnells were given Kelmscott's BSB and account details to pass on to the boys so if the boys had the money it was just as easy for them to EFT or deposit the money themselves. Also Birdman whilst I think a lot of us would agree that colts players need to be encouraged to continue to play, isn't the waiving of any fees for colts players by Gosnells the same as making a payment to each of those colts players equivalent to the fee that would have been charged? How much were the colts fees before Gosnells introduced this policy? How is that policy fair to other young players at Gosnells who are not colts age, or to other clubs such as Canning Vale and Lynwood Ferndale who are trying to build or consolidate colts teams?
Birdman it is still important the truth gets put up on this site, not innaccurate gossip and rumour.
Disco, again what you have said is not the whole truth and so is misleading. The Forrestdale Y12s were not Forrestdale juniors as the team was formed in 2014 by 3 fathers from different clubs, Armadale, Mundijong and South Lakes who brought their son and another group of mates to form the Forrestdale Y11s in 2014. The side was recognised in the Y11 competition that year as a group of Super-Star players who were in and out of the South Fremantle colts and developments squads. Most of them were never Forrestdale juniors and never will be. Despite a heap of hard work from some great Forresdale locals, Forrestdale have not always had a vibrant junior program beyond Y8 or Y9 and in fact this year have abandoned their junior program completely from Auskick upwards to try and restart it in 2018. The Y11 boys in 2014 went on to become the Y12s at Forrestdale in 2015 and from all reports were a dominant Y12 team throughout WA in a really well run program. Because Forrestdale, being an E1 single team club, has never had colts until this year, the 2015 boys who turned too old came to Kelmscott to play A grade colts in 2016.
Disco as I said a lot of those boys who came from Forrestdale were dissapointed in the way the colts at Kelmscott finished up last year and I think had every reason to decide whether to stay or not. I know for a fact the current football people at the club have supported 5 or 6 of these boys returning to Forrestdale to play colts with their mates from 2015. The club has no axe to grind at all with those boys and their current colts coach at Forrestdale but it is obviously a shame to lose such good young lads. Where they go after playing West Coast colts (see they already have encountered a forfeit by Mosman Park in an 8 team shambolic competition) in 2017 instead of B grade colts is probably the more important question as Forrestdale seniors don't have a reserve side and play in E1.
Disco Knight, King and Fhred, what is the evidence that you all rely upon to suggest the Kelmscott Football Club has paid players? I'm guessing all you have is rumour and gossip again as well as the decision of the WAAFL a few years ago to relegate the club for supposedly giving 2 players a fuel card. From what I heard at the time from reliable people inside an outside the club, that was a stitch up job which the club chose to cop on the chin. Even if that occurred where is your evidence that Kelmscott has paid players prior to that incident, or since then? Given how often this nonsense comes out of the mouths of a small group on this site with vested interests, it's time to put up or shut up. So, name them. Name one player who you have reliable evidence of being paid by the Kelmscott Football Club. All 3 of you seem to be aggressive with a keyboard in front of you so let's go - let's have a name.
King, your generalised comment also needs to be backed up by hard reliable evidence. Name the players, even in the last 5 years who Kelmscott has poached, recruited or aquired from another club and name that club or clubs.
Fellas I don't want to be negative about things but fair go.
Disco and King, which clubs do you follow or support? Again I do generally hope that your clubs have good years except if they are in "B" grade when they play against Kelmscott!
Fhred,you should know that you can't disguise who you are. I know your Dad really well and I also know you were thrown out of Kelmscott at the beginning of this year for being a troublemaker and because you were deemed by the new coaches not to be good enough to play B grade. Given your track record I feel sorry for the good blokes at Piarra Waters. Only now that you and your small group of cronies have been thrown out of the joint is there now some hope for the historical club you refer to, to survive and hopefully prosper.
For the love of the game.
