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43 is a little more than I expected - I looked at 25% of Clubs and took a couple of percent off, thinking they would more likely start low in year 1 and then work upwards as required after that.

The end result seems fair to me.

Birdman wrote: 43 is a little more than I expected - I looked at 25% of Clubs and took a couple of percent off, thinking they would more likely start low in year 1 and then work upwards as required after that.

The end result seems fair to me.

I haven't heard any discussion on "club of origin players" who have transferred in their work to the eastern states, played footy over there and are returning to Perth in 2019 to their club of origin.

Will they be classified as one point players. If not, is there an appeal process in place relating to genuine employment outside of WA?

Nope, 3 points. You can play 250 games of waafl at a club play one season of country and come back as a 3 point player.

In my opinion thats a terrible decision/rule u should always be able to go back to your home club what has happened to a players freedom to choose an example if you move living residence say from jandakot to quinns rock your not going travel that far for football but what do you do if your surrounding local clubs cant fit in a 3 point player ??? Another example is players form strong bonds with a coach not always a club if that coach changes clubs no freedom of choice if a group of 5-6 players wanted to follow coach to another club
You dont have equality in our national comp of 18 AFL teams do you really believe you will get equality and an even spread among 70 odd amateur teams

I agree Kingy! .

Hi all,

Just want to know the details of a player returning to his club of Origin from a country or non WAAFL comp.

I understand if you return to your own WAAFL club of origin from another WA comp even after going bush for 1 year you become a 3 point player?

Am I correct?

If you play AFL and have played as a senior at your club of origin your 1 point?

Is this the case and if so why wouldn't you be 1 point from the country if its your club of origin?

Scratching my head here?

EG: If someone has to work in a country area for example for a year and wants to play footy while there they get punished for returning to their own club in WAAFL the next season?

Surely club of origin is club of origin and 1 point?

If this is not the case this system is a joke!

If you leave your Club and go to another, you come back with points.

We have 2 players who played 'country' for part of last year due to work, and, because the country club was deemed to be too close to Perth to be eligible for Type 2 permits, both have come back as 3 point players.

If you go WAFL (or equivalent standard) or AFL and come directly back, you are a 1 point player.

We have one who went to the Sydney comp last year. Because of the standard there is deemed as 'community Club level', he has come back with 3 points.

In principle I believe that the points system is beneficial to our competition, however I believe there are some weaknesses in the allocation of a point.

I agree with the sentiments with others that if a player moves to another club, especially if it is related to work circumstances or family reasons. Not all players move clubs move due to incentives. These players are being penalised unfairly and so are their clubs.

Secondly, we are all involved in the game to promote players to transition to play at the highest level possible. Many clubs who do have junior clubs regularly loose players to WAFL clubs at the completion of their junior years and some even sooner to play clubs.

That means that these players play at a WAFL club and then due to different circumstances return to their club of origin and get penalised with 2 to 4 points depending at what level they achieved.

To me this is unfair to both parties.

I do understand that there is an appeal process, which I also believe that their is a cost involved. I hope that the appeal process involves independent body

By removing the part whereby a player looses all loyalty points if they leave a club would help to fix that problem.
It could be tweaked to include a higher minimum amount of club games to be eligible or something similar.

It does seem a bit odd that a player who doesn’t qualify as a player of origin, could play 100+ amateur games at a club over a number of years then move away for a season or two only to return as a 3 pointer. Surely by remaining as a 1 point player there is more incentive for clubs to actively work with past players to return to their club.

The points system does not reward loyalty by long term club players.

How you can possibly have a system that prevents a player returning to his WA club after playing between 50 & 200 games, being awarded life membership and then incurring a 3 point penalty?

The system is flawed and in my opinion a fundamental restriction of that players entitlement to play with the club of his choice.

Genuine transfers in employment particularly to the Eastern States should allow all long term club players to return as one (1) point player.

Additionally how can a long term club player (100 plus games) who is offered the opportunity to play WAFL and then returns to his club have less rights than a player who played only a handful of games who returns to his club of origin?

These type of anomalies have to be sorted out prior to the start of the season. It is a joke!