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Rumour, fact or just one of many scenarios being considered I'm not sure but this is what I've heard has come out of dissuasions this week:

6 team comp
Newly branded team for the northern corridor
Mergers

Dazzler wrote: Rumour, fact or just one of many scenarios being considered I'm not sure but this is what I've heard has come out of dissuasions this week:

6 team comp
Newly branded team for the northern corridor
Mergers

I think this may be pretty close to the mark. The league may be very much trimmed back in 2021 as I cant see 10 teams being sustainable any more. I am not overly confident that Swans will survive without a merger.

it will be interesting how it unfolds, WP are goneski surely and will be replaced by a WAFC created team up there.
Swans have an advantage in their location and financially are looking good for a change.
hopefully the WAFC starts the cost cutting to their organisation as like the AFL and their clubs there is so much wasted money spent on jobs that are not needed.

Dazzler wrote: Rumour, fact or just one of many scenarios being considered I'm not sure but this is what I've heard has come out of dissuasions this week:

6 team comp
Newly branded team for the northern corridor
Mergers

Sad as it is to say, the Wafl going backwards in the present model and has been since 2014. The proposed changes might work? Be interesting to hear more.

So who will merge? those teams who are financially unsustainable? the only 2 teams that would be comfortably able to stick this out are Subi and EP, Perth have their special emergency fund that should see them through, as for the rest, who knows? if you look at "neighbouring clubs" The first obvious merge would be EF & SF, Su & Cl, SD & Perth, that leaves the 2 basket cases, Peel and Joondy. My suggestion is to dump Peel and redistribute their zone back to SF plus EF and maybe a bit to Perth. Joondy goes and their vast norther zone gets split up between SD, Perth, CL, Su & EP, maybe not evenly but each club gets some, we end up with 6 teams.

But it seems the WAFC are determined to have a team based in the far norther suburbs, which is probably the right thing otherwise soccer will totally take that area over and at least WP faithful will still have a team to follow that comes from the WP ashes.
Just my thoughts.

That must mean 6 teams plus the AFL reserves? Agree that S, EP and SF are guaranteed to survive. EF and WP must be in the firing line. SF are in a position financially to resist a merger with EF. Likewise S and C, and it may even be that P and SD have no financial imperative to merge. May well depend on what the WAFL is prepared to offer by way of $ to persuade clubs to merge.

Ted, the WAFC being the wankers they are may be more likely to wait until some clubs are at the point of no return and have no choice but to merge or fold. They just have to dig deep into their coffers and make sure all clubs survive or the comp will be fatally compromised.
But is that not what they want anyway???

SS, if WP fold and the WAFL wants a presence in the Northern Corridor, Subi would seem to be the obvious choice. I understand Leederville is earmarked for demolition anyway. That leaves the issue whether EP would go with you and share Arena Joondalup. As much as I dislike most rival clubs for a variety of different reasons, I would really hate to see any of the traditional clubs fold. I enjoy hating them too much!

6 teams would be a drastic cut - it would mean a separate colts format given the amount of surplus players created by the cut logically
probably end interest in the WAFL entirely I'd say if it was just 6 teams as it wouldn't be the same if say a West Perth or East Fremantle went

even if we cut back to 8 you would have to have west coast and the dockers as stand alone or in alignments.that leaves six teams.peel either stays aligned to dockers forever as they won't be able to stand on their feet.west perth couldn't have picked a worse time to be in a financial mess.would they align with the eagles and play at joondy in west perth colours.could you talk two clubs to merge to bring it back to a eight team comp.one thing's for sure it's not just the wafl in for a tough time.i suspect the dockers financially would not like the cost of a stand alone team so they may stay with peel.i think the afl reserves competition is on the backburner for a long time.maybe even the Victorian teams with stand alone teams may want there players farmed out like the old days.in the end afl teams and wafl teams will need to make some wise deceisions if they are to survive.