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Have already made the suggestion mike in an earlier post.
If the Wafl season gets underway early June, tack the first 7 or 8 weeks that were lost onto the end. If the weather is too hot then, play evening/ night matches. It means a late end to the season of course. But as the premier said, the rule book has been thrown out the window now. I'm sure the 8 Wafl presidents will discuss everything during the week.

westaussieguy wrote: Have already made the suggestion mike in an earlier post.
If the Wafl season gets underway early June, tack the first 7 or 8 weeks that were lost onto the end. If the weather is too hot then, play evening/ night matches. It means a late end to the season of course. But as the premier said, the rule book has been thrown out the window now. I'm sure the 8 Wafl presidents will discuss everything during the week.

Notwithstanding the best efforts of those cretins in NSW to infect everyone in sight, current modelling suggests that if we're successful in flattening the curve, the peak in Australia will be around August. With that in mind, I can't see any footy being played in 2020.

BC wrote:

westaussieguy wrote: Have already made the suggestion mike in an earlier post.
If the Wafl season gets underway early June, tack the first 7 or 8 weeks that were lost onto the end. If the weather is too hot then, play evening/ night matches. It means a late end to the season of course. But as the premier said, the rule book has been thrown out the window now. I'm sure the 8 Wafl presidents will discuss everything during the week.

Notwithstanding the best efforts of those cretins in NSW to infect everyone in sight, current modelling suggests that if we're successful in flattening the curve, the peak in Australia will be around August. With that in mind, I can't see any footy being played in 2020.

Why not just make a decision based on the situation where the WAFL games are played. Considering our isolation IF we can get Covid 19 under control here in Perth why can't the season begin May 31? - I cannot see how it could have a negative impact here or on the rest of the country.

westaussieguy wrote: Have already made the suggestion mike in an earlier post.
If the Wafl season gets underway early June, tack the first 7 or 8 weeks that were lost onto the end. If the weather is too hot then, play evening/ night matches. It means a late end to the season of course. But as the premier said, the rule book has been thrown out the window now. I'm sure the 8 Wafl presidents will discuss everything during the week.

I think that the restrictions will not be lifted by June WAG. I think that the best we can hope for is a 2020 spring competition starting in late September where every team plays each other once and we have a finals series in November/early December. Usually the weather is pretty kind around that time of year but if it gets hot we could use lathlain and other places with lights for twilight or night games. Having said that I would agree with BC that the most likely outcome is that there will be no WAFL footy this year and in this case I will become dependant on Sean Cowan for my weekly footy fix!

What is concerning is the lack of action by some WAFL clubs to help survive. The AFL clubs have made immediate decisions to stand down the majority of their workforce and some WAFL clubs, including the financial Subiaco, have done the same.
Others seem to have put their head in the sand and have kept their staff on and are putting the future of their clubs at risk. It is an incredibly difficult time but leadership is essential to ensure that tough decisions are made to give some hope to the WAFL and it’s clubs surviving.

Be ironic if the WAFL and SANFL started playing this winter and the AFL couldn't or didn't.....would WCE and Freo be able to field teams?

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Also WAFL clubs lose money when they play games. Think about it, salary cap of 250000 and 9 home games. Clubs don’t make 30,000 out of a home game.
That’s what the AFL doesn’t know or care about, that through our efforts WAFL pays to provide an outlet for players and develops talent.
This is not the end of world for clubs other than WP which as far as I can tell had given up anyway.[/quote]
Son told me Collingwood have about 2 dozen coaches or analysts at each game. Must cost millions for hanger-ons. This is where the cuts should be.. Dead wood

STT I have no idea which if any WAFL club you are associated with.
If you take into account income that would not otherwise be derived if a home game wasn't played (not including WAFC grants) then well run WAFL clubs far exceed the $30k per game you mention.
I once prepared a paper on how a WAFL club could continue to operate and field teams including Colts just on the funds from the WAFC using a zero based budget model. ie start from zero and only add things you need.
Now if you want spectators, they require facilities, facilities require maintenaance contractors, contrcators require admin and so on.
The extra dollars required outside the WAFC grant money is in direct correlation into what type of club you want. The xtra funds need to be raised by the people who want to enjoy watching the fruit of their labours.
Hence why the WAFC have a seperate colts comp. The funds spent is to generate draft picks and the games can be played anywhere. They are played at WAFL grounds as part of the grant money to the clubs as a quid pro quo in order that the WAFL clubs can keep a track of the non draftees and entice then into the WAFL system.
Give me the WAFC grant money and I could easily run a WAFL club with colts for people who just want to rock and watch footy.
The WAFL clubs problems are that they couldn't go on a diet and reduce the fat of their club. How many life members and hangers on do they have that no longer pay for use of the facilities that require constant maintenance ( yes I understand that the life members built the club).
If every club gave up trying to maintain the past and ground rationalisation came into vogue then every club could easily survive with adequate training facilities, a hall for their memorabilia and access to grounds to cater for their games.
Swans will survive, because years ago they put in place community programs that has resulted in their $4 nil turnover (doubling most WAFL clubs) contain $2mil of grants from which they derive fees of about 200k.
I offered the template to other WAFL clubs, enough said.
Though watch the Subiaco space now they have pinched the Director from Perth who was setting up a similar scheme.

waflrules wrote: What is concerning is the lack of action by some WAFL clubs to help survive. The AFL clubs have made immediate decisions to stand down the majority of their workforce and some WAFL clubs, including the financial Subiaco, have done the same.
Others seem to have put their head in the sand and have kept their staff on and are putting the future of their clubs at risk. It is an incredibly difficult time but leadership is essential to ensure that tough decisions are made to give some hope to the WAFL and it’s clubs surviving.

I think you’ll find all WAFL clubs have made the same decisions but it hasn’t been advertised.

As mentioned, the best case scenario for WAFL clubs from a bottom line effect might be not playing at all

therealswansman wrote: STT I have no idea which if any WAFL club you are associated with.
If you take into account income that would not otherwise be derived if a home game wasn't played (not including WAFC grants) then well run WAFL clubs far exceed the $30k per game you mention.
I once prepared a paper on how a WAFL club could continue to operate and field teams including Colts just on the funds from the WAFC using a zero based budget model. ie start from zero and only add things you need.
Now if you want spectators, they require facilities, facilities require maintenaance contractors, contrcators require admin and so on.
The extra dollars required outside the WAFC grant money is in direct correlation into what type of club you want. The xtra funds need to be raised by the people who want to enjoy watching the fruit of their labours.
Hence why the WAFC have a seperate colts comp. The funds spent is to generate draft picks and the games can be played anywhere. They are played at WAFL grounds as part of the grant money to the clubs as a quid pro quo in order that the WAFL clubs can keep a track of the non draftees and entice then into the WAFL system.
Give me the WAFC grant money and I could easily run a WAFL club with colts for people who just want to rock and watch footy.
The WAFL clubs problems are that they couldn't go on a diet and reduce the fat of their club. How many life members and hangers on do they have that no longer pay for use of the facilities that require constant maintenance ( yes I understand that the life members built the club).
If every club gave up trying to maintain the past and ground rationalisation came into vogue then every club could easily survive with adequate training facilities, a hall for their memorabilia and access to grounds to cater for their games.
Swans will survive, because years ago they put in place community programs that has resulted in their $4 nil turnover (doubling most WAFL clubs) contain $2mil of grants from which they derive fees of about 200k.
I offered the template to other WAFL clubs, enough said.
Though watch the Subiaco space now they have pinched the Director from Perth who was setting up a similar scheme.

What scheme was she setting up at Perth TRSM? I see that Leederville was going to host the charity match that Perth have hosted previously as she has links with the Outside the Locker Room program.