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Southerner wrote: One of the largest disasters to emanate from the Mandurah decision has been the shockingly skewiffed zones - Badly affected south of the river clubs Swan Districts , Perth , South Fremantle and East Perth suffered from their yes vote by losing tracts of their deep south zones but Perth copped some Eastern District losses for theirs too
A lot of the Metropolitan area hardly reflects each club's locale since 1997

Yep agree, Peel sent a bowling ball through the entire thing, years of work done by South in the Rocko Mandurah area up in smoke and all the other flow on to other clubs as a result.

Total dogs breakfast and for what result?

smokey wrote:

Demons Forever wrote:

Bazza wrote:

Demons Forever wrote: Bazza, incorrect.
The Board instructed Catalano to vote against it.
He was the culprit not PFC.

That would have to be the biggest BS line I have heard, there is nothing incorrect about it The president of Perth cast the vote on behalf of the PFC, and that's what counts not what ever machinations happened behind the scenes.

Whatever you say Bazza

Bazza, that line is NOT BS. A club President is bound by the decisions of the Board.

So what you are saying is PFC are such a chaotic undisciplined organization that its fails to adhere to its own constitution on critical issues that impact on the entire league for decades? pretty much sums up the premiership drought I guess.

Ted Nugent wrote: So, SFFC can hold their heads high over every decision since 1987? Funny, I seem to recall them being the Dockers host club for 3 years.

Bloody oath they can, if you seriously think a piss weak thing like being host club for 1 year, is anything like voting for the eagles dockers or peel and the long term damage and issues that has created then you fair dinkum need your head read, more a case of clutching for straws to try and cover your own clubs bad choices in the things that mattered.

Beasley Hutton wrote: Possibly TOO but no one has been as cash strapped as SD have in the last 34 years especially in the late 80s & 90s when those decisions were made and yet we voted NO for all 3 new franchises- WCE, Freo & Peel as our club knew the irreparable damage it would do to the WAFL and Billy Walker was absolutely spot on the money in his prediction!

Yep, South almost went bust in 91 as well, the Save Our South movement came in, so any tosser trying to blame hard times for reckless stupid decisions is pulling it hard. Walker was right as was the board at SFFC.

1 year, Bazza? You can't re-write history.

Unholytugboat wrote: The one from 2002/2003

UnholyTB please expand on your comments regarding any borrowings by Swans.
I am unaware of any assistance given then or since.

Stand the Test wrote:

Bazza wrote:

Ted Nugent wrote: So, SFFC can hold their heads high over every decision since 1987? Funny, I seem to recall them being the Dockers host club for 3 years.

Bloody oath they can, if you seriously think a piss weak thing like being host club for 1 year, is anything like voting for the eagles dockers or peel and the long term damage and issues that has created then you fair dinkum need your head read, more a case of clutching for straws to try and cover your own clubs bad choices in the things that mattered.

Nah alignment worse.

Get help.

Any chance we can have the attendance numbers. Can everyone stop banging on about who did what wrong in the past and fix the current model.

According to the WAFL website last weekend there were
1,750 at Leederville
1,856 at Claremont
1,733 at Bassendean
1,348 at Joondalup

Total 6687 which is the 2nd lowest total attendance this year

Round 1 12,721
Round 2 7414
Round 3 7119
Round 4 7580
Round 5 6490

Home game attendances - 3 games unless otherwise indicated

Swans 6,502
SF 7,804
Subiaco 6,076
Peel 6,501
WP 5,572
C 5,412
Perth 3,703 ( 2 games only)
EF 3,293 ( 2 games only)
EP 3,050 ( 2 games only)

westaussieguy wrote: The Wafl attendances are bad all round Durtle.
Full stop and end of story.
The crowds looked promising for the opening week of fixtures. And sadly have tapered off since then. Apparently the average for the opening round being just over 3100. Have been told that since then average attendances for the 4 matches is running between 1600 and 1800. Which is a drop in numbers by all the clubs.

Yeah its a real pity...started well, but it was always goner go pear shape once the "AFL Festival of Footy" got going at Optus.

With a bit of hope the absence of live AFL footy will get some people back to local games..