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Cardy wrote: Just a pic I made up for The Trash the WAFL thread.. Well the WAFC are a BIT DICTATORIAL

Like your work Cardy.

Least we can sit with the knowledge we won the last ever WAFL Premiership.

gotta differ there gws...Subi did in 1986 the year before the beags entered the VFL/AFL...

BC wrote: gotta differ there gws...Subi did in 1986 the year before the beags entered the VFL/AFL...

Fair enough BC

BC wrote: gotta differ there gws...Subi did in 1986 the year before the beags entered the VFL/AFL...

have to agree there really have been no real WAFL premierships since the advent of the Eagles/Dockers.

Christ, what we could do is stop blaming the AFL for the lack of interest in the WAFL and get the interest back to a level that we find acceptable.

We do realise that if the WCE (and I hate them) didn't happen ALL good and potential WAFL stars would have left anyway to the VFL for cash.

If you want to blame anyone blame the VICS boys. They robbed the WAFL, SANFL and TFL for years before 1987, hence State of Origin was created.

And now I read that people would rather the likes of Dayle Garlett get drafted to the east to help out a Victorian club??

The incentive for the WAFL clubs was to get players drafted for 2 reasons - 1, to get money to keep their club afloat basically and 2, if you were lucky enough that WCE or Freo drafted them they would stay as your player and rightly so.

If I had my way I would want it like that of course. 2nd option would be to let WCE and Freo have their own teams in the WAFL. Yes you lose your local drafted players but at least we won't be hating EP and Peel for any other reasons than we may hate EF, WP or SD. 11 team competition, play every home and away for a season of 20 games. What was wrong with that.

But because the WAFL wanted everything their way and are lead by morons who got sucked in by the dollar we now have the worst of 3 options. Local clubs don't keep their own players drafted to wce or freo, they actually will play against them now!! We now hate 2 WAFL clubs in EP and Peel for caving in due to $$$ . . . great!! We now hope our local junior talent leaves our state?? Get real fellas. The Vics are laughing all the way to the bank . . . again.

Blame the Vics from the 70's and 80's who raided all other states and blame the WAFL commission over the past 5 years for letting the WAFL competition get to a stage where we are now talking about G7 and all this crap. PLEASE.

The more we cane EP and Peel guess what?? The more they will snuggle up to wce and freo.

I hope somehow in 5 years the alignment falls apart . . . somehow and wce and freo have their own sides in the WAFL (like what is happening in the VFL and SANFL now - why are we so behind in everything??) and each WAFL club is a club in their own WAFL right.

I better stop now but the blame is incorrectly focussed I believe.

what are you actually trying to get at here dogman??

dogman wrote: Christ, what we could do is stop blaming the AFL for the lack of interest in the WAFL and get the interest back to a level that we find acceptable.

We do realise that if the WCE (and I hate them) didn't happen ALL good and potential WAFL stars would have left anyway to the VFL for cash.

If you want to blame anyone blame the VICS boys. They robbed the WAFL, SANFL and TFL for years before 1987, hence State of Origin was created.

And now I read that people would rather the likes of Dayle Garlett get drafted to the east to help out a Victorian club??

The incentive for the WAFL clubs was to get players drafted for 2 reasons - 1, to get money to keep their club afloat basically and 2, if you were lucky enough that WCE or Freo drafted them they would stay as your player and rightly so.

If I had my way I would want it like that of course. 2nd option would be to let WCE and Freo have their own teams in the WAFL. Yes you lose your local drafted players but at least we won't be hating EP and Peel for any other reasons than we may hate EF, WP or SD. 11 team competition, play every home and away for a season of 20 games. What was wrong with that.

But because the WAFL wanted everything their way and are lead by morons who got sucked in by the dollar we now have the worst of 3 options. Local clubs don't keep their own players drafted to wce or freo, they actually will play against them now!! We now hate 2 WAFL clubs in EP and Peel for caving in due to $$$ . . . great!! We now hope our local junior talent leaves our state?? Get real fellas. The Vics are laughing all the way to the bank . . . again.

Blame the Vics from the 70's and 80's who raided all other states and blame the WAFL commission over the past 5 years for letting the WAFL competition get to a stage where we are now talking about G7 and all this crap. PLEASE.

The more we cane EP and Peel guess what?? The more they will snuggle up to wce and freo.

I hope somehow in 5 years the alignment falls apart . . . somehow and wce and freo have their own sides in the WAFL (like what is happening in the VFL and SANFL now - why are we so behind in everything??) and each WAFL club is a club in their own WAFL right.

I better stop now but the blame is incorrectly focussed I believe.

Yes well said and spot on. My only hope is that in 5 years WCE and Freo's reserves are playing in an AFL Reserves comp and the WAFL can revert back to a 9 team comp.

The real issue that needs to be addressed is the distribution of money generated by the game to lower leagues. Returns to clubs for players drafted needs to flow through all levels right down to the junior club and it needs to be decent quids not the loose change they get now. That's how the WAFL survives without AFL alignment.

Dazzler wrote:

dogman wrote: Christ, what we could do is stop blaming the AFL for the lack of interest in the WAFL and get the interest back to a level that we find acceptable.

We do realise that if the WCE (and I hate them) didn't happen ALL good and potential WAFL stars would have left anyway to the VFL for cash.

If you want to blame anyone blame the VICS boys. They robbed the WAFL, SANFL and TFL for years before 1987, hence State of Origin was created.

And now I read that people would rather the likes of Dayle Garlett get drafted to the east to help out a Victorian club??

The incentive for the WAFL clubs was to get players drafted for 2 reasons - 1, to get money to keep their club afloat basically and 2, if you were lucky enough that WCE or Freo drafted them they would stay as your player and rightly so.

If I had my way I would want it like that of course. 2nd option would be to let WCE and Freo have their own teams in the WAFL. Yes you lose your local drafted players but at least we won't be hating EP and Peel for any other reasons than we may hate EF, WP or SD. 11 team competition, play every home and away for a season of 20 games. What was wrong with that.

But because the WAFL wanted everything their way and are lead by morons who got sucked in by the dollar we now have the worst of 3 options. Local clubs don't keep their own players drafted to wce or freo, they actually will play against them now!! We now hate 2 WAFL clubs in EP and Peel for caving in due to $$$ . . . great!! We now hope our local junior talent leaves our state?? Get real fellas. The Vics are laughing all the way to the bank . . . again.

Blame the Vics from the 70's and 80's who raided all other states and blame the WAFL commission over the past 5 years for letting the WAFL competition get to a stage where we are now talking about G7 and all this crap. PLEASE.

The more we cane EP and Peel guess what?? The more they will snuggle up to wce and freo.

I hope somehow in 5 years the alignment falls apart . . . somehow and wce and freo have their own sides in the WAFL (like what is happening in the VFL and SANFL now - why are we so behind in everything??) and each WAFL club is a club in their own WAFL right.

I better stop now but the blame is incorrectly focussed I believe.

Yes well said and spot on. My only hope is that in 5 years WCE and Freo's reserves are playing in an AFL Reserves comp and the WAFL can revert back to a 9 team comp.

The real issue that needs to be addressed is the distribution of money generated by the game to lower leagues. Returns to clubs for players drafted needs to flow through all levels right down to the junior club and it needs to be decent quids not the loose change they get now. That's how the WAFL survives without AFL alignment.

The distribution only goes to North Melbourne, Footscray and Melbourne. I am ok with money going to Melbourne but not the others.

Interesting article re The Country Football League.. Well said Terry House







AFL LETS DOWN WA GRASSROOTS FOOTY

au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/afl/...-down-wa-grassroots/

Country football legend Terry House has accused the AFL of abandoning the game at grassroots level in WA.

House, who won seven South West Football League premierships as a player and coach, claimed the AFL's decision to cut all funding to the WA Country Football League had led to the death of the biennial national country carnival.

The WACFL president said the AFL's restructured funding model for country football also had the potential to adversely affect a proven breeding ground for elite players.

But House believed the issue was deeper than the ending of the national country carnival.

He expected the AFL's bid to wrest licences for West Coast and Fremantle away from the WA Football Commission would mean the end of the WACFL and rob country football bodies of any direct access to help in times of trouble.

Yep he nailed it in that article! Aussie Rules will be Farked in the coming years, and David Gallops comments re- soccer becoming Australias most populat sport yesterday are a worry for Australian Rules au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/socc...next-expansion-zone/