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One thing for sure is that the crowds are way down this season and the atmosphere at the games is noticeably non existent..

And you can blame this alignment bull$hit for it! why would you want to follow a competition that has 2 teams full of professional players and staff V 7 teams with players who are basically amateurs and work for a living..

The whole thing is just farked and I sometimes wonder how long it is before I lose total interest myself and move on.......not long!

Freezin wrote:

Bazza wrote:

Freezin wrote: So what if some clubs publically refuted the alignment and then had discussions under the table.......cant believe the WAFC held this over them........so what is a bit of embarrassment and loss of face.....its only footy! Bit soft on the G7 part if this true......held to ransom......FMD......these clubs are too soft......

I'd say it would be a tad more than a bit of embarrasment, the entire boards of the clubs seeking the host club deal while bagging it at the same time would not of had an ethical leg to stand on and the creibility of the weirdo from Hey Dad.

banging an under age kid and aligning with a footy club when you say you wouldn't, don't even compare Bazza...like I said big deal egg on your face sort of stuff, I'm sure the powers to be on the G7 boards would easily come up with a snazzy line to fall behind.....it's farkin footy we are talking about....not some countries dirty washing here!.....piss weak....

I'd still respect EFFC board if they had come out and said 'yeah we looked at it, investigated it, were interested in it'....even though we said publically other wise....big deal... todays goss is yesterdays goss and people soon forgive and forget and move on.....especially when the on field stuff starts!

Now your changing your story , to ...oh we discussed it and decided against,,,,that's a world away from ...we were actively seeking the alignment , while we were opposed to it publicly and told all our members we were fighting it ,,while in completely misleading and deceptive conduct actively asked to be the host club.


One that would have been made public the entire board would have to have stepped down.

You make it out to be such a huge thing!.......its a committee, a board for a freakin sporting club.......not a school, hospital, bank where ones education, health or finances are being put in jepoardy.......discuss, decide for or against......what ever......what level of deception are we falling too?.......If I had to worry about my kids school, my local hospital, my local bank or my local footy club telling porkies, I know which one I would be least worried about.....stop making it out to be such a big thing Bazza.......that's all I'm saying........if the clubs were worried about the WAFC showing this manilla folder to the media.......than more fool them, it's a piss weak approach.....without the G7 there would be no WAFC.........and Freo and WCE would be left without a comp to play their seconds in........bar the Ammos.

Barney is talking shit as usual. Just makes it up to appease his own arguement.Produce the manilla file.
Go it on good authority from inside contacts that EFFCE,SDFC and SFFC didnt want it and Raponi at WP made there position clear early.
WAFC made the call on thire own they dont require WAFL clubs to agree-hence the debacle we now have
What shits me is EP never even asked us, the members!

The West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers are now contributing an extra $450,000 each to the WAFC on top of their annual rent and royalties payments. How much of this is going to the 7 non aligned clubs. Is it $100,000? Is it a regular payment each season while the alignment is happening?

Does anybody know?

I understand it to be $120k per season mate

You know what I don't get? How VFL got away with what they did back in the 1980's. If the WAFL clubs didn't allow for the creation of the Eagles - who knows how big some of the WAFL clubs could be in this day and age.

astro wrote: Barney is talking shit as usual. Just makes it up to appease his own arguement.Produce the manilla file.
Go it on good authority from inside contacts that EFFCE,SDFC and SFFC didnt want it and Raponi at WP made there position clear early.
WAFC made the call on thire own they dont require WAFL clubs to agree-hence the debacle we now have
What shits me is EP never even asked us, the members!

Quite right astro and as an aside Im proud to admit Swans are the only club that have both voted against the introduction of WCE & Freo to the VFL and also the whole alignment bullshit both times around!

astro wrote: Barney is talking shit as usual. Just makes it up to appease his own arguement.Produce the manilla file.
Go it on good authority from inside contacts that EFFCE,SDFC and SFFC didnt want it and Raponi at WP made there position clear early.
WAFC made the call on thire own they dont require WAFL clubs to agree-hence the debacle we now have
What shits me is EP never even asked us, the members!

What? The public stance from those clubs is they weren't interested? Well I never!

As for Raponi, when the alignment was announced he said he had no knowledge a deal was even in the works or that any club was talking to the AFL clubs. That was despite the deal being talked about on here for a month or two before it was announced. If you can seriously think he wouldn't have a clue what was going on then you need to take your head out of the sand. If you agree that he would have known the AFL clubs were talking to WAFL clubs you have to ask why he was lying.

Typically Barney you dont respond to the topic at hand. There were not 5,6,7 clubs entertaining WCE as you say-and EP never asked the members what they thought.
Fact
I suspect you are a senior WCE or worse a WAFC employee hiding under the "barney" alias using this site to produce propaganda