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You make your bed you lie in it

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The integrity of the WAFL competition is in tatters to be honest

Yes heard about this yesterday. What a joke and it certainly does effect the integrity of our competition and show where these Aligned clubs stand.
Not the first time as when AFL players played for host clubs they were given time restrictions. I remember in one game where Hutchy was playing for us at WP and he was allowed to play I think it was 10 minutes a qtr on Eagles instructions to the Club!
I remember other clubs were effected in the same way where the AFL players were given limited time on the field to give them a run.
It actually happened to Hutchy again this year when we played EP and he was included in the team to go East the following week so had limited playing time against us.
Sure Hutchy didnt mind and neither did we.

It certainly makes a mockery of the concept and shows that the inclusion of these two aligned teams is just a convenience to their AFL clubs and they are certainly not a part of our great WAFL comp.

Not sure I have problem with limiting game time.
They should be allowed to manage a player's recovery.
I do object to the late release of players.
There used to be a cut off time, and that should remain.

What a joke, and it gets better. Apparently CH7 who looks likely to broadcast the WAFL next season want an 18 game season, and their prefered sponsor.....has strong links to East Perth.....guess where the telecast games will be played???? Hope the WAFL presidents grow some balls on this, otherwise a couple of clubs will benefit$$$$$ big time whilst the others will struggle.Starting to dislike The West/Ch 7

This is dump by Dokers. No respect showen by them, Peel need some balls and tell them they cannnt except this.

mikeh wrote: You make your bed you lie in it

au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/wafl/a/2...ver-delayed-dockers/

The integrity of the WAFL competition is in tatters to be honest

Couldn't agree more Mike, you sell you soul to the Devil, then you have to accept this shyte I'm afraid.

Mind you if I was Freo I would have done the same thing, if it was an away fixture the Emergency/ies would have travelled and missed getting game time, at least this way they played some footy. I have no problem with Freo doing it

kirbs wrote:

mikeh wrote: You make your bed you lie in it

au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/wafl/a/2...ver-delayed-dockers/

The integrity of the WAFL competition is in tatters to be honest

Couldn't agree more Mike, you sell you soul to the Devil, then you have to accept this shyte I'm afraid.

Mind you if I was Freo I would have done the same thing, if it was an away fixture the Emergency/ies would have travelled and missed getting game time, at least this way they played some footy. I have no problem with Freo doing it

What about from the integrity of the WAFL perspective?

swan42 wrote:

kirbs wrote:

mikeh wrote: You make your bed you lie in it

au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/wafl/a/2...ver-delayed-dockers/

The integrity of the WAFL competition is in tatters to be honest

Couldn't agree more Mike, you sell you soul to the Devil, then you have to accept this shyte I'm afraid.

Mind you if I was Freo I would have done the same thing, if it was an away fixture the Emergency/ies would have travelled and missed getting game time, at least this way they played some footy. I have no problem with Freo doing it

What about from the integrity of the WAFL perspective?

Blame the WAFL for that BAD FIXTURING

And rightly so. The whole Wafl competition has gone downhill at the rate of knots. 2 of the clubs sold themselves and have been taken over and this is what happens! "The actions threatened the integrity of the competition" is the quote from the article. It's a bit late to be stating that with the current situation the way it is. If there is a certain time frame the teams adhere to, why don't they?
The presidents will probably get fobbed off with stupid excuses!

And I for one do not want the footy on silly 7!

I don't think anybody has come out of this very well, but I reckon the main culprit is the WAFC. The WAFL fixtures come out 2 months after the AFL fixtures and in this case, it would have been so easy to avoid this situation if the Subiaco v Peel game had been played on the Sunday instead. There were only 3 occasions during 2014 that there was a Saturday afternoon AFL game in Perth coinciding with WAFL games, so it wouldn't have been hard to reschedule WAFL games involving the 2 alignment clubs on those weekends to minimise the chances of what happened on Saturday. A classic own goal for the WAFL.