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Yep Swan sounds like you are correct.

Strangling WAFL clubs to pay a WAFC staff ,CEO and COO and CFO a combined salary 900k needs to be questioned. Thats the salary cap of 3 entire playing lists

The solution is simple. Lest just get rid of grass roots and community based sport.
Use the money to run talent identification programs and keep sport for those who have a realistic chance of becoming millionaire professional players.

Actually, why not just get rid of Aussie rules altogether. Teach the athletic kids to play Soccer so they can go to Europe and earn squillions.

Unfortunately there is a greedy attitude of "entitlement" at the top levels of sport. They forget that they only get their multi-billion dollar TV deals because ordinary everyday Australians love the sport.

We can thank greedy, slimy, money hungry player managers for the ridiculous salaries the current day AFL players are on and all of that money is all at the expense of going back into grassroots development & second tier footy!
And when those players eventually retire those same greed, slimy, money hungry player managers drop them like a bar of soap for the next 'cash cow'!
They are the worse thing to happen to footy & sport in general!

Thank god the ducks get good crowds through the gates at basso or we'd be worse off. Come to think of it the other clubs should give thanks the swans faithful travel and put numbers through their gates.

Aah! Do the facts support your assertion.
No doubt Swans have a good group of supporters but there are a number of teams that have a similar following.

The following data regarding average crowds for WAFL teams, home and away was provided by La Hincha sometime ago:

2002
1-East Perth 2,148
2-West Perth 1,857
3-South Fremantle 1,783
4-East Fremantle 1,764
5-Perth 1,746
6-Swan Districts 1,745
7-Subiaco 1,689
8-Peel 1,541
9-Claremont 1,470

2003
1-East Perth 1,963
2-Swan Districts 1,865
3-West Perth 1,858
4-South Fremantle 1,779
5-Subiaco 1,646
6-East Fremantle 1,643
7-Claremont 1,532
8-Perth 1,495
9-Peel 1,259

2004
1-East Perth 2,173
2-Swan Districts 1,973
3-South Fremantle 1,946
4-West Perth 1,945
5-East Fremantle 1,811
6-Perth 1,747
7-Claremont 1,728
8-Subiaco 1,727
9-Peel 1,435

2005
1-Swan Districts 2,133
2-West Perth 2,094
3-South Fremantle 2,009
4-Claremont 1,912
5-Subiaco 1,852
6-East Perth 1,816
7-East Fremantle 1,662
8-Perth 1,575
9-Peel 1,448

2006
1-South Fremantle 2,205
2-East Perth 2,180
3-West Perth 2,110
4-Swan Districts 2,052
5-East Fremantle 1,887
6-Subiaco 1,844
7-Claremont 1,826
8-Perth 1,601
9-Peel 1,364

2007
1-South Fremantle 2,556
2-East Fremantle 2,110
3-West Perth 1,991
4-Swan Districts 1,977
5-East Perth 1,965
6-Claremont 1,887
7-Subiaco 1,787
8-Perth 1,683
9-Peel 1,407

2008
1-Swan Districts 2,462
2-Subiaco 2,189
3-Perth 2,165
4-West Perth 2,040
5-East Perth 2,036
6-South Fremantle 2,019
7-East Fremantle 1,936
8-Claremont 1,613
9-Peel 1,574

2009
1-South Fremantle 2,980
2-Swan Districts 2,603
3-East Fremantle 2,491
4-West Perth 2,343
5-Subiaco 2,322
6-Perth 2,316
7-East Perth 2,184
8-Claremont 1,802
9-Peel 1,696

2010
1-East Perth 2,526
2-West Perth 2,431
3-Swan Districts 2,430
4-South Fremantle 2,340
5-Claremont 2,200
6-East Fremantle 2,174
7-Perth 2,156
8-Subiaco 2,124
9-Peel 1,519

2011
1-South Fremantle 2,585
2-West Perth 2,558
3-East Perth 2,498
4-East Fremantle 2,361
5-Subiaco 2,355
6-Swan Districts 2,159
7-Claremont 1,972
8-Perth 1,916
9-Peel 1,497

2012
1-West Perth 2,354
2-East Perth 2,261
3-South Fremantle 2,221
4-Swan Districts 2,206
5-East Fremantle 2,139
6-Subiaco 2,101
7-Perth 2,050
8-Claremont 1,909
9-Peel 1,451

Unfortunately this does not include the 2013 and 2014 seasons. I'll leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.

You can go to any ground that Swans are at and see more B&W then the home colours. It would be interesting to have a census at games to see who is supporting what team.

Custodian wrote: Aah! Do the facts support your assertion.
No doubt Swans have a good group of supporters but there are a number of teams that have a similar following.

Totals for 2002-2012 were:

south fremantle 24423
east perth 23750
swan districts 23605
west perth 22781
east fremantle 21978
subiaco 21636
perth 20453
claremont 19851
peel 16191

turtle wrote: Thank god the ducks get good crowds through the gates at basso or we'd be worse off. Come to think of it the other clubs should give thanks the swans faithful travel and put numbers through their gates.

Yer right turtle...if it wasn't for Swans, the WAFL would have folded long ago.

Beasley Hutton wrote: We can thank greedy, slimy, money hungry player managers for the ridiculous salaries the current day AFL players are on and all of that money is all at the expense of going back into grassroots development & second tier footy!
And when those players eventually retire those same greed, slimy, money hungry player managers drop them like a bar of soap for the next 'cash cow'!
They are the worse thing to happen to footy & sport in general!

Well i'd reckon afl may be the only "popular" sport where the CEO ( hello Vlad ) gets paid MORE than the top player of the comp. I'd love to see the wage bill of the admin of the AFL and the hangers on before the "worker ants" ( players) comes into question