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Follow the story Swansog 42 was talking about the basso redevelopment not Freo but your quite right crime is a massive issue in Midland Basso the Freo development will
Be commercial related not residential lol

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swan42 wrote: DW No question our supporters have dropped off as well. However, if you look at our first home game for the season the attendance was poor. So it is not just because we have had a poor start to the season.

I firmly believe that a significant part of the problem is the host club alignment and Subiaco's dominance over the past decade or more because of their financial situation.

Swan you may like to use that logic against the previous decade of footy in the SANFL where Centrals, probably the richest non aligned SA club won 9 flags in 11 years but there was little or no effect on attendances for H & A and finals matches. Maybe worth considering the role of the WAFC in the dwindling attendances at WAFL games, the fact that they do little to market games may have something to do with it. It cant solely be sheeted back to your view re the aligned clubs and Subi. The facilities that Subi own and the seats they have purchased (their old members seats) at Subi oval will be closed at the end of the 2017 season so you and the other SD Subi haters will have to create some other reason to bag Subi. I look forward to your future creatively fictional posts.

Senior Seagull wrote:

swan42 wrote: DW No question our supporters have dropped off as well. However, if you look at our first home game for the season the attendance was poor. So it is not just because we have had a poor start to the season.

I firmly believe that a significant part of the problem is the host club alignment and Subiaco's dominance over the past decade or more because of their financial situation.

Swan you may like to use that logic against the previous decade of footy in the SANFL where Centrals, probably the richest non aligned SA club won 9 flags in 11 years but there was little or no effect on attendances for H & A and finals matches. Maybe worth considering the role of the WAFC in the dwindling attendances at WAFL games, the fact that they do little to market games may have something to do with it. It cant solely be sheeted back to your view re the aligned clubs and Subi. The facilities that Subi own and the seats they have purchased (their old members seats) at Subi oval will be closed at the end of the 2017 season so you and the other SD Subi haters will have to create some other reason to bag Subi. I look forward to your future creatively fictional posts.

S/s your post started with such promise. I didn't think I needed to mention the WAFC as I don't think anyone on here has anything other complete contempt and disdain regarding the WAFC's commitment to the WAFL competition. As I mentioned to someone on Saturday on Basso I personally don't think that is healthy for one club to be as dominant as Subiaco have been for the past 10-15 years. I also mentioned that it would be equally as unhealthy if it was Swans rather than Subiaco that had that dominance. What the WAFL needs is for it to be cyclical in nature regarding the relative success/failure of the WAFL clubs. What we currently have is three clubs almost virtually assured of playing every finals series for the forseeable future. This leaves two spots available, generally in the 4th and 5th positions. for the rest of the WAFL clubs. There is no prospect of those three teams declining unless they have a huge injury list during a particular season. The only possible prospect is if the Eagles jettison their current WAFL aligned club.

Ss if it is all fiction vis a vis Subiaco's dominance due to their financial position, what is the reason for Subiaco's dominance?

It will be interesting to see the attendance at the West Perth V Claremont match in Kulin this weekend. Travel the Tin Highway and see some of the wheatbelt's attractions, Wave Rock etc. For those who like a dip the Kulin Aquatic Centre has at 182 metres long and 18 metres high, the biggest waterslide in regional Western Australia.

Swan I respectfully requested you use the same logic regarding the SANFL experience of the last decade re Centrals dominance which leaves Subis position well in the shade. So what is your response regarding the question I posed which relates to crowd numbers?

Custodian wrote: It will be interesting to see the attendance at the West Perth V Claremont match in Kulin this weekend. Travel the Tin Highway and see some of the wheatbelt's attractions, Wave Rock etc. For those who like a dip the Kulin Aquatic Centre has at 182 metres long and 18 metres high, the biggest waterslide in regional Western Australia.

Nice part of the country up there, went to the Kulin bush races a few years ago expecting a few hundred to turn up .......... over 5000 in attendance, ripper day, what I can remember of it!!

Senior Seagull wrote: Swan I respectfully requested you use the same logic regarding the SANFL experience of the last decade re Centrals dominance which leaves Subis position well in the shade. So what is your response regarding the question I posed which relates to crowd numbers?

Whilst I don't have any real knowledge of the SANFL it would be beyond belief that the SANFL's equivalent have the same lack of interest and concern in the SANFL as their equivalent body, the WAFC, have in the WAFL. Unquestionably the SANFL has been far more concerned, and far more successful, with protecting the SANFL competition than the WAFC have had in protecting the WAFL competition.

swan42 wrote:

Senior Seagull wrote:

swan42 wrote: DW No question our supporters have dropped off as well. However, if you look at our first home game for the season the attendance was poor. So it is not just because we have had a poor start to the season.

I firmly believe that a significant part of the problem is the host club alignment and Subiaco's dominance over the past decade or more because of their financial situation.

Swan you may like to use that logic against the previous decade of footy in the SANFL where Centrals, probably the richest non aligned SA club won 9 flags in 11 years but there was little or no effect on attendances for H & A and finals matches. Maybe worth considering the role of the WAFC in the dwindling attendances at WAFL games, the fact that they do little to market games may have something to do with it. It cant solely be sheeted back to your view re the aligned clubs and Subi. The facilities that Subi own and the seats they have purchased (their old members seats) at Subi oval will be closed at the end of the 2017 season so you and the other SD Subi haters will have to create some other reason to bag Subi. I look forward to your future creatively fictional posts.

S/s your post started with such promise. I didn't think I needed to mention the WAFC as I don't think anyone on here has anything other complete contempt and disdain regarding the WAFC's commitment to the WAFL competition. As I mentioned to someone on Saturday on Basso I personally don't think that is healthy for one club to be as dominant as Subiaco have been for the past 10-15 years. I also mentioned that it would be equally as unhealthy if it was Swans rather than Subiaco that had that dominance. What the WAFL needs is for it to be cyclical in nature regarding the relative success/failure of the WAFL clubs. What we currently have is three clubs almost virtually assured of playing every finals series for the forseeable future. This leaves two spots available, generally in the 4th and 5th positions. for the rest of the WAFL clubs. There is no prospect of those three teams declining unless they have a huge injury list during a particular season. The only possible prospect is if the Eagles jettison their current WAFL aligned club.

Ss if it is all fiction vis a vis Subiaco's dominance due to their financial position, what is the reason for Subiaco's dominance?

You can thank in no small part you very good mates down at dockerland for their fair share of this grief.

Beasley Hutton wrote: Traditional clubs still play at their traditional venue as far as I am concerned!

Oh we do champ, every September.