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Anyone heard any news on this??

I think it will be made public tomorrow?

Dwert wrote: Anyone heard any news on this??

We were all told it was being publically released in March
If my memory is correct?

Yep but it takes a while to apply the sugar coating for public consumption

Why is an independent outside company with NO Wafl experience allowed to deliberate on Wafl football?

A sad day for the Wafl.

Dated - April Fools Day 2017
The WAFL’s alignment model will continue until at least the end of the 2021 season under one of the key recommendations of a once-in-a-generation review of WA football.
In one of the biggest decisions contained in a sweeping assessment of the State game, the teams formerly known as East Perth and Peel Thunder will remain aligned to West Coast and Fremantle respectively for at least another four years beyond 2017.
The WA Football Commission will also take control of the State’s colts system in a move designed to win greater talent funding from the AFL and produce more draftees.
Colts coaches will be hired directly by the WAFC with the development teams still aligned to WAFL clubs, but no longer run by them starting from 2018.
The WAFL will also be scaled back to an 18-round home-and-away competition from next season.
In releasing the findings of the $350,000 review carried out by Boston Consulting Group, WAFC chief executive Gavin Taylor confirmed:
- The WAFL would remain a nine-team competition, with no mergers planned between existing clubs;
- A premier State women’s competition would be introduced from next season with teams aligned to WAFL clubs;
- The women’s league would start with a reduced number of teams before later expanding to all nine WAFL clubs, with games likely to be played around league matches;

- A recommendation made by Boston to change to a six-team colts competition similar to Victoria’s TAC Cup model had been rejected;

- Colts games would be moved to more friendly timeslots than Saturday mornings to have young talent playing in the best conditions;

- The WAFC would investigate being rebranded as AFLWA in a bid to secure more AFL funding, with the WAFL keeping its own identity;

- A long-term broadcast deal would be sought with Channel 7;

- Equalisation funding would be set aside to be distributed to WAFL clubs on a needs basis and for special projects;

- AFL draft fees would be kept by the WAFC and not paid to WAFL clubs, except in cases involving mature-age draftees;

- District development staff would be relocated into three new Perth metropolitan offices – northern, southern and eastern – in a bid to put more WAFC personnel on the front line of grassroots football;

- A player payments system would be created across all WA football leagues, including country and amateur competitions;

- A new royalty model would be created to set the size of annual payments made by West Coast and Fremantle to the WAFC.
Taylor said WA’s two AFL clubs, along with East Perth and Peel, had agreed to extend the partnership model by a further three years. The five-year alignment model was due to finish at the end of the 2018 season.

Taylor confirmed the commission believed the findings were the best way forward for football in the State, but WAFL clubs and football stakeholders have been given six weeks to give their feedback.

He said the commission’s decision to take over the colts program and talent pathway had been about having a “player first” focus.

“The time was right to take a step back and conduct a once-in-a-generation review to identify what’s being done right and where reforms needs to be made,” Taylor said.

“A key finding of this review is that WA footy is fundamentally in good shape. However, there are clear challenges facing our game.

“The reforms put forward in this report are intended to address these challenges and deliver a clearly aligned approach across every level of WA football, better funding and governance models, more WAFC staff on the front line in community footy, and ensure everything we do aligns with the delivery of our clear strategic targets.”

Underwhelming, is the word for me.

Hardly anything earth shattering in any of this.

Maybe someone out there can explain to me why keeping the alignment for another 3 years is good for WA football? It's driven a wedge through the system, so why not get rid of it?

Exactly 58. That's one of the questions that needs answering! We were all told it was for 5 years only! Now we learn the shit is being prolonged!
Obviously wheeling and dealing (maybe some blackmailing too, perhaps) is going on behind the scenes. There's a big difference between 5 and 8!

It would appear the terms of reference were very narrow too.
For example, why is another alternative not been explored other than to continue the alignment bullshit??!!

A 350K suicide note for the WAFL.

Once you hive off the colts comp and surrender it to the AFL as is proposed here you remove any leverage the WAFL has over the AFL.

For years the AFL has tried to buy the licences of both AFL clubs and here is the WAFC just handing them the golden goose for nothing. Un-fkn-believable.

The unrelenting ineptitude of the WAFC knows no limits.

Let's not forget the WAFC couldn't even organise themselves to win the tender for the new stadium. Ron Alexander said early in the piece they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery and did a shit job of running Subiaco Oval so why in gods name would anyone think them managing the colts comp is going to be an improvement on the current club aligned colts model. Absolute madness.

We've all been thrown a few bones like no mergers but that is just appeasement to steal the golden goose and hand it over to AFL control. Outrageous.