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gtrxuone wrote: That was a fantastic era in Wa footy Arc.Nobody had a crystal ball but 30 years of the Eagles has ripped the heart out of the wafl.

Guess it was always goner happen, but gee the wa footy public have walked away in droves , not like sanfl.

Since I've been following footy Baz the late 70's.The Sanfl has allways seemed to be bigger than the Wafl.

Swans have a unique record of beating the eventual premiers three times in the season and yet couldn't make the four!

1967

Bazza wrote:

gtrxuone wrote: That was a fantastic era in Wa footy Arc.Nobody had a crystal ball but 30 years of the Eagles has ripped the heart out of the wafl.

Guess it was always goner happen, but gee the wa footy public have walked away in droves , not like sanfl.

Spot on. This was always going to happen. If it wasn't a team from the West, then our player drain would have got bigger each year as the $incentive grew. In a way it could have been the best thing for WA footy had the commission of the day been less impatient and more aggressive in their negotiations. I could blame the position the Sharks now find them selves on it all, but why? Fact is, it is what it is and a handful of people on footy forums are not going to change anything. Voice of the people is being drowned by a younger generation.

You mean a younger generation and all the other selected general population who are being force-fed a half-cooked hamburger game that some TV station & media outlet has paid rights to

Southerner wrote: You mean a younger generation and all the other selected general population who are being force-fed a half-cooked hamburger game that some TV station & media outlet has paid rights to

Hamburger Footy....haha the best description yet I've come across for the modern AFL game Southy. Have to say I much preferred footy when it was a territorial affair. Neighbourhood v neighbourhood with a beer shared at games end. What must they think in alien planets when they see actors and sportsman get remunerated exponentially more than doctors, teachers, scientists, emergency service crew, police etc etc etc sad world we live in

Dirty Weekender wrote:

Southerner wrote: You mean a younger generation and all the other selected general population who are being force-fed a half-cooked hamburger game that some TV station & media outlet has paid rights to

Hamburger Footy....haha the best description yet I've come across for the modern AFL game Southy. Have to say I much preferred footy when it was a territorial affair. Neighbourhood v neighbourhood with a beer shared at games end. What must they think in alien planets when they see actors and sportsman get remunerated exponentially more than doctors, teachers, scientists, emergency service crew, police etc etc etc sad world we live in

I lived in a one horse tiny siding in the wheat belt as a kid and even there it was more than neighbourhood v neighbourhood. The outcome of the weekend results decided on what Monday at school was going to be like. We boasted for a week or spent the week moping and copping shite. Even in a tiny town, footy was everything. I'm not sure the passion is as intense in the AFL and certainly not in the WAFL. Anyway, just an old bloke's reminiscences.

Loved it going into primary/high school during the 70's & early 80's...the banter was on full dial after the WAFL games that weekend....as you say 58 certainly prepared you for later in life in regards to dishing out and taking the mickey......those were heady days that is for sure...if WCE hadn't started in 87 a shed load of players were heading East anyway...which would depleted the WAFL any how....supposedly Glendinning signature for WCE persuaded Woosha Peos McKenna,Lewis etc to change their minds last minute about joining a variety of VFL clubs...

They (6 other clubs) never listened to Bill Walker back in August 1986 when they should have

58shark wrote:

Dirty Weekender wrote:

Southerner wrote: You mean a younger generation and all the other selected general population who are being force-fed a half-cooked hamburger game that some TV station & media outlet has paid rights to

Hamburger Footy....haha the best description yet I've come across for the modern AFL game Southy. Have to say I much preferred footy when it was a territorial affair. Neighbourhood v neighbourhood with a beer shared at games end. What must they think in alien planets when they see actors and sportsman get remunerated exponentially more than doctors, teachers, scientists, emergency service crew, police etc etc etc sad world we live in

I lived in a one horse tiny siding in the wheat belt as a kid and even there it was more than neighbourhood v neighbourhood. The outcome of the weekend results decided on what Monday at school was going to be like. We boasted for a week or spent the week moping and copping shite. Even in a tiny town, footy was everything. I'm not sure the passion is as intense in the AFL and certainly not in the WAFL. Anyway, just an old bloke's reminiscences.

That is exactly what Australian Rules was - it's a TV product now , a bus shelter Advert , a Hamburger outlet ringa-ling ding , and the diabolical thing is that it has taken away local community commercial activity , gone to Victoria now