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Freezin wrote: Fingers crossed that 2nd stringer EF snared from WP, is as good as all those 2nd stringers Perth have snapped up from Cl and EP DD....

And everyone's a winner!! Might even be a Sandover Medalist in there somewhere. Lol

DD wrote:

Freezin wrote: Fingers crossed that 2nd stringer EF snared from WP, is as good as all those 2nd stringers Perth have snapped up from Cl and EP DD....

And everyone's a winner!! Might even be a Sandover Medalist in there somewhere. Lol

Hopefully no wooden spooners either mate!

Archie Duda Goal Machine wrote:

Ted Nugent wrote: Chaddy, you make a fair point. However, my view is this: C had the alignment for only one year and relinquished it due too concerns that it hampered junior development. At that point, SF were neutral: they said that if another club took up the Eagles alignment, they would keep the Dockers.' EP was then the only club that volunteered, without which the whole thing would have collapsed after one season. What is particularly galling, even now, is that EP deny that they derived any benefit from that alignment, despite going from second last to triple premiers. You then benefitted, on and off-field, from the second alignment, yet you pretend you had no other choice. You also seem to think that everyone should just forgive and forget and welcome back the real EP as though nothing happened. That is why I will always reserve a special level of contempt for your club.

Yes, Ted, East Perth did go from second-last (1999) to a premiership in the space of a season (2000).
But what you conveniently forget is that in the three previous years (1996-98) the Royals were coached by Kevin Worthington, they won 38 and drew one of 65 games (a win percentage of 58.46 ignoring the draw).
The WAFL has several examples of teams finishing on the bottom one year and winning the flag the next.
South Fremantle (1969 to 1970) and West Perth (1974 to 1975) spring to mind.
There are other instances of teams with lowly finishes being premiers the next year.
East Fremantle, for example, were sixth in both 1991 and 1993 but won the 1992 and 1994 grand finals.
The Royals certainly obtained some benefit from the partial alignment of 2000-01, but stalwarts such as Jeremy Barnard, Devan Perry, David Swan, Rod Wheatley and Andrew Worland had played in the losing 1996 Grand Final and were there in 2000.
Plus, a new coach in Tony Micale, after Kevin Worthington's fourth year was nowhere near as effective as his first three, obviously helped get the best out of these players who'd produced some pretty good footy between 1996 and 1998.

Exactly Archie i give full credit to Micale who was magnificent in his 2 stints at club,the second time from a wooden spoon in 2008 to a prelim in 2010

Ti Em wrote:

DD wrote:

Freezin wrote: Yep some "massive" outs there Smokey....no doubt all those EF outs would be walk up starts at every other WAFL club....because realistically that is what defines a "big out" eh?

Yep and you managed to pick up a 2nd stringer from WP to replace one of those 2nd stringers. Pity you couldn't snare a 1st stringer in Rohan Kerr who chose to go to EP instead.

Who is the 2nd stringer from Joondalup? When you say Kerr chose to go to East Perth instead do we know if East Fremantle were interested or actively pursuing him?

Mills

BC wrote: I don't know whether your recollection of events is accurate or not. I'd suggest it's probably tainted by your obvious dislike of my club but it's irrelevant anyway as the fact remains Subi had a valid lease and was compensated when they agreed to move before it expired. The WAFC could have let the lease run it's course and Subi would have had to move elsewhere at it's own cost but that didn't happen.

hey thanks for the dismissal but my post has nothing to do with dislikes at all - in fact almost my entire family gave money to the Save Subiaco tin rattle

and Subi gave Souths an interest free loan several years ago...so swings and roundabouts I guess.

so that would have then paid back the coin South Fremantle kept Subiaco alive with and we all know it was serious coin back then

DD wrote:

Ti Em wrote:

DD wrote:

Freezin wrote: Yep some "massive" outs there Smokey....no doubt all those EF outs would be walk up starts at every other WAFL club....because realistically that is what defines a "big out" eh?

Yep and you managed to pick up a 2nd stringer from WP to replace one of those 2nd stringers. Pity you couldn't snare a 1st stringer in Rohan Kerr who chose to go to EP instead.

Who is the 2nd stringer from Joondalup? When you say Kerr chose to go to East Perth instead do we know if East Fremantle were interested or actively pursuing him?

Mills

Playing in 4 finals in 2018 including the GF is not bad for a 2nd stringer. It would appear Bill can get the most out of Mills - who found his replacement at Joondalup on the nose. Actually come to think of it a bit like Leggett, Ninyette and Bennell at Perth with your coach. Considering Perth won just 4 of their last 13 games last year, probably quite a few others too.

Ti Em wrote:

DD wrote:

Ti Em wrote:

DD wrote:

Freezin wrote: Yep some "massive" outs there Smokey....no doubt all those EF outs would be walk up starts at every other WAFL club....because realistically that is what defines a "big out" eh?

Yep and you managed to pick up a 2nd stringer from WP to replace one of those 2nd stringers. Pity you couldn't snare a 1st stringer in Rohan Kerr who chose to go to EP instead.

Who is the 2nd stringer from Joondalup? When you say Kerr chose to go to East Perth instead do we know if East Fremantle were interested or actively pursuing him?

Mills

Playing in 4 finals in 2018 including the GF is not bad for a 2nd stringer. It would appear Bill can get the most out of Mills - who found his replacement at Joondalup on the nose. Actually come to think of it a bit like Leggett, Ninyette and Bennell at Perth with your coach. Considering Perth won just 4 of their last 13 games last year, probably quite a few others too.

How do you play 4 finals in one season? Anyway pretty sure I read somewhere, can’t be bothered looking for the stats, that he’d only played about 20 or 30 league games in about 6 or 7 years at WP. I’d say that puts him the 2nd stringer category.

DD wrote:

Ti Em wrote:

DD wrote:

Ti Em wrote:

DD wrote:

Freezin wrote: Yep some "massive" outs there Smokey....no doubt all those EF outs would be walk up starts at every other WAFL club....because realistically that is what defines a "big out" eh?

Yep and you managed to pick up a 2nd stringer from WP to replace one of those 2nd stringers. Pity you couldn't snare a 1st stringer in Rohan Kerr who chose to go to EP instead.

Who is the 2nd stringer from Joondalup? When you say Kerr chose to go to East Perth instead do we know if East Fremantle were interested or actively pursuing him?

Mills

Playing in 4 finals in 2018 including the GF is not bad for a 2nd stringer. It would appear Bill can get the most out of Mills - who found his replacement at Joondalup on the nose. Actually come to think of it a bit like Leggett, Ninyette and Bennell at Perth with your coach. Considering Perth won just 4 of their last 13 games last year, probably quite a few others too.

How do you play 4 finals in one season?

Qualifying (L) - Semi - Prelim - GF