No , he is too important to the eagles long term to risk playing WAFL finals.
Better to start fresh in season 2018
42…not if he hadn’t played any WAFL during the year. If he played 1 game of WAFL and no games in the AFL then yes but I’d question the sense behind such a move by the Beags and his impact after being out for over a year.
Go to the SANFL website and have a look at the qualifying setup they have, and generally at their whole alignment model, it’s thoroughly sensible and fair to all parties. In their comp Port maggies are in the 5 while the Crows ressies are in about 8th spot. Last time I looked the dominant team has been the Woodville-west torrens Eagles, with Norwood, Port and Sturt chasing them.
interesting comments you made to SS…I’ve stated on here before I’m not anti-alignment as I understand completely why the AFL clubs would want to go down that path. What I’m very concerned about are the qualification rules for WAFL finals. I don’t think we should make them so tough that an alignment side never gets to play finals but I think last years debacle was at the opposite end of the spectrum. What the answer is I don’t know and I’d be interested in your thoughts RD but clearly as it’s a WAFL competition, to qualify aligned players must have played more WAFL than AFL during the season as a start…so in general terms that means they’d need to play at least 12 or so games unless they had a period of injury. By putting something like that in place guys who qualify would be able to resonate to the WAFL comp through experience unlike those who drop back to find some form, play their 5 games before going back into the AFL and are playing WAFL finals.
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BC What about the following scenario:
if EP make the finals would you allow Nic Naitanui play in the WAFL finals this year?
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No as he hasn’t qualified and the WAFC set a precident in '14 by not allowing 2 eagles players to play finals as they didn’t meet the qualifying standard. As BC said the qualifying needs to be much more onerous fr the AFL teams, they initially stated that winning finals was not their priority, it was about being able to coach the whole squad in the way they want for consistency. Peelmantles approach last year put the lie to that.
lol the old man gets banned as well trolling must run in the family, can’t idiots on this site stick to the topic fmd.
Wow … amazing
I don’t think SS did anything particularly bad…I think OFA used it as leverage to get his son to stop being a pest…I could be wrong but that’s how it looks to me.
I don’t think SS did anything particularly bad…I think OFA used it as leverage to get his son to stop being a pest…I could be wrong but that’s how it looks to me.
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Correct BC!
I don’t think SS did anything particularly bad…I think OFA used it as leverage to get his son to stop being a pest…I could be wrong but that’s how it looks to me.
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Correct BC!
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OFA I presume SS’s ban is temporary but contingent on tosg refraining from trying to post on this site in the future?
I don’t think SS did anything particularly bad…I think OFA used it as leverage to get his son to stop being a pest…I could be wrong but that’s how it looks to me.
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Correct BC!
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OFA I presume SS’s ban is temporary but contingent on tosg refraining from trying to post on this site in the future?
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Correct again!
interesting comments you made to SS…I’ve stated on here before I’m not anti-alignment as I understand completely why the AFL clubs would want to go down that path. What I’m very concerned about are the qualification rules for WAFL finals. I don’t think we should make them so tough that an alignment side never gets to play finals but I think last years debacle was at the opposite end of the spectrum. What the answer is I don’t know and I’d be interested in your thoughts RD but clearly as it’s a WAFL competition, to qualify aligned players must have played more WAFL than AFL during the season as a start…so in general terms that means they’d need to play at least 12 or so games unless they had a period of injury. By putting something like that in place guys who qualify would be able to resonate to the WAFL comp through experience unlike those who drop back to find some form, play their 5 games before going back into the AFL and are playing WAFL finals.
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BC What about the following scenario:
if EP make the finals would you allow Nic Naitanui play in the WAFL finals this year?
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This is a question that has no merit.The eagles are not going to make the finals and most probably neither are East Perth so why ask it.
Because like any sport,funnier things have happened.
Our game is no different.
Injuries or not,Adelaide’s resting a couple and possibly resting already for the 1st Final.Dangerous strategy,but it opens the door right up for West Coast.Did they play Nic Nat and where?
Collingwood are doing the Eagles a massive favour at the moment.