Is anyone else just so bored with the eagles and how they make us [color=red]stress all the[/color] time about what they want to do to our comp and our fixtures and our squads like their story is the only fckn story that matters or has ever mattered in wa that you just wish they’d like relocate to Tasmania or somewhere.
I mean ffs WCE just fck off could you???
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Mate, if sport is your stress in life, I envy you. I save stressing out for important things in life!!
they are a monstrosity and the league they are a part of has destroyed football around the country
vfa
tassie league
nsw league
SANFL has taken money
they will eventually get the WAFL as well; in the long run they will make us into an under 20 competition
that insidious cockroach Nisbett is behind this one too - wait until the likes of Chick & co finally open up
WCE have ruined the fabric of this state’s footy over the past 20 years
Cannot see how they will have enough players, arent the lists getting cut next year?
They could form half a team from the amount of players they’ve cut already. As long as we can keep McInness, Grey and Fisher and pick up Schofield and Vardy if he get’s cut then that’s all I care about. No doubt WC are going to make that hard now.
So we know WCE will get their way whatever they decide. WAFC are always willing to accommodate needs of the AFL teams.
Sadly, having a national football league has actually diminished just about all state leagues. There’s more money in the game than ever before, yet the very competitions which kept football alive for over 100 years had to be sacrificed. Why?
I guess at the end of the day they were able to convince enough people that only the AFL mattered.
George G. used to talk about snouts in the trough when it came to the AFL - and he was dead right. If you’re getting your fill at the trough why worry about the state of state leagues? I hate the AFL media most of all. Spineless. I mean afl.com.au sanctioned a journalist for having the temerity to report the news. And, of course, since snouts are in the trough, no one raised an eyebrow (oh yes it was wrong some said, but that was just for appearances). afl.com.au is worse than the Chinese CCP press.
PD: good post; to this day I don’t understand, how, my club, voted for it in 86. How could they have voted in favour of something, when at the time of voting, we were not even sure what would happen to our lease at Subiaco? Our rights were guranteed only after the vote, and, after some bitchy from all sides
Perhaps it was because Michael Carlisle was a Victorian?
there is a little bit more to the Subi angle too, because from memory, in the late 80s the new commission put a proposal to the board that it recommend to members a merger with the WCE. This was rejected by David Williams, surely under pressure from nearly all members.
AR your memory is long and your words are wise.
stt: thanks for your kind words.
Spot on Ark, at least the members had a say unlike at East Perth, we were in a pretty good financial state by then, after Merryfield and successive quality presidents turned the club around, so had no need to attach ourselves to the evil empire.
Spot on Ark, at least the members had a say unlike at East Perth, we were in a pretty good financial state by then, after Merryfield and successive quality presidents turned the club around, so had no need to attach ourselves to the evil empire.
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Subi have made the most of a good thing and congrats to them. While you ended up with good managers, Subi also had a chair ride out of poverty. The WA footy community threw money into tins to help. (That was brilliant buy the Community - any other state done that before?). Then an insurance company threw in a couple hundred grand (?) back then. Can’t remember the details…quite happy to be corrected if wrong. Then of course, there’s the Eagles/Subi seats deal.
So yes, Subi has worked at it and come out on top, but it was far from totally a club effort.
shark:
we got the following:
our own pub in the late 70s, some clubs had had them since the 40s
community monies
a zone including Peel
a ten cent deal with our creditors – this was what saved the club
200,000 for Buckenara
the western underwriters monies – we would not have got any of those monies had we not made the four in 85 had if EF won the flag in 86; they did not just give it to the club.
SD have saved themselves twice by just raising money, it is just that, for whatever reason, no fuss is made. You did it this year
just a bit more on helping save – save, not make rich –
Subi
no one hated us
it would have meant Wanneroo joining
it was easier to save Subi
the league was very kind with zones
Subi actually had a better record on the field for the previous fifteen years than:
South --one flag in sixteen years
SD – one flag in seventeen years
CL – one flag in sixteen years
in 80, we had won the flag just six or seven years before
and yet, still got better treatment than the others
BH can confirm how they have mistreated SD for many decades
Ark, I’m not knocking anyone. In today’s climate, we have to raise money however we can. Just pointing out that Subi’s grassroots to power came on the back of WA’s community and not solely on the club’s management. I’d like to think that EF will head back toward the top of the ladder…even if the fund me system is the catalyst.
shark58: I understand don’t worry; EF did the right thing raising money, you will need a bit to climb the ladder over time. It is amazing how much help Subi got in the early 80s comparred to clubs today which are around the bottom of the ladder; it is wrong
So much of the past was lucky: SD won eighteen straight and got twenty grand
we made the four one year and a company gives us a hundred grand.