1:- Jarrhan Jacky has been cleared back to Subiaco from Peel for $10 000.00 but won’t be fit to play until mid-season on recovery from a knee reco
2:- Officials at all G7 clubs have been given & asked to fill out a survey on the alignment - it is expected that it will be blasted as unacceptable and that EP sever it’s ties with the WCE - WCE to form it’s own WAFL side & Frematle FC to take over Mandurah with Peel to cease trading
3:- 7mate is keen on replicating the SANFL setup here in WA , but probably only 2 venues will get coverage according to Chris Wharton of Ch7.
I heard this was happening . Maybe FINALLY the Wafl and the clubs have seen the light. If they get a deal with 7mate or 7two they must get the model right first. Otherwise it won’t sustain or work. Get everything right by getting WestCoast a stand alone side, Fremantle take over Peel completely and have a 10 team comp.
I don’t know about this 2 grounds only thing, looks likely Leederville and Fremantle Oval. Or perhaps that WACA model will be pushed through now. Interesting times.
I prey the ABC are considered still, given their 27 years of loyalty. And I prey this turn of events gives East Perth back to us. I can’t wait 5 years.
Unfortunately the WAFL slogan ‘we’ve never done it before so why start now’ is in full effect. 7 want to cover the games from one or two grounds to save on set up costs, they can leave equipment at grounds and don’t need to pay staff from 6am to 7pm. So clubs will be asked to move home games.
Most clubs agree for the good the comp. There are those that don’t care. To me if you don’t want to make sacrifice then your club gets no exposure at all for home or away games.
What I definitely read out of that Barn & Jards is that 7mate & probably the WAFC want double headers or AFL curtain raisers
Definitely curtain raisers I’d say
They don’t want curtain raisers, they want the WAFL coverage to lead into the AFL coverage. WAFL games delayed on tv that finish when on tv when the Saturday night AFL games starts.
For example the WAFL game runs from 3pm to 5:30pm, then the AFL from 5:30pm to 9pm.
The WAFL game coverage will have no half time break, just an ad break in between. That means there is no extra costs producing a 30 minute half time segment every week.
It’s better than nothing, the current situation can’t go on, the comp is dying. Hopefully interest will pick up.
Question, with two grounds used for TV coverage, what happens with around the ground signage, ie, who gets the money from the sponsorship? Could be unfair advantage $$$$$wise.
It’s better than nothing, the current situation can’t go on, the comp is dying. Hopefully interest will pick up.
Question, with two grounds used for TV coverage, what happens with around the ground signage, ie, who gets the money from the sponsorship? Could be unfair advantage $$$$$wise.
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exactly, you would hope there would be appropriate compensation to clubs for this. if only leederville and freo ovals are used it will mean subi, east Perth and south would get the most tv games no matter how you do the fixturing
That suggests silly 7 will not be broadcasting the Wafl live? But instead we’ll get a crappy delayed telecast :ohmy:
In this day and age, why should we put up with that? Does that mean other sports broadcasts are going to be delayed too?
Really, really, really, really and really hoping the Wafl can stay on abc tv because they’ve consistently done a fantastic effort each week.
all the clubs should have allowed this to happen in the first place.someone mentioned to me that east perth and one other club voted for the stand alone teams but obviously vested interests wanted to keep the status quo.as far as i am concerned once the eagles&dockers draft someone they are their players and if they want stand alone teams let them have it.it will be fairer fo all eight traditional teams when they all don’t have any afl listed players provided they get the financial backing from the wafc.Let’s hope it happens next year.at least then we won’t have any byes.also if peel become a proper dockers team and lose their zones the eight other clubs will have more juniors.
As if we haven’t prostituted the WAFL competition enough already. Fundmentally those who advocate this proposition want to:
(i) further reduce the income of WAFL clubs who won’t have their home games broadcasted by reducing the amount of sponsorships who won’t pay when their product and/or company won’t have any TV exposure and alienate members and supporters who only go to home games;
(ii) Enhance the financial coffers of the clubs who play at the chosen grounds;
(iii) With respect to a tenth team it STILL FUNDAMENTALLY means that players will be playing against their drafted WAFL club. How many players would like to see NicNat play against us. Where will the other players come from for the 10th team? Are we going to stuff other competitions to sate the Eagles’ contempt for everything non-Eagles and AFL related?
(iv) We KNEW that there was going to be a bye when Peel came into the competition. Without being cynical is the push to eliminate a bye coming from the Eagles and/or Dockers;
(v) East Perth made their decision to get into bed with the Eagles and will suffer as a consequence of that decision.
Hopefully yhe 7 broadcast deal comes through, the value of commercial TV exposure is monumental and cant be matched on ABC, it is shocking ( though not surprising in reality) that the viewer audience on ABC for WAFL has dropped to 5000, netball would get more,
I would say the two ground would be Leederville, ( obvious as it already home to 2 clubs) and Fremantle - with some foresight EFFC will make the move there and a game will be hosted there every week.
The whole scenario of the SANFL no longer owning the licences for the Crows and Power has made them change the way they do things over there for sure.
There has been talk of the WAFC having to hand the licences back for the to WA Clubs to the AFL Commission for a number of years.
Local Footy in SA on 7mate has been a winner with larger ratings for SANFL games over some AFL games also broadcast on 7!
Eagles supporters are not going to support East Perth. Eagles supporters will support an Eagles side, much the same as Crows supporters have done, whilst pulling some huge crowds and renewed interest in the SANFL.
If the WAFC, and G7 clubs do not act now, then if and when the AFL licences are revoked/bought back there will be no WAFL without the money these clubs generate. Lets be honest.
The best thing the WAFC could do is sell off the WCE and Dockers. last year the WCE were valued at $24 Million and the dockers at $19 Million, sell them, take the funds 40 Odd Million and invest it in a WAFL Future Fund with the earnings supporting local football for ever, the current set up is a ripp off.
With the WAFL and WAFC as one they will no longer need to administer the AFL sides as was originally formed to do in around 1989 if I remember correctly?!?! - if the AFL licences are returned to Melbourne of course.
It is of my opinion if the WAFL was top of the roost, then I would think more money and time would be invested into junior and community footy.
I do believe Swan Districts in a recent season, invested more money into the community than any other Australian rules football club in the country.
As I understand it - the statement issued about coverage locations (limited number) is also dependant on sponsorship coin generated
More coinage equals more grounds telecast if you read the lines
Revenue or dividends earnt from telecasts would be evenly divided among all clubs - one thing we might see more are double headers
The model of 7mate telecasts will mirror the setup in the SANFL
They are successful in SA because the croweaters hate the Viccos & most of them don’t bother watching games in Vicco between Vicco clubs
That is correct SOUTHERNER, they need $1 Million Sponsorhip to get it going AAMI are interested . but dont forget Ch 9 tried befpre and could not find the Million dollars sponsor.
This must be sorted urgently , as Ch 2 will almost defeinatly pull out at the end of the year, they cant justtify the cost with just 5000 viewers now.
Good on Swans for investing back to the grass roots levels. Do you have a rough breakdown of how that money was spent and for instance which companies like BHP etc deserve some praise also for any contributions.
People in WA aren’t as passionate about football as they are in SA. Never have been. You only have to watch old games on the SAfootball Archive youtube page to realise that. Same with cricket actually. Remember Adelaide’s population is quite small compared to Perth’s now as well. We have an estimated 1.97 mil here now and that is a 2013 figure.
I’m not saying the 7Mate thing won’t help but don’t expect the same kind of numbers.
