I used Perth as an example, could have been East or South Fremantle, but some club should have been encouraged $$$$ to move to a fast growing area like the Mandurah/ Rockingham area (hey they call that Peel area), bit like West Perth moving to Joondalup when it was evolving.
Far better option than starting a club from scratch and gues what Peel got no concessionslike a Gold Coast or GWS , so was always going to be hard yakka for them.
Not rocket science but a club should have moved there, not create a new club
And not bothering to reply to the “BH Wit” above who must have sniffed the mothballs he was wrapping up in his Swans guernsey until next year
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Kirbs how do you reconcile the host club alignment at Peel with providing opportunities for the juniors in that area to progress to playing WAFL league?
I used Perth as an example, could have been East or South Fremantle, but some club should have been encouraged $$$$ to move to a fast growing area like the Mandurah/ Rockingham area (hey they call that Peel area), bit like West Perth moving to Joondalup when it was evolving.
Far better option than starting a club from scratch and gues what Peel got no concessionslike a Gold Coast or GWS , so was always going to be hard yakka for them.
Not rocket science but a club should have moved there, not create a new club
And not bothering to reply to the “BH Wit” above who must have sniffed the mothballs he was wrapping up in his Swans guernsey until next year
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Kirbs how do you reconcile the host club alignment at Peel with providing opportunities for the juniors in that area to progress to playing WAFL league?
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My points are more about the formation of Peel f.c, the alignments are another can of worms. If people had their time again, I’m thinking the AFL clubs would be allowed their own Reserves sides in the WAFL, but having 9 sides prior to this rather than 8 makes it more difficult to work, hence why I am a strong advocate, a club should have moved to the Peel district, and not new club formed keeping the WAFL at 8 sides. The system of AFL reserves sides Works ok in the NEAFL against traditional clubs
B J Mathers J Bootsma K May
HB K Shanahan S Hurley D Winton
C G Ugle B Jones B Hancock
HF L Jetta T Vandeleur B Lawler
FF M Gill N Fahey L Wilkins
F J Dowding E Dann C Morris
Int. B Gillam, S Kane, S Ugle, H Tyler, M Wallace, J Mulholland, J Gomboc, J Bezuidenhout
In K Shanahan, M Gill, N Fahey, L Wilkins, J Dowding, C Morris, B Gillam, S Kane, S Ugle, H Tyler, M Wallace, J Gomboc
Out L Weller, T Smith, M Duffy, B Grey, J Hannath, C Moller, J Ballard, E Hughes, H Crozier,
What a powerful unit joondy be shaking in their boots
Why are people getting all worked up about this situation!
They wanted the alignment and they knew all the risks in being the reserves team for Fremantle.
You take to good with the bad I say. No point complaining.
At the beginning, Peel made all the statements how this will benefit the club. It sort of backfired a tad, I suppose they did make the finals for first time with the help!
B J Mathers J Bootsma K May
HB K Shanahan S Hurley D Winton
C G Ugle B Jones B Hancock
HF L Jetta T Vandeleur B Lawler
FF M Gill N Fahey L Wilkins
F J Dowding E Dann C Morris
Int. B Gillam, S Kane, S Ugle, H Tyler, M Wallace, J Mulholland, J Gomboc, J Bezuidenhout
In K Shanahan, M Gill, N Fahey, L Wilkins, J Dowding, C Morris, B Gillam, S Kane, S Ugle, H Tyler, M Wallace, J Gomboc
Out L Weller, T Smith, M Duffy, B Grey, J Hannath, C Moller, J Ballard, E Hughes, H Crozier,
What a powerful unit joondy be shaking in their boots
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That is a pitiful looking Reserves side …that is the real Peel League team!
Why are people getting all worked up about this situation!
They wanted the alignment and they knew all the risks in being the reserves team for Fremantle.
You take to good with the bad I say. No point complaining.
At the beginning, Peel made all the statements how this will benefit the club. It sort of backfired a tad, I suppose they did make the finals for first time with the help!
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Jimmy, to me it is just making a mockery of the competition I love. I find it all quite depressing. The lack of care for the WAFL and the complete disregard for it is nauseating.
B J Mathers J Bootsma K May
HB K Shanahan S Hurley D Winton
C G Ugle B Jones B Hancock
HF L Jetta T Vandeleur B Lawler
FF M Gill N Fahey L Wilkins
F J Dowding E Dann C Morris
Int. B Gillam, S Kane, S Ugle, H Tyler, M Wallace, J Mulholland, J Gomboc, J Bezuidenhout
In K Shanahan, M Gill, N Fahey, L Wilkins, J Dowding, C Morris, B Gillam, S Kane, S Ugle, H Tyler, M Wallace, J Gomboc
Out L Weller, T Smith, M Duffy, B Grey, J Hannath, C Moller, J Ballard, E Hughes, H Crozier,
What a powerful unit joondy be shaking in their boots
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That is a pitiful looking Reserves side …that is the real Peel League team!
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To a degree BH, plenty of blokes who may have played at Peel in the last 2 years if no alignment are now somewhere else.
What everyone is forgetting they get another chance next week regardless of this Weekends result and will be back to near on their best side next weekend.
They may lose the battle but have not lost the war - yet
That is a pitiful looking Reserves side …that is the real Peel League team!
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To a degree BH, plenty of blokes who may have played at Peel in the last 2 years if no alignment are now somewhere else.
What everyone is forgetting they get another chance next week regardless of this Weekends result and will be back to near on their best side next weekend.
They may lose the battle but have not lost the war - yet
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Kirbs if that is the case that absolutely demonstrates what a DISGRACE the host club alignment is and how it attacks the very integrity of the competition. It also shows the COMPLETE NONSENSE that “Peel qualified for the finals for the first time”.
I’m losing interest in the Wafl quite quickly hence I only went to the opening game this year but that’s another story, tbh maybe have look at your club presidents for not allowing the AfL teams to have their own reserves in the comp might of avoided the farce that’s about to happen on Sunday.
No it wouldn’t have Pete - the reserves side would have been filled with amateurs or country league players due to the dozen being rested from AFL duty
That is a pitiful looking Reserves side …that is the real Peel League team!
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To a degree BH, plenty of blokes who may have played at Peel in the last 2 years if no alignment are now somewhere else.
What everyone is forgetting they get another chance next week regardless of this Weekends result and will be back to near on their best side next weekend.
They may lose the battle but have not lost the war - yet
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Kirbs if that is the case that absolutely demonstrates what a DISGRACE the host club alignment is and how it attacks the very integrity of the competition. It also shows the COMPLETE NONSENSE that “Peel qualified for the finals for the first time”.
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Maybe so, but will you also say “COMPLETE NONSENSE” that East Perth got to a Grand Final last year and won a few awhile back under an “Alignment”, because it is the same thing . WAFL compromimised whenever an alignment and both AFL clubs should have been allowed their own Reserves side
Yeah I get that but wasn’t it the premise that they would play for no points, would probably seen Swans or Souths playing finals this year.
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PN could you pleae explain why any of the legitimate WAFL teams would bother to play a game which would in effect be a glorified scratch match?
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Can you please explain to me why WP are going to play a final against a Peel reserves side, probably the same reason that Swans would play a glorified scratch match against the AFL reserves sides.
Yeah I get that but wasn’t it the premise that they would play for no points, would probably seen Swans or Souths playing finals this year.
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Absolutely yes mate - under no circumstances should a full aligned side or AFL entity influence results of the WAFL matches
But if it is inevitable or unavoidable - then the AFL listed players should be fairly distributed so no advantage is given to a particular club and all is equal
Put simply there is no way the semi-professionals are going to be able to compete fairly and it will get more apparent as time goes on
Sure there will be occasions where our sides will win but it become less & less
The thing that concerns me is they will get another chance next week and will be considerably stronger from then on. They could even make it through to the grand final. Heaven forbid.
That is a pitiful looking Reserves side …that is the real Peel League team!
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To a degree BH, plenty of blokes who may have played at Peel in the last 2 years if no alignment are now somewhere else.
What everyone is forgetting they get another chance next week regardless of this Weekends result and will be back to near on their best side next weekend.
They may lose the battle but have not lost the war - yet
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For me this is the most critical issue of this whole sad situation. The Dockers decision to rest a heap of players significantly weakens Peelmantle in their clash with Joondy, thus handing Joondy a massive advantage and good luck to them as it is not their doing, then the following week Peelmantle will front up against hopefully Claremont, if not WART with a massively stronger mostly AFL listed team, how is that fair to Claremont (don’t give a rats about WART), totally distorts the finals which is supposed to be the WAFL showpiece!!
All we can do is hope that Cl beat WART, then beat Peelmantle in the 1st semi and then the comps integrity will be reinstated with 3 WAFL teams left to fight it out.