Joh Ditchburn why are you complaining?

[Tiger_of_old]

@Southerner

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

Same scenario

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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If they were to not play for points that would mean they sit out September? No way would Eagles and freo have their squads getting no match practise and fitness in September surely. One of the strengths of the previous setup was half of their leftover players would be playing wafl finals and other players that the afl teams wanted playing were allowed to play for another club in reserves finals if I recall correctly

[Country_member]

Keep the AFL teams out of the WAFL finals. If the AFL teams make the AFL Finals, their reserves team could play a team made up of players from the WAFL who aren’t playing WAFL finals but who are potential AFL draftees. The AFL teams get their practice games and the young WAFL talent get an extra chance to impress the scouts. But definitely keep the AFL teams out of the WAFL finals. It’s a shambles.