On WAFL Website in Fixtures and Results in case you didn’t stumble into it in recent days.
Why is PSA on the WAFL website?
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Are all other Junior fixtures going to be added as well?
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Don’t know,but if it produces Team Lists,Stats and Best Players,we might get a fair idea of who might be potential draftees later each year.
Where are the results for the Public Schools footy competitions (the old Quit Cup & CIG Shield?) or as has long been thought the WAFC only care about the private schools!
Good Point.
Just out of interest,can you get such results from Competitions you mentioned on Play HQ,or whatever that site is?
Draftees come from Colts, State 18’s and Senior WAFL footy - it is an elitist boys school competition that in a lot of cases can block development of talented players. Especially now that kids from PSA schools are spread across wafl clubs like never before. The main issue is for kids turning 18 in year 12.
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Doesn’t give State School kids much of a look in,except during the Teal Cup(I still call it that)and Alcock Cup,which runs over 14 weeks,with a 3 week Bye.
All PSA participants have 2 Byes.
They get a look in then,but when the Teal Cup has finished,along with the PSA,those kids come flooding back to their WAFL Club.
Which is fine in strengthening a Team for a Tilt at a Flag,but can cause a problem,with parents of State School kids arking up about that scenario,which I believe happened at a leading Colts Team in a recent season or the one before.
This is such a bad look for all state school educated kids. Both male and female, to me it says WA Football put a higher value on you if you are at a PSA school than any other school or play in any other competition. I guess the new CEO has PSA all through his veins so shouldn’t surprise anyone that the schools are now getting more and more exposure and power and they are dictating to WA Football what the players will do.
State 18’s have a game this week v SD Reserves and instead of playing for WA kids are being told they have to play micky mouse school football.
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I am not sure where the apportionment of blame/responsibility goes to the PSA, WAFL, Clubs or parents who send (and can afford to send) their kids to a PSA facility. It is a matter of choice and economics. Clubs want the best players in the teams all year round but suffer from the PSA requirements placed on the kids (they are required to play PSA rather than WAFL), the country district basketball competitions and so on!
The 16’s and 18’s comps are just another part of the process and that is about the draft and the AFL. Having been involved in a very small way in the development process in a WAFL club it is just a fact of life and has been for a very long time! Coaches deal with and in a funny way in some clubs look forward to the PSA games and hope they are playing club, A, B or C as those clubs will have more boys absent from Colts.
When you sign up to a PSA school and pay $30K for the education, part of that agreement is playing sport every Saturday for the school. Whether WAFL or other sports like it or not, the school comes first and I have no issue as that is what you sign up to as a parent.
The kids play for their WAFL club if playing league or have a bye.
The Alcock cup carries prestige and it would be pointless if they let all their kids go play elsewhere and they only get their second best players to play for the school.
WA football do not get a say in it. The PSA is the one who signs the kids to their school and they are holding them to their contract. WA Football can do nothing about it.
PSA football is the best in the state outside of colts and some of the teams over the years would have beaten most colts teams.
Aquinas about 8 years ago had something stupid like 8-10 in the state 18’s so a mickey mouse comp it is not.
Did most of those Aquinas kids live anwhere West of Crawley?
probably not … I know a few tricks WAFL clubs like to use to get kids to their zone and its amazing how ingenuitive they are hahaha
I put it on par with paying players $50K to be a quiz master at an event hahahaha
Yeah,us kids didn’t play for Junior Clubs.We had to play for Our School,unless an Exceptional Talent played for a WAFL Club in Year 12.
I’d say the same applied in the Cricket and Tennis.A Classmate was pretty good in the old Round Ball and only got to play our last year in Seniors,when it was available to play.
He’d skip off to play for Subi in Division 2 or 3 of the WA Soccer League,with blessing from the School.
Unfortunately,he never quite got to Highbury,to play for his beloved Gunners.He got Wedged(Wedges)between Soccer and Acting.
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Getting back to my original point, why are PSA football results now on the WA Football website?
They are not run by WA Football and why out of courtesy to the public schools (where the majority of listed WAFL players are from) do they not get the same for their respective interschool footy fixtures & results???
As CT posted it smacks of elitism and the imprint of the new ceo with his PSA/Golden Triangle background!
Instead of making PSA a priority on their website could they finally upload the full attendances for the WAFL Round 1 which are now 3 weeks late!!!
Considering a decent number of WAFL clubs colts players also play PSA footy, and have done so for decades, what’s the big deal with the WAFL site providing PSA results etc? Rather the youngsters play footy then not play….too many are lost to the sport wat to early these days.
As for the delayed match day numbers on the site……don’t most folk on here state half the time, these numbers are always wrong?
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1966
Round 3 Attendance - 37 054
SD v SF 5 747
EP v WP 12 932
C v S 7 513
EF v P 10 862
Most likely Published between that Saturday and Monday Afternoon.
They’re late,but I’ll take the official number over 7WestMedia’s more often than not.
Footy was life back then Grassy I guess, minimal other distractions, unlike now, sadly too many distractions, and none revolving around WAFL footy, except for the hardened WAFL loyalists…..I’d trust yours and others estimated head count here on OF, over any official WAFL one mate.