Seems inevitable doesn't it?

Reckon the drums are beating and it’s only a matter of not if but when a full blown AFL reserves comp includes every AFL club and this includes WC and the Fremantle Dockers which will spell the end of their WAFL alignment with Peel.

It’s more than about time this club was weaned off the teet and forced onto solids, got out of the highchair and out of nappies and forced to stand on it’s own two feet. Sink or swim.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/fremantle-dockers/afl-2024-18team-reserves-league-revamp-roadblock-as-fremantle-dockers-keen-to-stay-linked-with-wafl-peel-thunder-latest-news/news-story/74042b90622cf955668f74a6091e21bd

only proves what we’ve known all along - the Victorians have been actively funneling money into their own state league for many years at the expense of every interstate club
they had to take away the gate receipts back in the day because their own victorian sides couldn’t get anyone to attend in melbourne - still the same this day with North Melbourne , Footscray & St Kilda I believe