Wunghnu's set to fold.

[Wayde Petersen]

Picola District Football League club, Wunghnu looks like they're in real danger of folding with a 302 point flogging at the hands of Blighty on the weekend.

The maggies haven't won a game in 43 attempts, (but they drew a game last year against Yarroweah) and with similar depressing results in all four grades of football and thier two netball sides, I think the end is imminent for this club, I hope they finish of the season, but if results like this continue, I don't see any point in continuing.

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[Wayde Petersen]

there's two articles about Wunghnu on Timelord's footy club.

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[Wayde Petersen]

Well Wunghnu played Waaia at home today and did they improve on thier dismal effort from last week, not entirely.
SENIORS
WAAIA 49.32.326 d. WUNGHNU 0.0.0
RESERVES
WAAIA 24.23.167 d. WUNGHNU 0.1.1
UNDER 17'S
WAAIA 16.8.104 d. WUNGHNU 0.2.2
UNDER 14'S
WAAIA 6.8.44 d. WUNGHNU 1.4.10

Overall Wunghnu's sides on average, were beaten by 159 points, and scored 3 points on average.

Waaia's combined score in all 4 grades was 95.80.650 to Wunghnu's 1.7.13, being on top by 637 points.

I think they (Wunghnu) should fold, because its better to go into recess than to be comprehensively beaten by ridiculas results like this, because it's no good for all concerned.

[footyman]

Perhaps they should just flood. They might only concede 24 goals then.

Seriously, it's a shame for the country football when a team underperforms like this. Financially are they stuggling? and what about crowds?

[Wayde Petersen]

That's what Panton Hill used to do to save face (My father was chairman of selectors there in 1988-1991 when the Redbacks only tasted victory 4 times during that period, and defeats came in huge margins, but they've improved out of sight over the last few years, to be a reasonable side).

Thier finances (from what i've heard) are sound, it's just that they're in a tiny area where they can't get any decent players, and where few people have the time to put into football, and they players they do try to recruit are drawn away because of the spectre of death that hangs around this team.

It's more of an socio-economic reason why teams like this struggle because the towns can't sustain them through the lack of men and women (for the netball) who are of suitable age, and where the oppotunities for them to be sucessful lie elsewhere, so results like these are a small part of a bigger problem that's putting the stake through the heart of small town Australia.

[Mobbenfuhrer]

I think I read that the bloke in charge reckons there's no talk of folding at this stage.

Wunghnu's results are just a little worse than Landsborough's.

[Wayde Petersen]

You have to admire him in some respects. But, results like these will wear a club down to the point where people question the reasons for continuing.