View Full Version : Should the Eagles help out Peel
GoEagles
18 Nov 2003, 18:05
This question is actually for both WA Teams:
Do you think that the Eagles and Dockers should help Peel Thunder out by putting our rookie listed players into their side, instead of distributing them to the WAFL sides as we've done in the past few years?
The biggest pro to this would be that they would all be playing in the same side (learn each others game, bond together). However, the negative side would be Peels past financial and on-field difficulties, and throwing a young kid into that environment could harm his development.
Comments please...
No.
Why should we help out Peel as opposed to any other side in the competition? We are not a charity, we're a football club. If we were to go back to a host club arrangement the club concerned would be the club that could best demonstrate how it could assist the Eagles. Not the other way around.
ps - I think the mighty Royals did an excellent job of host clubbing in the past and could see no reason why the Eagles would look to anyone else :p ;)
Originally posted by GoEagles
This question is actually for both WA Teams:
Do you think that the Eagles and Dockers should help Peel Thunder out by putting our rookie listed players into their side, instead of distributing them to the WAFL sides as we've done in the past few years?
The biggest pro to this would be that they would all be playing in the same side (learn each others game, bond together). However, the negative side would be Peels past financial and on-field difficulties, and throwing a young kid into that environment could harm his development.
Comments please...
perhaps help them to find an honourable way to exit the competition
Voice of Reason
19 Nov 2003, 07:54
Absolutely not.
It would muck up the WAFL (again), but I also question whether it would help Peel - there's a bigger issue than short term playing success down there. It certainly wouldn't help the young Eagles players.
Originally posted by dasler
perhaps help them to find an honourable way to exit the competition
No way. I really disagree with you on this one Dasler. The competition had to expand eventually. There are too many inner city clubs compared to population demographics. West Perth made the hard decision to move. When it was discovered no one else would merge or move... Peel was formed. Thats why the falcons support them. If other WAFL clubs had done the right thing there wouldnt even be a Peel Thunder.
Originally posted by Sera
No way. I really disagree with you on this one Dasler. The competition had to expand eventually. There are too many inner city clubs compared to population demographics. West Perth made the hard decision to move. When it was discovered no one else would merge or move... Peel was formed. Thats why the falcons support them. If other WAFL clubs had done the right thing there wouldnt even be a Peel Thunder.
Yep you've hit the nail on the head.
Peel have some good youngsters, it's just that setting up a new club aint easy. ( remember the growing pains of the Eagles and Dockers).
Does anyone remember the Sharks committe (about a year or two ago),advising their members that it might be a good idea to look at moving south or merging (gobbling up) with Peel?. The members told the committee, no way.
The issue here though is not one of whether Peel should or shouldn't be in existence - they are - it's whether the Eagles should go out of there way to help them be successful. On that issue, as I have said, the Eagles have no business or interest in bending over (in every sense) to help Peel. The Eagles are an AFL Football club and we should never lose sight of our goals, namely AFL premiership and success. Unless you can convince me that some sort of alliance with Peel could achieve that I could not support any proposal to be Robin Hood with Peel FC.
Now if West Perth on the other hand want to help Peel out, then be my guess.... ;)
noogie_da_sheep
19 Nov 2003, 11:17
Peel have good young players coming through the colts but the thing is if they're really good, they only play one or 2 seasons before taken in the draft...and that sets them back again
Originally posted by llosis
Now if West Perth on the other hand want to help Peel out, then be my guess.... ;)
Go and stand in the corner facing the wall for 20 minutes you disgusting little boy. :eek:
Originally posted by llosis
Now if West Perth on the other hand want to help Peel out, then be my guess.... ;)
They don't really help them. They just support them when it comes to voting them in or out of the competition. For what its worth I think the Eagles should help them when possible. An even WAFL competition is better for developing AFL players.
Sera I am all for the inclusion of Peel in the WAFL. However they haven't been able to get their act together and every year we hear Peel will do this Peel will do that and they don't deliver.
Hopefully next season they will start to make some inroads otherwise the Peel excursion has been a waste of time.
Goldenblue
21 Nov 2003, 09:37
No.
Peel need to stand on their own two feet if they want to be part of the WAFL competition. Personally I think Peel is a waste of time in our WAFL comp. We need only 8 teams, we cannot support 9 and while Peel are in the comp being thumped week after week, I know I would not pay my dollars to watch such a pathetic display.
No offence to the players or the club, but the WAFL have really ****ed up on this one and need to get back to basics instead of employing disasterous marketing ideas in a competition that may not be around in 50 years.
Originally posted by Goldenblue
while Peel are in the comp being thumped week after week...
Apparently they beat South Fremantle. This is only a rumour and cannot be confirmed at this time :D (Dasler must be devastated)
Streaker
21 Nov 2003, 11:49
I agree that we only need 8 teams in the competition but I think we need to consider having another club relocate as West Perth did.
Originally posted by West Coast Stre
I agree that we only need 8 teams in the competition but I think we need to consider having another club relocate as West Perth did.
Therein lays the problem.
The WAFL Presidents have intimated (Peter Metropolis has stated) that they want to keep the WAFL an "inner city" competition. Sure love to know what they consider Joondalup.
Put simply, if the WAFL Presidents as a group had thought outside the square and tried to "freshen up" the competition, Peel would not have been created.
As I stated previously, the Gummies board have woken up to the fact that they must think a bit more progressively, if only other clubs boards had the courage.
Should AFL teams support Peel directly, no.
GoEagles
24 Nov 2003, 13:39
It is harder and harder to get WAFL clubs to relocate. I remember there was a push a few years back to get Perth to move to the Armadale/Gosnells region.
Thrawn666
24 Nov 2003, 15:33
Originally posted by GoEagles
It is harder and harder to get WAFL clubs to relocate. I remember there was a push a few years back to get Perth to move to the Armadale/Gosnells region.
You couldnt blame any club for not wanting to relocate there.
All the club gear would be stolen within a week :D
GoEagles
25 Nov 2003, 23:52
Originally posted by Thrawn666
You couldnt blame any club for not wanting to relocate there.
All the club gear would be stolen within a week :D
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goaldrush
1 Dec 2003, 11:20
Yes I do think that both teams should help out Peel. They would become a stronger club than what they are at the moment.