Competitions WAFL 2017

[Carbine Chaos]

Not being facetious but are you a stronger Perth fan as you are West Coast? Or Equal?

I'd say I'm a stronger Eagles fan than Demons. My dad is a huge Demons fan and we lived in their country zone when I was young, so a lot of my fond football memories as a kid are Demon-related. It just hurts seeing them so bad for so long. Losing to this East Perth side would crush me and be so typically Perth. I like Spalding's youth push but it's like pushing youth in the IPL as Delhi do - there isn't much point as the best young players will go elsewhere eventually.

 

[dajesmac]

I'd say I'm a stronger Eagles fan than Demons. My dad is a huge Demons fan and we lived in their country zone when I was young, so a lot of my fond football memories as a kid are Demon-related. It just hurts seeing them so bad for so long. Losing to this East Perth side would crush me and be so typically Perth. I like Spalding's youth push but it's like pushing youth in the IPL as Delhi do - there isn't much point as the best young players will go elsewhere eventually.

I feel ya. My old man was a die hard demons fan but my upbringing was West Coast centric once Perth got shit. I'm still a Perth fan but admittedly watch the EP games more closely now. My ideal result this weekend is a quality high scoring game in which Perth win by a point and Venables kicks five, haha.

I played under Spalding a few years ago at Wesley Curtin, success seems to follow him a bit so I have a bit of faith.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I played under Spalding a few years ago at Wesley Curtin, success seems to follow him a bit so I have a bit of faith.

Small world - I played a few years at Wesley Curtin as well.

 

[avishka5]

I bet you Perth will lose and EP will lose Owen.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I bet you Perth will lose and EP will lose Owen.

 

[Barney44]

Whoops. Nah I knew all that just read it wrong and didn't double check before I posted. Thanks though.

Maginness would still kick more goals at FF than McInnes so it is an honest mistake

Big game this weekend where the winner could end up being the loser. A Perth win would see so much pressure on the East Perth board re the alignment that they will have no option to dump the partnership allowing Perth to get what they wanted 5 years ago. An East Perth win would lighten the pressure on their board and stifle the debate.

Looking at the team it seems that East Perth have taken a stand, or at least been told they can take a stand.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Good to see Venables retain his spot and Cole in. Interesting but I guess not surprising, that Jetta didn't even make the extended bench after 36 disposals. I didn't watch the game but clearly he didn't improve upon what he was asked to.

My theory is that he's been told he's in the WAFL for a few weeks and not to worry about selection, just try to get some run and confidence back.

 

[dajesmac]

Maginness would still kick more goals at FF than McInnes so it is an honest mistake

Big game this weekend where the winner could end up being the loser. A Perth win would see so much pressure on the East Perth board re the alignment that they will have no option to dump the partnership allowing Perth to get what they wanted 5 years ago. An East Perth win would lighten the pressure on their board and stifle the debate.

Looking at the team it seems that East Perth have taken a stand, or at least been told they can take a stand.

Are you saying Perth wanted an alignment? Or am I misreading you there. I thought the opposite was true

 

[chaddy22]

Maginness would still kick more goals at FF than McInnes so it is an honest mistake

Big game this weekend where the winner could end up being the loser. A Perth win would see so much pressure on the East Perth board re the alignment that they will have no option to dump the partnership allowing Perth to get what they wanted 5 years ago. An East Perth win would lighten the pressure on their board and stifle the debate.

Looking at the team it seems that East Perth have taken a stand, or at least been told they can take a stand.

Actually maginness has kicked as many goals as both Mcinnes and Lamb together which is 8 goals.Two things that have not changed from last year is no key forwards and a underperforming midfield.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Are you saying Perth wanted an alignment? Or am I misreading you there. I thought the opposite was true

To my understanding Perth opposed the (logical and common sense) move.

 

[Barney44]

Are you saying Perth wanted an alignment? Or am I misreading you there. I thought the opposite was true

The Perth President was on 6PR shortly after the alignment with East Perth was announced and said something like "we would have liked to talk to West Coast but everyone knows the Chardonay Set doesn't stray too far from the Western suburbs". Remembered it well because I loved that line. East Perth signed up before other interested clubs had a chance to discuss it in depth.

Contrary to what the clubs (or mainly one president) wanted everyone to think it wasn't 7 clubs united against 2. It is going to be fun to watch possibly 2 or 3 others clubs start maneuvering if East Perth come out and say they won't to go alone in 2018.

 

[Quinz]

My theory is that he's been told he's in the WAFL for a few weeks and not to worry about selection, just try to get some run and confidence back.

Don't rehash points from the podcast.

It's shallow and pedantic.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Don't rehash points from the podcast.

It's shallow and pedantic.

Yes, shallow and pedantic.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

The Perth President was on 6PR shortly after the alignment with East Perth was announced and said something like "we would have liked to talk to West Coast but everyone knows the Chardonay Set doesn't stray too far from the Western suburbs". Remembered it well because I loved that line. East Perth signed up before other interested clubs had a chance to discuss it in depth.

Contrary to what the clubs (or mainly one president) wanted everyone to think it wasn't 7 clubs united against 2. It is going to be fun to watch possibly 2 or 3 others clubs start maneuvering if East Perth come out and say they won't to go alone in 2018.

I'm sure the money EP has banked during the alignment will see them well off as soon as the alignment is over and we get our standalone team. Maybe we rotate through each club every 5 years after we provide funding infrastructure......

Could we get our standalone team to play their games on the MCG oval when both occur?

 

[avishka5]

Id rather we get a bloody stand alone.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Id rather we get a bloody stand alone.

I'd rather we go back to the old system.

 

[avishka5]

I'd rather we go back to the old system.

Id rather not. Think the majority of sides in the comp have a standalone team. Sure the game plan isn't working for EP at the moment but its better having everyone following our style of play rather than not. A standalone side alone mean that we get a say in how our players play in the 2's without ****ing up a whole WAFL club.

 

[squashface]

If only a nation wide reserves comp could be feasible.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Id rather not. Think the majority of sides in the comp have a standalone team. Sure the game plan isn't working for EP at the moment but its better having everyone following our style of play rather than not. A standalone side alone mean that we get a say in how our players play in the 2's without ******* up a whole WAFL club.

What wasn't working about the old system? We had some great success with it in place. Allows the best reserves players to be the stars of their sides and get maximum opportunity.

All this shit about using our game plan in the WAFL is stupid. It's an entirely different competition with diffeeent equipment and different tactics. Just let them play free footy and learn the game plan at training.

 

[avishka5]

What wasn't working about the old system? We had some great success with it in place. Allows the best reserves players to be the stars of their sides and get maximum opportunity.

All this shit about using our game plan in the WAFL is stupid. It's an entirely different competition with diffeeent equipment and different tactics. Just let them play free footy and learn the game plan at training.

Game plans seem to be more and more complex as the years go by. When you get seasoned AFL players like Jetta and Redden struggling to grasp a game style, you can't expect 1st-3rd year players to learn it either. A stand alone side full of our kids, few ressies players, a couple of ex AFL players and ammo footballers should work and probably wont compromise the competition. Its better than an AFL ressies for the WAFL cause a national ressies comp will kill off WAFL and SANFL.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

The way it was before is stupid and moronic. Anything other than standalone is stupid. Know your place WAFL. What are the chances we could standalone in the SANFL?

 

[dajesmac]

Teams always take time to adapt to game plans. We were shit for half a season under Simpson at first before finishing strongly and then we made a GF the next year. I'd give it the year before writing Webster and the alignment off.

 

[avishka5]

The way it was before is stupid and moronic. Anything other than standalone is stupid. Know your place WAFL. What are the chances we could standalone in the SANFL?

very slim concidering Crows and power nearly had their licences revoked because they wanted to have a cap on AFL players.

 

[avishka5]

should look to make the NEAFL and AFL reserves comp for the interstate teams. Travel the only issue but its a league with not much history and is substandard. Plus the traveling and etc for players will really benefit them.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

The way it was before is stupid and moronic. Anything other than standalone is stupid. Know your place WAFL. What are the chances we could standalone in the SANFL?

We did fine for years as it was. Why was that system moronic? It developed our players well and benefited all WAFL clubs.