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So much wrong with this statement. We fund the WAFL as that is our duty to the football community, to support where football in this state came from, where we came from. It is why we are so successful. We reaped the benefits of our first 2 premierships from a strong WA football. We continue to reap the benefits when guys want to come back to WA. We have no issue with that.That is the problem with real clubs, they are not a money making venture to fund state football, their sole purpose is to win premierships. Your club's sole purpose is to fund WAFL. It is why your state is deliberately building a new stadium which doesn't even meet current demand let alone have room for growth.
However, the focus of the club is clearly on winning premierships. We're not out there investing in pubs or building pokie mansions. Supporting WA helps us win premierships, not the other way around (though there is mutual benefit for both).
On the stadium, we have no need for a 100k person stadium. It would be empty most of the time. The plan now is it will be 65k or so, more than a 50% increase, surely big enough?
For someone who doesn't spend any time following financial statements, you seem to spend a lot of time reading and discussing financial statements. As you can probably tell, WC supporters don't spend much time reading our financials, as they're not even released.It is good for a real club to not be in any financial difficulties but the bar is being pushed up for what purpose? To pay players more money? To be quasi-profit making ventures? I don't follow financial statements, I follow a real club. That is having a dig, see the difference?![]()