How is it a death knell? WAFL already is poor, given Subiaco have dominated for 5 years now. WAFL really had their knell once West Coast entered VFL/AFL. Double blow when Freo entered in 1995.What makes you think we even want Peel to win this week? Have you crunched the numbers? Tanking anyone?
AFL reserves comp will be the death knell of the WAFL. It's a strong competition and could be a very good gateway for our AFL team if our recruiters took more notice or prioritised taking payers who may have had one of two years apprenticeship for a WAFL team.
All that being said Freo can do much more to support the Peel team than providing a coach. Are our development coaches going to Peel training's? If not we need to get Peel seniors WAFL players to Cockburn once a week for their normal night training with all our coaches. Make all our facilities including GPS on game day, recovery, weights (as long as Webber stays away) video analysis and development coaches available for Peel.
While our players may have restrictions on an extra training session with the peel players there should be no reason why our coaches can't be there at least once a week drilling our plays, skills and systems and our fantastic facilities can't be made available.
West Perth nearly went bankrupt, East Freo struggling for development. Perth also hanging on some seasons. East Perth having to rebuild due to West Coast pulling out of alignment altogether. If anything AFL reserves allows WA talent spread across the state league.
It’s that training restrictions and coaches not being at Peel, for example, that it’s better off having the reserves comp. Not really fair having Freo and West Coast field 10-15 AFL listed players and dilute the comp.