Has South got any new recruits for 2010.

Stewie - 13 October 2009 08:25 PM

Has South got any new recruits for 2010.

Steady on mate they’re still on the piss!!!

Non confirmed just yet...some good ones in the pipeline for next year but waaayyy to early....one that will please our friend freeze no end!

Always happy SFFC4ever.....SF are well known for bettering themselves by looking in EF back yard, can’t blame them really.....just wish EF could find something decent in SF backyard worth taking!......well something under the age of 26 at least!

freeze - 15 October 2009 04:24 AM

Always happy SFFC4ever.....SF are well known for bettering themselves by looking in EF back yard, can’t blame them really.....just wish EF could find something decent in SF backyard worth taking!......well something under the age of 26 at least!

More the ‘age’ of the prospect that would be of some amusement 2u know doubt Mr. freeze

Heard on the grape vine that Andrew McCarry (Sorry about spelling) has signed with South Fremantle for 2010.

MaddingtonFC - 15 October 2009 07:13 PM

Heard on the grape vine that Andrew McCarry (Sorry about spelling) has signed with South Fremantle for 2010.

Would be good if true & confirmed...there was a similar rumour floating about a couple of years back.....will wait to hear something more formal b4 passing comment

Would be good if true & confirmed...there was a similar rumour floating about a couple of years back.....will wait to hear something more formal b4 passing comment

Would swap McCarrey for Groenenberg and Palumbo in a heart beat....or perhaps Groenenberg and 10K.....if McCarrey does go to SF he would surely consign Groenenberg to the reserves for another year.....sounds like a good deal for all concerned.....

freeze - 16 October 2009 02:34 PM

Would be good if true & confirmed...there was a similar rumour floating about a couple of years back.....will wait to hear something more formal b4 passing comment

Would swap McCarrey for Groenenberg and Palumbo in a heart beat....or perhaps Groenenberg and 10K.....if McCarrey does go to SF he would surely consign Groenenberg to the reserves for another year.....sounds like a good deal for all concerned.....

Big loss Freezin, McCarrey is one of the most versatile players in the comp with plenty of good footy on front of him. He will be a huge loss for EF and rightly so as you suggest, EF should play hard ball and ask for the earth plus some.

Maybe what the WAFC should do act like a Robin Hood and base the transfer fee on the profit of the club who is paying the transfer fee? ie: if SF made 100k profit last year they pay a $15,000 transfer fee, if Subi made $300,000 profit, they pay a $30,000 transfer fee. If Perth made $20,000 they pay a max of $5000 transfer fee and so on. We see it happen every year where good players want to go to the top 2 clubs for an easy ride to playing finals football and most likely a GF and quite possibly a premiership.

I wonder if this new points system is having any real effect? So far it seems not! What I can see happening is local players being poached to the top clubs while the strugglers have to recruit from interstate which carries a high points value. If that happens the points system might have the opposite effect it was intended for.

My understanding if someone like McCarrey goes to South then it would cost them 10 points based on the number of games he has played.  If East Fremantle then recruited a player from the SANFL or VFL it would cost them 10 points or if they recruited a player from a Victorian Country league then it would cost them 5 points. 

DD your financial penalty for recruiting WAFL players from other WAFL clubs has some merit.  The WAFL voted down a similar scheme about three years ago.  The scheme was based on where teams finished in the previous season.  For instance if South (1st in 2009) were to recruit a player from Peel (9th) then it would cost South the normal transfer fee plus $8000 ($1000 for each difference in their 2009 placing). Similarly if West Perth (4th) were to recruit a Claremont player (8th) then it would cost them the normal transfer fee plus $4000.....and so on. If a lower placed club such as East Fremantle (7th) was to recruit from a higher placed WAFL club only the normal transfer fee would have applied However as I said earlier this proposal was voted down by the majority of WAFL clubs several seasons ago.

Custodian I know the WAFC are monitoring the effect of the points system and changes can be made if they feel it is not having it’s intended effect. Yes I know a local player can carry the same points weight as an interstate recruit but it is disturbing when the side who’s just won the flag steals a top notch player from a club that has finished 7th and has been around that mark for the past 10 years or so without playing finals.

It’s (the WAFL) is becoming much like our business community in Australia, the big boys swallow up the little boys who are left to fight over the scraps while the gap continues to widen. I think it’s becoming a survival of the fittest and I can see the day coming where clubs are going to have to sit down and talk mergers unless the WAFC step in and get serious about equalizing this comp.

I think it will be a big test to see how Subi manage to recruit within the confines of the points system. If they can quickly regain onfield strength through recruiting under the points then it is virtually useless. You can’t knock the WAFC for trying. They implimented this reverse draft where the top four sides don’t get an AFL allocated player but that seems to have had little effect, in fact it may have proven more detrimental to some clubs who have ended up with too many.

Actually from what I heard,they’re NOT.Trying that is.On ACTUALLY Monitoring Clubs OVER the CAP.They actually Can’t be Bothered.This from a complete stranger I bumped into last week.Didn’t or wouldn’;t say what club he was from.

grassy - 16 October 2009 05:53 PM

Actually from what I heard,they’re NOT.Trying that is.On ACTUALLY Monitoring Clubs OVER the CAP.They actually Can’t be Bothered.This from a complete stranger I bumped into last week.Didn’t or wouldn’;t say what club he was from.

Unless of course you’ve got a snitcher formerly within the ranks who hands the WAFC information on a silver plate.

Demons_den - 16 October 2009 03:55 PM

Custodian I know the WAFC are monitoring the effect of the points system and changes can be made if they feel it is not having it’s intended effect. Yes I know a local player can carry the same points weight as an interstate recruit but it is disturbing when the side who’s just won the flag steals a top notch player from a club that has finished 7th and has been around that mark for the past 10 years or so without playing finals.

It’s (the WAFL) is becoming much like our business community in Australia, the big boys swallow up the little boys who are left to fight over the scraps while the gap continues to widen. I think it’s becoming a survival of the fittest and I can see the day coming where clubs are going to have to sit down and talk mergers unless the WAFC step in and get serious about equalizing this comp.

I think it will be a big test to see how Subi manage to recruit within the confines of the points system. If they can quickly regain onfield strength through recruiting under the points then it is virtually useless. You can’t knock the WAFC for trying. They implimented this reverse draft where the top four sides don’t get an AFL allocated player but that seems to have had little effect, in fact it may have proven more detrimental to some clubs who have ended up with too many.

surprised you’ve mentioned subi when souths have won the flag and seem to be poaching

Raiserrr Subi put the cheque book away last year but you can bet your hard earned on it they will go hard over summer to cover the considerable losses you’ve suffered this year and last. That will make it that much harder for clubs like us though I like to think Jars can weave his influence and get a few decent croweaters over here.

know what your saying d/d, the fact subi have got as smorgasborg of line up coaches, i’m happy. but we lost a massive amount of experienced p[layers - thought we did well actually making the g.f
but potential coaches mean fark all,

south were the stand out this year, they would have been competitive afl

we’d take a ‘ j actually