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East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAFL
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:09 pmby spell_check
'Glory, Glory, Subiaco' is the cry after the Lions defeat the West Coast Eagles pseudo reserves side:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport ... and-final/
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:11 pmby Rik E Boy
Sydney Swans also lost to Aspley Hornets in the NEAFL.
regards,
REB
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:14 pmby robranisgod
I know that they were expecting bad weather in Perth today but 11,900 for a Grand Final is disgraceful. Perhaps the WA people are even more disgusted in what has happened to their competition than we are.
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:15 pmby spell_check
Rik E Boy wrote:Sydney Swans also lost to Aspley Hornets in the NEAFL.
regards,
REB
I see a trend forming...
by the way, congrats for today REB and to the Norwood Footy Club.
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:20 pmby heater31
Footscray beat Box Hill in the VFL for the flag.
It was the Dog's first season as a stand alone team in the VFL. At least their long suffering supporters can celebrate a flag in their life time despite it being only the 2's.
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:31 pmby Jim05
heater31 wrote:Footscray beat Box Hill in the VFL for the flag.
It was the Dog's first season as a stand alone team in the VFL. At least their long suffering supporters can celebrate a flag in their life time despite it being only the 2's.
Technically not a stand alone side. They are a AFL reserves side.
A stand alone side has no AFL listed players of which there are only Ports, Coburg, Williamstown and Frankston remaining.
23,000 to the GF today at Etihad today between two AFL reserves sides, what a joke
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:33 pmby heater31
Jim05 wrote:heater31 wrote:Footscray beat Box Hill in the VFL for the flag.
It was the Dog's first season as a stand alone team in the VFL. At least their long suffering supporters can celebrate a flag in their life time despite it being only the 2's.
Technically not a stand alone side. They are a AFL reserves side.
A stand alone side has no AFL listed players of which there are only Ports, Coburg, Williamstown and Frankston remaining.
23,000 to the GF today at Etihad today between two AFL reserves sides, what a joke
Yes correct. Worded very poorly on my part. First year of the Western Bulldogs going it alone.
Only half that crowd showed up in Perth
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:38 pmby Jim05
heater31 wrote:Jim05 wrote:heater31 wrote:Footscray beat Box Hill in the VFL for the flag.
It was the Dog's first season as a stand alone team in the VFL. At least their long suffering supporters can celebrate a flag in their life time despite it being only the 2's.
Technically not a stand alone side. They are a AFL reserves side.
A stand alone side has no AFL listed players of which there are only Ports, Coburg, Williamstown and Frankston remaining.
23,000 to the GF today at Etihad today between two AFL reserves sides, what a joke
Yes correct. Worded very poorly on my part. First year of the Western Bulldogs going it alone.
Only half that crowd showed up in Perth
But the Hawks have 70,000 members and the Dogs were in their first GF of any description since JC played fullback.
At a world class indoor inner city stadium aswell!
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:40 pmby johntheclaret
You'd be tempted to say 'Karma' three times but the sad fact is AFL Reserves made it to all 3 GF's
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:42 pmby RB
Jesus, don't bring us all down, John!
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:52 pmby gadj1976
Did you read the story about the VFL grand final? Rioli played and sat out the last quarter. Sewell and McEvoy both didn't play - and were late withdrawals.
So a hollow victory in all.
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:05 pmby PhilH
23K would be the largest VFL crowd in quite some time, possibly since the VFA restructure.
WAFL 12K probably an all time low.
Usually it is the other way around the WAFL crowd in the low 20Ks and the VFL around 10K.
Well done Subiaco, Aspley & Norwood.
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:32 pmby robranisgod
PhilH wrote:23K would be the largest VFL crowd in quite some time, possibly since the VFA restructure.
WAFL 12K probably an all time low.
Usually it is the other way around the WAFL crowd in the low 20Ks and the VFL around 10K.
Well done Subiaco, Aspley & Norwood.
The Melbourne media are saying that it is the biggest VFL crowd in 25 years. I think they actually mean VFA/VFL crowd in 25 years.
It is the smallest WAFL crowd since 1944 when World War II was raging and less than 9,000 people attended the WAFL Grand Final.
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:17 amby PhilH
The last 23,000 crowd for a VFL GF was 1989 (23,272) Coburg v Williamstown.
Crowd today of 23,816 was biggest since 1978 - 30,569 for Prahran v Preston
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:56 amby wild dog
The Rioli factor would have brought a few thousand at least.
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:56 amby robranisgod
PhilH wrote:The last 23,000 crowd for a VFL GF was 1989 (23,272) Coburg v Williamstown.
Crowd today of 23,816 was biggest since 1978 - 30,569 for Prahran v Preston
Hate to be pedantic, but Coburg vs Williamstown wasn't the VFL final, it was the VFA final. The VFL Grand Final was Hawthorn vs Geelong and the VFL Reserves was Fitzroy vs Geelong
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 11:26 amby StrayDog
johntheclaret wrote:You'd be tempted to say 'Karma' three times but the sad fact is AFL Reserves made it to all 3 GF's
Check mate.
(All four GF's, but splitting hairs)
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 12:25 pmby LPH
robranisgod wrote:PhilH wrote:The last 23,000 crowd for a VFL GF was 1989 (23,272) Coburg v Williamstown.
Crowd today of 23,816 was biggest since 1978 - 30,569 for Prahran v Preston
Hate to be pedantic, but Coburg vs Williamstown wasn't the VFL final, it was the VFA final. The VFL Grand Final was Hawthorn vs Geelong and the VFL Reserves was Fitzroy vs Geelong
That's not being pedantic, it is a statement of fact.
The VFL was still called the VFL in 1989. The 1st "AFL" Grand Final was the following year between Collingwood & Essendon, although I think you will find that the players were still wearing VFL Logo'd shorts?
Re: East Perth Eagles also come second to the LPR of the WAF
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 2:57 pmby wild dog
LPH wrote:robranisgod wrote:PhilH wrote:The last 23,000 crowd for a VFL GF was 1989 (23,272) Coburg v Williamstown.
Crowd today of 23,816 was biggest since 1978 - 30,569 for Prahran v Preston
Hate to be pedantic, but Coburg vs Williamstown wasn't the VFL final, it was the VFA final. The VFL Grand Final was Hawthorn vs Geelong and the VFL Reserves was Fitzroy vs Geelong
That's not being pedantic, it is a statement of fact.
The VFL was still called the VFL in 1989. The 1st "AFL" Grand Final was the following year between Collingwood & Essendon, although I think you will find that the players were still wearing VFL Logo'd shorts?
23272 to a VFL game when it was then the VFA, before the expanded VFL converted its name to the AFL, is impressive for what would have been the second tier competition in non professional times. What would have been an equivalent SAFA crowd?