[Muramoursuard]

Perhaps the WAFL could explain the Casey Sibosado situation so that I and for that matter everyone else it seems outside of the WAFL committe room can try and get some grasp on the logic behind your decision. Lets be honest, as it stands and as reported on ‘Perth Now’ (http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/afl...-12263211925670) it seems nothing more thatn beauracratic nonsense and bumbling. My understanding is that Casey is from Broome, which no doing of his own makes him a Claremont player. He was picked up as an AFL rookie by Fremantle and automatically placed at Claremont, who after 3 league games decide they didn’t really want him and advised Fremantle of the limited oppurtinities they were prepared to give him. Perth agreed to take him on and he was moved by Fremantle from Claremont to Perth, where over the following two years he played 30 league games. Then right at the end of his last season for no other reason than having no available players, Fremantle applied and received permission from the AFL to play him in one game, following which he was delisted and not picked up by any other AFL club. Clearly that one AFL game had nothing to do with his form and being ready to make his debut etc, it was gifted to him as Fremantle had no one else available and they needed to fill a team. So from that, the WAFL ruled him a 1 point player for Claremont and a twelve point player if he was to play for any other club (placing him in the same category as a player of Leon Davis’s experience and ability, returning to the WAFL but playing for any other club other than Perth). So following his delisting, Claremont didn’t particularly want him as oppurtinity for him would still be extremely limited but Perth did, but let’s be honest 12 point players are something special and such point expenditue is limited to the players of the ilk of Paul Bevan. If you take a step back and have an honest look at this in the cold light of day then it is clear no WAFL club is going scarifice 12 points on a player that comes available in this type of circumstance. So at the end of the day, the WAFL commts to stand tall and unwavering on the subject and a young man, a Western Australian to boot, is denied the oppurtinity to play football in the ‘Western Australian Football League’. Its not even if there is one set of unwavering rules that apply to every single club that would leave no choice in the matter, as we have already seen the rules bent, rightly or wrongly to help out the Peel Football Club. It is certainly not a good look and is in no way a good thing to deny people the oppurtinity to play in, let-a-loan their own State league. It seems to me that the point system was introduced without sufficient exploration and so many questions hang over over its application. I have many question myself on the point system but so as not to cloud this issue I will leave them for another day (perhaps the WAFL could call for people to submit querries on the point system highliting areas of concern so they can be addressed and if founded, they could be used in future ammendment).