Can we get the team fixed first, and move onto major infrastructure a bit later?

Besides, it we get more of the same as Saturday, pretty soon no one will have a problem getting a train for the rest of the season.

I should point out the trains are fantastic but it's the West Leederville platform that's the problem. It's not even a proper train station. For those that didn't experience it just think back to last year and picture all those people queued up along Roberts Rd getting their individual buses to Murdoch, Cockburn, Kwinana, Rockingham and Mandurah now all coverging at the same time at the same place where it just happens that the Joondalup & Midland line pasenegers are also heading.

Ok. That's enough from me.

Great place for a piecart, though....

So what are you saying, Drubbing? There are too many passengers?

Now I understand the location of the new stadium - they've moved it closer to West Leederville station

People using the Joondalup line should not really be at the West Leederville station. A ten minute walk takes you to the Leedy station where trains come every few minutes after a game. As people arrive, there is a train ready. There's no crowding on trains and you don't have to wait long for a train. You can wait until the players have left the field as I like to do and take a leisurely stroll to the station while discussing how awful the umps look in red with your mates.

There's the occasional pub on the way too Bizkit. That doesn't hurt.

Drubbing and others who mention that the transpert service is free - sorry to disagree but that's not true. There is a surcharge built in to the cost of all season tickets (repeat all tickets) for the provision of the transport service. It was first introduced about four or five years back?

No one mentioned that the transport is free. ******, yes, but not free.

The passengers problem can be solved two ways, shane.

Either we get a whole new team, and with some of the threads going around today that advocate chucking out everyone whose got more than 20 games under their belt, that won't be difficult. Winning will be though, but that seems to be secondary consideration; passengers are the problem.

The other issue is West Leedy station. We obviously need a bigger one. There are two powerhouse teams in WA now - well, except for Freo - who already have a passenger problem, but we're sorting that out by relocating all existing players.

We need a station that can meet the needs of footy goers for the next generation, with easy access, good views and seats, and affordable beer.

There's a good spot called Kitchener park. Ideal. Nothing will ever get built there.

People standing around me at the West Leederville station thought the platform was fine. It was the absence of trains that was unpopular.

My fidgetty, tired, 6 year old showed his displeasure by pestering me for drinks/food/prediction of train arrival every 30 seconds. Then the 8 year old alerts you to the need to pee when your standing 3 deep on the platform. Which is just the ticket when your grumpy with a loss and still seething with passion to do a mischief to the umpires.

I've had the privilege of attending several sporting events at what is now called ANZ Stadium (the Sydney Olympic Stadium). If anyone has ever been there you will know that it is located in the middle of nowhere with poor (read: expensive) parking. So most people get there by train.

Everytime I have been there I have been incredibly impressed with the way SydneyRail get 60,000+ people out of Homebush and onto the trains within 20-30 minutes of the end of the match. The answer - lots of staff, information, signs, announcements and a sort of cattle-herding system of moving people in the right direction at the right time.

It's not rocket surgery.

wow... brain science.

Shhh. Don't tell Drubbing. He won't be able to make snide remarks about Cockburn.

Were you there on the first day they used it? I would have liked to hear the comments the first day the ridiculous bus system was tried.