The solution isn't simple.
While teams are happy to accept the millions in handouts from the two AFL clubs, they need to accept that the AFL clubs have some entitlement to get something back and part of that is they have players playing in the WAFL.
If you don't want to have that, then get rid of the AFL clubs....and accept that most WAFL clubs would thereby become uneconomic and would rapidly go under.
The rules, as Polly has clearly stated, were set and accepted. Then when people complained, they were reset...and accepted.
Whinging now is a bit rich. All of the WAFL shared the 11 million dollars fed in by the AFL clubs without a complaint, they voted to accept the alignment process and accepted the money to compensate so they should accept the alignment process.
Taking the moiney and then complaining when it doesn't work completely to your advantage is a bit rich. Its also largely nonsense. A non aligned club has dominated the WAFL for the last decade, so the distortion argument rings a little hollow.