Add to those
- The Firepower debacle
- The awful disappointments of the Graham and Foley years
- The dramatic decline in attendances at Wallabies tests in Perth over the past 10 years (why has that happened?)
- The bittersweet memory of that glorious final WF match against the Tahs and Hogdo's retirement in July
and as far as Rugby Union in WA goes, there seems nowhere for us mug punters to go now.
We won't see Professional Rugby in WA again (after the 2019 Bledisloe) for many years, probably beyond the remaining working lives of many of us.
What gets right up my nose is that after you strip it all back, the principal reason why WA Rugby has lost the Western Force was poor legal drafting. FFS!