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If a season gets underway, and some sort of crowd is allowed in, where will finals be played? Fine print of the agreement to use cricket grounds in October says no premier cricket venues can be used in October which rules out Windy Hill and Greenvale. Coburg City Oval is being renovated and no...

Goodes one is interesting, he was the Sebas runner on Saturday but couldn't finish the job....had ice on his calf for the last quarter. The Burras beat every side in the competition except for East Point and Sunbury this season. East Point 3-0 this year over Sebastopol.

Depends if they pay over the salary cap. :)

Madness. And the players are crazy not doing their homework because it's very clear they will have a points problem.

Ordinary numbers but the positive for them is they can keep their 'talk' stations free from sport on weekends (aside from football) and not have to have test cricket replacing high rating drive programs etc.

Doesn't help that the rooms are 30m away from the ground either, it's a long walk through the crowd. Not sure why they didn't realign the ground to be much closer to the change rooms.

The opening sentence answers the question of what went wrong....they moved it from 9.30pm. By trying to make it suit a wider audience, in the end lost the audience it had and didn't pick up a new audience.

Marsh haven't been the same since Sherlock retired, but one player doesn't make a team does it? In the first 10 games with Sherlock, they kicked scores over 100 in 7 games. Then Sherlock retired and in the last 6 home and away games plus final without him they didn't do it once. They came out...

Essendon VFL at Windy Hill Saturday and top 2 get the Saturday game.

Clearances close June 30. It'll need to be before that won't it?

Agree, but because he played in such a strong team last year and missed a lot with injury its saved him a point. He's only a standard 3 point player, none of the criteria met to be a premium player because despite all his goals at Deer Park last year he didn't win the club goalkicking, or the...

Agree. Ballarat League top team might just sneak into the finals in the Northern League.

Banner to be South's next recruit?

If a rival club was to do that next year to make a statement, it'd be very interesting to see whether the league would fine that club for doing so.

For every loser, there is a winner. I bet some clubs who have developed their own junior talent will be thrilled that the points system makes it harder for a car load of players to all leave their club in the one season. Or that former player who retires and lands a coaching job won't be...

Other clubs have recruited heavily too - the difference is they haven't been able to retain those players. Whether that's through lack of success on field, a poor culture off field or just targeting the 'wrong' recruits. Some clubs do an excellent job at ringing players left right and...

They've had 13 different senior coaches in 20 years existence. Nobody has been able to succeed there.

Hahahahaha, he could've gone bush for the $, you must be kidding. You don't seriously think all these ex-AFL players run around in the competition because they want to give back to the community? No, it's because they're being offered plenty of cash by EDFL clubs which are probably the highest...

I'll take the odds about Strathmore. They're spending up big and having a crack at buying the 2016 flag. Then again, will they be able to fit them all in at the business end? McIntosh, N Grima, Tighe, Mangan, Lyons, Gleeson, Helliwell...that's 30 points for 7 recruits. Doesn't leave much...

Brad Mangan from Williamstown to Strathmore I hear, that's another 5 pointer for them.

Do you think a player opens themselves up to more criticism for moving clubs when they actually go to a rival club within the same league?

Taylor Hine and Cale Morton!

Good call. The BFL have a salary cap of $140,000 I think in 2017, the rumour mill suggests Darley spend somewhere near double that, going to be interesting to see how they cull their list at the end of next year. Whatever Banner is on for 2016 won't be sustainable for more than 1 year, not in...

Sounding like someone who needs to tell a few high priced recruits they'll be stuck in the reserves in Round 1 because they can't fit them under the points cap. Pacco have a history of irresponsible recruiting, not surprised they're bleeding about the points system. The cap is 50 points, it...

Nah, the points system is punishing bad clubs. Clubs who don't put time into juniors. Clubs who recruit duds who disappear the following year. Clubs who irresponsibly go out and drive the market up. Good clubs will develop their kids, good clubs will get their 4 or 5 recruits every year...

Confirmed 50 points. Fair to say a few players phones won't be copping as many calls anymore! The full house sign will be up at a few clubs.

Pascoe Vale is one of them, which doesn't surprise at all. If the EDFL are given a significant exemption then it really defeats the purpose of bringing it in. It's not only designed to create equality within leagues but to create a more level playing field outside of the league as well. I'd...

Goodness me....for starters the EDFL cannot reject the proposal from AFL Victoria. The points system is coming in, all leagues have until October 31 to notify their clubs of their points allocation for 2016 as per the guidelines. The majority of leagues have made their decision already, but...

Not doubting that, but if they aren't performing then play them in the Reserves and you don't pay them a cent.

Not sure about Oak Park, but I hear of that happening quite a bit in the EDFL - if the club doesnt make finals or you're a player who they don't want to keep the following year good luck getting your money.