Grantwatson
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What a great last round with Collingwood Park only expected to field half a side on Saturday who gets to knock them out in the first week will be interesting.
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You would think getting married on a Saturday would be a safe bet when you play in a Friday night competition.
I think you might be forgetting that jimboomba have been in this same Comp for years now! There was one year where we played some Friday night games at home the rest of the time it's all been Saturday's. Unfortunately they can't get the numbers to move up to qafa. Call it unfair if you like but it's the way it always been young fella!
do you suggest realtalks that we forfeit our right to a home game? Some teams play us twice at most during the home and away season and of that you will only have to travel out once in your very important life. Chin up darl
So it's all good that one club gets an arm chair ride that no other clubs get, just because it's been happening for years? the club actually can play Friday nights at jimboomba though you say?
We played reddies down there on a Friday a few years back. But then AFLQ started enforcing the rules and their lights didn't meet standards.
Same thing happened to us, so we spent a year playing at Moorooka while a grant was secured to get the lights upgraded. So yeah, we pretty much did give up the right to home games to play friday night and fit in with everyone. UQ did the same in 2015.
Kedron was very strange. In 2014 their 3rds played at night. Then in 2015 their lights were no good and they played Saturday. Miraculously, when finals came around their lights were fixed! (We played 2 finals there and you couldn't see 50m!)
I've heard jimboomba have lights now anyway, so no longer an issue.
If you took a drive down to jimmy right now you would see a massive crane sitting on our grounds fixing the light. We have had money I. The bank for a few weeks now but every time we go to fix the lights it rains and softens the surface. Therefore can't get the lights fixed. The lights are good enough to train with but no where near bright enough to play with.So it's all good that one club gets an arm chair ride that no other clubs get, just because it's been happening for years? the club actually can play Friday nights at jimboomba though you say?
If you took a drive down to jimmy right now you would see a massive crane sitting on our grounds fixing the light. We have had money I. The bank for a few weeks now but every time we go to fix the lights it rains and softens the surface. Therefore can't get the lights fixed. The lights are good enough to train with but no where near bright enough to play with.
No arm chair rides here. Plus jimmy have done well changing a few games of their home rounds to suit other teams. Playing Friday nights at marooka where we get no money over the bar or through the canteen. But yeah we get the "armchair ride"
If you took a drive down to jimmy right now you would see a massive crane sitting on our grounds fixing the light. We have had money I. The bank for a few weeks now but every time we go to fix the lights it rains and softens the surface. Therefore can't get the lights fixed. The lights are good enough to train with but no where near bright enough to play with.
No arm chair rides here. Plus jimmy have done well changing a few games of their home rounds to suit other teams. Playing Friday nights at marooka where we get no money over the bar or through the canteen. But yeah we get the "armchair ride"
There are no less than 8 other competitions that will provide for you to play footy on a Saturday arvo. I can totally understand the frustration with teams that put a side together to play Friday night football (or just night football) - only to get games scheduled on Saturdays.
I wasn't aware that UQ and the Woodsmen had both given up their home grounds specifically for this purpose in previous seasons, which makes it all the more surprising that Jimboomba (and previously Kedron) are/were permitted to continue with Saturday football in a competition built around Friday night competition.
As for being flexible with changing venue to suit opposition requests, I suspect they only agree when they are playing a team they are certain they will beat. I'm sure if Zillmere or Woodsmen rang them asking for the game to be moved to Friday night, they would get a pretty firm 'no thanks' !
Sounds like its getting sorted anyway, so the 'free hit' they get at home against under strength teams every year might subside.
I think it would be far worse if a team nominated to play in this comp and then forfeited a couple of times due to not really being bothered.
Zillmere 157 Mayne 19 hard to see Zillmere getting beat this year with that lineup they had tonight...Any results?
now i know why there score hasnt gone in , they hate getting beat .Woodies beat Sandgate by about 8 goals