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Chezwick said:
Their seniors looked ominous on Saturday. Belted our 3rds by 116 apparantly.

As I said earlier, UQ 4ths played extremely well before succumbing by 21 points.
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Seriously though how much can you expect of a fourths side. Not to bag UQ but when you have that many football teams playing all the good players would be getting dragged up into the higher grades. Just like what happens at aspley. All the skill seems to get taken from the lower grades and gets taken into the top two teams.
 
I hear what your saying, and I can see why that would be a fair assessment.

Not much choice for us though. We could go back to division 3, but then we'd go back to having a massive excess of players which would work against us since we attract many new students to the club each year.

It will always be a tough case going up against sides that field their top teams against our third and forth runk teams, but creates a nice challenge for us to self-improve and stick to em.
 

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Did gibson play on the weekend, or is it just rumour still.

The feeling at the panthers is very good at the moment, coach has us enjoying coming to training which is a start, the players that have come back this year played for caloundra in last few years so that will help with our depth.

Other than that not to much news to talk about yet, as the club is looking forward to playing aspley round 1. Should be a good test.
 
In reply to Happydaze's post I will congratulate Calamvale on a great win in their practice match against us (Logan City) last weekend. You played a better brand of footy and well and truly deserved to win the game. However I will bring up that we did have a few key players out and whilst I'm by no means predicting premiership success as we are still in the rebuilding phase I would be disappointed if both our Seniors and Reserves didn't at least make the finals this season after a strong recruiting drive in the off season.

Not sure if you are aware but we have recruited some very good players in the offseason with the signing of two gun midfielders from the strong Geelong League in Vic. In addition we have also picked up some talented players from the Beenleigh Buffaloes with their former Captain Matthew Skidmore, midfielder Charlie Wellington and his brother, defender Nathan Wellington and also a couple more from there, signing on the dotted line. The three mentioned above we're regulars in their senior side last season. We have picked up three former Springwood players and also a couple more from interstate that will provide some good depth in our ones. The other good news is that we haven't lost any of our consistent players from last season.


We did show at times last season that we can play competitive football but be prepared for alot more competitive games this season from the Cobras!

I think it will be hard to beat Robina this season as they should really be in Div 1 but luckily for them, they have the luxury of picking up players from down the Goldy which other clubs in Div 2 don't have the pleasure of poaching. I also believe Caboolture could be a smokey and Redcliffe, Kedron and defending premiers Beenleigh will provide a challenge. Ipswich are always tough and one would imagine that they should continue this form, but I do have my doubts about them and the newly merged Griffith-Moorooka Roosters from what I saw last weekend. Whilst I only saw three quarters of their reserves match and did overhear that both teams had several players missing I must state that the Reserves game was pretty terrible. From playing Div 3 in 07 with Logan City, I believe just about every side in that Div that year would have beaten both of those teams.

However one can't honestly make an assumption about the regular season from pre-season games, so I eagerly look forward to what season 2010 will bring!
 
You have to realise that just because its 'Div 2' does not mean that every team (seniors or ressies) will be better than the teams in Div 3.

There are teams in Div 3 North or Central that will beat most of the Div 2 ressies sides and be at least competitive against SOME senior sides.

Robina did try and go up a few years ago but didnt play finals any of those years in Div 1, I suspect the thought of that reoccuring is not sweetning the deal for them to go back up.
 
Jubair said:
Robina did try and go up a few years ago but didnt play finals any of those years in Div 1, I suspect the thought of that reoccuring is not sweetning the deal for them to go back up.
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I believe they were approached by the league at the Presidents Meeting at the end of last season to see if they wanted to go up to Div 1. Not sure why they didn't go. Seems strange after an article they had in a local paper last year mentioning that they had started paying players so they could go back to Div 1
 
holla7 said:
In reply to Happydaze's post I will congratulate Calamvale on a great win in their practice match against us (Logan City) last weekend. You played a better brand of footy and well and truly deserved to win the game. However I will bring up that we did have a few key players out and whilst I'm by no means predicting premiership success as we are still in the rebuilding phase I would be disappointed if both our Seniors and Reserves didn't at least make the finals this season after a strong recruiting drive in the off season.

Not sure if you are aware but we have recruited some very good players in the offseason with the signing of two gun midfielders from the strong Geelong League in Vic. In addition we have also picked up some talented players from the Beenleigh Buffaloes with their former Captain Matthew Skidmore, midfielder Charlie Wellington and his brother, defender Nathan Wellington and also a couple more from there, signing on the dotted line. The three mentioned above we're regulars in their senior side last season. We have picked up three former Springwood players and also a couple more from interstate that will provide some good depth in our ones. The other good news is that we haven't lost any of our consistent players from last season.


We did show at times last season that we can play competitive football but be prepared for alot more competitive games this season from the Cobras!

I think it will be hard to beat Robina this season as they should really be in Div 1 but luckily for them, they have the luxury of picking up players from down the Goldy which other clubs in Div 2 don't have the pleasure of poaching. I also believe Caloundra could be a smokey and Redcliffe, Kedron and defending premiers Beenleigh will provide a challenge. Ipswich are always tough and one would imagine that they should continue this form, but I do have my doubts about them and the newly merged Griffith-Moorooka Roosters from what I saw last weekend. Whilst I only saw three quarters of their reserves match and did overhear that both teams had several players missing I must state that the Reserves game was pretty terrible. From playing Div 3 in 07 with Logan City, I believe just about every side in that Div that year would have beaten both of those teams.

However one can't honestly make an assumption about the regular season from pre-season games, so I eagerly look forward to what season 2010 will bring!
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Caloundra are in division 1. You're a smokey for dumbass of the year.
 
Up North said:
I believe they were approached by the league at the Presidents Meeting at the end of last season to see if they wanted to go up to Div 1. Not sure why they didn't go. Seems strange after an article they had in a local paper last year mentioning that they had started paying players so they could go back to Div 1
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Robina left Div 1 to chase a premiership. They haven't won one yet so they won't go up. Perennial premiership chasers and all-round ********s.
 

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Bear_in_there said:
Robina left Div 1 to chase a premiership. They haven't won one yet so they won't go up. Perennial premiership chasers and all-round ********s.
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I have to give Kenmore credit for staying in Div 1 to continually improve their team and themselves. They didn't play finals the first couple of years but from an outside point of view, they stuck to their guns and kept working hard to become competitive against the top teams. Its a shame something like what has happened now had to occur especially with the progress they made last year.

I also remember Kenmore quite easily beat Robina in the first game after they went up to Div 1 in 2007 with a lot of their players from the previous year's premiership team so its not always about recruiting and chest beating - your current crop of players can improve and raise their performance to match the better teams.
 
Yeah sorry I meant Caboolture. I did write that article late last night and with a few beers in the belly mind you!
 
Jubair said:
I have to give Kenmore credit for staying in Div 1 to continually improve their team and themselves. They didn't play finals the first couple of years but from an outside point of view, they stuck to their guns and kept working hard to become competitive against the top teams. Its a shame something like what has happened now had to occur especially with the progress they made last year.

I also remember Kenmore quite easily beat Robina in the first game after they went up to Div 1 in 2007 with a lot of their players from the previous year's premiership team so its not always about recruiting and chest beating - your current crop of players can improve and raise their performance to match the better teams.
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Yeah I must admit Kenmore had alot of guts going up to Div 1. I played them in 06 in all the Seniors games against us (Logan City) and they were well and truly a class above the rest of the comp. We were very lucky to make the Granny after knocking off Ipswich after being 43 points down at half time, but were taught a footballing lesson in the big one!

Personally I think the AFLQ needs to step up and do something about both Div 1 and Div 2. Why not consider a promotion/relegation system like the English Premier League has for Soccer depending on the perfomances of both the Seniors and Reserves each season. It would make the league alot more fairer then what is happening at the moment. Honestly Robina is a big fish in a little pond in Div 2 and should be pushed to go up!
 
While in hindsight i'd have to agree with you there holla about Robina having a great side this year, i haver to refer to the old addagge " A team of champions isnt always a champion team" One particular case was worth noting was the geelong team of the late 80s/ early 90s in which i was a pivotal member playing out of the back pocket.. We had your abbletts, Brownless's, Bews, your couch's and your bairstows and still managed to lose all 4 granny we made in that era..
So ill say this to you and your gun recruits down at Logan, work hard, train hard, attack the pill with reckless abandon and your more fancied opponents will not only respect use but be eyeing off the first time they play use in the fixture..
Signing off, Neville ( ginger Ninja) Bruns...
 
holla7 said:
Personally I think the AFLQ needs to step and do something about both Div 1 and Div 2. Why not consider a promotion/relegation system that the English Premier League has for Soccer depending on the perfomances of both the Seniors and Reserves each season. It would make the league alot more fairer then what is happening at the moment. Honestly Robina is a big fish in a little pond in Div 2 and should be pushed to go up!
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I think they did introduce a similar system at the end of last year. At the end of this season in Div 2, both premiers and the runners up will be going to up Div 1 next year. Not sure whether any teams will come down from Div 1 due to this. Can someone confirm this?
 
Jubair said:
I think they did introduce a similar system at the end of last year. At the end of this season in Div 2, both premiers and the runners up will be going to up Div 1 next year. Not sure whether any teams will come down from Div 1 due to this. Can someone confirm this?
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I doubt any would come back down as they need a couple more teams in Div 1 to even up the numbers in the 2 divisions. Maybe in future years they could do a 1 up 1 down arrangement.
 
goalkicker11 said:
Did gibson play on the weekend, or is it just rumour still.

The feeling at the panthers is very good at the moment, coach has us enjoying coming to training which is a start, the players that have come back this year played for caloundra in last few years so that will help with our depth.

Other than that not to much news to talk about yet, as the club is looking forward to playing aspley round 1. Should be a good test.
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goalkicker11 are you Frenchy? if you are, can you please not knee me in the back again this year?
 
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