quackattack
Rookie
nice
very nice
very nice
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Darnos 2009
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no way why would he go to a shit club like yours any way
As opposed to Bunyip?
lol.
you should be banned again.
you should be banned again.
longworrytheonlywaytogo
All Australian
so who the next wave of players darnum are going to recruit
ummm......
Brody Hoult.
Ben Dowd.
that's about it.
Brody Hoult.
Ben Dowd.
that's about it.
quackattack
Rookie
who are they papa, positions, standard etc
Brody Hoult is longworrywaytogo. Wasn't that great of a footballer. Struggled.
Ben Dowd used to be his best mate about 5-6 years ago. Was an okay full back in his day.
Ben Dowd used to be his best mate about 5-6 years ago. Was an okay full back in his day.
longworrytheonlywaytogo
All Australian
ben dowd beat you on the day it counted most and as much as u dissagree i beat u 4/10 times when we played
longworrytheonlywaytogo
All Australian
what are u offering im taking offers at the moment
A Pie and a can of coke to run the boundary in the 3rds.
longworrytheonlywaytogo
All Australian
make it a jim beam and a pie and u have yourself a boundry umpire
Done, Brody. Contact Patto for the contract negotiations.
chucksnephew
Team Captain
Apparently this will be Patto's last year at Darnum if they keep forking out all this money and getting nowhere. Thats why he is looking for country footballers that are already known for their ability to play in our league. I have no doubt Patto would have offered Osler 1000 a game because i know he has offered it to other players in the league as well.
if they recruit the right sort of players, they will be successful.
chucksnephew
Team Captain
Yeah but the right players arent from clubs within the same league. How about they take the longwarry, nar nar goon, bunyip, lang lang approach and keep the young kids that have talent at the club and not go out and get 27,28 year olds who are past their used by date. Cora Lynn are lucky this year that the majority of these strong local clubs are only one or two years into their rebuilding and we will see them fade out in the next two years. Darnum can't do this simply because they dont have a strong MPFL club that they can take good players from.
Hey Chuck...
Here is a nickel's worth of free advice, mate.
Why dont you actually read a few threads from the past before you start talkin about which kids have left. There are numerous threads talking about this. Do some research before you start gobbing off. kids have left this club for a variety of reasons over the past 10 years but one thing I can tell you:- It wasnt because they werent looked after. The kids at this club have been treated with "kid gloves" only to see them walk away for various reasons.
You wanna know the reasons? Do the research. Otherwise dont gob off here about it.
They were happy where they were.
As has been said before. Twas not through lack of trying that they havent been back.
You can roll out the red carpet, but if they dont wanna get out of the limo there aint much you can do about it.
There must have been something wrong at the time to lose so many talented players. You dominated the juniors for 3 or 4 years and 2 years after that 80% of the players had left. They didnt move to melb or anything, it was warragul, ellinbank etc.
Blokes like John Ried and Aaron Rhodes were attracted to the better footy at Warragul and other clubs. Money was also an issue as we werent paying many players in those days.
Others went for more success. Darnum wasnt very successful at the time in the seniors.
As I have said before, in other threads, these guys had had it so good in the juniors, for so long, and they were looked after so well for so long, and they were successful because of junior coaches such as Shane Price, for so long that when it came to the point that they were turning 18, and could get another year in the thirds at Warragul they took it.
So, as I have said before, they were pampered in the juniors at darnum. To the point where you all claim that the junior sides were all so good. Let me tell you all now, that there were only ever 3-4 good players in those sides. The rest all sailed along on their coat tails. Most of those sailing along dont even play footy anymore because they were no good to start with. This is very apparent when you are talking about juniors. No club has 18 champion 3rds players. Always 3-4 and the rest up forward get silver service to help kick winning scores.
When these guys became senior age, they left for more success because they hadnt seen a bad year in all those junior years. Losing wasnt something they had become accustomed too. Rather than becoming the solution to our failing fortunes they exacerbated the problem by leaving.
Since the introduction of Under 18 to the competition (something that the Nilma Darnum Football Club had been lobbying the EDFL about for at least 10 years) we have seen players staying at the club after their Under 18 years. Rhett O'Hara and Chris Weller are an example of this. Next year, Chris Pallot and Luke Hughes will also make their way into the senior line up on a more regular basis with Hughes having another 2 years in 3rds to go. He was 15 and playing senior footy this year.
I wouldnt expect people from Nyora to understand the fact that there are Trafalgar, Yarragon (MGFL), NNS, Ellinbank, Buln, Warragul Industrials (EDFL), Warragul Gulls, Drouin and Moe (not that there have been any players leave to go to Moe) all within 25 kms of Darnum. We compete with a hell of a lot of teams within the region, for our players' services. Not to mention Longwarry, Bunyip and to a lesser extent Garfield. Nyora also have a Darnum grown product in Answerth. So a player is prepared to travel far and wide in search of success.
This makes it all the more difficult to retain key players and junior club champions. I hope this helps people understand what may have happened at this club. They dont come back because it is still too hard for them. They want to come and be the cream on top once the club has become competitive again and is pressing for finals. They could be part of the solution, but they remain part of the problem.
There is no loyalty in footy today and the dollars and success speak volumes. Unfortunately, these fellas are a product of the modern game.
We hope to retain the ones we have and become a good side into the future. Nyora werent always a good side and Im sure if you look back to when you were also dwelling around the bottom of the ladder you would find a similar story. It goes in cycles, but the challenge is to turn it around. We hope we are doing that now.
You ask Jed, Leo. I cant speak for him. You play with him. Ask him and put it up here on the board. It will give us all an insight, because we certainly dont know. It hasnt been through lack of trying. He gets a call every year from us.
gippslander
Debutant
think nyora have to contend with alberton clubs sticking their fingers out, full credit 2 them for hanging onto the guys they do, darnum seem to have alot of excuses for EVERYTHING, when the poor us syndrome has left the joint maybe they will go forward!
We are a town of 300 ppl, Nilma and Darum are small towns but you have a town like warragul 5km away. We have poowong, LL, Kroumbura and Killy bass all within 10-15 minutes so all we have is our town. We have the scabs at burra who have 100's of juniors trying to poach our good kids.
I know why Jed play for nyora and if you blokes dont then you will never fix the problems at your club. Jed lives in drouin so he had about 10 choices, he didnt travel to nyora for success, he travelled for mates.
