Division 2 thread 2022

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eflreceiver said:
If you want to read about local football you have to get around the BS Paywall or subscribe to the total BS package. Not many read the articles so it's a major loss to the EFNL and other entities. It's one fckd situation. But there is the podcasts that give us a lot more info yet nothing on the EFNL website.
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Sunday morning review of senior games 98.1 10 till 12.What has happened to that show.Was a good listen especially sitting in a car at junior games Sunday morning.
 

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Voice of the G said:
So to find that do I have to use Facebook.
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Or you can download the episodes from iTunes.
Open iTunes and search for - EFNL Podcasts Presents
and then download them.
Forecasts are available on Fridays and the weekend summary of the game results are available Mondays.
I download them, put them on my MP3 player and listen to them on my morning walks.
 
Had a listen to the Premier time slot on Spotify while working from home. It’s ok - lots of generic talk in between the Rowville half hour 😜 come on Ray!!!

Tough gig, how they can cover each game in all divisions is beyond me. Would be better if they had a specialist for each division, who could really get to know what’s happening.

I know they continually advertise for more help, great way to develop for anyone heading down that path. Good on them for having a crack still.
 
My thoughts on tomorrow. Rams 5 changes, one their ruckman will hurt and South Belgrave at home on the rebound, I can't see them losing this one. South Belgrave. Boronia over Ringwood. Knox over Heathmont. Basin over Oakleigh. Mulgrave over Tempy.
 
eflreceiver said:
My thoughts on tomorrow. Rams 5 changes, one their ruckman will hurt and South Belgrave at home on the rebound, I can't see them losing this one. South Belgrave. Boronia over Ringwood. Knox over Heathmont. Basin over Oakleigh. Mulgrave over Tempy.
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U were correct, was out at Sth Belgravectoday and they were very good The Sth Belgrave full forward (don’t know his name) kicked at least 10. No excuses for East Burwood, but 4 outs today out of their best 6 didn’t help ( plus 2 more injuries during the game).
 
Only know from what I’ve heard on the podcasts etc but sounds like they have a lot of the same kind of forwards so doubt they would all play together. A few of them can go up the ground by the sounds of it so that would probably happen.

The reports from last week was Mulgrave were too tough in the clearances and I’d imagine that’d be the only chance you’d have to beat them, once a game gets out in space then class tends to shine and they have too much of that on paper.
 

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RMercadi said:
U were correct, was out at Sth Belgravectoday and they were very good The Sth Belgrave full forward (don’t know his name) kicked at least 10. No excuses for East Burwood, but 4 outs today out of their best 6 didn’t help ( plus 2 more injuries during the game).
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Taylor Garner kicked 8 looking at the scores so must’ve played deep forward.

Smith won the league goalkicking last year and is an absolute gun, and as Bob said above there’s another couple of very good ones that are out injured.
 
Bunk Moreland said:
Taylor Garner kicked 8 looking at the scores so must’ve played deep forward.

Smith won the league goalkicking last year and is an absolute gun, and as Bob said above there’s another couple of very good ones that are out injured.
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Couldn't make the game but I was worried by the lack of height, didn't expect an 80-point flogging but hey that's football. The next two games will be tough and in saying that getting games into the young kids is a bonus.
 
Tackle Bag said:
Looking at their selected sides this year, Sth Belgrave have had a heap of players missing games so I’d say there’s still plenty of improvement to come from them.
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I checked their player points from Saturday to see if they could indeed play them all and must admit I was pretty shocked to see they had a lower number than their opponents. Very surprising.

East Burwood 39
South Belgrave 37

Elsewhere

Templestowe 32
Knox 31
Oakleigh District 31
The Basin 31
Boronia 27
Heathmont 27
Mulgrave 25
Ringwood 22

Ringwood on top and unbeaten with an entire team of 1-point players
 
The point system has some strange anomalies with some players being 3 points, I just shake my head but it is what it is. You may not play for a few years and you then go to a lower division and you are still 3 points. It does encourage building from within. I am all for the point system and the salary cap. It's working.
 
From the Stats bench "Both The Basin and East Burwood have been continuous members of the EFNL since its first year in 1962 and have played just the once". Now a few oldies from East Burwood remember that game and don't have fond memories, so bad they refuse to go to the game.
 
Bunk Moreland said:
Last time I was at The Basin they had a really great setup where an outdoor bar and dozens of drunken nuffies around it was placed right on top of the opposition interchange and coaches. Wasn’t the best planning.
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Sounds like a fun day. After my many conversations, I presumed the Rams had played there heaps. I was shocked it's only one game. First impressions :eek::p
 
The very first time I played there was as a junior and the ground was was on top of a hill. If you were in the goal square all you could see of the players at the other end were from waist up for the bigger players and shoulder up from the shorter players. You kicked uphill in defence and then downhill when in attack (it was the same for both teams all the time). Just after half time (it was in the morning), the fog rolled in and you couldn't see anything. You had to listen carefully to the sounds of the ball being kicked to judge how close the ball was. All of a sudden the ball would appear out of the fog. There were lots of infringements of just about anything you could imagine because the umpire couldn't see anything either. Still compared to what Scoresby was like back then, it was the MCG.
 
eflreceiver said:
By the sounds of it Cliff, Scoresby hasn't changed.
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Can't agree there, eflreceiver. Imagine fronting up at Scoresby to see a green slimy lake covered with floating pine needles that stunk, on the far side of the ground, stretching from half forward to half back to about 25 metres from the pitch and about 150mm deep. A centre lump in the middle where the cricket pitch was located. Then a sea of mud covering the entire clubroom side of the ground. When you stood on that side of the ground the mud came up over your boots and when you went to run it made a loud sucking noise as you pulled your foot out. Players lost boots in the mud, they were just sucked right off your foot. Some players lost them for good, as some of our players found boots in the mud during games. You couldn't tell which team a player was on because by half time everyone was covered in black mud. Skinned knees took weeks to clear up infections. The pain from the friars balsam that was applied to cuts was excruciating. Once you left the ground for the clubrooms it only got worse. Wooden floors that put splinters in your feet. A shower that consisted of wooden slats about a metre above the ground, where the freezing winter wind whistled up and the shower water dropped through onto the ground and drained away into the paddock. Indelible memories of that ground.
 
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