EDFL Div 1 Discussion 2025

[Gremlin77]

Ahmad Saad Newport to MV.

How do you decide after 1 training night you made a wrong choice

He played for Newport last season ? West Coburg before that, a twos players. Have you mixed him up with someone else ?

 

[dandy redlegs]

He played for Newport last season ? West Coburg before that, a twos players. Have you mixed him up with someone else ?

Ahmed Saad actually played for West Coburg this season in twos but left. Strange that he leaves to go to MV when his brother signed on at Newport (2025) the club he is leaving.

 

[Blueandwhiteroos]

No game Good Friday CRAIGIEBURN v Roxy 2025 sad….

Roxy…Harley Short out Wallan

Contracted player

 

[The Defender]

He played for Newport last season ? West Coburg before that, a twos players. Have you mixed him up with someone else ?

Yep my bad, was thinking Omar

 

[dandy redlegs]

Yep my bad, was thinking Omar

Omar his brother

 

[iknownothing1111]

Contracted player

Short was posted as a re signing a while back.

What going on him signing at Wallan?

 

[footy2016]

Possibly the best credentialed coaches in the division. Yes Andrew Horne first job but will have his brother and Craig Clinnick, the last two Strathmore premiership coaches assisting him I believe. Different ball game coaching a lot less talented group though.


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Coached the last 2 seasons in the VAFA, is far from the most credentialed coach in Div 1… Fantastic assistants, however it’s the senior coach that does the heavy lifting.

Would love to see MV play finals, just don’t see it when have 6-7 others better placed imo.

 

[footy2016]

Contracted player

Contracts mean 0, especially in lower divisions. Wallan will pay some $ and he will be cleared.

 

[Vlodrive]

The worst team will be relegated.

And who ever that is will still be too good for div 2.

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[Blueandwhiteroos]

Contracts mean 0, especially in lower divisions. Wallan will pay some $ and he will be cleared.

Contracted / required

 

[Route 59]

Coached the last 2 seasons in the VAFA, is far from the most credentialed coach in Div 1… Fantastic assistants, however it’s the senior coach that does the heavy lifting.

Would love to see MV play finals, just don’t see it when have 6-7 others better placed imo.

Think Andrew was playing co-coach at PEGS. Read again I said best credentialed “coaches”.


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[FootBall_]

When does the fixture get released?


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[The Defender]

When does the fixture get released?


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Last year was 1st Dec

 

[HELLSBELLS]

Contracts mean 0, especially in lower divisions. Wallan will pay some $ and he will be cleared.

Keilor held Cavka when he tried for Hillside.

Wallan meanwhile building dad’s army. Nolan desperate .

 

[footy2016]

Avondale in massive trouble, messaging every player regardless of 1s or 2s from all leagues with substantial $$ if they come down. Have lost a lot of players and coaching appointment is hardly anything to get excited by.

Never ends well… double drop looking odds on.

 

[Turbos mail]

Avondale in massive trouble, messaging every player regardless of 1s or 2s from all leagues with substantial $$ if they come down. Have lost a lot of players and coaching appointment is hardly anything to get excited by.

Never ends well… double drop looking odds on.

Did Gleeson coach them last year?

 

[Flyingleslieskite]

Did Gleeson coach them last year?

For one game

 

[AFDogs]

Avondale in massive trouble, messaging every player regardless of 1s or 2s from all leagues with substantial $$ if they come down. Have lost a lot of players and coaching appointment is hardly anything to get excited by.

Never ends well… double drop looking odds on.

You hate hearing about a club doing a double drop.

It makes you wonder how it happens. You'd think most players who played Prem last year would stick around in an easier comp and try for a flag.

 

[Gremlin77]

You hate hearing about a club doing a double drop.

It makes you wonder how it happens. You'd think most players who played Prem last year would stick around in an easier comp and try for a flag.

Avondale in massive trouble, messaging every player regardless of 1s or 2s from all leagues with substantial $$ if they come down. Have lost a lot of players and coaching appointment is hardly anything to get excited by.

Never ends well… double drop looking odds on.

They weren’t the worst team to ever be relegated, I’d be blown away if they couldn’t do enough to survive next season. Have they at least retained a core of senior players ?

What can you tell us about the coach ? Never heard of him before, from the other side of the Yarra by the looks of it.

 

[iknownothing1111]

They weren’t the worst team to ever be relegated, I’d be blown away if they couldn’t do enough to survive next season. Have they at least retained a core of senior players ?

What can you tell us about the coach ? Never heard of him before, from the other side of the Yarra by the looks of it.

Will be interesting that’s for sure

Teams that have been relegated the last 4 years from premier

2024 AH 1 win percentage 50

2023 Mary 1 win percentage 61 go straight back up

2022 Glenroy 0 wins percentage 44 double drop

2021 Craigieburn 0 wins percentage 19 worst record in premier - still in Div 1

Very early to tell how they will go. Surely their top end talent is good enough to survive.

 

[MPMonkeys]

Who is AH's top end talent?
Also, they have basically no juniors coming through. Most of the good ones have left for nearby Marby or Abers and the ones they have recruited have all gone back to their home clubs.

 

[iknownothing1111]

Who is AH's top end talent?
Also, they have basically no juniors coming through. Most of the good ones have left for nearby Marby or Abers and the ones they have recruited have all gone back to their home clubs.

That doesn’t sound promising

You think relegation?

 

[Johndoe]

Will be interesting that’s for sure

Teams that have been relegated the last 4 years from premier

2024 AH 1 win percentage 50

2023 Mary 1 win percentage 61 go straight back up

2022 Glenroy 0 wins percentage 44 double drop

2021 Craigieburn 0 wins percentage 19 worst record in premier - still in Div 1

Very early to tell how they will go. Surely their top end talent is good enough to survive.

they may well survive a year or two - but history shows if you aren't contending straight away then you'll languish and probably go down eventually.

Look at Marbys off season last year - went and got Holland as coach and then added 6 top line recruits, plus a few players coming back from long term injuries

Avondales look nothing like that at this stage

 

[iknownothing1111]

they may well survive a year or two - but history shows if you aren't contending straight away then you'll languish and probably go down eventually.

Look at Marbys off season last year - went and got Holland as coach and then added 6 top line recruits, plus a few players coming back from long term injuries

Avondales look nothing like that at this stage

Yeah fair call but it doesn’t take much for a club to start spending cash. We have seen this over this off season.

Maybe AH plans are to stay in Div 1 for a couple years to re set then go all out.