GFL Geelong Football League - 2010

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tim finnigan said:
He didnt wanna play 1's at Barwon Heads but now he's gonna play GFL??? Did he go out and still phar laps heart:D Seriously mate last time i checked GFL is about 10 years infront of BFL in every aspect of footy. Your mate will struggle im tipping.
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If we are talking about Tommy Perry the bloke has plenty of potential and if it was on talent would have been first choice ruckman at BH last year. Not sure about GFL though
 
gettheladoff said:
Incorrect TF.........A couple of the senior group (previously named) weren't happy & they've sinced moved on, the rest of the playing group have signed on for 2010-11. Also heard the disgruntled few weren't happy about the skipper (Grey) not being promised the little (c) beside his name next year which may also have had something to do with it.
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I would think that the poor judgements made by the hierachy to appoint the new coach against the reccomendations of the Bell Park coach himself (a highly regarded man in the gfl world) & other members associated with the new coach may have had something to do with the descisions made by these players
 
Rd 1 - St Albans 81 Leopold 99
Rd 2 - St Albans 70 Grovedale 129 (Saints 3 points down 5 mins into 4th quarter)
Rd 3 - St Albans 63 GWSP 86
Rd 5 - St Albans 51 Newtown 64 (led all day)
Rd 9 - St Albans 72 Lara 100
Rd 14 - St Albans 75 Newtown 85

There's 6 very winnable games - even if they'd only won 4 of them it'd be 6-12 and perhaps not a bad season considering. To say they're miles behind the fringe finals clubs is silly. If they add a couple of harder quality midfielders and a key forward and back, I wouldn't have thought that 7-9 wins is impossible.

You make some decent comments pony but in my opinion St Albans are a mile behind Leopold and Grovedale. Even Lara are more advanced at this stage. For St Albans to get anywhere near 7 wins next year, they'd have to recruit 10 quality players and relie on other sides to slide dramatically. I cant see this happening.

I guess the question is, who are the guys they will be recruiting? All cards are pretty close to the chest down there at the moment...[/quote]
 

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One Trick Pony said:
An interesting comment you make Brown Sugar:

"...what I've seen you would have to turn it around an unbelievable amount to even beat GWSP or Lara..."

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't St Albans clobber Lara by 80 points at some stage? Now I'm not saying that the Saints don't need to improve, but saying that they'd be lucky to beat Lara is nonsensical. Furthermore, I believe that there were a number of close calls for St Albans during the year:

Rd 1 - St Albans 81 Leopold 99
Rd 2 - St Albans 70 Grovedale 129 (Saints 3 points down 5 mins into 4th quarter)
Rd 3 - St Albans 63 GWSP 86
Rd 5 - St Albans 51 Newtown 64 (led all day)
Rd 9 - St Albans 72 Lara 100
Rd 14 - St Albans 75 Newtown 85

There's 6 very winnable games - even if they'd only won 4 of them it'd be 6-12 and perhaps not a bad season considering. To say they're miles behind the fringe finals clubs is silly. If they add a couple of harder quality midfielders and a key forward and back, I wouldn't have thought that 7-9 wins is impossible.

I guess the question is, who are the guys they will be recruiting? All cards are pretty close to the chest down there at the moment...
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exactly, the issue is having players who know how to finish off a game when its tough, which unfortunately we dont have.
 
Nobody1 said:
McFarlen from St.Albans going to south, was almost at newtown with a job lined up but wanted a premiership.

Also Newtown to get some old faces back including gun forward Jay Bett.
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good too see he values big money and a premiership chance over club loyalty...
 
Having seen St Albans a few times this year and having a mate who plays there, if they recruited 10 quality footballers (and by quality I mean playing ability and off-field commitment) they would not only win 7 games I would think they would be an outside chance to get a finals berth. The GFL is not the AFL; there is not THAT much difference between clubs on the fringe of the finals to the bottom couple (excl. North Shore, who are bad but in a rebuilding phase).

I'm also not sure of how and why Lara and Leopold are 'miles ahead' of anyone. Is it even possible to be miles ahead at this stage of the year? Unless you're heading to Arizona for altitude training or have signed G.Ablett, L.Franklin and S.Gilbert; I think suggesting such things is a little daft.

While I cannot comment other sides, I think their policy of promoting youth and retaining the few quality players they have is a good move. Macfarlane, Dragicevic, Booth and Tucker are all quality players however will need a few others to help them. That said, disappointing that Josh Grey will be moving on. A good servant of the club through some trying seasons.
 
One Trick Pony said:
Having seen St Albans a few times this year and having a mate who plays there, if they recruited 10 quality footballers (and by quality I mean playing ability and off-field commitment) they would not only win 7 games I would think they would be an outside chance to get a finals berth. The GFL is not the AFL; there is not THAT much difference between clubs on the fringe of the finals to the bottom couple (excl. North Shore, who are bad but in a rebuilding phase).

I'm also not sure of how and why Lara and Leopold are 'miles ahead' of anyone. Is it even possible to be miles ahead at this stage of the year? Unless you're heading to Arizona for altitude training or have signed G.Ablett, L.Franklin and S.Gilbert; I think suggesting such things is a little daft.

While I cannot comment other sides, I think their policy of promoting youth and retaining the few quality players they have is a good move. Macfarlane, Dragicevic, Booth and Tucker are all quality players however will need a few others to help them. That said, disappointing that Josh Grey will be moving on. A good servant of the club through some trying seasons.
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Your kidding right??? For starters i said Leopold and Grovedale were a mile ahead of St Albans. Your talking about youth policies and quality players well then yeah even Lara are ahead of you blokes. North Shore have been on the decline and now in a rebuilding phase but St Albans have been the worst performed side over the past 5 years.

The simple facts are the top 5 are a mile ahead of everyone else at the moment.. Then you have Leopold,Grovedale and Newtown as the most likely to push the top 5.. Lara just behind them then West,St Albans and North Shore along way behind everyone else.

As for the AFL comment... Bit daft by you i'd say as i havnt heard anyone on here say anything about GFL being anywhere near AFL standard.
 
supersaints5 said:
good too see he values big money and a premiership chance over club loyalty...
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Jesus, St Albans supporters are more two faced than i thought. All of a sudden, because Macfarlane leaves he must be chasing the money at Sth. Well face the facts, what was he at St Albans for???? You talk about him showing loyalty to the club. Well the fact is he has only been there for 3 years and after coming to Geelong from Melbourne he played at GWSP. He then went o/s for a couple years, came back and trained with GWSP and was due to play in a Praccy match on the Sat. On the Fri night he rang the club and said he had a huge offer to go to St Albans and couldnt knock it back. It was 3 times what GWSP were offering.
So when a lclub blatantly buys a player dont cry when he leaves and expect loyalty. At the end of the day you got good service from him
 
WarriorMan said:
Jesus, St Albans supporters are more two faced than i thought. All of a sudden, because Macfarlane leaves he must be chasing the money at Sth. Well face the facts, what was he at St Albans for???? You talk about him showing loyalty to the club. Well the fact is he has only been there for 3 years and after coming to Geelong from Melbourne he played at GWSP. He then went o/s for a couple years, came back and trained with GWSP and was due to play in a Praccy match on the Sat. On the Fri night he rang the club and said he had a huge offer to go to St Albans and couldnt knock it back. It was 3 times what GWSP were offering.
So when a lclub blatantly buys a player dont cry when he leaves and expect loyalty. At the end of the day you got good service from him
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Well said
 
Feel I need to clear up a few half truths making the rounds on here. GWSP told Macca he’d be a second string ruckman to Bailing. They didn’t give a shit about anyone but Riccardi and the Carson boys. He trained once with his mates down there but never committed to a praccy match or the side. St. Albans offered better senior opportunities and he gave 100% to the club for 3 yrs so they’ve got nothing to bitch about. There’s a mass exodus down at the supersaints which includes the people he’s tight with, apparently the majority of the playing group are unhappy with the appointment of davenport, so he’s not the only one abandoning a sinking ship. He’s definitely not going south for the money, everyone knows they don’t need to splash the cash when they’ve got a premiership side. Newtown got a glance, but let’s face it they’re just a glorified supersaints. Can’t blame the bloke for making the switch if he wants to play finals footy.
 
One Trick Pony said:
An interesting comment you make Brown Sugar:

"...what I've seen you would have to turn it around an unbelievable amount to even beat GWSP or Lara..."

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't St Albans clobber Lara by 80 points at some stage? Now I'm not saying that the Saints don't need to improve, but saying that they'd be lucky to beat Lara is nonsensical. Furthermore, I believe that there were a number of close calls for St Albans during the year:

Rd 1 - St Albans 81 Leopold 99
Rd 2 - St Albans 70 Grovedale 129 (Saints 3 points down 5 mins into 4th quarter)
Rd 3 - St Albans 63 GWSP 86
Rd 5 - St Albans 51 Newtown 64 (led all day)
Rd 9 - St Albans 72 Lara 100
Rd 14 - St Albans 75 Newtown 85

There's 6 very winnable games - even if they'd only won 4 of them it'd be 6-12 and perhaps not a bad season considering. To say they're miles behind the fringe finals clubs is silly. If they add a couple of harder quality midfielders and a key forward and back, I wouldn't have thought that 7-9 wins is impossible.

I guess the question is, who are the guys they will be recruiting? All cards are pretty close to the chest down there at the moment...
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Your kidding aren't you!? You say that there's six winnable games but they still lost them all. A club is judged by how many games they win, not by how many 'winnable' games they play in. A bit of a player exodus and Peter Davenport coaching is not going to turn the ship around. I stand by my original comments.
 
thehorsesmouth said:
Feel I need to clear up a few half truths making the rounds on here. GWSP told Macca he’d be a second string ruckman to Bailing. They didn’t give a shit about anyone but Riccardi and the Carson boys. He trained once with his mates down there but never committed to a praccy match or the side. St. Albans offered better senior opportunities and he gave 100% to the club for 3 yrs so they’ve got nothing to bitch about. There’s a mass exodus down at the supersaints which includes the people he’s tight with, apparently the majority of the playing group are unhappy with the appointment of davenport, so he’s not the only one abandoning a sinking ship. He’s definitely not going south for the money, everyone knows they don’t need to splash the cash when they’ve got a premiership side. Newtown got a glance, but let’s face it they’re just a glorified supersaints. Can’t blame the bloke for making the switch if he wants to play finals footy.
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Well said. The guys that are moving on are some of the most loyal guys you will ever meet, and decent people too so why have a go at them if they want to taste alittle success before they finish up??? dont you think they deserve that after being belted from piller to post for the last 4 years?!
 

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Ex swan district player Michael Johnson signed with St albans. Kicked 5 goals in the Wafl prelim two years ago and have authority that he is a bit of a star
 
Tim Finnigan...any news on any Grovedale recruits or the players/coaches there targeting? when will they have a coach? im not hearing much.
 
BrownSugar said:
Your kidding aren't you!? You say that there's six winnable games but they still lost them all. A club is judged by how many games they win, not by how many 'winnable' games they play in. A bit of a player exodus and Peter Davenport coaching is not going to turn the ship around. I stand by my original comments.
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we are talking about winning games next year and what he was pointing out was that we had "winnable" games that we couldnt capatalise on last year. he was just simply pointing out that there were games that got away
 
vampire said:
Tim Finnigan...any news on any Grovedale recruits or the players/coaches there targeting? when will they have a coach? im not hearing much.
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Last i'd heard, Tim Sherman was the only bloke who'd applied for the job. Apllications closed on 16 october so you'd think an anouncement would be made soon. Pete Raidme and Mick Shultz are doing the recruiting and have spoken to plenty of possible recruits, but they're keeping there cards close to there chest at this stage.
 
Mate, get your facts right before shooting your mouth off. Riccardi and the Carsons were obviously important recruits and there is no doubt a lot of attention was pointed towards them. McFarlane had previously played for GWSP and was looking to come back to Geelong after being O/S, however St Albans offered him big dollars. It is not true that GWSP didn't care about anyone else the club was accomodation to Macca but big bucks were thrown at him and GWSP could not match it.
It wasn't because we didn't care about him, that is a bloody riduculous comment.
He had some friends there at GWSP who desperately wanted him to play but St Albans offer was too large.
I think the horse's mouth is talking out of the horse's ar*se !!!
 
"...Your kidding aren't you!? You say that there's six winnable games but they still lost them all. A club is judged by how many games they win, not by how many 'winnable' games they play in. A bit of a player exodus and Peter Davenport coaching is not going to turn the ship around. I stand by my original comments..."

I'm not saying that St Albans shouldn't be judged harshly - I think it's universally accepted that they have been one of the poorest performing clubs in the last 5 seasons. All I'm saying is that at this time of year and given last year's results, it is nigh on impossible to say that clubs that were separated by a few goals last year are now worlds apart.
 
i picked the cox plate/cauilfeild winners and i will pick another winner in davenport will be sacked before round 1, damien mchaon to take over...
 
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