2nds Gold Coast Reserves: Title Defense 2024

[GC2015]

Uwland and Lombard would hate being referred to as from Broadbeach. They are Burleigh Bombers through and through.

Fair enough. Unfortunately for them, they will always be credited to Broadbeach as it is the club they played for in their draft year. I'd like to give Burleigh more credit because they are becoming a bit of a powerhouse of juniors but unfortunately they are going to be forgotten a fair bit over the next few years. I'll never forget Jacob Dawson held on as long as he possibly could before switching from Burleigh to PBC in his draft year. The Burleigh boys are certainly a passionate bunch.

Anyway. Premiers woooo!

 

[TheSunGod]

Fair enough. Unfortunately for them, they will always be credited to Broadbeach as it is the club they played for in their draft year. I'd like to give Burleigh more credit because they are becoming a bit of a powerhouse of juniors but unfortunately they are going to be forgotten a fair bit over the next few years. I'll never forget Jacob Dawson held on as long as he possibly could before switching from Burleigh to PBC in his draft year. The Burleigh boys are certainly a passionate bunch.

Anyway. Premiers woooo!

Bit like the old Burleigh Boardriders Club. Still a lot of tribalism on the Gold Coast.

 

[Big Red Machine]

Just a reminder that we are the mf premiers

 

[sunsofanarchy]

I feel so fricking warm and fuzzy

 

[eppo67]

Fair enough. Unfortunately for them, they will always be credited to Broadbeach as it is the club they played for in their draft year. I'd like to give Burleigh more credit because they are becoming a bit of a powerhouse of juniors but unfortunately they are going to be forgotten a fair bit over the next few years. I'll never forget Jacob Dawson held on as long as he possibly could before switching from Burleigh to PBC in his draft year. The Burleigh boys are certainly a passionate bunch.

Anyway. Premiers woooo!

It's going to be so good watching all this talent coming through the GC over the next few years.
I can't wait to see clowns like McGuire freaking out about it.

 

[SandyToes]

It's going to be so good watching all this talent coming through the GC over the next few years.
I can't wait to see clowns like McGuire freaking out about it.

Impossible .Gold Coast is an AFL wasteland.The AFL is just burning cash here.All the high end talent is being developed in Tassie

 

[The Victorian]

Sad to say it but winning back to back in 2024 it going to be very difficult. We are losing at least 156 goals from our team with the top 3 goal kickers out the door in Burgess, McLaughlin and Chol.

 

[Jirik13]

Sad to say it but winning back to back in 2024 it going to be very difficult. We are losing at least 156 goals from our team with the top 3 goal kickers out the door in Burgess, McLaughlin and Chol.

Time to focus on AFL success!

 

[Ben Drever]

Sad to say it but winning back to back in 2024 it going to be very difficult. We are losing at least 156 goals from our team with the top 3 goal kickers out the door in Burgess, McLaughlin and Chol.

Walter to kick that in the first 12 games

 

[Ben Drever]

Time to focus on AFL success!

Tbh you need a good vfl team generally to be a good AFL side.
You need depth atleast 6-8 ready to go players if the AFL side needed it

 

[GC2015]

Tbh you need a good vfl team generally to be a good AFL side.
You need depth atleast 6-8 ready to go players if the AFL side needed it

Not necessarily. Collingwood's reserves team barely squeezed into the VFL finals this year and got belted in the first round, yet their senior team goes all the way and wins the AFL flag. Geelong's reserves team didn't even make the VFL finals last year but they win the AFL flag.
Of course it's nice to have depth on your list but it's not necessarily true that you need a strong VFL team in order to be a good AFL team.

 

[SUN OF A GUN]

Not necessarily. Collingwood's reserves team barely squeezed into the VFL finals this year and got belted in the first round, yet their senior team goes all the way and wins the AFL flag. Geelong's reserves team didn't even make the VFL finals last year but they win the AFL flag.
Of course it's nice to have depth on your list but it's not necessarily true that you need a strong VFL team in order to be a good AFL team.

Both of those teams also don’t have the list concessions we have. We basically play a team of AFL listed players in the VFL each week….


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[KaySwizzle]

Both of those teams also don’t have the list concessions we have. We basically play a team of AFL listed players in the VFL each week….


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AFL listed is a bit misleading, although true. Most didn’t play AFL much, if it all. And how many have been picked up by other AFL clubs at end of season? So they weren’t really at AFL level, either.

Now they do get to play as full time and train (most likely while studying for the younger ones), but most are on rookie level wages.

 

[GC2015]

Both of those teams also don’t have the list concessions we have. We basically play a team of AFL listed players in the VFL each week….

Right but we also saw Richmond claim both the AFL & VFL flags in 2019 and only one player competed in both of those GFs (Pickett). So you can't just say list concessions are the sole reason we won the VFL flag when we've seen other teams do it while missing their best 22 due to AFL commitments. Werribee had zero AFL listed players and they had no issue taking down a Brisbane side that included 15 or so AFL listed players in this year's prelim. Likewise, Southport had no AFL listed players when they took us down in the VFL prelim last year and that was a year that included our list concessions.

Ultimately, I think it's multifactorial and you can't just say list concessions mean you should win flags (otherwise we and GWS would have won more in the NEAFL) and you also can't say a strong VFL team is an indication of a good AFL team. Nothing is guaranteed at either level of football but when you have a dominant season like we did this year, you just hope it's an indication of things to come at the AFL level.

 

[SUN OF A GUN]

Right but we also saw Richmond claim both the AFL & VFL flags in 2019 and only one player competed in both of those GFs (Pickett). So you can't just say list concessions are the sole reason we won the VFL flag when we've seen other teams do it while missing their best 22 due to AFL commitments. Werribee had zero AFL listed players and they had no issue taking down a Brisbane side that included 15 or so AFL listed players in this year's prelim. Likewise, Southport had no AFL listed players when they took us down in the VFL prelim last year and that was a year that included our list concessions.

Ultimately, I think it's multifactorial and you can't just say list concessions mean you should win flags (otherwise we and GWS would have won more in the NEAFL) and you also can't say a strong VFL team is an indication of a good AFL team. Nothing is guaranteed at either level of football but when you have a dominant season like we did this year, you just hope it's an indication of things to come at the AFL level.

Didn’t say concessions was the only reason, but certainly didn’t hurt!
Other clubs have VFL only contracted players, but not sure they are full time “professional” footballers.

Not taking anything away from out VFL lads, but it does go to show what a great season / team Werribee, and Willi to an extent, had in 23.

Next closest stand alone club was the Sharks in 14th.


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[Iva Bigun]

Just arrived

 

[lommy]

Just arrived

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Mine has to be the world’s smallest XL. Will probably never be worn unfortunately…


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[RowellAnderson12]

Our VFL reigning supreme !

 

[Jirik13]

The Tigers will travel north to face the reigning VFL premiers at Heritage Bank Stadium on Saturday, March 23 from 11.05am.

SUNS to begin VFL premiership defence at home

The Gold Coast SUNS’ VFL premiership defence will get underway with a home date against Richmond on Saturday, March 23.

www.goldcoastfc.com.au

 

[Big Red Machine]

The Tigers will travel north to face the reigning VFL premiers at Heritage Bank Stadium on Saturday, March 23 from 11.05am.

SUNS to begin VFL premiership defence at home

The Gold Coast SUNS’ VFL premiership defence will get underway with a home date against Richmond on Saturday, March 23.

www.goldcoastfc.com.au

 

[Choppers]

So they fixture in the Sharks at home, 1 hour after the Suns at home............surely the brains trust could come up with something better than that.........to promote footy in a non-AFL state.....not like it's halfway thru the season.......it's the 1st bl**dy round for goodness sake......

 

[Jen2310]

Anyone get down to see this?

 

[Jirik13]

So nobody went? Wish, I lived on GC.

 

[Ben Drever]

After 2 bad pre season games by the seniors.
I understand why no one showed up

 

[GC2015]

So nobody went? Wish, I lived on GC.

... or people did go and they just don't feel like sharing what they saw on this board.