Seymour copping a hard hit.Rigoni to North Albury and Mason aligning with Collingwood Vfl.Wish nothing but the best for both of em.Genuine stars who will be sorely missed.I think Mason could go even higher with hard work and further improvement.
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Reason being many bypass the Gv (and premier standard leagues)is lots of District ( and lower division)clubs throw absurd sums of money at em.Unfortunately heaps of fellas are more interested in playing a lower level as it requires less commitment and easy money (plus the fact they stand out ).
I know of spud players getting $600 plus in $hit comps and its only getting worse.God bless the volunteers.
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Does Callum Brown at Mansfield count? He is the only one
Yep my apologies silver, missed brown, will he's brother line up too?
A well known big paying clubs President looked me in the eye the other day and said" We don't worry about the cap, we just pay cash..it's our word against theirs and they can't prove it"!
Matt Shannon back full time at the Bears!
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Part of the answer to the problem is forced closure of some of the shit district clubs. The reality is there is no community. There is a memory of yesteryear. Put the squeeze on some of those clubs with no population or juniors. Kill off the shit little clubs for a start.
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Which league Ringo? Are we talking Goulburn Valley or Geelong?
All the more reason to get rid of salary caps and tighten up points. Points is where you stop the mercenaries.
A well known metro club in the west of Melbourne now playing in the EDFL . Some clubs are playing with a cap .. others aren’t !
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Deer Park ate a joke.
Everything is against community/district clubs including things like the points system and pathway systems .
Once upon a time junior players would develop in their local club whether that be community league or premier league . Once a talented player out of a community comp had established themselves in senrior footy they’d have crack at major league .
Likewise a senior player at a premier comp once they stopped getting regularly senior footy would look to try their hand at coaching within a community comp .
That dynamic has completely changed whereby players are being heavily encouraged at a young age to enter premier/ major league junior structures which often have multiple junior sides . These kids in these junior sides have often been the big fish in their community clubs junior sides and enter these comps which have become more rep type sides .
The kids all establish the dream of making that premier teams senior side .
Reality kicks in and players realise 3 doesn’t go into one so we see massive flall out of player numbers .
To counteract this community leagues fight with premier league players more so than ever for the reduced pool of players still interested in the game at 18+ years of age .
It isn’t appreciated in here but a 18 year old is best served having played 50-60 senior games of community footy over playing major league junior football .
I fully get the reasoning for both sides of the arguement , however if it becomes a bidding war it is highly likely community / district clubs will win as there is generally greater community engagement as the footy / netball club is that towns only means of engaging the community and large business ( farming ) are prepared to invest to see the footy club survive and thrive .
TAC cup sides ( or whatever it’s called this week ) have a lot to answer for as well . It’s not that long ago that more kids were being drafted out of community leagues than premier leagues , now these sides are dominated by premier league players and kids are reportedly being told they must be in these premier league aligned junior comps .
They are strengthening the junior only comps but increasing the fall out of people playing the game .
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The problem is the afl look at the American system, where in their sports there is no sport post high school locally. Our game is built from the English style where every town has a club. The afl don't want community sport, as they see that as people not watching afl and loss of income
It really is time to return to self governed leagues, no cap, nor points because the longer this continues the more damage is being done to community football.
I'm not sure a dog eat dog world would be great either mate. I'd like to see a far even playing field and promote young guys to play major league footy and over 30 to play minor league footy, with under 23 to be 1 point to transfer from minor to major and over 32 1 point from major to minor.
Otherwise clubs like deer Park won't care, and buy 22 players, some might suggest they don't now, but they didn't play finals this year and they can't just get whoever they want.
I reckon you'd have queues of guys playing for the premiership teams if afl vic did nothing, and we'd see 15 + guys move around with the one coach and destroy a club each time they move. I'm not sure that's coaching.
But there has to be greater incentive for guys to play footy in.the country, keep kids involved after they turn 18 or younger, stop the better teams getting better, where we have tiered comps and allow bottom teams to go from finishing last to being a chance of winning the flag next year, otherwise if there's no hope, players will keep leaving bottom clubs
There also needs to be greater incentives for the best players to play major league footy
- Deer Park will do just that ..buy a flag this year. It is their second year in the EDFL and they will do whatever it takes.
- 2 VFL players join an O&M club for 40K each
- One player in the NCFL was on 70K just to play, another offered 65K to join a club in that comp this year
- Coach in the Bellarine League on a reported 65-70K
- A club in another strong league are giving away blocks of land
- Better teams are staying up top because all other teams have the same Cap and in some instances points
- 2 GV players offered 30K each to play in the NCFL
- Hoppers Crossing flew in Jed Anderson from Darwin and another from the Gold Coast, resulting in winning the flag by a point.
I know mate, its not an even playing field and nigh impossible for a coach without financial or employment backing to be on an even keel
If everyone played by the rules then we would be fine mate
Deer Park got off "because there wasn't enough proof" LMAO
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IMO Deer Park won't because they'll have zero depth & will struggle to fit everyone within the points cap.
They were comfortably beaten by all of the finals standard sides in their comp & their opposition have greater capacity to add reinforcements.
The salary cap is a pisstake with some clubs clearly making a mockery of it but the points cap is the one redeeming thing about the rules that were implemented.
It prevents clubs from dominating as they'd like.. Deer Park, East Keilor, Bundoora & Vermont would dominate under the previous rules where cash was king, now they don't know what to do so are forced to adapt if they wish to compete.
Not a bad thing.
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