NFNL Div 3 discussion 2024

[yearoftheeagle]

Big win by the Turtles keeping there season alive
Bad loss for Mernda up on the mountain
Old Paradians snuff out any finals chance for Kilmore
Another good round of division 3 footy
V2 massive games next week
Stars vs Mernda
Ivanhoe vs Old Eltham

Watched Epping v turtles today. Ground was absolutely shocking. Borderline not safe to play on.
Nonetheless turtles the better team all day. The CHB Ellis and Macaffer in the middle were the difference. The ruckman was very good too for the turtles.
Next week massive as Epping have a bye I think and Ivanhoe v turtles. Battle for 5th spot is on!

 

[Mappa]

Big win by the Turtles keeping there season alive
Bad loss for Mernda up on the mountain
Old Paradians snuff out any finals chance for Kilmore
Another good round of division 3 footy
2 massive games next week
Stars vs Mernda
Ivanhoe vs Old Eltham

Wowee. I’d hope there will be a few cars left in the Lakers’ car park tonight. They are the sort of wins that get local footy clubs up and about. Well played to the Mountain Men.

 

[Brutal]

Watched Epping v turtles today. Ground was absolutely shocking. Borderline not safe to play on.
Nonetheless turtles the better team all day. The CHB Ellis and Macaffer in the middle were the difference. The ruckman was very good too for the turtles.
Next week massive as Epping have a bye I think and Ivanhoe v turtles. Battle for 5th spot is on!

Grounds person probably had the sprinklers on last night. In all seriousness, I’ve heard a few of their players hate playing on it, so how does that fair for recruiting?

Doubt the school gives too much of a shit as they don’t want to spend money on drainage, so more likely to kick OEC off.

As has been mentioned before, the school are more interested in the aesthetics and making it look good from the roadside. They are only interested in school sports, so if I was the Seniors I’d be considering an alternative!

 

[10571z]

Lakers have had a great month beating Mernda, Old Eltham and a small loss to Epping.

Mernda not going as good as I thought they would. Looking shaky.

 

[Champ or Chump]

Going to be a great month of footy to see where sides end up

 

[Champ or Chump]

Grounds person probably had the sprinklers on last night. In all seriousness, I’ve heard a few of their players hate playing on it, so how does that fair for recruiting?

Doubt the school gives too much of a shit as they don’t want to spend money on drainage, so more likely to kick OEC off.

As has been mentioned before, the school are more interested in the aesthetics and making it look good from the roadside. They are only interested in school sports, so if I was the Seniors I’d be considering an alternative!

Talking of grounds.... I was at my nephews game today at Whittelsea and it's not in great nick as we speak.

Hope for everyone's sake it improves dramatically for finals in a months time.

PS

 

[10571z]

Talking of grounds.... I was at my nephews game today at Whittelsea and it's not in great nick as we speak.

Hope for everyone's sake it improves dramatically for finals in a months time.

PS

Was extremely poor the other year in finals with huge incoming rain it’ll only be worse. Whittlesea only have 1 more home game but juniors still use it.

Besides being fenced it’s a poor finals venue.

 

[Champ or Chump]

Was extremely poor the other year in finals with huge incoming rain it’ll only be worse. Whittlesea only have 1 more home game but juniors still use it.

Besides being fenced it’s a poor finals venue.

Maybe the Turtles are onto something then by playing on a heavy ground all year

Seriously though, should be looking for grounds with a good surface for finals IF you can make it work (ie not a home ground for teams playing). Sometimes, and this happened in VAFA also, it was about gate revenue and not the ground. I would imagine Heidelberg would be magnificent for Div 3 finals this year!

 

[10571z]

Maybe the Turtles are onto something then by playing on a heavy ground all year

Seriously though, should be looking for grounds with a good surface for finals IF you can make it work (ie not a home ground for teams playing). Sometimes, and this happened in VAFA also, it was about gate revenue and not the ground. I would imagine Heidelberg would be magnificent for Div 3 finals this year!

Unfortunately without fencing it’s no chance.

Would be great to see councils buy in and make grounds finals compliant.

 

[Champ or Chump]

Unfortunately without fencing it’s no chance.

Would be great to see councils buy in and make grounds finals compliant.

Temporary fencing is easy - I have two contacts that would do it for a small earner .

The Bergs would put it up if they got a clip of the Bar and food.

 

[EBERT THE KING]

Unfortunately without fencing it’s no chance.

Would be great to see councils buy in and make grounds finals compliant.

With about 50 metres of temp fencing, Eltham would be the perfect Div 3 finals venue.

Best viewing ground in the comp by an absolute mile.

 

[NFNL Member]

Was extremely poor the other year in finals with huge incoming rain it’ll only be worse. Whittlesea only have 1 more home game but juniors still use it.

Besides being fenced it’s a poor finals venue.

they will most likely kick the juniors off it to ensure they can keep finals.

 

[barrelsomers]

With about 50 metres of temp fencing, Eltham would be the perfect Div 3 finals venue.

Best viewing ground in the comp by an absolute mile.

I popped down and watched the Barclay Shield cricket GF in March and it's a magnificent viewing venue for both sports

 

[10571z]

With about 50 metres of temp fencing, Eltham would be the perfect Div 3 finals venue.

Best viewing ground in the comp by an absolute mile.

Would be a great venue. Would require more than 50m as I believe the rear path would still need to be in use for the public.

Regardless surely it could be made to work.

 

[Thunder1]

Biggest problem for Eltham is with no parking allowed around the ground, it would be a nightmare with parking
Council would make a fortune of those parked illegally

 

[Mappa]

With about 50 metres of temp fencing, Eltham would be the perfect Div 3 finals venue.

Best viewing ground in the comp by an absolute mile.

It’s not somewhere they could ever consider for finals, but I think Macleod is the best ground for viewing, especially the elevated area in front of the rooms.

Eltham is a beauty though.

 

[NorthernBastard]

Eltham is a lovely place to watch footy/cricket, it is somewhat sheltered from the wind, and a nice size that isn't huge or tiny - would be awesome for div 3 GF

 

[Denny Crane]

Biggest problem for Eltham is with no parking allowed around the ground, it would be a nightmare with parking
Council would make a fortune of those parked illegally

Not really, it allows the use of the train which a few would use there is probably more parking on a Saturday at car parks at the train station only 100/200 meters from ground. If people actually drove around to these car parks it would surprise how many are there. All these are free parking and only recently done up, no idea how many is there but heaps.

Parking is not a concern for NFNL. Access to get $$$ is.

 

[EBERT THE KING]

It’s not somewhere they could ever consider for finals, but I think Macleod is the best ground for viewing, especially the elevated area in front of the rooms.

Eltham is a beauty though.

Yeah, Macleod is good too, Just needs some sort of covered area to the right of the away rooms as you look at the ground.

 

[NorthernBastard]

Size and slope of the ground at Macleod rules it out out for me - but it is a nice ground to watch footy from with the height of the terrace

 

[10571z]

Talking of grounds.... I was at my nephews game today at Whittelsea and it's not in great nick as we speak.

Hope for everyone's sake it improves dramatically for finals in a months time.

PS

Heard the same from someone else there from juniors Sunday. Showed me a photo and 50m is very very muddy.

League would be wanting to look hard at alternatives right now.

 

[Fizzler]

Was extremely poor the other year in finals with huge incoming rain it’ll only be worse. Whittlesea only have 1 more home game but juniors still use it.

Besides being fenced it’s a poor finals venue.

Without having looked at Lalor’s ground in quite a while, you’d have to wonder if they’d be a good option given it’s only going to be the senior and reserves sides who play and train on it and not any 19s or junior sides also adding to the wear and tear the ground takes over the course of the season. I do recall hearing that it’s not a particularly lucrative endeavour hosting junior finals since clubs have to pay for the right to do that (I heard this 5 years ago so I could in fact be very wrong here) but if that’s the case for juniors I would think senior finals might be better for the club to host. Just a thought so if anything I’m saying is blatantly incorrect and makes the idea a bad one I’m open to hearing it.

 

[turkishbread32]

Was extremely poor the other year in finals with huge incoming rain it’ll only be worse. Whittlesea only have 1 more home game but juniors still use it.

Besides being fenced it’s a poor finals venue.

could Northcotes ground be used for finals, from memory heard that the ground is in good nik, could be a good shout as well

 

[10571z]

Without having looked at Lalor’s ground in quite a while, you’d have to wonder if they’d be a good option given it’s only going to be the senior and reserves sides who play and train on it and not any 19s or junior sides also adding to the wear and tear the ground takes over the course of the season. I do recall hearing that it’s not a particularly lucrative endeavour hosting junior finals since clubs have to pay for the right to do that (I heard this 5 years ago so I could in fact be very wrong here) but if that’s the case for juniors I would think senior finals might be better for the club to host. Just a thought so if anything I’m saying is blatantly incorrect and makes the idea a bad one I’m open to hearing it.

Pretty small lalor only knock on it for mine. Surface is ok.

 

[10571z]

could Northcotes ground be used for finals, from memory heard that the ground is in good nik, could be a good shout as well

VAFA often use it so certainly an option.