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Bunk Moreland said:
Balwyn hit reply all (rather than reply) on an email to every club, telling the league to put the cap back to $250k.

Vermont have whinged about it thru the media many times. They did again just recently with Craig Gislingham, played in about 15 purchased premierships, having a good whinge about it. I suppose that makes him an expert on it, I’m sure like his club he tells himself how a great culture, hard work and good people achieved all the premierships.
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I can't remember when the cap came about, but had to align with the last time balwyn won a flag yeah? 2016? Allan murray days, remember someone heckling him one day and he had to be held back by teammates from jumping the fence and going to fight them
 
The cap was introduced in 2017.
The funniest instance I saw of a player losing it, was to a comment from the crowd to the rather tubby player. "Hey number 16, ....... your donuts are ready". He lost it and so did a number of his friends in the crowd.
 
Back to the coaching merry-go-round.
Has EB got their coach yet, Bayswater seem to advertise they're closing applications end of the week. are they struggling to find anyone?
Rumor has it Kev Collins has finished up at Donvale
 

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Another Nunawading signing for Norwood makes 3 or 4 of their best players I think.

Nunawading might be a watch sadly… not sure they’re in a spot to weather an exodus.

Wonder if the EFNL actually consider this stuff on their road to expansion… clubs just plundering each other. Oakleigh District took all Glen Waverley’s players.

Confirmed FTG have lost another one, Kiker signed at Wantirna South.
 
adogsfan5 said:
Interesting comment from James Belo last night at the chandler medal. Most even he thinks the premier division has ever been. Something in that I reckon (a reason to leave the caps alone/ or at the very least increase with CPI).
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East ringwood have only been there for a a year or two havent they? Or has he played there before
 
If the cap and points came in 2017 then this will be the sixth completed season.

This will be the fifth different premier - Balwyn or ER haven’t won it in that time - it’s been SC, Vermont x 2, Noble and Rowville.

In the previous 35 seasons to that we had seven different premiers - Vermont (17), EB (5), Balwyn (5), Noble Park (4), ER (2) Donvale (1) and Norwood (1).

Pretty clearly it’s working. It’s clear as day. If the league don’t maintain what they’ve done they’ll have done the game a massive disservice. You’d have to say they actually fixed it. They can’t go back now.
 
Bunk Moreland said:
If the cap and points came in 2017 then this will be the sixth completed season.

This will be the fifth different premier - Balwyn or ER haven’t won it in that time - it’s been SC, Vermont x 2, Noble and Rowville.

In the previous 35 seasons to that we had seven different premiers - Vermont (17), EB (5), Balwyn (5), Noble Park (4), ER (2) Donvale (1) and Norwood (1).

Pretty clearly it’s working. It’s clear as day. If the league don’t maintain what they’ve done they’ll have done the game a massive disservice. You’d have to say they actually fixed it. They can’t go back now.
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As you say it looks like it’s working in efl premier division but I don’t think it’s working in many other leagues. 3 or 4 of the major country leagues you can pretty much predict the top 5 in November for the following season
 
Bunk Moreland said:
Confirmed FTG have lost another one, Kiker signed at Wantirna South.
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It would be devastating for FTG to be losing players like this.

This is an interesting one, obviously his dad was coach at FTG but i was led to believe the split was amicable. I think hes a good player but not exactly testing himself at Wanny Sth, only 1 division higher and I'm told aren't in a great position retaining players. Probably more to do with the family connection.

It will be interesting to see if the Gasparoni boy lands at Wanny Sth also, having missed most of this year injured at FTG but was linked to Wanny Sth last year.
 

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Bunk Moreland said:
Another Nunawading signing for Norwood makes 3 or 4 of their best players I think.

Nunawading might be a watch sadly… not sure they’re in a spot to weather an exodus.

Wonder if the EFNL actually consider this stuff on their road to expansion… clubs just plundering each other. Oakleigh District took all Glen Waverley’s players.

Confirmed FTG have lost another one, Kiker signed at Wantirna South.
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Heidelberg looking to move into EFNL also. Heard from a very good source (EFNL 2024 premiership coach) Would go straight into division 1. Watch this space
 
damochandler said:
It changed the landscape of the league in the north
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Yep. AFL Vic (probably Football Vic then) told them to stay in the north where they belonged, but that much of what they were saying was right and the league needed a lot of work.

It was 100% the right call and was a big part of the NFNL becoming what it has.

Unfortunately earlier on (I think it was the VMFL in those days) didn’t make the same call with Noble Park in the south and thus the SFNL just declined and declined. Only now is it recovering.

Seems AFL Vic are now back to those days, clubs can go wherever they want and it leaves their old league reeling. Not the smart approach long term, it’s better when all leagues are strong.
 
Bunk Moreland said:
Yep. AFL Vic (probably Football Vic then) told them to stay in the north where they belonged, but that much of what they were saying was right and the league needed a lot of work.

It was 100% the right call and was a big part of the NFNL becoming what it has.

Unfortunately earlier on (I think it was the VMFL in those days) didn’t make the same call with Noble Park in the south and thus the SFNL just declined and declined. Only now is it recovering.

Seems AFL Vic are now back to those days, clubs can go wherever they want and it leaves their old league reeling. Not the smart approach long term, it’s better when all leagues are strong.
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Going by ghe history of Heidelberg I’ve read it a couple of times. Dvl knocked it back and it uncovered some corruption

I reckon a super league should happen, best teams across metro and select country teams
 
localfootylegend23 said:
They missed out by 1 vote when balwyn also tried and were successful later on didnt they?
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Testing my memory but I think there might have been two votes for EFL clubs. The first one failed and the second one passed.

The SFL and NFL both refused the moves so it went to AFL Vic for a hearing. AFL Vic let Balwyn through but refused Heidelberg on location grounds.

It was all a proper process based on a bit of wider interest, these days it seems like you just tell everybody where you’re going and off you go.
 
damochandler said:
Going by ghe history of Heidelberg I’ve read it a couple of times. Dvl knocked it back and it uncovered some corruption
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The DVFL had no money and were running like a joke.

Turns out some long-standing administrator had a gambling problem and had relived them of a few hundred grand I think.
 
Bunk Moreland said:
Testing my memory but I think there might have been two votes for EFL clubs. The first one failed and the second one passed.

The SFL and NFL both refused the moves so it went to AFL Vic for a hearing. AFL Vic let Balwyn through but refused Heidelberg on location grounds.

It was all a proper process based on a bit of wider interest, these days it seems like you just tell everybody where you’re going and off you go.
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Yep, thats rejogged my memory. Heidleberg in EFL would be huge. They are a shark in a fish tank in the NFNL, players offered the same amount at say greensborough, monty or heidleberg ALWAYS pick heidleberg knowing they will play in a almost guaranteed flag
 

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