Picola & District Discussion 2025

[countryFootylad]

Waaia no 3rds in 2025. Is this a surprise or

Yes and No, unfortunately kids recruit other kids.
So you can do nothing wrong as a club and your kids can be recruited by their school friends

 

[Dons01]

Yes and No, unfortunately kids recruit other kids.
So you can do nothing wrong as a club and your kids can be recruited by their school friends

Yeah not good. Looks like they tried even giving parents free memberships. Have they been recruited to MFL or Picola league.

 

[countryFootylad]

Yeah not good. Looks like they tried even giving parents free memberships. Have they been recruited to MFL or Picola league.

I think both, but mainly to Strathmerton I think

 

[johnnymossop]

I think both, but mainly to Strathmerton I think

No kids changes the fabric of your club. Money and volunteers slashed. You are now faced with taking from clubs that do all the ground work at junior level. Maybe not next year but soon. The next 5 years will paint an interesting picture. The kids are not there. Those that are ... sounds terrible ... unfit and hard work. My mob have no kids so families vanished - I'm not there anymore so I watch from a distance. Sad.

 

[Blueboy130472]

No kids changes the fabric of your club. Money and volunteers slashed. You are now faced with taking from clubs that do all the ground work at junior level. Maybe not next year but soon. The next 5 years will paint an interesting picture. The kids are not there. Those that are ... sounds terrible ... unfit and hard work. My mob have no kids so families vanished - I'm not there anymore so I watch from a distance. Sad.

Alarming, they are a strong and proud club, this should send a red flag up for the future of footy , can happen to any club if it happened at WAAIA, AFLGM have there hands dirty with this, some will say it’s PDFNL fault for unaffiliated etc, but more AFLGM for how they structure GV and Shep junior comp to try and get all juniors centralised to shepparton, they want to control juniors and hate community footy where the clubs control their own juniors.



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[carlton_86]

Alarming, they are a strong and proud club, this should send a red flag up for the future of footy , can happen to any club if it happened at WAAIA, AFLGM have there hands dirty with this, some will say it’s PDFNL fault for unaffiliated etc, but more AFLGM for how they structure GV and Shep junior comp to try and get all juniors centralised to shepparton, they want to control juniors and hate community footy where the clubs control their own juniors.



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perfect example is Stanhope in the KDL which has under 15s yet aflgm is allowing them to field an under 14s in shepp Junior league before fielding a side within their own league. Under 14s is kids turning 13 and 14 and 15s in KDL is kids turning 13 14 and 15 so can't be anything to do with kids not going to be eligible to play in that age group

 

[justanotherfootynut]

Yes and No, unfortunately kids recruit other kids.
So you can do nothing wrong as a club and your kids can be recruited by their school friends

Nothing new in that is there? Rumour was they picked up a few new faces themselves in the same senario last year?

Hasn't it always been that kids like to either play with or against their mates?
If they are such a great club as everyone proclaims then the kids will come back - historically there have been various clubs in the league who have sat out a year of thirds due to the age profile locally, then come back better and stronger in the subsequent years, along with the perennial clubs who find every year it's a challenge to get enough kids to have a team run out each week.

Think the shortage of numbers probably has more to do with the change in the demographic in the area, a lot less small dairy farms supporting large families to supply kids to local clubs.

Unless people think it is to do with an over emphasis in the successful senior sides at the club to the detriment of the junior programs? (unlikely IMO)
If that is the case then it should serve as a warning to many local leagues, clubs, and districts around the traps.

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Nothing new in that is there? Rumour was they picked up a few new faces themselves in the same senario last year?

Hasn't it always been that kids like to either play with or against their mates?
If they are such a great club as everyone proclaims then the kids will come back - historically there have been various clubs in the league who have sat out a year of thirds due to the age profile locally, then come back better and stronger in the subsequent years, along with the perennial clubs who find every year it's a challenge to get enough kids to have a team run out each week.

Think the shortage of numbers probably has more to do with the change in the demographic in the area, a lot less small dairy farms supporting large families to supply kids to local clubs.

Unless people think it is to do with an over emphasis in the successful senior sides at the club to the detriment of the junior programs? (unlikely IMO)
If that is the case then it should serve as a warning to many local leagues, clubs, and districts around the traps.

The recent success at senior level and lack of thirds atm may be heavily linked .
Many of the clubs players who played in late 90’s early 2000’s have had sons now move out of the thirds and are integral parts of the senior side . Whilst the next wave are 3-4 years away from being of 3rds age .