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Longy_Zillmere said:
The lights still a debacle at Mside?
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An entire pocket of lights no longer works. Fairly common knowledge they were already borderline, but a set of roadworks lights to fix it, the less said the better....

We played Friday night with a mobile light tower literally not much higher than eye level in one pocket. I'm 100% certain no audit was done for the configuration as it was. Not to mention a sprinkler head exposed 6 inches.

A broken leg and 3 severe ankle injuries later, just hope the insurer doesn't ask any questions. (Some of these injuries were the home side)

Given we played an entire season at an alternative venue (at significant financial cost, ) due to insufficient lighting, I'm always surprised when we're forced go play in the dark in away games.

Centre circle has not a single blade of grass. Again, I totally get it - we've been there ourselves, our field was similar, if not marginally better in the years we had 3 home finals taken off us. It ain't easy managing bulk junior traffic.

Having said all that, will be interesting to see if same standards apply.
 
Thommo 42 said:
An entire pocket of lights no longer works. Fairly common knowledge they were already borderline, but a set of roadworks lights to fix it, the less said the better....

We played Friday night with a mobile light tower literally not much higher than eye level in one pocket. I'm 100% certain no audit was done for the configuration as it was. Not to mention a sprinkler head exposed 6 inches.

A broken leg and 3 severe ankle injuries later, just hope the insurer doesn't ask any questions. (Some of these injuries were the home side)

Given we played an entire season at an alternative venue (at significant financial cost, ) due to insufficient lighting, I'm always surprised when we're forced go play in the dark in away games.

Centre circle has not a single blade of grass. Again, I totally get it - we've been there ourselves, our field was similar, if not marginally better in the years we had 3 home finals taken off us. It ain't easy managing bulk junior traffic.

Having said all that, will be interesting to see if same standards apply.
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Last season at Zillmere our lights were deemed “unfit” and we were stopped from playing at home until the new lights were installed. The lights we had were ok, didn’t pass the lux test in the center or the oval though and we were told insurance wouldn’t cover players etc. So we played at Pine Rivers for most of the year.

During that time we played at Morningside and it was amazing to all our players that our oval was deemed unsafe, but we were ok to play there with lighting that was considerably worse and at one end, just dark.

We questioned this with the big dogs and got no where. There is not one set of rules, just guidelines which can be followed some times and not at other times it feels like.

If I was betting man, I would put a few dollars on any final Morningside make, they will be played there.
 

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Longy_Zillmere said:
Last season at Zillmere our lights were deemed “unfit” and we were stopped from playing at home until the new lights were installed. The lights we had were ok, didn’t pass the lux test in the center or the oval though and we were told insurance wouldn’t cover players etc. So we played at Pine Rivers for most of the year.

During that time we played at Morningside and it was amazing to all our players that our oval was deemed unsafe, but we were ok to play there with lighting that was considerably worse and at one end, just dark.

We questioned this with the big dogs and got no where. There is not one set of rules, just guidelines which can be followed some times and not at other times it feels like.

If I was betting man, I would put a few dollars on any final Morningside make, they will be played there.
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I have to agree, the lights at Morningside didnt appear to be suitable, with one end very dark and a couple of lights not working, players needed to be wearing fluro vests. You would expect that they have had a lighting audit at the start of the year that gave the okay to use the ground for night games. They have been using that mobile light tower for years in one of the pockets, but not sure if that would have been included in the audit or a result of the audit.
 
J Thunder said:
I have to agree, the lights at Morningside didnt appear to be suitable, with one end very dark and a couple of lights not working, players needed to be wearing fluro vests. You would expect that they have had a lighting audit at the start of the year that gave the okay to use the ground for night games. They have been using that mobile light tower for years in one of the pockets, but not sure if that would have been included in the audit or a result of the audit.
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They have been horrible since they put a Friday night side in. I’m surprised a QAFL trains under them.
 
Thommo 42 said:
An entire pocket of lights no longer works. Fairly common knowledge they were already borderline, but a set of roadworks lights to fix it, the less said the better....

We played Friday night with a mobile light tower literally not much higher than eye level in one pocket. I'm 100% certain no audit was done for the configuration as it was. Not to mention a sprinkler head exposed 6 inches.

A broken leg and 3 severe ankle injuries later, just hope the insurer doesn't ask any questions. (Some of these injuries were the home side)

Given we played an entire season at an alternative venue (at significant financial cost, ) due to insufficient lighting, I'm always surprised when we're forced go play in the dark in away games.

Centre circle has not a single blade of grass. Again, I totally get it - we've been there ourselves, our field was similar, if not marginally better in the years we had 3 home finals taken off us. It ain't easy managing bulk junior traffic.

Having said all that, will be interesting to see if same standards apply.
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Wow - sounds like an insurers nightmare. Sometimes thin k we are overly precious about ground surfaces but a sprinkler head exposed by that much and poor lights! Thats playing with fire - have seen the damage a sprinkler head can do to a lower leg- not pretty.
 
Longy_Zillmere said:
They have been horrible since they put a Friday night side in. I’m surprised a QAFL trains under them.
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Thats a good effort by their senior sides then - its always interesting to hear of the hurdles other clubs face and still get on with winning games - can destroy the argument that you need top notch facilities to compete.
 
It’s not a lighting issue, more a general issue that the league have standards in place which apply sometimes at some clubs, and not at other clubs at other times. Thommos point was more about the playing surface at the Magpies being deemed unsuitable for finals, and if similar standard ovals this year will be under the same scrutiny etc. The lights are a good example of the rules being different from one club to the next.
 
Talking about double standards for certain clubs, any fallout from the last quarter time on saga from Palmy/Mounties game on weekend?

I did excercise myself on video as best I could and it appears 20 mins plus time on has changed?

I ended up at 27 minutes 25 secs give or take? Not being 100% accurate you could add on 1 minute? So still well short of 40 minutes!
 

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Someone put p the quarter lengths for all the quarters SM. the last one wasn't an outlier incredibly! Would have been some tired players post game. Played nearly 150min
 
Obviously a time keeper issue.

Not like they conveniently extended the last quarter, all 4 quarters went 35+ minutes and the last had 9 goals kicked, so is always going to be longest one in a collection of 4 very long ones!
 
I heard it was the time keeper who apparently timed 25 mins plus time on. He was still in reserves mode.

And as mentioned above it was every quarter not just the last quarter. Obviously an honest mistake as I imagine both clubs would of preferred 20 plus time on

Nothing to do with double standards.
 
Gazzaa said:
Palm beach just rorting the system again
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why would a team thats undefeated, but carrying some injuries rort a game to be 150 minutes to get a tight win against a side that may or may not play finals, but if they do will go out in the first week?

I'm no PBC fan, but seriously?
 
Tips this week
Surfers by 3 points - Mounties to run out of legs due to their 6 x qtrs. played the previous week!!
Cats by 74 points
Palm Beach by 86 points
Labrador in an upset by 16 points
 
lol jealous of what. Rorting the system ha ha

Anyway tips for the week
Cats by 100
PBC by 30 (long qtrs again lol)
Mt Gravatt by 18
Labrador by 1
 

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