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why would they play against men as a 17 year old when they can play u17 youth football?

It was hardly working just fine, its a crappy competition with teams dropping out left right and centre, then coming back, then having to combined two comps - impossible to plan for.

The standard is piss poor, but some of the teams have a handful of very good players who would be better served testing themselves at QAFL Colts, while the rest can populate Div 2 ressies and Friday night teams. An influx of 18 year olds would drastically improve the standard of Div 2 ressies beyond comprehension.
 
I didn't make the decision, just answering your question.

The competition was North/South, then 2 weeks before it started about 6 teams dropped out altogether, then they combined them.

Some teams have had a team consistently, others have had it one year, then not the next year, then back again and so on. Its administered by a different part of AFLQ (Senior dept) but some of them are junior clubs just trying to hold onto kids for one more year, despite not having a senior side or intentions to start a senior side. Every year there are more forfeits in this comp than any other. It's probably also hard to appoint umpires to it, which is only a minor issue, but another in a long list of issues.

Some of the teams are also mergers between about 3 or 4 clubs, which isn't really that sustainable in the long run.

Look at Wests Juniors for example. Shit or get off the pot. Don't run a senior program, but decide to run Colts because they had a generational group of talented kids they heavily recruited from other clubs and just wanted to hold onto them for another year. Holding onto them and convincing them to stay with free registration etc is silly. Start a Senior Club or stick to junior footy. There are like 5 perfectly good senior clubs within 10 minutes of them, catering to QAFL, Div 1, 2 and 3 standard - something for everyone.
 
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The expected flippant reply from 3 dicks. Do you (3) work for AFLQ?

I had a look at a couple of rounds. Looks like 1 team either forfieted or dropped out. May have been some upheaval during the year, i dont know, but the final comp look settled.

Some teams only had just enough players. Morningside colts struggled at times with numbers even after raiding u16s.. which shows even strong clubs can have issues at times.

Who are you to decide who kids 'are better served' to play with and against? Perhaps they like playing with mates and dont give a shove about 'testing themselves'?
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Kids playing senior footy now will be 18 though Required - when do we refer to them as young men vs kids? To me its a sensible decision. For the reasons Miller has stated. Its all around the change of age groups in junior boys footy.
 

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Kids playing senior footy now will be 18 though Required - when do we refer to them as young men vs kids? To me its a sensible decision. For the reasons Miller has stated. Its all around the change of age groups in junior boys footy.
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I dunno, throwing away a 2nd tier colts seems to me destructive and not in the best interests of footy. But you all agree with it, so Lets see how it ages eh?

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I dunno, throwing away a 2nd tier colts seems to me destructive and not in the best interests of footy. But you all agree with it, so Lets see how it ages eh?

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I personally think it will benefit the Div 1 and below clubs - more numbers to choose from and will create a greater effort for senior clubs to engage with their junior club.
 
if you have been living under a rock (which is quite possible), youth age groups male and female in 2023 are u13.5, u15.5 and u17.5

Anyone that is 17 can still play youth football, in fact even those turning 18 after June 30 in 2023 are still eligible for youth football.

Colts will be QAFL only and u19. (not u19.5)

Edit: in case you didn't pick it up, pretty sure Tommo was being sarcastic (at your expense)
 
It actually looks like its DESIGNED to funnel kids turning 18 into QAFL clubs where they can play 'colts' for another 2 years without playing vs men.

As i said before, time will tell if these changes are a good thing for QFA footy, and the game itself.

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I didn't think it was my job to explain to you what has been public knowledge for 6 months and has been extensively talked about on this forum.

It has been half age groups for 3 years already, and next year they are just changing from evens to odds in male footy to capture school kids in youth footy

It has been designed for several reasons:

1. Capture all school aged kids in youth football
2. Funnel Colts aged kids to QAFL Colts that will become an elite u19 competition
3. Recognise that those graduating from youth football that either don't want to play elite QAFL colts, or aren't good enough to - can simply play QFA footy as the standard is pretty low in Div 2 Reserves and Div 4 - so there is no need for a disjointed QFA Colts to capture these kids.

Time will tell, but it looks on paper a pretty good move across the board, which is pretty rare for AFLQ to make a good decision in the interests of QLD footy and player retention.
 
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Not quite true Required - Yr 12 students generally turn 18 after July now - so will be captured under the 17.5 rule. Nearly every school kid will be playing Sundays.
It is for the good of footy I think - clubs hang on to their juniors for longer and by the time they are ready for senior footy, if at all, they will be coming straight out of their juniors, not some mesh of 2/3/4 clubs who have done the right thing by combining with others but in reality those kids don't have a natural follow through.
QAFL Colts is already attracting the better boys in most cases. Kids who want to be drafted need to align with a QAFL club at some point (rightly or wrongly) so will do so in their 18th year.

I think you will find the QAFL is "full" right now - no clubs will be entering any time soon imo. The important next step is to narrow the gap between QAFL and div 1 and Div 1 and 2. This will do so I think. Importantly it also frees up a hell of alot of umpires which is the achilles heel right now in community football.

Like you said time will tell how it pans out - I'm not sure all QFA clubs are happy about it but tell me what decision has been met with unanimous support EVER.
 
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What the hell happened to Maroochydore's Div 3 finals campaign? Went through home & away undefeated, looked red hot favourites to take the silverware but went out in straight sets from 2 home finals up the Sunny Coast where generally they are near unbeatable.
 
Looked like they were down a few of their best from through the year. Take nothing away from Woodies who were better all over the park and took the crowd out of it early

Roos seemed to lack options coming out of their back half. Just kept blazing forward and turning over. Woodies could just lock it in until they scored time after time. Very good finals performance
 

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They were real good Woodsmen. had winners all over park. Only player that stood out for Roos was #3 Stevenson. He's a cut above. I think Roos had a couple missing but i also think the nature of this comp is possibly that most sides don't have their best or anywhere near their best 22 running around week in week out. if you can get this at finals time then it is feasible to have a real crack over a 3 week period.
 
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They were real good Woodsmen. had winners all over park. Only player that stood out for Roos was #3 Stevenson. He's a cut above. I think Roos had a couple missing but i also think the nature of this comp is possibly that most sides don't have their best or anywhere near their best 22 running around week in week out. if you can get this at finals time then it is feasible to have a real crack over a 3 week period.
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A lot of quality ex-QAFL experience and leadership in that Woodies team. Would make a significant different in crucial moments.
 
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They were real good Woodsmen. had winners all over park. Only player that stood out for Roos was #3 Stevenson. He's a cut above. I think Roos had a couple missing but i also think the nature of this comp is possibly that most sides don't have their best or anywhere near their best 22 running around week in week out. if you can get this at finals time then it is feasible to have a real crack over a 3 week period.
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Ex Magpie via Townsville Dom Morrison a pretty big out, chatted to him post game and had a broken collar bone.

Woodies pretty much full tilt apart from 2 blokes, but even then - the guys that come in to replace them are pretty good. Probably for the first time in a long time we have good depth beyond the 22, probably 26-27 guys that can form the best 22 and not much change in quality. Obviously there are 4-5 guys at the top end we can't afford to miss, but they are all up and going currently for the first time all year after being crook the week before vs Morningside.
 
Has it?

Great ground at Redcliffe though, and probably the most 'neutral' venue for the 4 teams left

Guess if Coorparoo make it they are 5 minutes up the road from Morningside. probably a bit unfair on their opponents to play it there. Though same could be said for Div 3 at Yeronga
 
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Has it?

Great ground at Redcliffe though, and probably the most 'neutral' venue for the 4 teams left

Guess if Coorparoo make it they are 5 minutes up the road from Morningside. probably a bit unfair on their opponents to play it there. Though same could be said for Div 3 at Yeronga
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Think its great a different club has an opportunity to make some $$ from finals revenue outside of the few that seem to always get the opportunity.
 
Does anyone know the reason?

Surely Div 3 gets the same treatment? Yeronga could do without another grand final surely.

Is there a league count night again or do they still just stream it?
 

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