RDFNL 2019 Season discussion

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In Melton today Xmas party, was conversation re new club out at rockbank I believe it will happen in next two to three years and from what they where saying, there are a few guys with deep pockets from land sale there who are keen to insure its successful.
Looking at WRFL
Also these guys have been major players in Melton footy in the past.
They also mention that the wrfl have had chats with two Melton clubs .
Interesting afternoon also BBQ was sensational great company also .
The Aintree cricket & football sports club
 
Points allocation.

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THE bottom-four teams from the Riddell District Football League will have the state’s maximum player points allowance in 2019.

AFL Goldfields has confirmed the player points limit each of its clubs will operate with next year, with RDFL teams Broadford, Lancefield, Melton Centrals and Rockbank allocated 47.
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Be interested to hear any of your thoughts on the 'handicap' points system. From points totals this season it doesn't look like having much of an impact.

Few random thoughts, should there be a points total for the whole playing list, as well as senior game day points. To encourage local/young players and stop teams stockpiling depth? Should the league approved points for a player be published as part of the clearance approval?
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The points are published online every week aren't they on the team lists? Philosophically I am against any point concessions and believe every league / every team across Victoria should have the same points same salary cap (although there should be no salary cap if it is not or can't be enforced). I do understand though in the RDFNL not that it make much difference but if you don't provide concessions to some they are gone. There should be a clearly defined model though not just made up as you go. The current set up tells the whole of Victoria, we want our best footballers playing in these 6 leagues so we will give them more points and then the rest can play in the others which we give less. That tells you where they want players and what league sthey want stronger than others. What gives a team in Ballarat or Bendigo the right to recruit more players than a team in the Macedon Ranges? The macedon ranges teams need to recruit more due to less population but can't. The powers at be take the piss out of all of us community footy folk, evidenced further by not having the balls to administer the EDFL and WRFL competitions and giving them more points more salary cap because quite simply they do not want to take the clubs in those leagues on. These metro areas and larger regional bases have more population base, more junior participation than anywhere in rural Victoria yet have the ability to pay more money and recruit more players than those clubs like in the RDFNL with less population and less junior participation...work that out.
 
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The points are published online every week aren't they on the team lists? Philosophically I am against any point concessions and believe every league / every team across Victoria should have the same points same salary cap (although there should be no salary cap if it is not or can't be enforced). I do understand though in the RDFNL not that it make much difference but if you don't provide concessions to some they are gone. There should be a clearly defined model though not just made up as you go. The current set up tells the whole of Victoria, we want our best footballers playing in these 6 leagues so we will give them more points and then the rest can play in the others which we give less. That tells you where they want players and what league sthey want stronger than others. What gives a team in Ballarat or Bendigo the right to recruit more players than a team in the Macedon Ranges? The macedon ranges teams need to recruit more due to less population but can't. The powers at be take the piss out of all of us community footy folk, evidenced further by not having the balls to administer the EDFL and WRFL competitions and giving them more points more salary cap because quite simply they do not want to take the clubs in those leagues on. These metro areas and larger regional bases have more population base, more junior participation than anywhere in rural Victoria yet have the ability to pay more money and recruit more players than those clubs like in the RDFNL with less population and less junior participation...work that out.
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Think you will find the Ballarat clubs have only 1 more point than RDFL clubs so not sure how many “extra players” they are going to recruit!


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I am in favour of split points tallies - but only in one circumstance.

For perennial strugglers (e.g. a club that been in the bottom four for each of the previous three seasons), I am comfortable with them receiving an increased cap of up to 3 points until they finish outside the bottom four and then it drops back (either in stages or immediately) back to the same points as the other clubs.
 
AGM feedback? Any changes? Did Robbie Beatson end up running for RDFL President ;)

IMO he'd be awesome, doesn't like party pies, sandwiches, is a people person and certainly gets around to chat with folk from all clubs, stands in the outer and "gets" what grassroots footy is/was/and in this climate should be.
 

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Over Refreshed said:
AGM on last Wednesday. It would be very strange if it wasn’t far away. Surely.
It’s nearly 2019!


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Just wondering how the league fixture will look for 2019, will they continue down the same path as last year, with every side you played once in 2018, you will now play twice in 2019??
Seems the fairest way.
 
I’m tired of snake in the grass clubs that head hunt talent when a club works hard to try and become competitive. Whether it be football or netball, clubs bitch and moan about a lack of competitiveness, but the second talent walks through the door of the lower tier clubs, our stronger clubs smell blood knowing that the lower placed clubs cannot financially compete and head hunt players.

The annual player swap between clubs in the league is one thing, but having to protect your players against $$$ year in, year out is exhausting, and head hunting the lower placed clubs, whether it be football or netball is weak as piss.
 
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I’m tired of snake in the grass clubs that head hunt talent when a club works hard to try and become competitive. Whether it be football or netball, clubs bitch and moan about a lack of competitiveness, but the second talent walks through the door of the lower tier clubs, our stronger clubs smell blood knowing that the lower placed clubs cannot financially compete and head hunt players.

The annual player swap between clubs in the league is one thing, but having to protect your players against $$$ year in, year out is exhausting, and head hunting the lower placed clubs, whether it be football or netball is weak as piss.
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Who is doing the raiding?
 
ROOTA#6 said:
Who is doing the raiding?
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I don’t need to name clubs, it’s happened before and it wasn’t a single club as usual.

It’s easy for the stronger clubs to pick the eyes of the weaker clubs and know that there is nothing those clubs can do about it and I’m tired of it.

No matter how hard you work for resources and trying to find ways to grow, the way this league has turned into a meat market and picking the carcus of clubs is one of the key reasons for the divide, but as long as clubs can keep continually weakening lower placed opponents and then belting those clubs for being “non competitive” then it’s all ok.
 
Well, the draw is out.

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Itsmyshow said:
I don’t need to name clubs, it’s happened before and it wasn’t a single club as usual.

It’s easy for the stronger clubs to pick the eyes of the weaker clubs and know that there is nothing those clubs can do about it and I’m tired of it.

No matter how hard you work for resources and trying to find ways to grow, the way this league has turned into a meat market and picking the carcus of clubs is one of the key reasons for the divide, but as long as clubs can keep continually weakening lower placed opponents and then belting those clubs for being “non competitive” then it’s all ok.
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I hear your frustration but it is a competitive industry. On and off the field.


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Jack_Bauer said:
I hear your frustration but it is a competitive industry. On and off the field.


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No, it’s not. It’s a significantly uneven playing field that repeatedly becomes further unbalanced.
 
Jack_Bauer said:
Like I said I feel your pain and am not having a crack BUT this is a competition and all the teams are aiming to win games. Every team has the right to try and recruit.


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It’s a cop out, plain and simple. When the targeted recruiting happens in this manner, it’s not pushing yourself, it’s taking cheap shots. Simple.

But for some, the soft option is the easy option, I’d love to see some of the people at these clubs in our position, where they would face the same shit we face. But that’s why it’s the easy option I guess. Shows out really.
 
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