SEASON 2018

[Hawks_2008]

Is there another league in Australia who would host their division 1 finals at a Yarra Glen size and quality oval? Not to mention when there is a facility like Healesville down the road?

Yarra Glen is actually embarrasing.

What is embarrasing about Yarra Glen?
from what i understand its a good surface. (Football and Netball)
Good Parking/Rooms/Facilities.
I went last year and the only thing i didn't like was the wind, apart from that i thought it was ok.

 

[ManInWhite]

Yarra Glen ticks many boxes since the upgrade. Only downside really is the size of the ground and distance spectators are from the play. Doesn't have the close feel that say Woori does.

 

[Broken Bone]

It comes down to no team that makes the Grand Final will have home ground advantage. Olinda were very upset about playing Healesville at Healesville in the grand final a few years ago

If at the start of the season someone told me that i could play in a Grand Final but it would be against Healesville @ Healesville, Woori @ Woori or even Olinda @ Olinda, i wouldn't hesitate to say "Where do i sign up!!!"

 

[tigers99]

What is embarrasing about Yarra Glen?
from what i understand its a good surface. (Football and Netball)
Good Parking/Rooms/Facilities.
I went last year and the only thing i didn't like was the wind, apart from that i thought it was ok.

Lol. The ground is a postage stamp. It runs to wrong direction and constantly windy. Makes for ugly football.

Anyway I'm sure this will be one of the last years it's held this side of town.

Yarra Glen ticks many boxes since the upgrade. Only downside really is the size of the ground and distance spectators are from the play. Doesn't have the close feel that say Woori does.

So literally the most important boxes of hosting a premier football match it doesn't tick. Thanks for clearing that up. Exactly my point.

The facilities are fine yes but this is the best game of the year. It deserves to be played on a regular sized oval

 

[Tangleswalker]

Really looking forward to the spectacle that will be the League’s shiny new “Northern” division next year.....

 

[Aeglos]

Fwiw

 

[Aeglos]

View attachment 545488View attachment 545487Really looking forward to the spectacle that will be the League’s shiny new “Northern” division next year.....

What difference would it make if the same 9 teams were playing in a Northern Division or Division 2 AFL Yarra Ranges?

 

[tigers99]

Fwiw

Nice to see the explained the travel factor.
"Dovetons the furthest to belgrave which is 20km you can do it in 25 minutes"
Anyone understand what the hell pointing that out has anything to do with anything?

 

[Tangleswalker]

Fwiw

Yeah, what could go wrong......

 

[Tangleswalker]

What difference would it make if the same 9 teams were playing in a Northern Division or Division 2 AFL Yarra Ranges?

Because at least 2 of those teams aren’t viable moving fwd.

 

[Aeglos]

Because at least 2 of those teams aren’t viable moving fwd.

Again, what does that have to do with the league expansion?
Does the addition of the 6 new sides make Thornton-Eildon and whichever other club you’re referring to any less or more viable?

 

[Aeglos]

Nice to see the explained the travel factor.
"Dovetons the furthest to belgrave which is 20km you can do it in 25 minutes"
Anyone understand what the hell pointing that out has anything to do with anything?

Probably because it was a consideration raised by both leagues and all clubs involved, thus making it worth addressing publicly?

 

[watchdog1987]

Probably because it was a consideration raised by both leagues and all clubs involved, thus making it worth addressing publicly?

Correct so why use that as an example? What relevance does Belgrave to Doveton have. Its one of the closet games.

 

[Tangleswalker]

Again, what does that have to do with the league expansion?
Does the addition of the 6 new sides make Thornton-Eildon and whichever other club you’re referring to any less or more viable?

Because without those teams the Northern division will struggle to exist making the “Pakenham to Alexandra” trip a very real possibility unless they are going to run a Mickey Mouse 6 team division.

 

[Aeglos]

Correct so why use that as an example? What relevance does Belgrave to Doveton have. Its one of the closet games.

You would have to ask Tony Mitchell that.

 

[Aeglos]

Because without those teams the Northern division will struggle to exist making the “Pakenham to Alexandra” trip a very real possibility unless they are going to run a Mickey Mouse 6 team division.

Where are you getting a 6 team division from?
And fwiw the trip from Pakenham to Alexandra is only 10 minutes longer than my trip to Alexandra, 30 minutes less than what it is for one of YG’s players, the same time as the minimum travel in some other country leagues and significantly less than the trip to Bendigo or wherever it was my ex-gf used to go to play.
If the players have a big enough issue with it then I’m sure the local lawn bowls club would be happy to have them.

 

[Tangleswalker]

Where are you getting a 6 team division from?
And fwiw the trip from Pakenham to Alexandra is only 10 minutes longer than my trip to Alexandra, 30 minutes less than what it is for one of YG’s players, the same time as the minimum travel in some other country leagues and significantly less than the trip to Bendigo or wherever it was my ex-gf used to go to play.
If the players have a big enough issue with it then I’m sure the local lawn bowls club would be happy to have them.

8 minus 2 is 6
The proposed structure for next year is premier division of 8 teams, division 1 of 9 teams and division 2 consisting of 8 teams. Plus Mitchell clearly states in That interview that they made a commitment to the SEFNL clubs that they won’t be playing the Northern clubs.

 

[Tangleswalker]

It will be a 6 team division in 2020 because alex yea and thornton will be playing in a new league.

That’ll make it 5.

 

[The jouneyman]

That’ll make it 5.

At the end of the day tangles for the afl outer east competition to work...alex yea Thornton and kinglake,shouldn't be in it.

 

[Doona2]

View attachment 545488View attachment 545487Really looking forward to the spectacle that will be the League’s shiny new “Northern” division next year.....

Northern?
Geography wasn’t my strong suit at Broady High but dont some of those “Northern” based clubs travelled thru or past some in the “middle” to compete against a few in the south or the east ha ha

 

[tigers99]

Correct so why use that as an example? What relevance does Belgrave to Doveton have. Its one of the closet games.

Exactly my point.

 

[Tigersman]

Nice to see the explained the travel factor.
"Dovetons the furthest to belgrave which is 20km you can do it in 25 minutes"
Anyone understand what the hell pointing that out has anything to do with anything?

Pakenham is further than Doveton anyway. Very strange to use that as an example

 

[Doona2]

It will be a 6 team division in 2020 because alex yea and thornton will be playing in a new league.

Where will that be journey? I only stopped my involvement at Yea FC due to the YVMDFL travel from where I live so if it's something closer my ears could be pricked.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Onlooker from afar. IMO league merger is a very strange one. Looks to me like a huge mismatch.

Seems it’s about these South East club’s considering themselves as “country” clubs, that’s what they’re all saying.

These big clubs aren’t country towns, they’re suburbs, and enormous, booming suburbs at that. All the population growth and affordable housing is out there and they’re only getting bigger. Reckon they need to swallow that and deal with it. The place for them geographically and competitively is the Southern Football League. It’s already 4 divisions and with these clubs it’s be just as big as the EFL. They could find their level, which before long would be at the top.

They all seem to point to netball as a huge factor - well the SFL is actually the SFNL and has a growing netball comp. Yes it’s not as parallel with footy as the country leagues but you can’t have everything.

Not sure why you’d need to root the Yarra Valley instead.

 

[Tigersman]

Onlooker from afar. IMO league merger is a very strange one. Looks to me like a huge mismatch.

Seems it’s about these South East club’s considering themselves as “country” clubs, that’s what they’re all saying.

These big clubs aren’t country towns, they’re suburbs, and enormous, booming suburbs at that. All the population growth and affordable housing is out there and they’re only getting bigger. Reckon they need to swallow that and deal with it. The place for them geographically and competitively is the Southern Football League. It’s already 4 divisions and with these clubs it’s be just as big as the EFL. They could find their level, which before long would be at the top.

They all seem to point to netball as a huge factor - well the SFL is actually the SFNL and has a growing netball comp. Yes it’s not as parallel with footy as the country leagues but you can’t have everything.

Not sure why you’d need to root the Yarra Valley instead.

These clubs are far too strong for the SFNL. They had the right home in the MPNFL and they walked out. Now it’s a headache that I’m very surprised this league has bought into.

I thought EFL would have been a good fit