SFNL Div 2 2025

[Phill inn 123]

Amendola interesting, has supposedly shopped himself around the last 2 years, has to be a time a club says enough is enough, especially when in a premiership window, with a young team you cant have that from one of your top players, does not set the tone.

You typically resign your existing playing list before recruiting, with my experience in SFNL clubs i think his offer has been there for a while, (squeezed or not, but doubt it, as you budget/resign players before recruiting) his been sitting on it, possibly asking for more, EM not budging or it is purely to play better footy, in there signing post they mentioned he was training at sandringham, they would want him to be playing better footy then div 2 southern. Interesting to see how he levels up to that grade, would be a good benchmark on the quality of div 2 sfnl.

He is only 21 and he finished 4th in League BnF and was in TOTY despite only playing 12 H+A games, also heavily tagged in the GF by ex-VFL Wade Lees and still finished in the Best for the day. Most clubs would had him in the top 2 or 3 players in the comp for the year. I would say he was heavily recruited - so shopping himself around is a bit of stretch, plus all the young guys love a pump up.
By all accounts the culture at EM is great... its more likely sandringham told him he had to play higher level than div 2 southern and De La Salle is just down the road + his cousin is there, so it made sense.

What's interesting is 4 premier young mids (Amendola, Stanton, D. Smith and McCarthy) have all left div 2 southern, perhaps the physicality and the target on their back every week is pushing them out?

 

[Pendles1991]

He is only 21 and he finished 4th in League BnF and was in TOTY despite only playing 12 H+A games, also heavily tagged in the GF by ex-VFL Wade Lees and still finished in the Best for the day. Most clubs would had him in the top 2 or 3 players in the comp for the year. I would say he was heavily recruited - so shopping himself around is a bit of stretch, plus all the young guys love a pump up.
By all accounts the culture at EM is great... its more likely sandringham told him he had to play higher level than div 2 southern and De La Salle is just down the road + his cousin is there, so it made sense.

What's interesting is 4 premier young mids (Amendola, Stanton, D. Smith and McCarthy) have all left div 2 southern, perhaps the physicality and the target on their back every week is pushing them out?

I'd say it's probably more clubs are starting to really respect the top end players in div 2, and are more actively poaching them. These players are all going to teams that are higher grades such as Dingley, De La Salle.

If they were going to div 3 EFNL for huge money or whatever then you'd say they may be taking the easy route but I honestly think there's a lot of eyes on div 2 top end players and teams trying to poach them now.

 

[JohnHancock]

Amendola interesting, has supposedly shopped himself around the last 2 years, has to be a time a club says enough is enough, especially when in a premiership window, with a young team you cant have that from one of your top players, does not set the tone.

You typically resign your existing playing list before recruiting, with my experience in SFNL clubs i think his offer has been there for a while, (squeezed or not, but doubt it, as you budget/resign players before recruiting) his been sitting on it, possibly asking for more, EM not budging or it is purely to play better footy, in there signing post they mentioned he was training at sandringham, they would want him to be playing better footy then div 2 southern. Interesting to see how he levels up to that grade, would be a good benchmark on the quality of div 2 sfnl.

He is only 21 and he finished 4th in League BnF and was in TOTY despite only playing 12 H+A games, also heavily tagged in the GF by ex-VFL Wade Lees and still finished in the Best for the day. Most clubs would had him in the top 2 or 3 players in the comp for the year. I would say he was heavily recruited - so shopping himself around is a bit of stretch, plus all the young guys love a pump up.
By all accounts the culture at EM is great... its more likely sandringham told him he had to play higher level than div 2 southern and De La Salle is just down the road + his cousin is there, so it made sense.

What's interesting is 4 premier young mids (Amendola, Stanton, D. Smith and McCarthy) have all left div 2 southern, perhaps the physicality and the target on their back every week is pushing them out?

League B&F is decided by umpires so let’s not too much credit on that.

Amendola is a handy player and got huge upside but he wasn’t too 2 or 3 players in the league is pretty outlandish. Deakyn Smith, Sam Michael, Jordan Pollard, John Rafferty, Tom McCartney, Lachie Conboy, Tom Stanton, Ricky Johnson and maybe even Jacob Brunner all better mids .

He is only 21 and he finished 4th in League BnF and was in TOTY despite only playing 12 H+A games, also heavily tagged in the GF by ex-VFL Wade Lees and still finished in the Best for the day. Most clubs would had him in the top 2 or 3 players in the comp for the year. I would say he was heavily recruited - so shopping himself around is a bit of stretch, plus all the young guys love a pump up.
By all accounts the culture at EM is great... its more likely sandringham told him he had to play higher level than div 2 southern and De La Salle is just down the road + his cousin is there, so it made sense.

What's interesting is 4 premier young mids (Amendola, Stanton, D. Smith and McCarthy) have all left div 2 southern, perhaps the physicality and the target on their back every week is pushing them out?

League B&F is decided by umpires so let’s not too much credit on that.

Amendola is a handy player and got huge upside but he wasn’t too 2 or 3 players in the league is pretty outlandish. Deakyn Smith, Sam Michael, Jordan Pollard, John Rafferty, Tom Mac, Lachie Conboy, Harry Lagastes, Tom Stanton, Ricky Johnson and maybe even Jacob Brunner all better mids that’s not including forwards and backs ..

He will not start in-front of Buffallo, Algeri, filapovic, Nicholson, Cameron, O’Meara or Mackie so I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t play a reserve game or two for De La next season unless he can hit the scoreboard abit as a half forward at times .