SFNL Division 4 2021

[SaintsMagee]

Anyone else think the fixtures should be changed for the final 2 rounds? Teams in the final 2 rounds will be playing each other for the 3RD TIME! If the league were to swap the last 2 rounds with the 2 matches we all just missed then each team would end up playing each other twice for the year!

For example Lyndhurst playing CPL and Frankston for the 3rd time while having played Hallam and Lyndale only once.... Would seem the logical thing to do.

Thoughts?

 

[SaintsMagee]

Also Hallam getting within 3 points of CPL? Surprised how close it was..

 

[Dukes_08]

Wondering what you have to say on here today about Lyndhurst Rhys? Im sure your team mates are waiting for you to mouth off again

How’s old mate Rhys Clayton for years and years he Sh*t canned Division 4. He then joins a Division 4 club, then gets dropped to the reserves at a division 4 club! Onya Rhys

 

[Footyman765]

That Clayton is a spud, Scared of his own shadow, be playing 3rds if they had them. Hallam v cpl in granny and Hallam to win it

 

[Dukes_08]

Loves getting into blokes! Ahh very good let’s hope finals is allowed #claytonsucks

 

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[Bunk Moreland]

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The Southern league’s Frankston Dolphins are seeking to switch to the MPNFL – but not for next season.
The Dolphins have applied to join the Mornington Peninsula Nepean competition, however they’ve made it clear they cannot do so until 2023.

The club became a senior entity in Southern in 2018.

It is in Division 4 of the SFNL and Dolphins officials believe they need to strengthen their playing stocks before transferring leagues.

Frankston Dolphins registered an “expression of interest’’ to join the MPNFL, and on August 31 submitted an official application to AFL South East.

MPNFL clubs will be asked to vote this month on taking in Frankston Dolphins and AFL Outer East club Cranbourne.

“It’s too big a step for us,’’ Dolphins president Mal Lewis said of the prospect of joining the MPNFL in 2022.

“We’ve got to recruit a new coach and build the stocks through next year and be ready to go in 2023.’’

Lewis said the club had always believed it would be more suited geographically to play in the MPNFL.


The Dolphins copped injuries this year.
“It seems the right fit for us,’’ he said. “Southern has been exceptionally good for us but we’re feeling now the timing is right to take the step and really start to build our junior ranks to come through.

“We want to make a real place for those kids to play and have a pathway. That’s why the club was set up, to create a pathway for our juniors.’’

The Dolphins made the Division 4 finals in 2019 but, hit by injuries, they finished 6-6 this year.

Their reserves, Under 19s and women’s teams all made the finals, as did one of their two netball sides.

Senior coach Chris Lacey has since stood down and the club is advertising the position.

Lewis said the Dolphins had a strong committee and would be adding it to.

The AFLSE has scheduled a special general meeting of MPNFL clubs for September 29 to vote on the Cranbourne and Frankston Dolphins applications.

Under the MPNFL statement of rules, the AFLSE commission must present a recommendation to the clubs at the special general meeting to accept or reject the application for affiliation.

The MPNFL “strategic subcommittee’’ will advise the commission.

“This committee will consider all respective applications and the merits or otherwise to the benefits to the MPNFL including financial, possible competition structures, fixturing options and any other information relevant to the applications,’’ AFLSE regional manager Will Dakis told clubs in a memo.

“AFLSE will assist in ensuring the committee is provided with all relevant information and assist the committee where required.

“The recommendation will be provided to clubs before the vote occurs. We will also provide the opportunity to Frankston and Cranbourne to make a presentation to the MPNFL presidents ahead of the special general meeting to enable all presidents the opportunity to ask any question or seek clarification from the applicants. This process will also allow clubs to then consult with their executive committees before a final vote.’’

Southern CEO Lee Hartman said the SFNL board would discuss the Dolphins next week.

“We’re pleased they’re playing with us in 2022 and beyond that we’ll sit down and have a discussion with them,’’ Hartman said.

He said the Dolphins were formed out of the junior club and “we nurtured them from a brand-new club to the growth they’ve had and the club they are now’’.

If the Dolphins are accepted to the MPNFL for 2023, it remains to be seen if they will compete in second division or a new third division that the league has been discussing in the past three years.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Cranbourne won't get in

Dolphins probably would, they're no threat to anybody, but it'll mean 23 teams and thus a bye, which most probably don't want.

 

[gelder01]

I thought that Cranny had already been knocked back, along with Narre, Beacy & Doveton or so it had been reported.

 

[magpies2013]

Narre, Beacy and Doveton have been knocked back by Mpnfl clubs. Doveton are off to Southern while Narre and Beacy will apply to join Eastern. Cranbourne will apply to join Mpnfl

 

[gelder01]

W

Narre, Beacy and Doveton have been knocked back by Mpnfl clubs. Doveton are off to Southern while Narre and Beacy will apply to join Eastern. Cranbourne will apply to join Mpnfl

will Beacy & Narre apply after playing 2022 in AFLOE?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Narre, Beacy and Doveton have been knocked back by Mpnfl clubs. Doveton are off to Southern while Narre and Beacy will apply to join Eastern. Cranbourne will apply to join Mpnfl

Any reason Cranny didn’t apply for the MPNFL at the same time as the others?

Will they get in? Recent history says no.

 

[magpies2013]

Mpnfl is the perfect fit for Cranbourne and I believe the majority of clubs will vote yes the problem is that it needs 75% 17/22 clubs to be approved and will probably fall just short. The clubs down the southern end like Sorrento Rosebud etc are strongly against. Feel sorry for cranny as they may have nowhere to play.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Mpnfl is the perfect fit for Cranbourne and I believe the majority of clubs will vote yes the problem is that it needs 75% 17/22 clubs to be approved and will probably fall just short. The clubs down the southern end like Sorrento Rosebud etc are strongly against. Feel sorry for cranny as they may have nowhere to play.

Probably time for the southern clubs to break away and form their own league. That’s what they’ve wanted all along and were happy with, seemingly.

 

[magpies2013]

Frankston Dolphins unsuccessfull in wanting to join Mpnfl Needed 75% of vote and got just over 50%

 

[The jouneyman]

Frankston Dolphins unsuccessfull in wanting to join Mpnfl Needed 75% of vote and got just over 50%

Did cranny get in?

 

[magpies2013]

Cranbourne withdrew their application

 

[The jouneyman]

Cranbourne withdrew their application

Wonder why?

 

[magpies2013]

I think they knew it would not be successful

 

[Bunk Moreland]

You wonder how many times the MPNFL powers that be are gonna try this before they get the idea.

It’s a shame for Cranbourne. Southern would be their best bet.

 

[Mr north man]

You wonder how many times the MPNFL powers that be are gonna try this before they get the idea.

It’s a shame for Cranbourne. Southern would be their best bet.

Don’t think SFNL will vote them in for travelling distance but by some miracle they got in and they start in Division 2 they would slaughter every club in that division.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Don’t think SFNL will vote them in for travelling distance but by some miracle they got in and they start in Division 2 they would slaughter every club in that division.

Yeah they would have to go straight into D1 no question.

 

[Tackle Bag]

Don’t think SFNL will vote them in for travelling distance but by some miracle they got in and they start in Division 2 they would slaughter every club in that division.

Clubs don’t get a vote in SFNL.

The league will ask for the clubs opinion but will push ahead with Cranbourne coming in if AFL Vic say so, which I reckon they will now.

Cranbourne is closer to Port Melbourne than Cerberus or sth Morngton. It’s really right next to Narre Sth and just up the rd from CPL. Those clubs all got in. Would be a bit rich for the league to say its ok for the lower div clubs to travel but we won’t have it for div 1 or 2.

 

[Dannerz]

Clubs don’t get a vote in SFNL.

The league will ask for the clubs opinion but will push ahead with Cranbourne coming in if AFL Vic say so, which I reckon they will now.

Cranbourne is closer to Port Melbourne than Cerberus or sth Morngton. It’s really right next to Narre Sth and just up the rd from CPL. Those clubs all got in. Would be a bit rich for the league to say its ok for the lower div clubs to travel but we won’t have it for div 1 or 2.

It's literally 5 minutes further than Lyndhurst.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Cranbourne would be a great addition to D1, new blood.