don_draper
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Ashwood have voted in favour of joining EFNL. Be interesting to see if it's for 2025 or 2026.
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J_harvey372
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Would say looking at our prospective best team for the year just gone, would be about 18-19 players of the 22 are on solid senior contracts
kangakangakanga
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Sun just posted about this. I don't have a sub for it, hopefully someone here does and can post some screen shots of the article.
Billy Elliott
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Ashwood has launched its bid to join the Eastern Football Netball League but will likely need to overcome an appeal to get there.
The Magpies met with the Southern Football Netball League in September before holding a Special General Meeting on Tuesday night.
At the SGM, Ashwood’s committee, life members, supporters and players voted in favour of a move to the Eastern league.
Club president Paul Hattersley said the vote was “significantly in favour” of the move.
The Magpies believe they will be more sustainable in the Eastern league due to their geographical location.
“The sustainability, the future of the club and geographically it makes more sense as well,” Hattersley said.
“We think the Eastern is a better fit for the Ashwood footy club and the sustainability of the club going forward, (we have) 35 guys under 25 and they all grew up in the Eastern suburbs.
“It’s a lot easier for recruitment, retention … it makes people being aware of us as a club a lot easier than going to South Mornington which is 61km away.”
Ashwood. Pictures: Fraser Family
The Magpies are aiming to join Division 4 of the Eastern league.
Hattersley said moving from Southern’s third division to Eastern’s fifth was “a big call”.
“It was a big call and a lot of research has been done,” he said.
“We spoke to Oakleigh Districts, who made the transition, we rung Waverley Blues, we have a good relationship with them.
“The best thing about it was they (Eastern clubs) were so positive about the support for those teams who were stuck in Division 4 for a while.
“It was a very tough decision but we are moving to the premier competition in Melbourne and that helps as well when recruiting players.”
The SFNL will appeal Ashwood’s move if its accepted.
Southern Football Netball League CEO Lee Hartman says it will appeal the move should the EFNL accept Ashwood.
“They (Ashwood) held a club meeting the other night, the Eastern Football Netball League hasn’t accepted them yet and if they do we will be appealing it,” Hartman said.
“We have plenty of reasons as to why we’ll appeal it but the next step of the process is with Eastern.
“We’re in a conversation with Eastern at the moment; their fifth division looks like it will get a team from the VAFA to make it eight teams and eliminate their bye.
“Taking another team would create a bye for them and a bye for us – we will appealing should Eastern accept them.
“They’ve (Ashwood) been in Southern since day one, they’re a Southern club, we won’t be letting them go.
“We think launched its bid to join the Eastern Football Netball League but will likely need to overcome an appeal to get there.
The Magpies met with the Southern Football Netball League in September before holding a Special General Meeting on Tuesday night.
At the SGM, Ashwood’s committee, life members, supporters and players voted in favour of a move to the Eastern league.
Club president Paul Hattersley said the vote was “significantly in favour” of the move.
The Magpies believe they will be more sustainable in the Eastern league due to their geographical location.
“The sustainability, the future of the club and geographically it makes more sense as well,” Hattersley said.
“We think the Eastern is a better fit for the Ashwood footy club and the sustainability of the club going forward, (we have) 35 guys under 25 and they all grew up in the Eastern suburbs.
“It’s a lot easier for recruitment, retention … it makes people being aware of us as a club a lot easier than going to South Mornington which is 61km away.”
The Magpies are aiming to join Division 4 of the Eastern league.
Hattersley said moving from Southern’s third division to Eastern’s fifth was “a big call”.
“It was a big call and a lot of research has been done,” he said.
“We spoke to Oakleigh Districts, who made the transition, we rung Waverley Blues, we have a good relationship with them.
“The best thing about it was they (Eastern clubs) were so positive about the support for those teams who were stuck in Division 4 for a while.
“It was a very tough decision but we are moving to the premier competition in Melbourne and that helps as well when recruiting players.”
The SFNL will appeal Ashwood’s move if its accepted.
Southern Football Netball League CEO Lee Hartman says it will appeal the move should the EFNL accept Ashwood.
“They (Ashwood) held a club meeting the other night, the Eastern Football Netball League hasn’t accepted them yet and if they do we will be appealing it,” Hartman said.
“We have plenty of reasons as to why we’ll appeal it but the next step of the process is with Eastern.
“We’re in a conversation with Eastern at the moment; their fifth division looks like it will get a team from the VAFA to make it eight teams and eliminate their bye.
“Taking another team would create a bye for them and a bye for us – we will appealing should Eastern accept them.
“They’ve (Ashwood) been in Southern since day one, they’re a Southern club, we won’t be letting them go.
“We think we should fight for them (Ashwood), they’ve asked us to, so we will be.”
unwise gamgee
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and st kilda city. but yes this would be fine, it would mean an 18 round season where everyone plays each other twice and has 2 byes (16 games)
Wild Thing
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Where is St Kilda City? Surely you haven’t dropped them to D4?
Currently with Ashwood in D3 has 10 teams. So you either bring up another team from D4…..possibly Hallam or just have a Bye (if Ashwood go).
don_draper
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A bye at D3 level isn't the end of the world in my opinion
I forgot to include them lol..
spindles11
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Bad decision for ashwood to go imo. The games are closer but the footy is a lot better…
FootballGuy95
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Will be in Div 4 for a while
*technically Div 5
But they wanted to join “the premier competition in Melbourne”
SFNL will block it anyways
100% they will block it.. EFNL is a league of its own. Oakleigh I believe struggled when they switched leagues.
FootballGuy95
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Oakleigh went to Div 2 though didn’t win a game
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FootballGuy95
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Confirmed Blocked they are staying in sfnl this year
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cantwinfinals
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Don’t think the time was right for Ashwood, probably wouldn’t have been strong enough - might take them a year or two but can definitely see them going in the next few years.
FootballGuy95
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There isn’t going to be any easy games next year should be a competitive divisions next year
cantwinfinals
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- Sep 1, 2022
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Completely agree, could be anyone’s premiership. However wouldn’t surprise me if the likes of Berwick, SM and Heatherton heavily feature in the finals.
FootballGuy95
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Souths defeat to dolphins in the granny might have done some damage to them Gillis might not be coming back big juz finished. Cult figures out the door
Black rock making big inclusions could a big ladder riser
don_draper
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SM would be better placed spending Gillis' money on a couple of decent mids rather than a show-boating flat track bully.
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I hear both SFNL and EFNL were against the move.
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Black Rock losing Stu Wines to Dingley will hurt.
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