Southern Football League (Tas) Thread

[GoldenMagpie16]

Who are the 8-10 that have left? Joseph, Gilmour any news on who else?

Alex Gilmour
Brad Joseph
Kobey Phillips
James Pulford
Jason Gridley
Brodie Johnstone
Scott Quinn
Sam Hughes
Are the ones confirmed as of this point

 

[Kingpin]

Alex Gilmour
Brad Joseph
Kobey Phillips
James Pulford
Jason Gridley
Brodie Johnstone
Scott Quinn
Sam Hughes
Are the ones confirmed as of this point

Jimmy Pulford moved to Melbourne for Uni, I believe, his father was telling me last week.

Scott Quinn did a huge amount around the club but stepped down at the end of last season as his work committments were apparently ramping up, that was announced at the B&F but he was still intending to be around the club in some capacity but obviously not now.

Sammy Hughes was the Reserves coach until 2021 but stepped down at the end of that season.
Hughes remained as one of the Senior coaching staff until the end of last season.
Steve Joseph took over the Reserves in 2022 but resigned late in the season owing to a combination of work and health reasons and a group of people including Gilmour coached out the rest of the remaining few games.
Am not entirely surprised to lose those other names mentioned, I would think they were probably pretty close with the coach, in fact, I thought we'd lose more.
I knew Brad Joseph would go as soon as Gilmour left the club as they're pretty close mates.
I think there was a lot of personal stuff that went on of which I'm not really privy to, that was a factor in all of this.
Shame really that something that started with such great positivity fell away like it did.

 

[TassieFooty1]

Any news on where they’ll all end up playing?
Have heard rumours that Gilmour and Joseph are going to Campania to link up with Daft and some other former premiership teammates.

 

[kobeyphillipsfan]

Alex Gilmour
Brad Joseph
Kobey Phillips
James Pulford
Jason Gridley
Brodie Johnstone
Scott Quinn
Sam Hughes
Are the ones confirmed as of this point

Pretty sure kobey Phillips and Jason Gridley left before Alex Gilmour resigned as head coach… two massive outs if you ask me.

 

[GoldenMagpie16]

Any news on where they’ll all end up playing?
Have heard rumours that Gilmour and Joseph are going to Campania to link up with Daft and some other former premiership teammates.

Kobey Phillips - Claremont
Jason Gridley - Lauderdale

I am not 100% sure about Gilmour and Joseph going to Campania as of yet, however it’s a possibility that I wouldn’t rule out.

 

[DR SFL]

Kobey Phillips - Claremont
Jason Gridley - Lauderdale

I am not 100% sure about Gilmour and Joseph going to Campania as of yet, however it’s a possibility that I wouldn’t rule out.

Rumor mill is going crazy

I’ve heard
Gilmour to New Norfolk, Claremont, Dodges, Triabunna, Richmond, Uni and retirement

Joseph to Dodges is strong as he lives there apparently

Kreune, Quinn etc all going somewhere together is the word

Gridley - Lauderdale - confirmed

Daniels - Sorell (strong rumor)

also heard they have interviewed Ackroyd from Sorell last year who mysteriously went missing after the first few games

Gives us something to talk about I guess

 

[Ozguy]

Any news on where they’ll all end up playing?
Have heard rumours that Gilmour and Joseph are going to Campania to link up with Daft and some other former premiership teammates.

I heard those 2 were going back to Richmond. Not sure how reliable the source is though.

 

[Dogman 1]

Would you want them, destroyed Richmond and now Hobart. Gilmour burns most club he goes too.

 

[jj15]

Hobart better win while Gilmour is coach or it’s a massive bust. Simple.
Don’t tell me these young blokes will hang around the club either, they didn’t last time and they won’t again. SFL shouldn’t bend to any club with points situation. Develop your own.

With all due respect, I don't expect Hobart is particularly interested in what other people's opinions are. And I'm totally fine with that.
It's high time the club stopped "rolling with the punches" copping s**t every year, being mocked by other clubs who recruited heavily about being ordinary for two decades and actually came out swinging, looking after its own interests first and foremost. Good on them, I say!
It's all fine for other clubs to do it down the years, while Hobart spent very little.
Face facts, Hobart was dead in the water and looked highly likely to have gone out of business by 2022 through a lack of interest before Gilmour signed on as coach.
The culture of the club had become very, very stale, unprofessional and unambitious and that had to change. And it is.
Also, I think you'll find that a fair portion of those players the club have signed on, as per postings on their Facebook page, are underage players as well as senior players, they've made a point of welcoming every new player to the club, no matter what grade.
By the way, if you're running a club and you have players banging on your door wanting to play with you, and you're finally being seen as a destination club for the first time in a couple of decades, would you turn them away? Would you say "Ohhhh nah, you're right young fella, we best not recruit you because a few blokes off the internet might crack the sooks if we do, best you go to a rival club"?
You would literally have to have the IQ of a Whoopee Cushion if you did that.
Hobart in the past might've done that, but certainly not this current one.
In relation to developing from underneath, I recall very well the club began doing that several years ago with great work done by the late Brian Harvey, and it was becoming quite successful, only to be totally stuffed up by Scott Wade and that other oxygen thief, Wayne Povey. Have never forgiven either of them.
Personally, I've always thought it was about time the clubs stopped their petty whinging, backed themselves and started doing similar.
Make the SFL worth being involved in again.
Fact - the ones who don't WILL be left behind.
Proof's in the pudding and has been for years now.

Im sure they won’t care about my opinion, I wouldn’t expect them too. I don’t have a problem at all with how Hobart have gone about it, at all. I’m just saying if they don’t win while he’s there it will be a bust in my opinion. Clarence and North Hobart aren’t missing those young blokes as a whole btw. Lachie Andrews the only one I consider would develop into a TSL senior player so the rest my as well play SFL. Your right Kingpin if they didn’t do what they did they would probably be gone right now, but if doesn’t work or even if it does I hope they have an after Gilmour plan as Richmond clearly didn’t.

Yer at the time I got absolutely hammered when I was concerned about the approach and who they had targeted.
It was clear this day would come but hey it was just an opinion at the time that turned into a fact. Those young recruits were always going to jump at the first chance though.

Looks like they didn’t have that after Gilmour plan made up either. What now? Try and raid another club? North Hobart and Clarence don’t have the extra juniors to poach now.

 

[GoldenMagpie16]

Would you want them, destroyed Richmond and now Hobart. Gilmour burns most club he goes too.

I'm sure that a few clubs would want them. Gilmour has a very good footy brain and would instantly create a target up forward.

 

[Kingpin]

Yer at the time I got absolutely hammered when I was concerned about the approach and who they had targeted.
It was clear this day would come but hey it was just an opinion at the time that turned into a fact. Those young recruits were always going to jump at the first chance though.

Looks like they didn’t have that after Gilmour plan made up either. What now? Try and raid another club? North Hobart and Clarence don’t have the extra juniors to poach now.

Well the long term plan was that they were going to build up the strength of the club through the underage and reserves but that never eventuated.
I still think it was a very good signing at the time, under the previous administration, given the parlous state of the club at the end of the 2019 season, just that things ended up going pear-shaped for one reason or another.
And let's not forget, after Nathan Hartnett finished his stint as stand-in coach after Mark Beck resigned, there were only a couple of candidates to sound out the job, one had only just been announced as senior coach of another SFL club, the other was an ex-player who wasn't particularly welcome back at the club after a few off field incidents, that person was involved at Old Scholars level.
Both seemed to be trying to up the price for more money.
Gilmour had sought interest last-minute in coaching at SFL level and was a successful candidate.
Given the fact that Richmond had declined to field a side during the 2020 Covid season, several others also followed him over to Hobart.
Notably many of those moved on after a season or two.
Some were great, some had poor attitudes and got lazy and got let go, others had disagreements with the coaching staff over the intense training requirements.
I would tend to think Hobart would go back to the drawing board with respect to restructuring at underage level in the near future.
As you would realise, keeping kids involved in footy once they age out of underage has been an issue for some years now (we saw that first hand after 2017 and 2021).

 

[Dogman 1]

I'm sure that a few clubs would want them. Gilmour has a very good footy brain and would instantly create a target up forward.

He would. Good player and good footy brain but would you risk your club for the sake of 3-4 years.

 

[Ozguy]

He would. Good player and good footy brain but would you risk your club for the sake of 3-4 years.

The way things are going, what clubs can guarantee they will still be around in 3-4 years?

 

[Dogman 1]

The way things are going, what clubs can guarantee they will still be around in 3-4 years?

Very true.

 

[hands like feet]

The way things are going, what clubs can guarantee they will still be around in 3-4 years?

I have a horrible feeling that times are only going to get tougher for a lot of clubs in all of the comps. Juniors dropping off and just not interested, recruits want massive dollars, volunteers harder to get than players and running costs of clubs at an all time high.

It is worrying times for Football Clubs and supporters.

 

[jj15]

I have a horrible feeling that times are only going to get tougher for a lot of clubs in all of the comps. Juniors dropping off and just not interested, recruits want massive dollars, volunteers harder to get than players and running costs of clubs at an all time high.

It is worrying times for Football Clubs and supporters.

If you banned colts players from doubling up then half the sides would already not be able to field a reserves side.

 

[GoldenMagpie16]

I heard Colin Garland

Colin Garland

Age

36

Ht

191cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.7

4star

K

8.9

3star

HB

4.8

3star

M

4.1

4star

T

3.0

5star

MG

249.9

4star

No current season stats available

D

7.0

2star

K

2.8

1star

HB

4.2

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

1.6

4star

could be playing for Lindisfarne.

 

[Gersman]

I have a horrible feeling that times are only going to get tougher for a lot of clubs in all of the comps. Juniors dropping off and just not interested, recruits want massive dollars, volunteers harder to get than players and running costs of clubs at an all time high.

It is worrying times for Football Clubs and supporters.

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I hear on the grapevine that New Norfolk are really light on for players as well
Can pick the bottom three a month and a bit out from the start of the season, Hobart, Claremont and New Norfolk.
Not good for the SFL at all.

 

[tassiemagpie]

CLAREMONT VS UNI PRACTICE MATCH

CLAREMONT 18
UNI 51

QTR TIME


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[Gersman]

CLAREMONT VS UNI PRACTICE MATCH

CLAREMONT 18
UNI 51

QTR TIME


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So how much did the Bows end up winning by?
Score?

 

[tassiemagpie]

So how much did the Bows end up winning by?
Score?

Not sure in the end, I left early. I did hear 100plus points from a mate.

Claremont looked alright in patches but might be another long year.


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[GoldenMagpie16]

I’ve heard Hobart had about 25-28 players at training tonight with approximately half not knowing what to do as of yet.

 

[frankfurt]

What about the disgraceful form from AFL Tas/SFL Bullying other clubs and players in regards to the Hobart FC potentially losing all its players.
I have never seen this happen in the past when clubs like Claremont went through the same thing, you can’t keep players at a club they don’t want to play for.
What I don’t get is that the Hobart Senior coach stood down due to personal reasons and now all the players are leaving, What’s that got to do with the senior coach standing down? if the players wanted to stay at the Hobart FC then they would stay no matter who was coaching. Maybe the board are the problem and that’s why the players want to get out of there.

 

[Ozguy]

What about the disgraceful form from AFL Tas/SFL Bullying other clubs and players in regards to the Hobart FC potentially losing all its players.
I have never seen this happen in the past when clubs like Claremont went through the same thing, you can’t keep players at a club they don’t want to play for.
What I don’t get is that the Hobart Senior coach stood down due to personal reasons and now all the players are leaving, What’s that got to do with the senior coach standing down? if the players wanted to stay at the Hobart FC then they would stay no matter who was coaching. Maybe the board are the problem and that’s why the players want to get out of there.

Don't see what the problem is.

This has been the same with every club. You sign a contract, they can hold you. Claremont certainly could have held any players under contract.

Players sign legal documents, and think they are meaningless.

More power to clubs holding them.

 

[GoldenMagpie16]

It won’t last long. Players that don’t want to be there will eventually get their clearance to another club.

I can recall all the Hobart players signing their contracts in August/September 2022 and been promised that Gilmour and his crew would be coaching 2023, but now that these circumstances occurred. Surely it’s null/void because the coaches signature is invalid, therefore the contract isn’t officially signed.