VFL The North VFL Thread

[year of the roo]

No mate - I tried but no luck.

haha - very good! Better luck next time :stern look

 

[BlueandWhiteinmyBlood]

Will Southport be in the vfl program next year?

 

[gokangas]

haha - very good! Better luck next time :stern look

Used all my best lines too.

 

[giantroo]

 

[The Nostradamus]

no big loss barely played

watkins will be a big loss tho need to find a good replacement

 

[Mr north man]

Will be playing MPFL within 2 years

 

[The_General#1]

no big loss barely played

watkins will be a big loss tho need to find a good replacement

Barely played cause he wasn’t given many opportunities. Jack AFL players list flog so kids like him don’t get much of an opportunity. Got sold the dream by North and then shattered him by not selecting him. The kid can play. Better than some of the hacks we have on our afl list.

 

[Twangler]

Barely played cause he wasn’t given many opportunities. Jack AFL players list flog so kids like him don’t get much of an opportunity. Got sold the dream by North and then shattered him by not selecting him. The kid can play. Better than some of the hacks we have on our afl list.

I watched when he did play and he was much worse than our AFL players who played similar roles. Hes still young so may come good yet but can’t say I agree based on what I saw

 

[hotchilli]

Barely played cause he wasn’t given many opportunities. Jack AFL players list flog so kids like him don’t get much of an opportunity. Got sold the dream by North and then shattered him by not selecting him. The kid can play. Better than some of the hacks we have on our afl list.

Sounds fairly personally invested.

 

[The_General#1]

Sounds fairly personally invested.

Hmm maybe. Maybe not. Or maybe just calling out our lack of intelligence. 5 games that were not worse than guys like Drury, Harvey etc who are FT. Our list never seems to improve at the rate of other clubs partially because our VFL depth is garbage. JMO.

 

[giantroo]

 

[The Nostradamus]

Deakyn smith can play, got dropped near the end of the year unfairly imo

Time to get some ins, with these recent afl Delistings like Cumberland would be good

 

[giantroo]

Outs: J.Watkins (SANFL - Port), K.De La Rue (Frankston), D.Smith (Melbourne)

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Was always going to be tough for the like of De La Rue, Trembath and Harrop to get extended cracks at VFL level with the likes of Watkins, Lowson, Downie and co getting priority.

Have heard Lowson is on the fence as to whether to play VFL again or chase the $$$ in the local leagues.

Will also be interesting to see if Lienert goes around again or if Mitch Hannan and Sam Hayes stay on the list.

 

[Twangler]

No Watkins, no lazz and no Greenwood. So likely vfl midfield is currently Phillips and…. ?

 

[The Nostradamus]

No Watkins, no lazz and no Greenwood. So likely vfl midfield is currently Phillips and…. ?

Pick 2

 

[Twangler]

Pick 2

No certainty our first pick is a midfielder, from all reports we are looking to go tall. It does show that despite our midfield apparently being strongest, we don’t have a lot of depth. Or maybe it’s a case of the AFL team having too many midfielders and we have them playing different roles on the ground.

 

[hoffseason gains 01]

Need to secure Ben Hopkins for this year if he doesn’t get drafted. Very good off the half back for dandenong this year and surprised he didn’t get a game for us.

 

[The_General#1]

Deakyn smith can play, got dropped near the end of the year unfairly imo

100%. Guys like Smith are important to running a development program.

 

[Junk yard]

No Watkins, no lazz and no Greenwood. So likely vfl midfield is currently Phillips and…. ?

Our VFL recruitment team are going to have their work cut out for them. Just lost three of their best mids. I've said it before, our midfield depth is in the 1s, playing out of position. Phillips struggled last year, he's going to need some senior support around him. We'll need at least two new VFL mids.

 

[hoffseason gains 01]

Our VFL recruitment team are going to have their work cut out for them. Just lost three of their best mids. I've said it before, our midfield depth is in the 1s, playing out of position. Phillips struggled last year, he's going to need some senior support around him. We'll need at least two new VFL mids.

Have to say we’ve probably been one of the best AFL teams at recruiting for the VFL. Found Sellers, Watkins, Lord, Keogh who all have/will/could be on an AFL list. Got Davis, Lowson, Downie, Butler, Lienert, all pretty strong VFL level players. A lot of our development list players have been poached by other teams over the last few years. Luckily there should be plenty of 1. Delisted mids and 2. Undrafted mids that should be able to be strong VFL contributors. We just have to pick up 1 or 2.

 

[hotchilli]

Just need some more luck with fitness and availability for our AFL listed guys. The difference in our VFL form during the periods where we had most guys available really stood out.

 

[giantroo]

 

[The_General#1]

I think the writing was on the wall when he told North to stop picking him so he could qualify for local finals.

 

[Bulldogs85]

Since it hasn’t been shared yet thought you would like to know