Happy to accept fwiwFWIW new vafa president creating a big footy account and the Herald Sun doing a write up on Div1-Div4 recruits, what other nuggets does 2024 have in store? Bedford as the new mod?
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Happy to accept fwiwFWIW new vafa president creating a big footy account and the Herald Sun doing a write up on Div1-Div4 recruits, what other nuggets does 2024 have in store? Bedford as the new mod?
Why would anyone go to that mob.South Mornington and SFX (now Narre South Saints) have both left the VAFA and are in the Southern League
Just to piss you off BeddersWhy would anyone go to that mob.
Correct. I hear the new boss is a good operator , but has his work cut out with the rabble.Just to piss you off Bedders
In fairness ,Bedders, it is a much better run comp than in its dark days and it was a former Monder president who dragged it out of the mire and set it on the right track.Correct. I hear the new boss is a good operator , but has his work cut out with the rabble.
Okay, I removed them and added U19, U23 and women in different colours. Still am guessing I'm missing something. Any other updates to make?South Mornington and SFX (now Narre South Saints) have both left the VAFA and are in the Southern League
South Mornington and SFX (now Narre South Saints) have both left the VAFA and are in the Southern League
You should be grateful the good burghers from the Peninsula let you Westies in. Lowering the tone and all that.Yes being at Westbourne at 6am for the charter bus to Mt Martha was a bit much.
The VAFA gets bugger all from the AFL as it is. Because they don't see it as "the most important level of sport", even though it is.So the loss of overall revenue generated through media rights, sponsorship and gate receipts will have a profound impact on how much support will be provided to suburban leagues and clubs. Consequently, the likely sporting depression will provide a test of the priorities and the commitment of administrators to the most important level of sport — the community base that props up the sporting pyramid.
Very true, and going to be a massive problem for all clubs, amateur or otherwise. I have always wondered just how much economic benefit (increased business) sponsors get for their money. If sponsors haven't been seeing any actual benefit to themselves (i.e., they've just been writing the money off as charity / goodwill), then they are very likely to drop it.At local level a flattened economy will have an immediate impact on community clubs that typically rely on sponsorship from the kind of small businesses — such as pubs, restaurants and real estate agents — that have taken the biggest financial hits.
Yes, which threatens to open up a fault line within 'multi-purpose' / 'federated' clubs, where sports are played under separate committees (i.e., auskick, junior footy, senior footy). I gather that there is already resentment at some clubs where junior footy makes money and senior footy loses it - rightly or wrongly, the junior footy committee resents being used as a cash cow. This comes back to the purpose of junior footy - is it to produce senior players, or is it a stand-alone in its own right? Clubs are going to have to resolve this somehow.The explosion in entry-level and early-age junior participation has also created a steady stream of revenue for many clubs and, in some cases, a heavy reliance on junior memberships to fund overall operations.
The most important bit of the article. This is going to be the biggest problem, imo, especially with the most recent ex-U19s (those who played their last year of U19 footy in 2019, or would have done so in 2020). Getting teens to make the transition to senior footy is always a problem, with many electing to give it away at this level. Having a gap year will make it even worse. Any club with any sense will be staying in contact with their U19s, but what is good for each individual club may not be what is best for footy as a whole. The clubs will concentrate on retaining their stars (that is, making sure they don't go to other clubs), which is understandable enough. But these kids aren't the problem: kids who are good at footy usually love it, and are pretty sure to return (no matter what club they are at). It is the middle-of-the-range blokes, those who would have normally been 50-60% likely to go on to senior footy but might only be 30-40% likely to do so now, who are the issue. These kids will never be stars, but they make fringe players in the seniors of the premier sides, solid contributors in the seniors of the divisional sides, and are the mainstays of the reserves at every club. If these become a mini 'lost generation', footy is going to have a very big hole in it.Will parents hard hit by the depressed economy continue to pay? Will kids return after a gap season in which they have formed an even greater bond with — you might say addiction to —their PlayStations and iPhones?
Very legitimate question, though hitting the clubs from poorer areas harder.Will senior players who already struggled to come up with their subs — or even be able to pay them — return?
Ya gotta be kidding, unfortunately.Most pertinently, will the governing bodies enjoying a generational benefit from the current participation boom fund their own form of stimulus package to help clubs ensure the now cash-strapped and disadvantaged can still play?
We can only hope.Another key funding question for community clubs is whether government grants for infrastructure promised (and in some cases misappropriated) before the pandemic struck can still be delivered given the billions of taxpayer dollars allocated to wage relief and other emergency initiatives.
The provision of female change rooms has been a key focus of government grants, given the enormous growth in girl's and women's cricket, football and Australian rules particularly. The best hope might be that grants can still be justified in order to provide stimulus for the building industry.
Not such an issue for the VAFA. Might free up some quality players to play amateurs, but is more likely to show just how many play purely for money.Inevitably even the most prosperous local clubs will find themselves asking similar questions to their professional counterparts: Do they need to pay as much for that half-back or recruit the ex-first grade batsman who might have helped win a premiership?
Will refrain from commenting. Doubtless others will have something to say.This might not be such a bad thing for those clubs who have been caught up in the inflated premiership-chasing cash-in-hand economy that distorts the raison d'etre of some even supposedly "amateur" clubs.
And to that, all of us can relate.But during the hiatus it is the simple absence of the gathering of weekend tribes that will be felt most, particularly in those country towns where the people you see at the footy on Saturday afternoon might be the only ones you see all week. For now, the new scoreboard near my house merely creates an impatience for the days when its numbers will, like the faces in front of the old grandstand, light up.
OIGFC rely more on the school maintaining the grounds thus reducing our rent (council grounds) than any money from the school.How many of the school boys clubs would be reliant on funds from the school to operate? All private schools, particularly those reliant on international students could see their revenue topple and will be doing well to keep hold of teaching staff and maintain facilities so the extra cash thrown towards the old boys football club will be an extremely low priority.
Absolutely none.How many of the school boys clubs would be reliant on funds from the school to operate?
Perhaps not entirely reliant, but I think you might find St Kevies helped out with the development at the 'King'. Or at least a trust associated with the school did. And I think those involved with the better connected schools benefit from the association jobs wise.Absolutely none.
Of course they do and the massive networks.Perhaps not entirely reliant, but I think you might find St Kevies helped out with the development at the 'King'. Or at least a trust associated with the school did. And I think those involved with the better connected schools benefit from the association jobs wise.
Flanker28 ?
Well said , it will be JulyIs it finally time for some optimism? Just two cases in the last 24 hours. Apparently we now have less than 190 people with CV-19 in a state of 6 million people and far more people have recovered than are now being treated. Some country areas have had zero cases or the handful they have had have now fully recovered. Not saying we just throw open the gates and go back to the way things were but have we almost reached a tipping point where the economic and mental health impact is now almost worse the substantive disease
Heard today that AFL Gippsland genuinely think they can start in late May. Maybe not the major leagues but the minors as they are almost entirely made up of locals and the impact to country towns not having local sport is substantial, especially on the back of the bushfires. I think late May that is a real stretch but they want to provide some hope and I applaud their optimism.
I know there are plenty of arguments against and I respect those but maybe it is time to at least start having the conversation about when rather than if.