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Max Leader said:
Give us some suggestions.
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I liked St Bernard's, the one year they used it for finals (about 15 years ago). Looking down at the footy from the hill that almost rings the ground has a strange charm you don't get anywhere else. It was weirdly like watching footy at the bottom of a crater.
Max Leader said:
Plenty of very good grounds with good facilities available , just ungated , need to let go of charging to get in , particularly for lower divisions
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Much though I like free finals footy (no one was even pretending to sell tickets at Hadfield last weekend), I'm not sure it is a great thing: (1) it deprives the VAFA of revenue, and (2) it converts lower division finals from an asset to the VAFA to a liability (no gate takings but still have to pay umpires, etc.). This is a problem because (1) the VAFA will make up the money somewhere else (higher fees, more fines, etc.) and (2) like most businesses, they will try to minimise their liabilities - meaning they have more of these crap triple-headers with senior football being played at 9.30am on the opposite side of the city (St John's must been thrilled to go to Hadfield).

Fwiw, Hadfield was quite a good venue (good surface, not much shelter though), but is nowhere near any VAFA club. Strange choice.
 

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bedford said:
Further to the discussion quite a few grounds have had the cricket pitches renovated and these days we have so many girls finals as well , although they could be played on Elstenwick 2
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Cricket pitch renos have begun. Wicks boys have had it roped off for 2-3 weeks
 
localfootylegend23 said:
Grats to them, assuming if it was a better standard than vafa d2 because of the matchies, they did recruit very well, playing with nearly full 46 points every week
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Recruited very well with 6 guys from Div 1 NFNL joining them, including the best player in the whole comp and others from other competitions. They had a completely different team from their Div2 (level 5) Vafa team. Imagine recruiting 6 VAFA A Graders and the best into the comp for a Div 2 Vafa team :)
 
Champ or Chump said:
Recruited very well with 6 guys from Div 1 NFNL joining them, including the best player in the whole comp and others from other competitions. They had a completely different team from their Div2 (level 5) Vafa team. Imagine recruiting 6 VAFA A Graders and the best into the comp for a Div 2 Vafa team :)
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I was looking at the points the other day, I only knew of gilmore, 6 is a fair few plus handy players like cafari and nolan still running around, im not shocked they won it all. See how they go next year and if the cash is still there
 

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pazza said:
Apparently Westbourne with it's dual grounds offered to hoist this year...but would anyone want to travel west?
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I'd rather travel west than north
 
localfootylegend23 said:
Clubs need the volunteer power to host as well, not a easy feat seeming everyones well and truly had enough by end of the season.
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Another issue is whether clubs (especially non-VAFA clubs) consider it financially worthwhile - a major concern when so many clubs have to pay helpers.

In the lower sections, VAFA grand finals usually get a good crowd, but the earlier finals are pretty sparsely attended.

One minor tweak would be to make it a final 4, even in 11- or 12-team divisions. It doesn't drag on so long, and the first week of a final 5 is the worst - the elimination final has some interest, but the qualifying final (a double chance to see whether you get another double chance) is pretty lame.

Some outside clubs have hosted VAFA finals but are unlikely to do so again. Clayton hosted SFNL finals for a few years, missed out, then put in for VAFA D3 finals back in the late 00s. Whoever arranged it didn't know much about VAFA crowds: they catered for a SFNL-sized crowd (pie warmers full, great heaps of hot dog rolls by the boiler) and seemed surprised when the crowd was about that of a SFNL H&A reserves match (one or both of the sides were the lower section uni sides - either Swinburne or Latrobe - which didn't help). I can still see the club's ground manager surveying the tiny crowd with a look of total disbelief and disgust. At least the volunteers should have got a few free hot dogs.
 
Penski said:
It should be the last straw to choose grounds with artificial pitches in the middle.
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Reasonable shout penski. However it would appear the alternative (turf decks) is starting to work against the vafa. Both grounds I mentioned host efnl premier weekly - the best comp in metro Melbourne- they seem ok playing on them.

At least hadfield had the nice landscaped area around the ground to watch from without having to reward mediocrity and pay the useless vafa admin 17 shekels to watch one game (at 9.30am, ridiculous).

OTP Vermont was lengthened and widened this year and pretty sure the posts got raised to a reasonable height!


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God Yeah said:
Was anyone at the U/19 Div 2 GF yesterday at La Trobe?

Free kick and 50m penalty after the siren to allow Uni Blues to kick the match winning goal and walk away with a 1 point win.
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Yeah. Sucks for the Wellers but it was the right decision
 
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