VFL VFL Season 2024

[Kappa]

Can we please have a competent vfl team in 2025? Getting dominated every week is not the optimal way to develop young talent !!

 

[manicpie]

Our VFL team isn't doing either. Recently it's been a holding pen for the bottom half of our list who spend a few years there before being delisted. Might just be the nature of things, but it hasn't been the place to watch our future players. Josh is the only one of our senior players that I can think of who played a fair bit of reserves footy for us. After their first year at the club, I don't think anyone else other than Cox would have played much if any reserves footy for us.

Hopefully Allan and a couple of others can buck the trend.

Injuries have held them back a bit also. We also don't really know how we are developing them. We just see the stats and watch the VFL but I'm sure most are given a role to play on the day that's meant to help develop them. I just think it's more about developing them for specific roles. Gone are the days when they play to win every week. We've seen quite a few players get games when none of us thought they deserved it

 

[sr36]

Can we please have a competent vfl team in 2025? Getting dominated every week is not the optimal way to develop young talent !!

I'd be interested to go through the senior teams and see how much reserves footy their players played. It seems to me with all the match SIM at training there aren't many who develop in a slow build up through the reserves anymore. Most of those who make it as regular senior players play AFL really early.

It's almost becoming just a hit out to keep your players match fit and ready to play their role if they get selected.

 

[sr36]

Injuries have held them back a bit also. We also don't really know how we are developing them. We just see the stats and watch the VFL but I'm sure most are given a role to play on the day that's meant to help develop them. I just think it's more about developing them for specific roles. Gone are the days when they play to win every week. We've seen quite a few players get games when none of us thought they deserved it

I think the cream rises early these days with all the extra work they do as juniors and the professional environment of AFL with heaps of match play at training these days. And because they enter the system older than they used to.

The senior players tend to be playing seniors by 20, you rarely get long VFL apprenticeships - most of those who go on to have good careers play little vfl at their club, because they're playing seniors.

You'll get the occasional guy who needs physical development who takes time, but not that many as they have arrived having done weights for a few years.

For us it's been Daicos, Murphy and Cox who've played a fair bit of VFL - and thats going back about a decade. But Daicos had to overcome asthma, Murphy a heap of injuries and Cox being a yank. The rest were playing seniors in their first or second year with us or their previous team.

 

[Jen2310]

I think the cream rises early these days with all the extra work they do as juniors and the professional environment of AFL with heaps of match play at training these days. And because they enter the system older than they used to.

The senior players tend to be playing seniors by 20, you rarely get long VFL apprenticeships - most of those who go on to have good careers play little vfl at their club, because they're playing seniors.

You'll get the occasional guy who needs physical development who takes time, but not that many as they have arrived having done weights for a few years.

For us it's been Daicos, Murphy and Cox who've played a fair bit of VFL - and thats going back about a decade. But Daicos had to overcome asthma, Murphy a heap of injuries and Cox being a yank. The rest were playing seniors in their first or second year with us or their previous team.

IQ didn't become a regular until his third season in 2021, before then he played a fair bit vfl in his first 2 years.
But generally most do play early and often if there are spots available

 

[sr36]

IQ didn't become a regular until his third season in 2021, before then he played a fair bit vfl in his first 2 years.
But generally most do play early and often if there are spots available

Yeah I forgot about IQ. He did the old style David Parkin apprenticeship, which was 5 games, 12 games, 22 games for the good kids. But even then he wouldn't have played VFL since the first two months of year 2

 

[Jen2310]

Yeah I forgot about IQ. He did the old style David Parkin apprenticeship, which was 5 games, 12 games, 22 games for the good kids. But even then he wouldn't have played VFL since the first two months of year 2

Yeah, he developed quick. In those early games he wasn't up to it, but those vfl games certainly helped him.