hey thanks for that.. last time i spoke to him he told me he wasnt playin, but that was bout a month or so ago.. want sure if he had changed his mind.. yer his brother goes alrite aswel
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Western Region Football League Team (Part 2)
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Hans StandJacko
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I am an EDFL follower and I think you may want to reassess some of those sides with the amount spent if what is whispered around the league is true.
Greenvale, Marbi and Strathmore would be closer to $200k. Abers, Keilor, Doutta, Oak Park would be around the $120k mark. Not that it guarantees success as Strathmore is 1-3 and Doutta and Keilor are 2-2. West Coburg the most prudent spenders - probably around $70k and are sitting 3-1 at the moment.
Would think you might struggle to get the super comp aup and running due to logisitics, history etc altohugh if Greenvale go through the season undefeated again other sides might want to look at it as no fun playing the year when at best you can only finish second.
I love it and i think at some stage it will have to be considered there are too many struggling teams in local footy and if this was set up well and don't get me wrong it would be a massive job with huge overheads, it would create a standard higher than VFL reserves. Imagine the crowds that you would get for massive games. There would have to be a standard for grounds and facilities. Maybe the AFL could assist in this and help save local football.
I'd have to agree this concept or something similar would make for a better standard of football week in week out.
At the very least it should be discussed at VMFL level,nothing wrong with being pro-active to sure up the future of grass roots football.
I could understand some reluctance from the EDFL however. They are a very hard nut to crack when "change" has been tabled in the past.
Hans StandJacko
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Yes agree there - it took years for Jacana and Craigieburn to be let in as the clubs kept voting against it.
I also think you will find that the EDFL would think that there comp is reasonably healthy (excluding Greenvale dominance) and not as many one-sided results as there seem to be in the WRFL this year. As such they perhaps have a smaller incentive to push for the Super Comp. There is also talk of introducing the points system for season 2009.
With a few players swapping between the two leagues this year - Caddy to Greenvale, Hollow to St.Albans, Krenovic to Albion, would be interesting to get their thoughts on the standard between the two leagues.
Johnny, hows Kaino going down there? I rate him quite highly and felt he wasnt given the opportunities I think he deserved at Hoppers. Good kid too.
Played round 1 in seniors went ok, but was injured, played in the two's on the week end but will definately play seniors this week against hoppers.
playsnogood
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A couple of points, one you could send Port down to the SFL and keep it to teams on west side of the Yarra, and that is no offence to Port.
Make each team field an under 18 team, so you have 3 games every Saturday.
All grounds to be fenced, similar to country leagues, clubs charge a set entry fee to games.
Grounds to meet a minimum standard (no sand pits in Div 1 and 2) Alternate grounds to be sourced, i.e. Whitten Oval, Windy Hill, Schools and Universities with good ovals, VFL grounds all as back up.
Would allow for more night matches across the leagues.
Larger pool of umpires could actually improve overall standard.
This idea has good merrit and would if successful produce a fairly high standard, similar to the old VFA days. It would improve professionalism in the league and be inviting to players to come play in.
Make each team field an under 18 team, so you have 3 games every Saturday.
All grounds to be fenced, similar to country leagues, clubs charge a set entry fee to games.
Grounds to meet a minimum standard (no sand pits in Div 1 and 2) Alternate grounds to be sourced, i.e. Whitten Oval, Windy Hill, Schools and Universities with good ovals, VFL grounds all as back up.
Would allow for more night matches across the leagues.
Larger pool of umpires could actually improve overall standard.
This idea has good merrit and would if successful produce a fairly high standard, similar to the old VFA days. It would improve professionalism in the league and be inviting to players to come play in.
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Unworkable.
How are you going to make teams have under 18's. What happens if they are not able to get a team up. Do they get kicked out?
The league may also require the use of your magic wand to wave in the air and produce some more umpires.
table tennis
Bigfooty class clown
Whether or not that it would be possible to do, it would be good to see sides like Vermont V Greenvale etc. A great post! better than the usual crap of petty issues that usually get posted in here!
It does smell of the old VFA. Which i think would be a fantastic concept. Someone should get in contact with phil cleary. he would love to get involved with that sort of thing!!!! hahaha
It does smell of the old VFA. Which i think would be a fantastic concept. Someone should get in contact with phil cleary. he would love to get involved with that sort of thing!!!! hahaha
Unworkable.
How are you going to make teams have under 18's. What happens if they are not able to get a team up. Do they get kicked out?
The league may also require the use of your magic wand to wave in the air and produce some more umpires.
And Im sure the councils will jump at the chance to spend $1000's on building fences around every ground. I also doubt whether V.F.L clubs will allow local clubs to "fall back" onto their grounds if the grounds arent up to scratch. Clubs find it hard to train on their own grounds now, let alone allowing other teams to play on them. Good in theory but I agree, these aspects wont work.
Half Back Pocket
Premiership Player
There's nothing wrong with either comp. Go through the premiers/runners up since 1990 and see how many differnet teams feature. Very healthy, really.
Compare that to the EFL where Vermont have won 11 out of the last 17, and played off in a couple as well.
Having said that, a super competition (or division) would be great for local footy.
Compare that to the EFL where Vermont have won 11 out of the last 17, and played off in a couple as well.
Having said that, a super competition (or division) would be great for local footy.
playsnogood
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Anything is workable if enough people want it to happen.
There are plenty of junior clubs that have no senior affiliation, there is one source of U 18 players, there are a number of clubs who have multiple teams, again a source of players.
If you came out tomorrow and said every club must have an U18 team and put a fence up to charge a gate fee, I reckon there would be a working bee at every club that has a ground unfenced, building fences, and ads at schools and on big footy looking for U 18 players.
At the end of the day, the decision to build a super league would have to come from AFL Victoria or the VFL because there are to many with their hand in the cookie jar at the moment for it to change.
Which means regardless of the results this year, next year there will be big margins in alot of games and the middle rung clubs will go out to top up their lists again.
When 38 yr olds are dominating div 2 and kicking 18 goals 7 in a game, it shows the gap is fairly wide no matter who gets promoted and relegated.
There are plenty of junior clubs that have no senior affiliation, there is one source of U 18 players, there are a number of clubs who have multiple teams, again a source of players.
If you came out tomorrow and said every club must have an U18 team and put a fence up to charge a gate fee, I reckon there would be a working bee at every club that has a ground unfenced, building fences, and ads at schools and on big footy looking for U 18 players.
At the end of the day, the decision to build a super league would have to come from AFL Victoria or the VFL because there are to many with their hand in the cookie jar at the moment for it to change.
Which means regardless of the results this year, next year there will be big margins in alot of games and the middle rung clubs will go out to top up their lists again.
When 38 yr olds are dominating div 2 and kicking 18 goals 7 in a game, it shows the gap is fairly wide no matter who gets promoted and relegated.
johnny bravo
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They were going to make a super league a few years ago with the old teams from the RDFL (ie melton, melton south, sunbray and darley) and the top side from the EDFL and have 8 teams. Would have been a great standard of footy but would have effected the other leagues to much that is why it did not go ahead
We could just copy the ammos set up just have one metro league and then have div 1,2,3,4,5 and have the same promotions and relegations as the ammos.
Personaly i think it is the way to go but it must come from the afl or vmfl and i doubt this will happen.
Personaly i think it is the way to go but it must come from the afl or vmfl and i doubt this will happen.
table tennis
Bigfooty class clown
It would have to be one in all in. every metro league would have to want to take part. otherwise it would be too detrimental to the non participating league.
Great idea, cant see it happening, football leagues are not innovative enough to get these things up and running. as i keep saying, Friday night games could be a cash cow for the competition, but they keep being neglected as it would take extra preparation to get up and running. This would take a mammoth amount of organising. Therefore it will remain in the too hard basket for a very long time!
Great idea, cant see it happening, football leagues are not innovative enough to get these things up and running. as i keep saying, Friday night games could be a cash cow for the competition, but they keep being neglected as it would take extra preparation to get up and running. This would take a mammoth amount of organising. Therefore it will remain in the too hard basket for a very long time!
OverRated_13
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WOuld love 2 see the super league formed but what about the eastern league teams etc. vermont, balywn and others you couldnt have a superleague with out them
Vermont beat Balywn by 21 goals, thats massive. They have a large number of ex AFL players
Rock
I gather you and Beazer are talking about Williams. I also rate him highly. He plays both short and tall very well. Great pair of hands. I reckon Hoppers (we eat our young) Crossing could do with him at the moment. Willing to give away what position you're grooming him for?
We have rated kaine over the last few years and did play against us when we knocked hoppers of in the gf in 06,he was an 18 year old so to get a game in that team shows how good he can be.
As to what position we want him to play, we are not really sure but as you say he can play tall or small, looked ok in the centre early in the reserves game last week so he mite develop into a midfielder but at this stage mainly at hfwd/hfback or wing.
With masis hurting his hammy i let kaine know early saturday nite that he would be in against hoppers, we just couldn't resist to play him against his old mob, i'm sure he will play well.
Macca29
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I'm sure he meant Super League to include all metro leagues which Vermont and Balwyn are in now.
It would be great to have a rival to the Ammo's - how could would an inter league game be and smash the big heads from the Ammo's
wrflrandom
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On the weekend Old Essendon Grammar played St.bernards at Windy Hill in a Ammo divy 2 game and got 5000 to the ground. Don't know where all the money raised from the game went as OEG's only got a cut of the takings from the game. Also they are not allowed to consume alcohol during the game but before and after is o.k. The drinking part won't suit the wrfl but with those numbers to a game it might work.
Yeah have to agree that it'll be great to see him play against his old team and I hope he smashes them. Getting rid of Daniel Frazer and letting Kaine go will hopefully come back and bite them hard this season. Looks like its already started to.
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