What will be the situation with Box Hill in an AFL Reserves competition?

[Gary Shadforth]

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What will be the situation with Box Hill if the AFL returns to asking clubs to field a team in a newly formed reserves competition?

On the AFL Teams program, FOXS1, last night panelist Liam Pickering sounded certain when he tipped that the AFL, in 2011, will return to operating a reserve competition with games, like in the past, played as curtain raisers before main AFL games.

So, that begs the question what happens to our association with Box Hill Hawks and City Oval as a venue?

I would like to think that, if that should come about, our reserves would be named Hawthorn - Box Hill. And that there remain an entity at Box Hill where the club trains our reserves, conducts senior practice matches and runs VFL reserves. But that begs yet another question, what happens to the VFL?



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Lest we forget

[dlindsay]

I just cant see the AFL having curtain raisers in the future, they got rid of them in the early 90's to protect the surface of the grounds, and these days with only Etihad and the G I cant see them starting back again. Can you imagine how bad the surface at Etihad would be after two games!

I can see the sense in adjusting the VFL comp again, it is too hard for the non-aligned clubs to match up, but surely the AFL wont abandon grounds like City Oval. They have only just returned VFL games to Victoria Park, VFL is bringing in new crowds at Cranbourne and now Cragieburn is a venue. Why would they move away from that?

[Rudi Gilham]

I wonder if Pickering meant the mooted new Eastern seaboard competition involving teams from QLD, NT, ACT & Sydney?

[Mitchell Madness]

Doubt the hawks will leave BHH, they were the first clubs to merge, before the AFL had announced the reserves would be abolished.

Hawthorn saw it as the most cost-effective way to manage things, so either Box Hill will move to the AFL reserve-grade comp or Hawthorn will stay alligned in the VFL with Box Hill

[jiphoc]

If the AFL introduce a reserves competition then you would assume Hawks would stay with BHH. However in that case with the way the BHH list looks they will be very dominate with teams splitting with their VFL sides.