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- Feb 3, 2022
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What ideas do you have for the board that they can use to bring the lower clubs up to the level of the top sides.
I’ve posted about this many times but if you’d like a recap here’s what I would do if I started as CEO tomorrow:
1. Use the points system better.
That would involve removing discounts and holding players at their points value for three years before a one point discount. One more point discount after 5 years. Tighten the points for the top teams and remove points from cap of finals teams each year on a sliding scale, add points to teams outside 5 on a sliding scale.
2. Take money out of the game
The salary cap doesn’t work so we will remove money from the competition instead. No admission charges, no sponsor logos of any kind on uniforms or around ground and no alcohol sales until completion of senior match.
3. Protect struggling clubs from player raids
Senior player who has moved clubs in same league at any stage is maximum points and ineligible for discount. Juniors won’t be cleared out of residential postcode without a compelling reason. Introduce junior points system based on postcodes.
4. Address population inequities
Scrap reserves football and under 18 football and play under 16 games as thirds. Under 16 comp expands to be able to include 16-18 ages under permit for players who need further development.
Second grade to be under 23s with a set number of over age players permitted by each team.
I’ve posted about all of these things several times. Some people disagree with some of it, some people disagree with all of it but this insinuation that it’s all criticism and nothing constructive is crap.
Like those ideas or not, they are four more than the so called leadership has given over the past decade.