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^^The previous year both Grand Finalist were promoted. In saying that everyone knew that as it was about restructuring. It's the same deal but different but as it's East Burwood it upsets people, last year no one gave a s**t.
As Far as Berwick go, if they want in then it's their juniors as well of which they don't wish to do. Convincing Football Victoria to agree is one thing everyone is forgetting.
Bring the lot in, if you want to be part of the EFL then it's all in. That's the problem with the junior clubs not in the same league. That's my view.Why do they have to bring their juniors as well or do you mean U19's only.There are plenty of current EFL clubs with their juniors in the Yarra Junior Football League.
So why do you think the EFL clubs will accept Berwick into D2 in 2021 when they knocked them back for season 2020.
Everyone beats the bottom 3 by 100 points in div 4.
You were all happy to gloat and celebrate when Gileno kicked 19 or whatever it was, posting your articles on here. Shame he couldn't kick any in the game that mattered. But now its all "we don't like beating teams by 100 points".
The biggest misconception was that East Burwood were this unluckly loser that just faltered at the last hurdle. Coldy, Fairpark and East Burwood all had a 1-1 record against each other this year before finals. Fairpark should have beaten East Burwood the first time too if it wasn't for a horrible umpiring decision off the ball. But when you analyse the results v top 4 teams more closely Fairpark had the best % and that was before they destroyed Coldy in the Prelim.
I'm not sure why the journo of the article emphasised the wind and rain in the Grand Final either. Fairparks dry weather football was the best in the division by far. It disadvantaged them playing in the wet.
They aren't the first team to lose players to a higher division. Mitcham won the flag this year on the back of a once in a generation team of Ferntree Gully players. They would probably be division 4 if they didn't recruit them.
Not really sure how EB moving up helps with equalisation. Unless the clubs at the bottom find a path to rapid improvement there are still going to be 100+ wins each week in Div 4. 2nd through 5th all finished with about 200% this year.
Our 1s stretched Fairpark as much as anyone did in the 1st Semi, Ressies won Div 4 GF, and U19s lost the Div 1 GF by a point. Are we going up to help with player retention?
There is a fair amount of evidence Surrey should have been promoted head of East Burwood. Your 19s are better, your 2s are better and you just lost one of your better players to Doncaster.
But you have a lot less in some other areas. A lot less chips on your shoulder, a lot less arrogance and a lot less sense of entitlement.
All clubs are worried about losing players if they don’t go up. IMO all of their points are not great reasons for them to be given approval to go up. Should have sucked it up like every other club that loses the GFFor those who can't get through the Pay Wall. Here is the article in the H/S about EB
EFL 2019: East Burwood promoted to Division 3
Toby Prime, Whitehorse Leader
October 10, 2019 10:30am
East Burwood will be promoted despite not winning the EFL Division 4 premiership.
The league has approved for the Rams to compete in Division 3 in 2020, making the fourth tier a nine-team competition.
East Burwood applied to the league following its grand final defeat against Fair Park for the chance to be promoted.
East Burwood coach Stuart Wynd said the club feared losing players if it was not promoted.
“We’ve got a really good under-19s group,” Wynd said.
“There’s some really talented kids who have come through the juniors playing A Grade every year and winning premierships.
“If we stayed in that Division 4, we would have been a fair chance of losing a few of them.
“It just gives us a better standard of footy to try and sell them and keep them around.”
East Burwood’s reserves also made the grand final and its under-19s won the Division 2 premiership.
“We’ve got some really good young players between 20 and 25 years old that need to be playing a better standard of footy,” he said.
“The opportunity came up that we could go up and we had to take it for the betterment of the footy club otherwise we might have lost a few handy young players.”
East Burwood’s average winning margin in the home-and-away season this year was 103 points.
It finished with a 14-2 record and won its semi-final by 45 points before last month’s grand final defeat in the wind and rain.
There was a gulf between the flag fancies and bottom three teams this year, with Nunawading, Kilsyth and Croydon North-MLOC winning just six games between them.
“I don’t think we would have lost too many (players) but I think, without sounding too cocky, it gets a bit boring rolling up some weeks knowing you’re going to win by 100 points,” Wynd said.
“There’s a couple of teams in Division 4 that have been struggling for a while.
“It’s all right having a couple of those games every now and then but when you’re getting one every second week, it makes it really hard to stay motivated.”
Wynd said the club wanted to be promoted with a premiership but the chance to go up was too good an offer to be turned down.
“We got the feeling the EFL didn’t want us … winning by 100-plus points against the bottom teams (in Division 4) every second week,” he said.
“We were hoping to earn our way in there by winning the grand final but it didn’t eventuate.
“When we lost, we asked the question and I think they were of the same opinion as us that our under-19s were really strong, our reserves were really strong and obviously our senior side is pretty strong as well.
“We think we’ve got the list to be competitive up there.”
Will the Coldstream F C change their name to the Coldstream Tigers with all those ex MFC guys there.A great signing by them ,Jarrod Witnish the captain of the MFC 2015 flag team.
Haven't been following the EFL for a while - but know a couple of blokes who play in different teams.
I'm sure its been covered before, but wasn't East Burwood a first Division Club a few years ago ?
With the new point system, won't it benefit clubs with strong juniors i.e. Vermont ?
Cheers