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It's not ideal but it seems it's what the SANFL and most of its clubs wanted.I think it's bullshit that professional footballers are playing against part timers...it's hard to take the competition seriously.
it's hard to care when your team is being beaten up by a professional outfit.
i still go however because what else am i going to do on a saturday afternoon. but my interest has decreased.
Hard to see who can overtake them. Could be in the middle of a Centrals-like era - but theirs ended with 4 flags in a row...perhaps Norwood's will too?Still have massive interest. Norwood should be booking in with the trophy shop now though. Massive ins
West won 3/4 times they played the AFL last year didnt they?
I think it's bullshit that professional footballers are playing against part timers...it's hard to take the competition seriously.
Hard to see who can overtake them. Could be in the middle of a Centrals-like era - but theirs ended with 4 flags in a row...perhaps Norwood's will too?
Well here's a newsflash for you, it's only going to get harder from here on in.More to the point, that SANFL clubs are still restricted by salary caps, even though the AFL Reserves teams are not. How crazy is that?
Well here's a newsflash for you, it's only going to get harder from here on in.
Every league under AFL has dropped in Victoria since the AFL effectively took over. The SANFL clubs will not be able to maintain the $$ that they have previously, players will go elsewhere chasing $ and the chance of being picked up via the SANFL will diminish. AFL is solely interested in filling its U/18 talent pipeline - nothing else. They could not give a rats arse about community football.The silly thing about all this is you'd think the AFL would see the benefits of having strong vibrant local leagues all over the country, but they do everything they can to weaken them. I find that very strange, a bit like how Cricket Australia are treating the Sheffield Shield.
Oh well, so long as these corporations use clever marketing to convince the gullible public that their products have never been better, they have nothing to worry about ..... have they?
Every league under AFL has dropped in Victoria since the AFL effectively took over. The SANFL clubs will not be able to maintain the $$ that they have previously, players will go elsewhere chasing $ and the chance of being picked up via the SANFL will diminish. AFL is solely interested in filling its U/18 talent pipeline - nothing else. They could not give a rats arse about community football.
The AFL should take over the SANFL, use it for what it really is, a feeder competition.
If you do this, your SANFL will be ****ed and as will all levels of your community football because it takes out a massive component of what is good about lower tier footy, the ability to watch youngsters come through against men and start on their way. No more Cooneys or Aish's playing in senior premierships as kids, just lots of kids spat out of the system like garbage once they turn 18. Believe me - you don't want it.Instead of taking over the SANFL, the AFL should instead work with them to establish a separate under 18s TAC-like cup competition. This, in my world, would involve scrapping the current SANFL underage leagues (but keep the Senior and reserves) then the new underage league can act as a feeder or something similar (maybe a reworked SANFL mini-draft)