Just saw the results from today’s round and I’m wondering whether Walwa and even Corryong will have to forfeit a senior game this year. If clubs aren’t preparing for a mass merger they should be.
So all 3 matches in reserves were forfeits Old Kenny?
As far as I know. I think Corryong only had 18 or 19 on their team sheet on the website. Did hear they are forfeiting for the year but that could be bullshit. No idea on the 3rds but feds didn’t have enough for today. I also saw on the Tdfl website that tallangatta had 11 kids in their 17s today from the upper Murray. Make it difficult for us to keep seniors going let alone the lower grades.
Any chance the leftovers each week from Walwa, Feds and Corryong can put a reserves together? If there’s only 3 teams that grade will collapse.
Not a bad idea mate but I don’t think there’s any left overs. Corryong had the bare minimum in the ones. Feds have none and I don’t think walwa would have any either. It’s a sorry state of affairs. Mergers are our only option. One little glimmer of hope is our under 10’s though. I know it doesn’t help anytime soon but all clubs seem to have plenty of boys and girls playing. Even walwa had ten or a dozen when we played them.
Got a possible merged team you could pick?
Pretty sad to here the old might demons can't even field a fully senior side let alone a 2's. I had a look at the teamsheet and I saw old Shawy had to pull on the boots, i hope this isn't happening every week. I can't see Feds wanting to merge, by the looks of it all clubs will have to put their differences aside and merge together.
Welcome back demon85.Pretty sad to here the old might demons can't even field a fully senior side let alone a 2's. I had a look at the teamsheet and I saw old Shawy had to pull on the boots, i hope this isn't happening every week. I can't see Feds wanting to merge, by the looks of it all clubs will have to put their differences aside and merge together.
I tend to agree, I think Tumba would head to the Farrer league, they already recruit out of Wagga and this would make it even easier to source players. I think Walwa, Feds and Corryong would merge to become Upper Murray Eagles, while at his stage Cudgy and Bullioh would go alone. At least one 17's and 14's could come from the league and stop the best kids filtering down to other Tallangatta league clubs. Like the Picola league I'd break off the TDFL clubs into 2 divisions by geography eg. Towong and Indigo. Bullioh and Cudgy are easily as good as the bottom 4 TDFL clubs so the standard shouldn't alter much.
You sound like your just talking about the seniors it’s about how strong the clubs are
I like this idea
TDFL Clubs don’t want them in is what I’m hearing.
Heard the same mate. It’s a mess alright. As soon as we lost our juniors it was inevitable. I don’t think walwa can go on much longer and Corryong aren’t much better this year. We’re lucky we kept a few from last year. But there’s bugger all local blokes around to play senior footy like there used to be. I don’t think there’s as much angst between the two Corryong sides anymore. Maybe both clubs are resigned to the fact that they have to merge.
I don’t think they’ll get much of a say, VCFL will just overrule any protests.
