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Will they though? Isn’t it a junior committee? How many clubs have hung in proudly and not listened to the playing group?

everyone just gets to sit back and watch another train wreck as AFLQ are powerless to act. Or more to the point too spineless to act
 

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Miller1971 said:
Agree. Would be embarassed to post up some of the blokes they have.

Most recent ones are some bloke who is fast that played a bit of Ressies and u16s at Coorparoo, an MMA fighter who played a bit of Colts at Labrador, Josh Smart who played 1 x VFL game as a top up, and has mostly played Ressies at both Redland and Mt Gravatt, a Rugby 7's player who played for Wynnum, a guy from Springfield Div 4 who might have trained once with the Pioneers a decade ago, but they list as a TAC Cup player!

Add that to a bunch of lads from Darling Downs, a few ressies blokes from Surfers and its slim pickings.

A for effort, and I reckon they will be better in 2025 than they were in 2024 - but geez they need alot more!

Good on these players for having a crack, but posting up signings like that is surely counter productive?
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Not sure they will be better in 2025 when you look at departures from 2024 vs recruiting. They lost their captain to Coorparoo and I know of at least 6 other players that played regular senior footy last year that have left as well.

I think other clubs will probably go up a notch from last year so it does look bleak. Not sure Jack James by himself can do much about changing that scenario unless he has a few mates going with him.
 
Still Me said:
Not sure they will be better in 2025 when you look at departures from 2024 vs recruiting. They lost their captain to Coorparoo and I know of at least 6 other players that played regular senior footy last year that have left as well.

I think other clubs will probably go up a notch from last year so it does look bleak. Not sure Jack James by himself can do much about changing that scenario unless he has a few mates going with him.
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their 2024 captain or 2023 captain?

It's very bleak if they lost any of the handful of guys that can actually play from their 2024 team.

There was legitmately only 3-4 of them and they need ALL of them to stay!
 
Griffiths, Clare, Blood & Brent probably the only legit senior blokes they had. Sorry, don't know who Hurst is - but wou;ldn't think they could affoird to lose any of those 4, or the next best 5 or 6.
 
stilloutandabout said:
Absolutely correct but they deserve a chance to climb out.
If not natural selection will find its level.
Plenty of clubs have held up the ladder and become viable.

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The way that Zillmere was removed from the QAFL, by not issuing a new license and giving it to Aspley basically killed the club. Once the seniors went, then a lot of juniors leave as well to go to "a QAFL club". Maybe AFLQ have memories of this (probably not) and dont want to destroy the Vultures completely?
 
Windsor_Zillmere said:
The way that Zillmere was removed from the QAFL, by not issuing a new license and giving it to Aspley basically killed the club. Once the seniors went, then a lot of juniors leave as well to go to "a QAFL club". Maybe AFLQ have memories of this (probably not) and dont want to destroy the Vultures completely?
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Didn’t zillmere go broke when the deal with Kedron wavel fell through?
 

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Windsor_Zillmere said:
Maybe AFLQ have memories of this (probably not) and dont want to destroy the Vultures completely?
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one of the common issues at AFLQ is the fact that they never learn from their mistakes, because its different staff making the same ones the previous staff made.

For a national body, I reckon their handover process for key operational staff is probably non existent and everyone comes from a standing start. But the time they are any good, they are burnt out and move on.

pretty sure the last few QAFL comp managers are now CEO's of other sports...
 
2010premier said:
I was bored at work the other day and ran a few stats for the QAFL since 2014 when it


Mt Gravatt played finals 6 times out of 11 since the restructure after 2013. They deserve a chance to get it together but agree with those that have noted that their announced recruits are somewhat embarrassing to be putting out there.

Where to draw the line is always a challenge but at Broady we tend to try to only announce reasonably well credentialed recruits and regular senior returning players.

Honestly think 0-18 is a real possibility again and honestly they should drop back in that circumstance
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Absoluely agree here ,,, not a win last season in all 3 grades with the seniors avg loosing margin like well over 120 points a game.
Time to drop down a division or 2 and put in long term plans to rebuild from there
 
they had 3 wins last year, 1 in the Ressies and 2 in the Colts.

Outside the COVID years (Noosa winless in 2021 in both Seniors and Ressies), the worst 2 seasons on record would be Sherwood 2023, where they still recorded 16 wins across the 3 grades and 2018 Grange with 19 wins across 3 grades, which remarkably included a Colts Premiership and Grange 2019 with 18 wins across 3 grades and Colts finished 2nd.

No other current club has fallen below 20 wins.

It's a huge dip down to only 3, and prospect in 2025 of it being zero across the 3 grades if they even field a Colts team at all.
 
2010premier said:
Didn’t zillmere go broke when the deal with Kedron wavel fell through?
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Shaw Sports, the sports club with the pokies went broke. The football department and club did not. But AFLQ made all clubs reapply for their license, and Zillmeres was not reissued. A strategic review of football deemed that Aspley was a better fit on the north side of Brisbane, and a license was issued to them. Zillmere as a football club continued on with about 5 junior teams, but all senior players went to Aspley or elsewhere to play QAFL. If you kick the Vultures out of the QAFL without consultation, similar would happen. If the Vultures elect to go down with their players support - then maybe you are a chance of making it.
 

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The recently appointed Sherwood Football Director has just been announced as Assistant Coach at Jindalee.

Great pickup for Jindalee here, is he doing both roles?
 
Windsor_Zillmere said:
Shaw Sports, the sports club with the pokies went broke. The football department and club did not. But AFLQ made all clubs reapply for their license, and Zillmeres was not reissued. A strategic review of football deemed that Aspley was a better fit on the north side of Brisbane, and a license was issued to them. Zillmere as a football club continued on with about 5 junior teams, but all senior players went to Aspley or elsewhere to play QAFL. If you kick the Vultures out of the QAFL without consultation, similar would happen. If the Vultures elect to go down with their players support - then maybe you are a chance of making it.
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I think the Mt Gravatt scenario is a bit different due to the number of neighbouring teams. They have Redlands, Coorparoo, Morningside, Sherwood that are competing for same players, not sure Zillmere had that amount of pressure back in day. Plus Zillmere had control of their Clubhouse for revenue.

I feel not having the financial revenue stream of controlling your own facilities is massive for MtGravatt. They just can’t sustain any sort of competitiveness unless they have a consistent revenue each year.

The first question being asked by AFLQ should be are they spending anywhere near the salary cap. If not that is immediate red flag they can’t raise money to be in competition therefore will never compete.

I think the only reason they are still floating is the influence of Bill Renner being on committee and AFLQ believing he can turn it around or is feeding them the information they are comfortable with.
 
freddyfudrucker said:
But you’re ok with floggings in other comps?

2 seasons ago they won 4 more games than Sherwood and 1 less than Noosa.

Short memories in here.

Surely after 30 years in state league they deserve a shot to climb off the bottom.
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That’s a silly comment. The most high profile comp in your state needs to be competitive. If F Grade amateurs in the VAFA was split massively I’m sure the powers would not give a stuff but if their A grade comp was there would be. Fortunately there is a relegation/ promotion system in that comp though. Just commonsense imo.

Every other comp underneath the top one and esp as you move into Div 3/4 (which is where I would advocate demographics over competitiveness) is for social reasons and a good way of getting blokes running around playing sport. Versus doing nothing.

2 seasons ago there wasn’t teams crawling over themselves to play in the comp and it wasn’t moving to a bloody 20 team comp or whatever the aflq believe is an appropriate number.
 
It’s a bad look in any comp. It’s a bad look on the receiving end in any comp and inevitably people are people and vote with their feet. But clubs do deserve a chance to right the ship. Herein lays the problem. When a hard or strategic decision is to be made AFLQ wrong their hands and say they’re powerless and clubs have rights. But on small things they get their clubs out and go whack. Imagine if we had some real leadership and a strategic plan and everyone knew the direction and their roles in it all.

I don’t see any other club putting their hand up to go qafl any time soon so the 20 club comment is a bit hysterical don’t you think?
 

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