EDFL Premier Discussion 2025

[Del228913]

Bingo!

Makes zero sense, Keilor aren't spending 65k on a season, and spending 100k + on the coach

 

[leo tolstoy]

Herald Sun article is an interesting read. Don’t see how having 60 games from your VFL listed players is an excuse. If it is going to exceed the cap don’t play them or renegotiate.

 

[ontheroadagain]

Big hitting HS Interview
The three key leaders of the Keilor club on Thursday also revealed:

● They would fight back against misinformation, inaccuracies and scurrilous social media comments, which had seriously impacted the mental health of several volunteers at the club, with McGuane saying: “The axe forgets, the tree remembers”

Look out BigFooty

 

[PortVic]

Big hitting HS Interview
The three key leaders of the Keilor club on Thursday also revealed:

● They would fight back against misinformation, inaccuracies and scurrilous social media comments, which had seriously impacted the mental health of several volunteers at the club, with McGuane saying: “The axe forgets, the tree remembers”

Look out BigFooty

Could understand where Mick was coming from in that video, but hard to accept with their president sitting next to him. Been one of loudest sledgers over the fence in the last 20 years At EDFL games.

 

[Jerry gee]

Nick Condos is a keilor man iirc not that there’s anything wrong with that

Sounds like Big Nick has done it greek style to the board and CEO and footy manager of league to get his beloved club a slap on the wrists

 

[The Longblow]

What would Pat think about all this Salary Cap fiasco?

Pat wouldn't give a flying. One of Pat's unique qualities is he does what he wants to do without fear or favour. This is a quality not too many possess as most people do what they think will win approval from their frenemies.

 

[The Longblow]

Anyone who thinks any competitive team in Premier runs out onto the field for under 300k a year needs to check themselves into a facility. My view is the edfl and KFC both had as much as the other to lose if the truth was revealed and decided the best approach was the story on what happened along with agreement on the penalty. I just want to see great footy and don't care what it costs in premier as it needs to be a strong competition and the players need to be paid well. I cannot stand AFL and want local footy to be as strong as possible.

 

[BlueJet]

Big hitting HS Interview
The three key leaders of the Keilor club on Thursday also revealed:

● They would fight back against misinformation, inaccuracies and scurrilous social media comments, which had seriously impacted the mental health of several volunteers at the club, with McGuane saying: “The axe forgets, the tree remembers”

Look out BigFooty

Any comment about how the actions of their committee have impacted the mental health of those same volunteers or are we still pretending that they're somehow victims in all of this?

This is not a chicken & egg scenario. If they don't get get busted, there's no commentary about it.
I'd wonder whether he'd allow players to shirk accountability in such a blatant manner..

 

[ICS]

Anyone who thinks any competitive team in Premier runs out onto the field for under 300k a year needs to check themselves into a facility. My view is the edfl and KFC both had as much as the other to lose if the truth was revealed and decided the best approach was the story on what happened along with agreement on the penalty. I just want to see great footy and don't care what it costs in premier as it needs to be a strong competition and the players need to be paid well. I cannot stand AFL and want local footy to be as strong as possible.

You’re on the money with the league having too much to lose.

The problem here is AFL vic needed to show some kahunas and implement a sufficient penalty, even if they had to overrule the league on it


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[Calmdowngoldy]

Not sticking up for Keillor in anyway but some of the unjustified reports , rumours and theories without any evidence to back them up is staggering. This is what social media creates a pile on mentality

 

[Calmdowngoldy]

Anyone who thinks any competitive team in Premier runs out onto the field for under 300k a year needs to check themselves into a facility. My view is the edfl and KFC both had as much as the other to lose if the truth was revealed and decided the best approach was the story on what happened along with agreement on the penalty. I just want to see great footy and don't care what it costs in premier as it needs to be a strong competition and the players need to be paid well. I cannot stand AFL and want local footy to be as strong as possible.

Agree LB . Not many people know this but a meeting of presidents chaired by Bruce Kent last year where a large majority of presidents all signed a submission to the AFL to either look at removing the cap or raising it to the figure LB mentioned above. So most of you are arguing against the direction your president and committee want for your respective clubs

 

[Calmdowngoldy]

Anyone who thinks any competitive team in Premier runs out onto the field for under 300k a year needs to check themselves into a facility. My view is the edfl and KFC both had as much as the other to lose if the truth was revealed and decided the best approach was the story on what happened along with agreement on the penalty. I just want to see great footy and don't care what it costs in premier as it needs to be a strong competition and the players need to be paid well. I cannot stand AFL and want local footy to be as strong as possible.

Agree LB. Not many people know this but a meeting ran by Bruce Kent where a majority of presidents signed a submission to the AFL to raise the cap to the figures LB mentione

 

[Calmdowngoldy]

or remove the cap altogether. Some of you are arguing against what your president and committee want for your clubs

 

[Calmdowngoldy]

Sorry no glasses

 

[BlueJet]

or remove the cap altogether. Some of you are arguing against what your president and committee want for your clubs

Is that really a problem?
I'm sure some at Keilor, Wangaratta, Dimboola etc had wished they had second guessed the actions of their committee.

 

[gohardorgohome]

Maybe they can have a Premiership Flag burning event at the Keilor oval.

All KFC players coaches and committee be mandated to attend (de registration if they don’t) and have the Premiership trophy handed back to the committee.

KFC could sell beers to the members of the local footy community who may like to attend.

Giving back to the community.


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[Humblebob]

or remove the cap altogether. Some of you are arguing against what your president and committee want for your clubs

Isn’t that the crux of the issue though?

We’ve got a rule in place that no-one adheres too, or polices with any sort vigor, yet we’ve had AFL VIC and the EDFL run a sham “investigation” knowing full well that basically every club in the division would be in breach of said rule.

I have no idea if the club presidents met or not but it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest if it were true, they all try to recruit the same players and they would all know what everyone else is paying and what it is going to cost to compete.

Either commit to the cap or get rid of it all together as others have said. I don’t even blame the clubs personally, blame the governance.

The “line in the sand” moment was upon them and they did stuff all about it, what’s happening now is just embarrassing.

 

[Del228913]

How can you claim its because your players who were vfl aligned played more in 2023 and that's how you went over?

Why don't Keilor look at what other clubs copped and realise they got out of it lightly

 

[Shootfromthehip]

Agree LB . Not many people know this but a meeting of presidents chaired by Bruce Kent last year where a large majority of presidents all signed a submission to the AFL to either look at removing the cap or raising it to the figure LB mentioned above. So most of you are arguing against the direction your president and committee want for your respective clubs

This maybe so but EDFL presidents don’t run Football in Victoria. The rules/laws of football are set for the greater good of all . Not a select few . In any case the submission was thrown in the bin . We all have restrictions placed upon us we don’t like . We also make mistakes both intentional and by carelessness and we usually pay for them .

 

[thefunnelweb]

With this all been settled, how long does Mick have left at Keilor as coach?

As long as he want! Coach doesn’t do the contracts let’s not forget this a good man who has a talent for developing good footballers we are lucky to have a coach of this quality giving back to grass roots football, the systems looses if we loose mick

 

[PortVic]

As long as he want! Coach doesn’t do the contracts let’s not forget this a good man who has a talent for developing good footballers we are lucky to have a coach of this quality giving back to grass roots football, the systems looses if we loose mick

Isn’t he the football manager also?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Anyone who thinks any competitive team in Premier runs out onto the field for under 300k a year needs to check themselves into a facility. My view is the edfl and KFC both had as much as the other to lose if the truth was revealed and decided the best approach was the story on what happened along with agreement on the penalty. I just want to see great footy and don't care what it costs in premier as it needs to be a strong competition and the players need to be paid well. I cannot stand AFL and want local footy to be as strong as possible.

All great if you’re watching one of the very few clubs who can afford to compete at that level.

There’s not many of them. Maybe they should form their own league.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

As long as he want! Coach doesn’t do the contracts let’s not forget this a good man who has a talent for developing good footballers we are lucky to have a coach of this quality giving back to grass roots football, the systems looses if we loose mick

FWIW contracts (the AFL Vic player declaration) aren’t signed by the coach.

They’re signed for the club by one of

President
Secretary
Treasurer
Football Manager

Coach won’t be blamed as he doesn’t sign anything.

If I’m signing one of these things I want to know every last thing that’s going on. If not, I’m not signing it. Nothing to gain for me.

 

[thefunnelweb]

FWIW contracts (the AFL Vic player declaration) aren’t signed by the coach.

They’re signed for the club by one of

President
Secretary
Treasurer
Football Manager

Coach won’t be blamed as he doesn’t sign anything.

If I’m signing one of these things I want to know every last thing that’s going on. If not, I’m not signing it. Nothing to gain for me.

People forget to bunk they all volunteers at clubs just doing the best they can as well. So many variable factors in a situation like this

 

[Flyingleslieskite]

FWIW contracts (the AFL Vic player declaration) aren’t signed by the coach.

They’re signed for the club by one of

President
Secretary
Treasurer
Football Manager

Coach won’t be blamed as he doesn’t sign anything.

If I’m signing one of these things I want to know every last thing that’s going on. If not, I’m not signing it. Nothing to gain for me.

The coach also talks to the player and offers them the amount verbally. The administrator does the contract