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    D2 Division 2 2026

    NB will have a tough year on and off field. They are playing their home games out at Jacana while Allard Park is being resurfaced - which has now blown out to the entire season (they were originally supposed to be back on it mid season). They are still using Allard for social events but it...
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    SFNL Div 1 2026

    Bit of a reality check for the Colts after a surprisingly good R1. Today's Colts side seemed to be mainly made up of recent ex-U19s. There's some talent there - Nos.9 and 20 were quick with the ball and had good footy sense - but not much height and no weight. Narre had some big bodied...
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    D3 Division 3 2026

    Merger with South Yarra (who actually play in North Balwyn) would also be worth looking at. SY also chronically starved of success and recently dropped back into thirds. Also a ticket into SFNL, where a merged club might be successful. AFL Vic would surely only let a merged BHN/EP go to EFNL...
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    SNFL Div 4 2026

    Made a very brief stopover at St John's while on way through the area. Turn up was good, but perhaps a bit down on what I expected. About 20 or 30 fans were at the east end around a trailer selling beer. More were inside, but not that many - partly due to small supporter base of Narre South...
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    Future of the WRFL

    It worries me that Port Colts were one of the not so nasty clubs. The rest must have been completely savage. Think it was the other way around - hard to recall, as Colts and Spotty played off two or three years running. My memory (I think it was in the last one) is that the Colts got out to...
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    VAFA General Discussion

    Lifted this from the D3 thread, as it is general to the whole VAFA: Some excellent points on here. Shorter season, with smaller divisions to make them fair: I like it, but need feedback from the clubs / players. As I've posted elsewhere, I'm against limiting thirds - blocking social...
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    VAFA General Discussion

    Agree. Thirds footy is social footy - footy that you play with your mates. If I was turned away from the club where my mates were because the club wasn't allowed to field any more sides and it already had too many players, I wouldn't think "gee, I think I'll go to some club where I have no...
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    VAFA General Discussion

    In some ideal world, I'd agree with you. If the choice was just having blokes either (a) play divisional (quality) footy or (b) play thirds (social / 'park') footy, I'd rather they chose (a). But in the real world, blokes have the choices (a) playing divisional footy, (b) playing thirds footy...
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    SFNL Div 1 2026

    That's as far back as it goes - SEFNL was only established in 2015. Before that, clubs were part of the MPNFL (Casey - Cardinia section).
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    WRFL Div 2 Discussion 2026

    Just got around to looking at the fixtures and was a bit disappointed that there is no Good Friday footy this year - in either Div 1 or 2. I'm surprised no club was up for it. The Albion game last year was well attended, had a good atmosphere and should have turned a few $ for the club. And...
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    SFNL Div 3 2026

    Wikipedia reckons St Kilda City Sharks started up in 1992. I can certainly remember St Kilda City having women's footy later in the 90s - way back before women's footy was a thing (or the thing it is now).
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    WRFL Div 2 Discussion 2026

    No - we're a bunch of old farts talking about the olden days.:) The game he is referring to was back in the 90s. Nothing to do with recent events.
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    D3 Division 3 2026

    I'll have to take your word for it. I went to Swinburne in the late 90s but I was only a TAFE pleb. We didn't have much to do with the important people in higher ed (uni) section. There were also cultural issues back in my day. TAFE students students made up a large chunk of the student...
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    WRFL Div 2 Discussion 2026

    I don't remember anything about an umpire being hit, but my memory of it is pretty vague. Did the umpire get kinged by a player or a ground invader? Pretty wild even for the 90s if it was the latter.
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    D3 Division 3 2026

    Think it may be more to do with being a side from a second tier uni. Since covid, a lot of uni courses are being run mostly / entirely online. Students who rarely / never set foot on campus or meet fellow students in person would probably be less likely to want to play for the uni. This...
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