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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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    D3 Division 3 2026

    I'm surprised their facilities are bad (haven't been there in years so can't comment directly) - they were only built about 20 years ago. I can remember there was a fire there and they had to build a new pavilion.
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    D3 Division 3 2026

    A lot of people can't afford a 'little holiday'. Also, a lot of people can't commit to two nights and every Sat. Plenty of blokes have a casual second job or side hustle with unpredictable hours. The VAFA can't do much about people who can't play because of injury concerns (especially...
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    VFL 2026

    I was in the city today so I had a went to the State Library and had a crack. Staff are very helpful. Excellent readability is entirely due to the librarian. I also included p.23 in case anyone else was interested in reading it.
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    WRFL Div 2 Discussion 2026

    I don't think there could be a formal link with any of the old Newport sides. Surely they would have been liquidated / wound up soon after their demise. On the one occasion I saw (current) Newport playing at Martyn Oval, there was a past players for blokes from the old Newport that wore maroon...
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    WRFL Div 2 Discussion 2026

    Nice find Churner. I think you may be thinking of an earlier blue, SS. I have no memory of Newport East or Williamstown United - think they exited from the old WSFL in the 80s or early 90s. I think Turbo may be on the money - I seem to remember some of the players being in maroon jumpers. I...
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