Bendigo FL discussion 2026

[saintron]

cant you talk about something else than this crap gets boring so how are the clubs in bendigo going regarding training etc

 

[Vlodrive]

cant you talk about something else than this crap gets boring so how are the clubs in bendigo going regarding training etc

Yes I was heavily invested in the Gisborne fiasco that’s been spoken about for months & months

 

[royboy2]

And while I'm here whats happening in country footy? One chair abuses someone as they accept a premiership medal, another claims a team is grooming.

Where's AFL Vic? Leadership void is unreal.

AFL Vic are amazing, except when it comes to doing anything or making a clear decision on something....that part they like to steer clear of.
What AFL Vic actually do besides be a figurehead, I'm unsure of

 

[ringo1]

AFL Vic are amazing, except when it comes to doing anything or making a clear decision on something....that part they like to steer clear of.
What AFL Vic actually do besides be a figurehead, I'm unsure of

What they have done is cause a huge skism in most leagues where clubs stuck down the bottom have little to no hope of ever competing.
GV- Echuca, Ky
Bendigo- Sandhurst, Eaglehawk, Strath
Hampden- Koroit, Nth Warrnambool
Geelong- St.Mary's, Newtown, Joeys, Sth Barwon
Gippsland- Leongatha, Traralgon, Maffra

And there are a heap of other leagues where only a few can contend. 2026 will see one of the above teams win another flag while the points system consigns bottom teams to the bottom. St. Mary's won the flag with 28 points but still have 38 to work with. Surely they should have the amount they won the flag with.

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

What they have done is cause a huge skism in most leagues where clubs stuck down the bottom have little to no hope of ever competing.
GV- Echuca, Ky
Bendigo- Sandhurst, Eaglehawk, Strath
Hampden- Koroit, Nth Warrnambool
Geelong- St.Mary's, Newtown, Joeys, Sth Barwon
Gippsland- Leongatha, Traralgon, Maffra

And there are a heap of other leagues where only a few can contend. 2026 will see one of the above teams win another flag while the points system consigns bottom teams to the bottom. St. Mary's won the flag with 28 points but still have 38 to work with. Surely they should have the amount they won the flag with.

Even more concerning is you can pick the bottom 2-3 , for the next 5+ years , in most competitions.

 

[Jack Doolan]

Hows that anyone's problem, Kyneton women want a team, whys it need to be affilated to the men? Theyve got ground approval, if they can pay their bills, why are we stopping women from playing?

You blokes need to have a good hard look in the mirror, if carol had made this call, there'd be calls for a public hanging, because its your beloved rdfl which you guys seem to think is the best run league in the state, even though all you have to compare is the bfl, it must be correct.

At the end of the day we want more people playing, not creating hurdles, if it fails, than they only have themselves to blame

You constantly post on here about junior development and old school operators yet when a group is trying to take down a traditional club busting their arses to get juniors you are all for it
I’m told Kyneton has had one of the best junior girls programs for many years now they have a group who want to split
The problem is if a small group splits you don’t have enough players to field a team so the remaining players either don’t play or they have to follow the ones who split
The only allegations I’ve seen about Kyneton are a dirty change rooms a missing sticker and the date of a raffle draw
If that’s enough to destroy a club then we are all stuffed

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

You constantly post on here about junior development and old school operators yet when a group is trying to take down a traditional club busting their arses to get juniors you are all for it
I’m told Kyneton has had one of the best junior girls programs for many years now they have a group who want to split
The problem is if a small group splits you don’t have enough players to field a team so the remaining players either don’t play or they have to follow the ones who split
The only allegations I’ve seen about Kyneton are a dirty change rooms a missing sticker and the date of a raffle draw
If that’s enough to destroy a club then we are all stuffed

It’s hard to imagine that is the impetus for the split and that if it were the case that it couldn’t be resolved.
Surely there is someone within the multi billion AFL , that could have structured a meeting 12 months ago and gone through issues to reach a resolution . Both parties may have needed to have given up a little , but that’s part of resolving a dispute.

 

[Jack Doolan]

It’s hard to imagine that is the impetus for the split and that if it were the case that it couldn’t be resolved.
Surely there is someone within the multi billion AFL , that could have structured a meeting 12 months ago and gone through issues to reach a resolution . Both parties may have needed to have given up a little , but that’s part of resolving a dispute.

The way I hear it there was no interest in resolving anything the women were hellbent on finding issues and having a public fallout to further their own agendas

 

[rkjc22]

The way I hear it there was no interest in resolving anything the women were hellbent on finding issues and having a public fallout to further their own agendas

And yet they've been sharing screenshots of messages from them to KFNC and RDFL trying to solve issues and getting nothing in return.

 

[Jack Doolan]

And yet they've been sharing screenshots of messages from them to KFNC and RDFL trying to solve issues and getting nothing in return.

Kyneton are telling a very different story

 

[rkjc22]

Kyneton are telling a very different story

With evidence like the KWFC?

 

[Jack Doolan]

With evidence like the KWFC?

I would estimate 90% of the discussions at clubs are not done via text so probably not it will always be a case of who you believe but we are talking about good footy and netball people with great track records and personally their words are good with me

 

[rkjc22]

I would estimate 90% of the discussions at clubs are not done via text so probably not it will always be a case of who you believe but we are talking about good footy and netball people with great track records and personally their words are good with me

Ah, so no evidence. I'll side with what I can read for now.

Someone mentioned earlier that AI was used to generate one and legal actions incoming so I'll watch that with interest.

 

[MortlockWatcher]

From following the initial media coverage and the quotes that were included in the coverage, I sided with the club on the issue as the ringleader of the rebel women's group, which only had a handful of players amongst their ranks at the time, didn't seem to have a strong grip of the realism of how sporting clubs worked and the quotes attributed to her seemed to convey that.

 

[Jack Doolan]

Ah, so no evidence. I'll side with what I can read for now.

Someone mentioned earlier that AI was used to generate one and legal actions incoming so I'll watch that with interest.

I’m interested in what evidence you are talking about here?
I just had a look at the Facebook posts and there is almost nothing about Kyneton that I saw apart from them calling a public meeting which the women’s team representative objects to for some reason
The comments from the league CEO seem pretty balanced and reasonable and he points out the Kyneton committee has a high level of female representation and shouldn’t be difficult to meet with

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

I’m interested in what evidence you are talking about here?
I just had a look at the Facebook posts and there is almost nothing about Kyneton that I saw apart from them calling a public meeting which the women’s team representative objects to for some reason
The comments from the league CEO seem pretty balanced and reasonable and he points out the Kyneton committee has a high level of female representation and shouldn’t be difficult to meet with

Not surprisingly their frustrations are with Riddell for seemingly wiping their hands , which is fine , but then wanting to intervene when they took action as they weren’t able to resolve issues with the footy club .
The fact they haven’t publicised issues with Kyneton would appear quite respectful .

 

[rkjc22]

I’m interested in what evidence you are talking about here?
I just had a look at the Facebook posts and there is almost nothing about Kyneton that I saw apart from them calling a public meeting which the women’s team representative objects to for some reason
The comments from the league CEO seem pretty balanced and reasonable and he points out the Kyneton committee has a high level of female representation and shouldn’t be difficult to meet with

If you think that a league CEO just wiping his hands is pretty balanced and reasonable then I can't help you.

All the evidence is on their socials, feel free to downplay it to defend the club as much as you want but a President losing their shit at someone supplying a free drink when the club wont give a premiership winning team even a can is pretty ordinary.

 

[Jack Doolan]

Not surprisingly their frustrations are with Riddell for seemingly wiping their hands , which is fine , but then wanting to intervene when they took action as they weren’t able to resolve issues with the footy club .
The fact they haven’t publicised issues with Kyneton would appear quite respectful .

They did when they first split and didn’t even mention anything about free drinks

'Broke our hearts': Why Kyneton's women's side left their club

Kyneton Football and Netball Club's women's team decided to break away from the club in the wake of what players describe as a "horrible, volatile environment".

www.abc.net.au

 

[Jack Doolan]

If you think that a league CEO just wiping his hands is pretty balanced and reasonable then I can't help you.

All the evidence is on their socials, feel free to downplay it to defend the club as much as you want but a President losing their shit at someone supplying a free drink when the club wont give a premiership winning team even a can is pretty ordinary.

That’s a classic part of the deception there’s a message agreeing to do something with free drinks then they skip to a message having a go at them for bringing BYO drinks in
What they fail to mention was the latter message is in regards to liquor licence issues
BYO alcohol on the premises is illegal and they had been breached only a short time before for other issues and were naturally not wanting any other risks to their licence
In terms of free drinks it’s also not apples and apples because people pay to come in and watch football and netball and that doesn’t happen with the women’s footy

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

They did when they first split and didn’t even mention anything about free drinks

'Broke our hearts': Why Kyneton's women's side left their club

Kyneton Football and Netball Club's women's team decided to break away from the club in the wake of what players describe as a "horrible, volatile environment".

www.abc.net.au

Not sure if you’ve responded to the wrong post but that appears to set out to me there has been challenges with the diversity that naturally comes with woman football that have traditionally not been within , or part of the the culture , of football
Netball clubs and therefore haven’t been equiped to handle .
That should be seen as a blight on Kyneton Football Netball Club , it is seemingly acknowledged in that article as being common practice across the state . It’s another reason why women football Should not be aligned to football netball club .

 

[Stax on the mill]

Not surprisingly their frustrations are with Riddell for seemingly wiping their hands , which is fine , but then wanting to intervene when they took action as they weren’t able to resolve issues with the footy club .
The fact they haven’t publicised issues with Kyneton would appear quite respectful .

They have constantly publicised some accusations against Kyneton, eg: scheduling of raffle, which unintentionally ended up clashing with women’s GF, removal of Pride sticker, anger at inequitable funding of post game drinks.

The rest of their gripes that I’ve seen appear to be expressed via mind numbingly vague and non specific cliches, but are being trotted out ad nauseam to justify walking out on the club.

I don’t think they’ve been at all respectful toward the Kyneton FNC. Happy to be corrected.

 

[Jack Doolan]

Not sure if you’ve responded to the wrong post but that appears to set out to me there has been challenges with the diversity that naturally comes with woman football that have traditionally not been within , or part of the the culture , of football
Netball clubs and therefore haven’t been equiped to handle .
That should be seen as a blight on Kyneton Football Netball Club , it is seemingly acknowledged in that article as being common practice across the state . It’s another reason why women football Should not be aligned to football netball club .

Sorry took all my brain power to work out how to get a link in there
I was referring to your comment about not raising issues being respectful but they have raised issues and the sum of them seems to be four key points
One the rooms being dirty two a sticker going missing three the raffle draw date and now four no free drinks
One is ordinary but happens in every workplace and club in Australia and should be easily solved, two no one even knows how it was removed or why it might have fallen off the wall, three as previously said the draw date has to be locked in when the permit is applied for and no one knew it would be the same date as the grand final at that stage, and four is a disputed incident and hardly a big deal
It’s a very tenuous set of issues to walk out of a club over in my opinion

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Sorry took all my brain power to work out how to get a link in there
I was referring to your comment about not raising issues being respectful but they have raised issues and the sum of them seems to be four key points
One the rooms being dirty two a sticker going missing three the raffle draw date and now four no free drinks
One is ordinary but happens in every workplace and club in Australia and should be easily solved, two no one even knows how it was removed or why it might have fallen off the wall, three as previously said the draw date has to be locked in when the permit is applied for and no one knew it would be the same date as the grand final at that stage, and four is a disputed incident and hardly a big deal
It’s a very tenuous set of issues to walk out of a club over in my opinion

I’m personally not buying that they are the only issues.
Whilst I’m more than happy to be proven wrong in my belief that the cultural difference between the two groups will eventually be confirmed as the issue and that the same will raise its head elsewhere .

 

[Lastmanstanding]

It will be interesting how women’s football goes in the region moving forward. With the RAC finishing up and leagues having to run their own race, how will the admin of the women’s league go as it isn’t part of the BFL.

 

[western royboy]

It will be interesting how women’s football goes in the region moving forward. With the RAC finishing up and leagues having to run their own race, how will the admin of the women’s league go as it isn’t part of the BFL.

It will go the same way as it does in other areas. Operate on a shoe string and rely on volunteers to do the work. One could argue it’s the most purest form of the game because everyone is there for the right reasons as there is no $$$ involved. I’ve umpired heaps of it for $0