RDFNL 2026 Season discussion

[JB51]

How old is he, I hope the AFL are looking at him.
Looking forward to seeing him play and it also great for the league.

 

[Trent from barwon Heads]

How old is he, I hope the AFL are looking at him.
Looking forward to seeing him play and it also great for the league.

He was probably the best player outside the afl maybe 2021, before the year was cut short by covid, did some amazing things at wang.

Id think he'll be forward 50 only, he'll kick 100 this year.

 

[Alabama Slammer]

He was probably the best player outside the afl maybe 2021, before the year was cut short by covid, did some amazing things at wang.

Id think he'll be forward 50 only, he'll kick 100 this year.

If he plays every game he’ll kick 150

 

[Turbos mail]

If he plays every game he’ll kick 150

Haha. Won’t be getting the ball feed to him lace out like at Wang or Abers. But yeah think he will go close to kicking 100 though. Absolute star!
Where do Diggers get the $$ from as they have probably the best list for a few years now.

Good on them. Seem like a good club and always enjoyed the times I’ve ventured there over recent seasons on the odd occasion.

 

[Trent from barwon Heads]

Haha. Won’t be getting the ball feed to him lace out like at Wang or Abers. But yeah think he will go close to kicking 100 though. Absolute star!
Where do Diggers get the $$ from as they have probably the best list for a few years now.

Good on them. Seem like a good club and always enjoyed the times I’ve ventured there over recent seasons on the odd occasion.

Theyve got a great ability to recruit guys, moreton and hine both stayed a few years as well a while ago too

 

[Turbos mail]

Theyve got a great ability to recruit guys, moreton and hine both stayed a few years as well a while ago too

Yes mate I agree. Great coach in Shaun Campbell and the previous coach also seemed well respected.

 

[Aucklander]

How old is he, I hope the AFL are looking at him.

30 this year by my calculations.

 

[Aucklander]

Any practice match dates and whos vs who?

v Craigieburn, Mulwala and Epping. 14, 21, 28.

 

[drspotto]

Diggers favourites by the length of the Flemington straight

would be another embarrasingly failed year if they didnt with the coin spent (again)

 

[Trent from barwon Heads]

would be another embarrasingly failed year if they didnt with the coin spent (again)

Only one team can win the flag

 

[Doona2]

would be another embarrasingly failed year if they didnt with the coin spent (again)

Finish on top and request no final at Woodend and they’ll be sweet

 

[drspotto]

Finish on top and request no final at Woodend and they’ll be sweet

good plan til your Cooke kicks a bag somewhere else instead

 

[Doona2]

good plan til your Cooke kicks a bag somewhere else instead

Not my Cooke per say but I see what you did there.

I did enjoy a bit of line coaching the fwds that season and this brought a nice memory and a smile on a day that’s dragging

“Be the reason someone smiles today”

 

[ZingerAbed]

Any practice matches coming up?
I’m ready to watch footy again

 

[daniel31]

How many goals did Cloke kick at wallan last year?

 

[Fozz1908]

How many goals did Cloke kick at wallan last year?

 

[uptheguts625]

RDFNL just did a mic drop on the KWFC

 

[Aucklander]

KWFC Application - Full Story

Home of the Riddell District Football Netball League.

rdfnl.com.au

 

[ICS]

RDFNL just did a mic drop on the KWFC

What a great well articulated response from the league from months of public slander from a bunch of entitled trouble makers. Well done to the league for taking the higher ground this whole time and being measured with this release. The league will survive………

 

[CrowdedHouse]

What a great well articulated response from the league from months of public slander from a bunch of entitled trouble makers. Well done to the league for taking the higher ground this whole time and being measured with this release. The league will survive………

Without a horse in this race, and someone who had worked in Media/PR, I'll disagree and say it might look impressive on the surface, but is actually a very poor Press Release.

If I was the local paper, I'd ask, if it was as something as 'simple' as, you can't use the Kyneton name, why not come out immediately after your appeal and just state it - nip everything in the bud straight away? Saying that a month after the appeal gives the impression it was an excuse after the fact.

Also, there are two "Gisborne" teams - the long established Bulldogs, and the recently forned Giants. Plus don't forget "Sunbury Lions" and "Sunbury Kangaroos", so why do the Tigers get exclusivity of the "Kyneton" name?

Plus, from working in PR, Friday arvos/nights was always seen as 'take out the trash' day. If you need to release something for transparency reasons, but you didn’t really want the media to cover it, you did it on a Friday, so it would get buried.

Like I said, no horse in the race (ex RDFL ump from 30 years ago), and there's probably more to the story (release the bloody report AFL Victoria), but the Presser left more questions than answers.

 

[justlikefooty]

What a great well articulated response from the league from months of public slander from a bunch of entitled trouble makers. Well done to the league for taking the higher ground this whole time and being measured with this release. The league will survive………

Yes so true, Perfect response.... They responded with precise detailed facts. I hope those think they are entitled ladies ( putting it nicely ) never get let into any football league with they way they have handled themselves. To go to media and try to go down that avenue was down right embarrassing....
They got their right whack

 

[Morgs senior]

Also, there are two "Gisborne" teams - the long established Bulldogs, and the recently forned Giants. Plus don't forget "Sunbury Lions" and "Sunbury Kangaroos", so why do the Tigers get exclusivity of the "Kyneton"

Lack of demonstrated need - evidence did not support a requirement for an additional club in the

Kyneton region, with the proposal relying predominantly on the redistribution of existing

Not sure you read all the info

 

[Mad Jack]

Without a horse in this race, and someone who had worked in Media/PR, I'll disagree and say it might look impressive on the surface, but is actually a very poor Press Release.

If I was the local paper, I'd ask, if it was as something as 'simple' as, you can't use the Kyneton name, why not come out immediately after your appeal and just state it - nip everything in the bud straight away? Saying that a month after the appeal gives the impression it was an excuse after the fact.

Also, there are two "Gisborne" teams - the long established Bulldogs, and the recently forned Giants. Plus don't forget "Sunbury Lions" and "Sunbury Kangaroos", so why do the Tigers get exclusivity of the "Kyneton" name?

Plus, from working in PR, Friday arvos/nights was always seen as 'take out the trash' day. If you need to release something for transparency reasons, but you didn’t really want the media to cover it, you did it on a Friday, so it would get buried.

Like I said, no horse in the race (ex RDFL ump from 30 years ago), and there's probably more to the story (release the bloody report AFL Victoria), but the Presser left more questions than answers.

I’d say it was more of a statement than a press release. And there was a subsequent Herald Sun article so the media did cover it. What the statement appears to have done to me is tell the truth. It beggars belief that a group of people (the KWFC) who claim to have allegedly been bullied, harassed, vilified and so on would allegedly go on to use bullying, personal and family harassment, and blackmail attempts as a retribution strategy.
As for the discussion around the use of the town name - I think it’s pretty clear the reasons for the opposition against that. Yes, many other towns have 2 or more teams in them - simply because the size of those towns can support multiple teams.

 

[CrowdedHouse]

I’d say it was more of a statement than a press release. And there was a subsequent Herald Sun article so the media did cover it. What the statement appears to have done to me is tell the truth. It beggars belief that a group of people (the KWFC) who claim to have allegedly been bullied, harassed, vilified and so on would allegedly go on to use bullying, personal and family harassment, and blackmail attempts as a retribution strategy.
As for the discussion around the use of the town name - I think it’s pretty clear the reasons for the opposition against that. Yes, many other towns have 2 or more teams in them - simply because the size of those towns can support multiple teams.

I don't buy into the size of the town argument.

It's not like clubs pull players from just the local neighbourhood. How many teams in Country Vic have paid (male) players that drive up from Melbourne and other towns?

EDIT: Benalla, similar population to Kyneton has two different football clubs in different leagues (AI assisted answer).

A capitalist approach is needed. Let the KWFC play. If they're wrong, they'll fold in a couple of years and those on the RDFNL side can boast they were right. BUT if they're right and women want to play for them instead of Kyneton FC in the continuing years down the track, well, that's a Kyneton FC problem that they have to address internally.

 

[The Tilt]

I don't buy into the size of the town argument.

It's not like clubs pull players from just the local neighbourhood. How many teams in Country Vic have paid (male) players that drive up from Melbourne and other towns?

EDIT: Benalla, similar population to Kyneton has two different football clubs in different leagues (AI assisted answer).

A capitalist approach is needed. Let the KWFC play. If they're wrong, they'll fold in a couple of years and those on the RDFNL side can boast they were right. BUT if they're right and women want to play for them instead of Kyneton FC in the continuing years down the track, well, that's a Kyneton FC problem that they have to address internally.

I mean, it's fine to argue that startup clubs should be free to use whatever name they want. The point is, those aren't the rules. The existing KFNC don't want another "Kyneton" club due to concerns about it jeopardising their capacity to attract members and players. They were entitled to appeal, and did.