- Aug 13, 2002
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- #26
Grading games do not work, are not reasonable on parents and give no indication of a teams true ability. You need a more than a few games to guage ability. Not to mention the possibility of throwing games.
If a club has a team in a certain division they must have all four age grops on that division. Otherwise you have parents running from one ground to the next and never getting to see any of the games, this in turn reduces the number of parents availanle to officiate. This causes high player drop outs and clubs begin to fold (ie Northern Football League).
The EDFL have helped even up the grades by reducing the size of divisions 1, 2 and 3. So far that has worked well, each team plays each other twice and 5 out of 8 teams play finals footy - a great initiative. Amazing that when some clubs struggle to field teams in certain age groups that a club is complaining about the way their second or third teams are travelling.
In every compettition there are stronger and weaker sides in terms of ability, let's not jump the gun. The EDFL have got this one right.
I think it's up to the Club on an individual basis, blaming the league the Club plays in is a cop out simple as that. But some prefer to take the easy road than do the hard yards.




