NEAFL 2020

[justabaraker]

Hi all.
Time for a new thread as we look forward to season 2020.

Please post here from now on

 

[thejumboprince]

With the recent changes showing direction to AFL club needs again, I think its the last or second last season of the comp....the QLD and NSW AFL clubs obviously want to be in another comp.

 

[pinocchio]

Im hearing a new competition is seriously being looked at, its just a matter of what clubs get a licence into it. [ or can afford to be apart of it]
VFL Teams - Williamstown, Port Melbourne, Sandringham, Werribee and Box Hill
NEAFL Teams - Southport, Aspley, Canberra and Sydney Uni
Tasmania, 10 team competition, that includes Victoria, Sydney,Queensland, Canberra and Tasmania.
AFL Teams Sydney, GWS, Brisbane and Gold Coast suns would play in the stand alone AFL Reserves comp with all the Victorian AFL teams only.
WA and SA competitions would remain....

 

[Troy Mc Clure]

I actually heard very similar during the year also, the competition would be made up of teams from Sydney, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and Canberra.

 

[thejumboprince]

Yep, same. And I'm not sure anyone other than Sth Port has the coin to compete in a comp like that...or interest - maybe they will.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Are NT Thunder getting replaced at all?

 

[pinocchio]

Are NT Thunder getting replaced at all?

No unfortunately
9 teams in the NEAFL competition for season 2020.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Im hearing a new competition is seriously being looked at, its just a matter of what clubs get a licence into it. [ or can afford to be apart of it]
VFL Teams - Williamstown, Port Melbourne, Sandringham, Werribee and Box Hill
NEAFL Teams - Southport, Aspley, Canberra and Sydney Uni
Tasmania, 10 team competition, that includes Victoria, Sydney,Queensland, Canberra and Tasmania.

This shows the AFL still haven't learned. The proposed league has the same problem that both the NEAFL and TSL have: they're not localised. There's little travelling support and players have to take a fair chunk of time out of their lives for games and travel, when they're not being paid like full professionals. Anywhere past a 200km journey at most is unwieldy. The TSL is only just hanging on in two cities separated by that distance, after culling areas any further out like Devonport and Burnie.

We should go back to separate leagues for Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane/Gold Coast.

 

[thejumboprince]

No unfortunately
9 teams in the NEAFL competition for season 2020.

Maybe even less. I've heard that more than one community team is struggling to see a reason to carry on given the new rule changes and the direction the AFL is clearly taking things - i.e. all about AFL clubs as usual and no build of the local NEAFL clubs and their games as the top brand for local footy.