New NTFA Premier Division 2025

[sherb]

4 rounds in and North's results in the NTFA:
R1 - North wins 143-6
R2 - North wins 117-37
R3 - North wins 158-52
R4 - North wins 234-8
For - 652 Agst - 103 % - over 600

Another brilliant move by AFL Tasmania.

R5 - North Launceston 38.34 (262) d Scottsdale 0.0 (0)

North - 5 wins, 914 for, 103 agst, 887.38 %

I can only assume the morons at AFL Tas are trying to kill the game in the north.

 

[MortlockWatcher]

Do you get the feeling that the big knobs at AFL Tasmania were expecting something slightly different to what is actually happening?
I somehow feel they were a lot more optimistic than the overwhelming majority were.

 

[jj15]

It will even out as soon as VFL is based in Hobart all the good players will just move there. Problem solved.

 

[DANMAN]

R5 - North Launceston 38.34 (262) d Scottsdale 0.0 (0)

North - 5 wins, 914 for, 103 agst, 887.38 %

I can only assume the morons at AFL Tas are trying to kill the game in the north.

AFL TAS wiped there hands of North Launceston & Launceston ...Your problem now (NTFA) AFL TAS do not care.

 

[Gibbke]

The real mistake came with the NTFA's idea that the band would get back together just like old times, and Make Launceston Great Again...

Problem is, it's not 1973 anymore and Scottsdale has not a single footy neighbour left...they used to draw from a healthy NEFU comp, but now there's nothing nearby. Deloraine has always been a footy backwater who just can't attract enough quality to play that far away from big population centres (using Tasmanian perception of distance, anyway!). On the other hand, North Launceston play at an AFL venue and have kept most of the lineup that went undefeated in a comp that was far above anything else in the state for the last few decades, plus they and Launceston have the best junior structures, part of the reason Launceston is still clearly second best despite being gutted after 2023. South and Longford have a huge area full of teams and juniors in their neck of the woods, so they've got the setup if not the current scores on the board. Naysayers are also conveniently forgetting the dominance of South and New Norfolk when they went back to regional footy, and the premier league levelling of both the SFL and NTFL after SW finished in 2000...those teams took years to dismantle...

Today, footy has far fewer teams than it did way back, and far greater emphasis on elite junior development, so the North v Scottsdale comparison pretty much sums it all up. The depth that Scottsdale needs to perform at the level needed simply isn't there even if they went on the biggest recruitment drive...players in Tasmania stay in their regions even if it isn't a rule...

I'll say it again, won't waver - the NTFA needs to be a four team elite comp heavily involved in the Devils program and intrastate footy, and all of the other teams need to be in comps that flog rivalry and ensure everyone puts a team on the field with no disadvantage and full financial viability...if that means a single team on the field like the ODFA, or combined underage teams like whatever North Hobart and Sandy Bay and Hobart were going to do, or Southern Storm, whatever, just make it happen. University and Rosebery-Toorak...that level of current ineptitude has never occurred in Tasmanian footy history, so that has to be fixed...

 

[sherb]

The current NTFA Premier Div ladder.

 

[benbrown]

Blow it up and start again,yet another forfeit from deloraine 18s,adding to the rescheduled games that both them and Scottsdale have done,admit you got it wrong and do it properly this time

 

[OneEyedPie7]

Big whisper that Jay Foon will be at South Launceston full time next year. Not confirmed if he is taking on the senior coaching role at this stage.

 

[CCL]

Big whisper that Jay Foon will be at South Launceston full time next year. Not confirmed if he is taking on the senior coaching role at this stage.

Some time has passsed since this.

He may play a couple games at the Dogs like this year but has committed to South Cairns again next year

 

[tasfootyfan1988]

A couple of big moves already announced with Ponting and Cousins leaving the Rockapes.

Any other signings or rumours yet?

 

[OneEyedPie7]

D.Madden and E.Hubbard are rumoured to be relocating to Qld.

 

[OneEyedPie7]

Dolliver sacked...

What a terrible appointment from day 1.

Hearing that Daniel Rich

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has done his ACL and is no longer playing.

Scottsdale in trouble.

 

[Gak Attack]

Dolliver sacked...

What a terrible appointment from day 1.

Hearing that Daniel Rich

10

Daniel Rich

Age

35

Ht

183cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.7

5star

K

12.6

5star

HB

7.0

4star

M

3.4

3star

T

3.2

5star

MG

430.3

5star

D

14.9

4star

K

13.1

5star

HB

1.8

1star

M

3.8

4star

T

1.0

2star

MG

384.3

5star

D

16.2

4star

K

10.4

4star

HB

5.8

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

5.2

5star

has done his ACL and is no longer playing.

Scottsdale in trouble.

With other teams being asked to apply for Premier League from 2028 I think Scottsdale and Deloraine are in trouble. Seeing how competitive Div 1 was behind Rocherlea who you would think will now come back to the pack its probably a lot better for them to drop back. Moronic to think it was 30 years ago and putting them both up would work but what you expect from AFL Tas and NTFA.

I would imagine St Pats (if they secure another venue) and Scotch will go up. Other two will come from Deloraine, Scottsdale, George Town and Bridgenorth.

After ruining the premier league and womens league they are now apparently trying to **** the under 18s by putting them into two divisions.

 

[LocalFootyEnthusiast]

Looks like North Launceston could have lost nearly their whole premiership side

 

[Gibbke]

With other teams being asked to apply for Premier League from 2028 I think Scottsdale and Deloraine are in trouble. Seeing how competitive Div 1 was behind Rocherlea who you would think will now come back to the pack its probably a lot better for them to drop back. Moronic to think it was 30 years ago and putting them both up would work but what you expect from AFL Tas and NTFA.

I would imagine St Pats (if they secure another venue) and Scotch will go up. Other two will come from Deloraine, Scottsdale, George Town and Bridgenorth.

After ruining the premier league and womens league they are now apparently trying to **** the under 18s by putting them into two divisions.

Love the avatar. Me and the wife just finished our mission to binge watch every episode of South Park, to the point where if we have an argument we have to do it in Kenny voice (shouting into your elbow - watch the "6 Days" doco SP made, funniest I've ever seen), and we can call each other nasty names as long as we can reference the episode the insult came from...!

Wrote something way above, but I'm thinking any side who gets promoted is doomed. There are only four teams who can handle the demands of what would be needed in a top tier side supporting an AFL/VFL team. Those four also happen to draw from the entire zone in the North, and anyone else will be competing for players against that. George Town, Rocherlea, and currently Scottsdale cannot outmuscle North when it comes to recruitment, St Pats are stuck with Longford and South and also happen to be St Pats, who anyone with allegiances to OL or OS won't have a bar of, and Bridgenorth is up against Launceston...

 

[Cunnington Cartel]

Love the avatar. Me and the wife just finished our mission to binge watch every episode of South Park, to the point where if we have an argument we have to do it in Kenny voice (shouting into your elbow - watch the "6 Days" doco SP made, funniest I've ever seen), and we can call each other nasty names as long as we can reference the episode the insult came from...!

Wrote something way above, but I'm thinking any side who gets promoted is doomed. There are only four teams who can handle the demands of what would be needed in a top tier side supporting an AFL/VFL team. Those four also happen to draw from the entire zone in the North, and anyone else will be competing for players against that. George Town, Rocherlea, and currently Scottsdale cannot outmuscle North when it comes to recruitment, St Pats are stuck with Longford and South and also happen to be St Pats, who anyone with allegiances to OL or OS won't have a bar of, and Bridgenorth is up against Launceston...

You’re right. It was ludicrous to think that clubs from rural towns with several thousand people should be in the same comp as big clubs from the city that have won most of the state league flags between them for the past decade. They’ll never be able to compete.

Purely from a Northern perspective, I believe the best outcome would be a return to an NTFL-style setup from 2001-2008, where you’d have the big 3 Launnie clubs, Devonport, Burnie, a few of next best NW clubs (and possibly Longford).

North Launnie tried to push for it and the NW wasn’t interested because they don’t view it as the best model for their top-tier of footy. It leaves the North in a shocking position. You are right that there are only 4 clubs capable of being in top tier of Northern footy. However, as is the case with the current model, I doubt a 4 club comp would be successful in retaining the best players in the region moving forward.

 

[Gak Attack]

Love the avatar. Me and the wife just finished our mission to binge watch every episode of South Park, to the point where if we have an argument we have to do it in Kenny voice (shouting into your elbow - watch the "6 Days" doco SP made, funniest I've ever seen), and we can call each other nasty names as long as we can reference the episode the insult came from...!

Wrote something way above, but I'm thinking any side who gets promoted is doomed. There are only four teams who can handle the demands of what would be needed in a top tier side supporting an AFL/VFL team. Those four also happen to draw from the entire zone in the North, and anyone else will be competing for players against that. George Town, Rocherlea, and currently Scottsdale cannot outmuscle North when it comes to recruitment, St Pats are stuck with Longford and South and also happen to be St Pats, who anyone with allegiances to OL or OS won't have a bar of, and Bridgenorth is up against Launceston...

I've been rolling this for a long time. I have fallen a bit off and need to catch up with all the newer SP stuff.

On the NTFA I do think St Pats and OS will eventually become competitive with the other four should they go up. They get the double junior feed of school and then Prospect and East Launceston who are a lot stronger junior clubs than the rurals have. Just looking at the best players in the state from Launceston there are a few that went to either the school or played juniors, youd expect they wouldnt be then going to north or launnie etc. if SP and OS are in the same comp. Both their under 18's already good and better than most of the premier league. Scotch's women would have no issue going up and probably be as good as anyone, st pats would need some work but they seem to be improving.

For Scotch the redeveloped NTCA will be big too, as Iast I heard they will have a year round clubrooms. The being basically in the city helps them.

 

[Cunnington Cartel]

I've been rolling this for a long time. I have fallen a bit off and need to catch up with all the newer SP stuff.

On the NTFA I do think St Pats and OS will eventually become competitive with the other four should they go up. They get the double junior feed of school and then Prospect and East Launceston who are a lot stronger junior clubs than the rurals have. Just looking at the best players in the state from Launceston there are a few that went to either the school or played juniors, youd expect they wouldnt be then going to north or launnie etc. if SP and OS are in the same comp. Both their under 18's already good and better than most of the premier league. Scotch's women would have no issue going up and probably be as good as anyone, st pats would need some work but they seem to be improving.

For Scotch the redeveloped NTCA will be big too, as Iast I heard they will have a year round clubrooms. The being basically in the city helps them.

This makes a lot of sense. Like you said, “eventually”. It won’t happen overnight; however, they seem to have the foundations in place. St Pats would definitely need a better ground - perhaps playing out of a revamped Prospect?

 

[Gak Attack]

This makes a lot of sense. Like you said, “eventually”. It won’t happen overnight; however, they seem to have the foundations in place. St Pats would definitely need a better ground - perhaps playing out of a revamped Prospect?

It would have to be you'd think. Their current ground would probably be the worst in the entire NTFA and probably even the state.