Junior footy is in decline due to scheduling and grading, one family of kids could be playing at 3 different grounds. Bring back the Lou Hall trophy so that’s under 10,11,13,15 and 17 at one ground and if club has out of age groups they play away and alternate every week no grading just back to the Lou hall point system and stop the nanny woke crap!
im definitely not opposed to it, not sure of the stats re junior footy being in decline as there is more kids playing now than ever.
In theory this is great, however most clubs would have 12's & 14's, plus a girls program
I reckon it's garbage!
I don’t know if it’s workable nowadays with some clubs having a heap of juniors and others having barely any but they were great days. Played my juniors at Preston RSL early to mid 2000s, we’d all be there all day, so would a lot of the parents, was real community stuff, massive crowd for juniors now when I think back on it.
How are they going to police the rule? The AFL uses its 4 field, 4 boundary and 2 goal umpires to ensure compliance and given a large number of junior matches have just 1 field umpire and that's it, seems like too difficult a task. The rule wasn't adopted at senior level because there weren't enough eyes to ensure it would work and there's more umps there than juniors
Not a fan at all. I'd sooner they got rid of the "mercy rule" and evening up of player numbers in Under 17s. Or at the very least, if the winning team kicks a goal, then use the rule. If the losing team kicks a goal, then bring it back to the middle, or some variation of that.
interesting, i didnt think you cared about kids sports??
What would give you that impression?
Ditto same club ln the 90’s real community/family affair the old blokes on the hill at bay 13 never no trouble, purely football the way it was designed to be played was a great club RSL
Agree was much better when all sides played one after the other. Same time each week, all at the same venue. Much better club atmosphere. Just too hard these days with clubs having 15 + junior sides
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Well you'd be wrong champ
whatever you say buddy
I was a Lalor bloods junior
nothing has changed in that regard, kids stay around and watch other teams play at every club every sunday.
A lot less now if you played the early games (u10,11) you stayed all day, now it’s a revolving door of cars coming and going by the time the 17’s play the canteen’s shut and maybe 20 cars around the ground and no one outside of there cars cheering on the kids,
at some clubs yep i agree, not all though.
Strongly Agree
