No VFL next week for returning players

[Boris the Contradiction]

Moore will be a superstar

I think he could be too.
Enormous potential.

It may have passed Blair by but still and always a Premiership Player.

Smith has done his bit but I don't think ever much more than depth and/or a role player. He still has some time.

Don't think either should still be on the list.
Even at his best Blair wasn't in our best 20 and he's been way past his best for years now. Certainly a good servant though.

Smith isn't AFL standard, in my opinion.

 

[The Dawes]

VFL fixturing made better....

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yes, get Lancelot Link to do the VFL fixturing.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Pebbles Rocca played A grade amateurs some years ago when in a similar situation.

 

[TradeDraft]

Its time to leave the VFL and have a national reserves comp.

Well that is the Plan

 

[TradeDraft]

The reserves are not, so far as I know, returning.

Was Posted on here few Days ago they be back next season

 

[whiskeytown]

yes, get Lancelot Link to do the VFL fixturing.

Will also provide the Grand Final entertainment...and they play for bananas

 

[magpienato]

It's on the agenda.....https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/af...k=b9d521665d1d791d16c89fc8e17d9932-1530846469

Yeah I know they're talking about it. Would still be a waste.

 

[MagpieJoel]

Was Posted on here few Days ago they be back next season

Was just a bump from a post earlier this year wasn't it?

 

[Mr Pie]

Probably better for Darcy. Of late he's only lasted 2 weeks then off again.

The club seriously needs to invest in some scotch tape...... Bruce Reid 12th man style.

 

[MagpieBat]

Was Posted on here few Days ago they be back next season

Source...?

 

[TradeDraft]

Source...?

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/afl-national-reserves-return.1188427/

 

[jackcass]

 

[MagpieBat]

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/afl-national-reserves-return.1188427/

That was posted in March. It was just a report of a rumoured consideration by the AFL then and in the absence of any developments since, it remains as such.

And no, I am not being nasty...

 

[Smoky]

Its clearly off the cards. AFL only announced this week Tasmania will have a VFL team in 2021.

There will be a riot in Tassie if the AFL announce they can join the VFL in 3 years... but the entire AFL is leaving the VFL a year or 2 before they join.

In a perfect world we would get a full national
reserves competition and Tassie get 2 teams... one in Launceston and one in Hobart.

 

[TradeDraft]

Its clearly off the cards. AFL only announced this week Tasmania will have a VFL team in 2021.

There will be a riot in Tassie if the AFL announce they can join the VFL in 3 years... but the entire AFL is leaving the VFL a year or 2 before they join.

In a perfect world we would get a full national
reserves competition and Tassie get 2 teams... one in Launceston and one in Hobart.

So the AFL sticking to there Shitting State League Plans

 

[MyManLynch]

So the AFL sticking to there Shitting State League Plans

It wouldn’t be so bad if they could improve the fixture & byes to suit the AFL affiliated teams.

 

[MyManLynch]

Will also provide the Grand Final entertainment...and they play for bananas

That’s a bonus...bananas...
Remember the old saying “If you pay peanuts, you get Monkeys”

 

[TradeDraft]

It wouldn’t be so bad if they could improve the fixture & byes to suit the AFL affiliated teams.

That be Nice but would they do it Though

 

[barrackers]

That's the way the cookie crumbles in an odd-numbered competition sometimes, I'm afraid.

I mean, it would be much better for the second half of this VFL season to be 6 games then the last the bye, rather than 3 and then the last bye, but what can you do?

Walsh has indicated that that weekend will see the this week's returners, along with a few more currently listed as 1-2 weeks away, taking part in a intra-club/match simulation/whatever that bye weekend. And I can't help but feel that they prefer to stagger the returns to the VFL team anyway...

Regardless, we've won in this stretch without the likes of Aish/Moore/Fasolo/Elliott/Smith/Blair, so we're just going to have to do without them for a while longer. And even when they're all playing again, there's a legitimate question as to whether any or all of them are even best 22 anymore...

Will it be used as another AFL trial of new rules?

 

[Stoods]

This is a real inconvenience. We would of potentially had Elliott and Aish making their returns and if Moore doesn't play AFL he would of got another game under his belt.

Would we really do an intra club of some sort? Or more likely take the conservative root and just another week off

 

[MyManLynch]

This is a real inconvenience. We would of potentially had Elliott and Aish making their returns and if Moore doesn't play AFL he would of got another game under his belt.

Would we really do an intra club of some sort? Or more likely take the conservative root and just another week off

I think they must have a full inter club with all available VFL players.
Can have it Sunday morning at Holden centre...with 1 held over for Afternoon WC game.
Assume Elliott will need 2-3 VFL games to get his fitness up.
Maybe Aish 1-2 games (he should have a better fitness base compared to Elliott).

 

[TradeDraft]

This is a real inconvenience. We would of potentially had Elliott and Aish making their returns and if Moore doesn't play AFL he would of got another game under his belt.

Would we really do an intra club of some sort? Or more likely take the conservative root and just another week off

I say good chance be at least Match Simulation at VFL Training this Week

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

It would cost too much money, think of the 20+ extra players that will have to fly over wherever. Comes down to cost and having a league localized to a state is cost effective.

The exact same reason they got rid of the reserved in the first place!

 

[TradeDraft]

The exact same reason they got rid of the reserved in the first place!

So they just Killing Clubs who are StandAlone in VFL

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

So they just Killing Clubs who are StandAlone in VFL

Not sure of your point but Port Melbourne is reigning premier. The current setup is not ideal but it’s the best option.

The cost of reserves can’t be justified. It’s as simple as that.