2nds NON-Crows SANFL Chat

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Where do you think the SANFL clubs get their replacements from ??

Theres far too much focus on the top-end of town in these forums.

From where they do now

If a player gets injured they don't play short the next week

And if you're really struggling then grab a Buckets Mackenzie from a Riverland club. Are the SANFL clubs up in arms when this happens btw?

 

[Cromulant]

From where they do now

If a player gets injured they don't play short the next week

And if you're really struggling then grab a Buckets Mackenzie from a Riverland club. Are the SANFL clubs up in arms when this happens btw?

No but you can bet its frustrating as hell for the country clubs.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

It's bullshit that the SANFL club that loses the contracted player/s in the MSD or in the pre-season doesn't get the total compensation directly paid to them.

WWT have had 3 of their very best players pillaged by the AFL club's virtually taking their previous very real Premiership aspirations to zero.

Especially with the MSD they have no ability to replace the player/s with similar talent not to mention the work they put in to entice the player/s to the club.

It stinks.

That's a different question

Certainly the clubs who get players drafted should receive 100% of the compensation

Spreading it around equally... well, that's like an ALP policy

 

[Mutineer]

That's right.

Do you understand now?

It would be UNBELIEVABLY STUPID for the Sanfl clubs to forego the most talented players.

So they don't.

Even though there's a chance the best will be snapped up in the midseason draft or national draft period.

The downside of maybe having a player drafted is WAAAAAAAAAAAY less than the downside of not having near-elite talent.

In fact it's so much less that it's barely worth a mention. Yet like clockwork the SANFL clubs pipe up for a whinge.

It would be better for the Sanfl clubs if the draft age was raised to 19. Or 20. Or 30.

And it would be easier if there wasn't a midseason draft. And if the national draft was only every two years. Or every five years.

But no one who counts gives a crap because they understand that the Sanfl's entire reason for being is to prepare and provide players for the highest level.

They are now a feeder league and they should embrace this role. Instead they have an identity problem.

The SANFL should be exploring ways to get more players into AFL ranks. Make themselves more relevant to the national football pathway. How can they help there be a larger pool of indigenous players making it to AFL ranks? Can there be more entry points to AFL than just the two drafts?

The crappier the players and the lower the standard of the competition then the less the Sanfl clubs will have to worry about their players being taken. And it feels like that's what they're gunning for.

Instead of raising the bar, using players drafted as a badge of honour and trying to be as elite as possible

Every single player taken in the MSD was available to the AFL club's in the 2025 AFL National and Rookie Drafts and also as SSP train ons as long as they were registered with an AFL affiliated League and had turned 18 by December 31 of that year.

Yet not one of them garnered even more than a passing glance and were unwanted, meanwhile SANFL clubs put in the work to improve their Premiership hopes with footballers passed over by AFL club's only to get shat on especially WWT losing 3 of their very best and West losing the SANFL's seasons most dominant ruckman.

Any way you slice and dice it it's unfair on the SANFL/WAFL and the unaligned AFL VFL clubs like Werribee, Williamstown, Frankston, Port Melbourne and Southport.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Every single player taken in the MSD was available to the AFL club's in the 2025 AFL National and Rookie Drafts and also as SSP train ons as long as they were registered with an AFL affiliated League and had turned 18 by December 31 of that year.

Yet not one of them garnered even more than a passing glance and were unwanted, meanwhile SANFL clubs put in the work to improve their Premiership hopes with footballers passed over by AFL club's only to get shat on especially WWT losing 3 of their very best and West losing the SANFL's seasons most dominant ruckman.

Any way you slice and dice it it's unfair on the SANFL/WAFL and the unaligned AFL VFL clubs like Werribee, Williamstown, Frankston, Port Melbourne and Southport.

How is it unfair that SANFL clubs have players seek them out, eager to represent them?

Isn't that good?