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The current VFL comp is a wank! Stand alone teams mindset may be attempting to win the flag(which is the aim of our team sport) but I’m not always so sure. Agree with SMY the SANFL is a ripper. Totally disagree with the Bullants comment also!
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Hey Dufferex. You seem like a loyal & passionate Vultures man. You’re a guy been there through thick & thin. Good on you. I have to admit that even though I believe that the club cannot produce a QAFL standard footy program for the variety of reasons you’ve stated I’m now at the stage that I look forward to the weekly Mt Gravatt update to see what take you’ll have each week.Yeah mate sorry it's our fault for replying to comments asked by others, not once did i think loosing by 100 points is acceptable, infact i can tell you neither does anyone else still lying around this club, and its people like you that really don't know what they're talking about. Yes Cam james is the guy that left, but that doesn't determine whether people like him or not, and also guess what, about a 100+ other people have come and gone to and since cams left, what's happened? New coach, new board, new facilities, new playing group, it's a completely different club to the one he had left many years ago, and to be honest mate with the culture at the time he left i am surprised the club didn't fall apart. Now this is a forum for all QAFL clubs not just the ones Backpocket101 likes, so how about show some empathy to clubs going through drought and if you really have a problem, just ignore the vultures comments, now if you weren't hiding behind a screen and told people what QAFL club you go for, i'm sure they could find times when they weren't winning games either, Have a grouse night.
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Keep us informed with coaching saga. You seem to have good intel.
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The AFL aligned and stand alone VFL clubs would have a slightly different angle on things you’d think. I haven’t followed closely enough to know how many standalone clubs besides Southport are challenging for the premiership.
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Palmy would be super competitive against the bullants they are terrible.
Tend to agree the standard peaked during covid when the people’s republic of vic didn’t have footy and instead thought shutting playgrounds was way the go.
In all seriousness plenty looked to escape and none obviously from up here took off down south for greener pastures
The top sides now are still pretty good though but we saw on the weekend the lower sides aren’t great.
Werribee won the premiership last year and have played in last two GF’s. Obviously I have a close affiliation with Williamstown who are definitely in mix of winning the flag this year along with Frankston, Coburg who all look like making finals. Add in Southport so they are going great in my opinion.
The standalone clubs have never been as strong as they are at present. I would say at a guess there would be 20+ QLD kids playing across the Victorian Stand alone clubs not counting Southport.
So if you added in Lions top ups that play regularly and Southport it’s a massive drain on our competition.
I think the Academies have also diluted all the young talent coming through as well which all effects QAFL Competition.
Noosaboy,Noosa will make it Stuyd just having some injury,weddings and snow skiing issues over the next couple of weeks
my apologies , I just revisited their fixture and miscalculated thus have them finishing in the top 8 and Labrador just out
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Hey lads
As someone from Victoria playing local in the metro region, how much does a
Ex afl/state league player get paid
Established senior footballer
Young/not as established senior footballer get paid?
Just a picture on/and of books
As someone from Victoria playing local in the metro region, how much does a
Ex afl/state league player get paid
Established senior footballer
Young/not as established senior footballer get paid?
Just a picture on/and of books
Depends which club, your position on field and playing experience but there aren’t that many players in qafl on more than $200-$300 per game unless ex afl
The only way the academies have diluted the current comp is by their program running. For longer than it used to. The boys play about a dozen games now which was unheard of 10 years ago.
Yep think u know as well as anyone SM that there are plenty of guys running around in qafl footy more than capable of playing vfl footy it’s just a case of whether they want to shift for it. From my understanding there isn’t a massive pay day on offer either.
Why do you think the stand alone clubs are having a good run right now? Coburg has been pretty average for a while but come good whilst the others have all been reasonably solid for a while now.
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The salary cap is significantly lower than what you would expect.
I’m sure there’s some punters in here that can correct me if I’m off the mark - It’s about $4500 a week in QAFL, about $2000 a week in Div 1, and about $1250 a week in Div 2. I think you can find the player payments policy online if you look. Then you can probably guess how much blokes are getting paid.
I agree there is good top end talent in most QAFL Teams that could play VFL but most of them players aren’t interested or been there and done that.
I feel the VFL Standalone Clubs seem to get the best U18 Coates League Players that miss the draft and seem to play VFL for several Years at least.
I feel up here we have a lot of kids that walk away from footy after their U18’s Academy Experience in QLD or go back to lower levels to play with their mates to enjoy their footy.
Just seems QAFL has lost that sort of attraction for 18-22 year olds to be found or looked at by any AFL Clubs.
Coburg going good SMY with some smart recruitment and good coaches. I know most clubs have good local footy relationships as well so any decent young kids get found as well which Coburg have a few gems this year.
Makes sense re the best Coates league kids looking for a 2nd chance. Why would they want to go to an afl club that would have 10-12 listed players running around their 2s so most attention is out towards them vs playing at a stand alone club where they could conceivably be in the best 5-8 players and get a real good opportunity to shine
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As someone looking to play in the QAFL in 2026, how does the standard compare to premier Metro leagues like the EFNL and EDFL? Has anyone played in both or watched both ?
If you are a good player in either of these comps at their highest levels then you will go okay in the QAFL. Different footy in some respects though - bit more open and on top of the ground footy in QAFL vs strong, inside footy on often smaller grounds in those leagues.
Few ex bottom end QAFL players that struggle especially EDFL from what I have seen. Most don’t get a game down there but played every week up here.
If you are a top end local level player in either of those competitions in Melbourne you will adapt easily up here
Not disputing what you’ve said but Interestingly though we’ve recruited players from that league over the years that were getting regular games down there but were unable to adapt to the speed of the footy in QAFl and therefore played reserves for us.
But as we all know there is a huge difference in standard of players across the league and no doubt the same down there and getting a regular game for a top side is different to getting a game for a bottom side. The position/role the player is plays a part of course also
But the better players seem to adapt wherever they play
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I think you will find there are plenty getting $700+ at certain joints, in fact I imagine there wouldn't be a single club in the competition with at least one bloke getting $500.
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Reckon that is fairly accurate Miller. Think there might be one or two players at certain clubs on a $1,000 a game but they would be best players in competition like Cassbalt, Hammer etc
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