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They still don't have that natural stream of good juniors like grange, sherwood, morningside etc. Not too long ago, I remember they would come runners up in 14's and 16's div 1 for two years in a row, then eventually win 16's div 1, beating a Palmy team with the likes of Ethan Read playing. Seriously, how does a club go from that to where they are now.
Not sure it is that big, especially with the lower salary cap in Div 1, Noosa and Maroochydore are competitive after coming up, teams coming up from from Div 2 into Div 1 always struggle and head straight back to a lower grade
Noosa lost every game after coming up in the QAFL lol. And a team that adds a stack of VFL and QAFL talent after making back-to-back grand finals, will come second last and give Mt Gravatt their closest game in 2 years. If this isn't a 'huge gap' idk what is
How did that practice match v Mayne go last year?
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Mt Gravatt lost 204-8 sherwood last year and 220-13 to Maroochydore, and have about what 1/3 of the senior team of last year. The worse team to ever step foot on a Qafl field lost by 50 in a trial match lol, what is your point
You were saying it’s a massive difference between QAFL & QFA Div 1, there were suggestions your team is above dropping down because you had a preseason game with UQ but left out another practice match result v Mayne. Just thought you could perhaps take all results into account.
That's a little unfair, if you scroll a bit, I clearly said "And the thing is, I believe Mt Gravatt should drop down to Div 1". No juniors, little money, poor signings, nothing coming through. Although one bad year shouldn't mean curtains, two winless years definitely should. And once again if you scroll up I have stated I am a Coops fan lol. And the practice result vs mayne was last year when they had about what 12 games of 200+ scores?
would i be correct in saying they wanted a higher competition level similar to the sanfl or wafl? since the AFL want a national reserves, southport would drop and make a new comp? or was that a rumour i heard
True but besides from getting smashed they are doing everything else perfectly, they dont owe money and players are coming back slowly and their gaining more money then loosing. if you asked a lot of the people that left, some of them were going to but others didnt leave from their own choice, they HAD no other choice because the board at the time were so focused on a QFAW Divsion 2 womens team rather then their semi-professional state team.
Southport will never play in the QAFL. How are all the current clubs meant to compete with Southport, which reports 3 million in revenue every year? I remember only something like 3 years ago they beat broady 143-10 or something in a trial match, where broady went on to win the QAFL flag. And i reckon they would keep the majority of their stars in Crossley, dawson etc.. as dont think they would be too keen to go and play Suns reserves to stay VFL level.
Im actual interested to know what started that downfall. Did many of them make it to 2024 preseason, or did the majority decide before 2024 that they will be gone?
the culture was terrible and it got to about 2024 january when big names like Jonah Licth, Joel Leahy, Todd Carbone, Harry Milford, Daine Macdonald and Dylan Smith all left because there was no coach, no president and no conversations were had, then young kids like Wyatt Greenaway, Marcus Khoo, Bailey Tome, Jake Torny and Jackson Griffiths all left. leaving the club with about 15 players before the season and then the put a new coach and new board in and had to just sign as many people as possible thats why the expectations on senior spots was so low because no one had to fight for a spot similar to richmond last year. hopefully they get big signings to put pressure on selection
Southport QAFLW side is the same name. An absolute mile ahead of the rest.
8-0 and a percentage of nearly 1000%, Southport far too strong to be compeiting in qld comps
Punters are already salty about how much money Aspley spend on footy in the QAFL. Imagine if Southport drop back with all their dollars!
I’d argue though that Southport will only get better every year moving forward. Played with 37/50 points last weekend and have a dozen reserves who would be seniors at every other club and probably be in better players. Well coached, resourced and club obviously puts effort and time into their program.
