SFL Div One 2013

[Fish 20]

No, Caulfield Bears now call Koornang Reserve home, have done for a few years now.

You're right about the 2nd oval at Mckinnon possibly being utilised, but again GE council are pretty stringent about the traffic on the grounds, factoring in that juniors play on it

 

[bigwilly]

No, Caulfield Bears now call Koornang Reserve home, have done for a few years now.

You're right about the 2nd oval at Mckinnon possibly being utilised, but again GE council are pretty stringent about the traffic on the grounds, factoring in that juniors play on it

No, Caulfield Bears now call Koornang Reserve home, have done for a few years now.

You're right about the 2nd oval at Mckinnon possibly being utilised, but again GE council are pretty stringent about the traffic on the grounds, factoring in that juniors play on it

There you go. It's been a while since I have seen the bears play

 

[Cousin Tiger]

No, Caulfield Bears now call Koornang Reserve home, have done for a few years now.

You're right about the 2nd oval at Mckinnon possibly being utilised, but again GE council are pretty stringent about the traffic on the grounds, factoring in that juniors play on it

They've put up 90k worth of new lights on the back oval, i hope someday they look to develop a second grandstand and fence in the back oval to create a second top quality oval (the surface is really good atm).

 

[Mahalo]

It is late to move Heatherton out and ??? Club in but not impossible. The fixture would be the same just transpose Heatherton into ??? Div 2 games and vice versa.

Taking into consideration the inconvenience of altering fixtures etc, it is a far better alternative than Heatherton struggling through the season or part of the season until they run out of players and we have a bye. This is Division 1 of our Comp and the integrity should be maintained. If they had Reserves and U'19's it would be a different story as most clubs have shocking seasons, us included, from time to time. But without players around the club, noone would go there in the future and you would have another Parkmore situation.

The league need to move quickly!!!

 

[gotcha1]

Lets face, whilst Highett and Heatherton are struggling more than most, every club (St Pauls aside) have lost more players than they have gained.
IMO, unfortunately the standard of the comp will take a big backward step in 2013 and if the Doggies don't win it (and should go through undefeated), they will be spewing. They might have still won it without spending big time on Bruno, James etc!! At least now they have made sure.
2014 anyone?

Hey SF good work on SEN Who have Chelsea and E. Bri lost to make St. Pauls unbackable in your valued opinion. What about City, Dingley & Clayton have they picked up enough to challenge, Any chance you could provide us your ladder predictions

 

[superfreak]

Hey SF good work on SEN Who have Chelsea and E. Bri lost to make St. Pauls unbackable in your valued opinion. What about City, Dingley & Clayton have they picked up enough to challenge, Any chance you could provide us your ladder predictions

East Brighton have lost Toby Mahoney (Port Melbourne), Michael Henningsen, Glen Marshall, Andrew Howson and Ryan Emmett leaving Hurlingham Reserve. Added Matt Skehan (who has played in four years and has some body issues). Good player when fully fit, would love him back at Chelt.

From what I have heard/seen, Chelsea Heights have seen a big turnover of players with Brad Dean and Brad Carmody (didn't play last year due to injury) departing, Jarryd Uren and Tim Grant have joined Paul Wineberg at Ashwood, and stars Mark Fitcher and Jarrod Dalton are heading to new boys Carrum-Patterson Lakes in Division Three. Also talk recently that Barr won't play much, if at all and that Travis Johnstone may also be heading to Carrum-Patto Lakes (just a rumour!!). No real additions of note and from talking to a few down there, they are looking at blooding some kids and going with youth.

Now on St Pauls, whilst they have lost a few young guns in Matt Kreymborg (Sandringham), Jesse Plostins (Sandringham), Harley Ambrose (Karingal) and Jackson Heagney-Steart (Old Haileybury/Collingwood VFL), those losses have been off set by the quality ins such as Luke James, Jay Bruno, Tim Blackwood.

On the other clubs, St Kilda City have put the band back together with Quinn, O'Neill, Tasiyan and co. back on deck. Will age catch up with them though? All great players no doubt, but they are each the wrong side of 30.

Chelt has lost a bunch of key players depart in Keast, Martin and Donnell and Andrews. Brody Hodic will miss most of the year with his broken leg and Mackinnon/Weekes/Lynch have retired.

Dingley have lost star pairing in Daniel Turcarelli and Jack Clausen as well as Ben Arnold and Renato Nunziato without any real major in's.

Clayton have lost star Kennedy along with Kreskas and a few fringe players but importantly retained Purvis.

Both Highett and Heatherton have both lost a truck load of players and are expected to battle big time. Both lost practice games at the recently to lower division clubs…not a good sign no matter what players are available.

No real idea on East Malvern, but there list in 2012 was pretty good...just a bit old. They should be competitive though if they are all retained and may surprise with others came back to the pack.

Ladder prediction right now...

St Pauls


East Brighton
Chelsea Heights
St Kilda City

Cheltenham
East Malvern
Dingley
Clayton

Highett
Heatherton

 

[Fish 20]

East Malvern a little high there for mine. I'd put both Dingley & Clayton (just) ahead of them

 

[Raging Rhino]

East Malvern a little high there for mine. I'd put both Dingley & Clayton (just) ahead of them

Agree Dingley shouldn't drop this year. Everyone at the club is positive their list is better than last year. Inclusions are Forrest and Stocky from Phillip Island, stocky won the BnF. La rocca from Sandy was a gun junior returning, Dureau from Port will be our best recruit. Plus there average age would be 22 at best. I reckon they will be reasonable strong and quick. Clausen is a loss but will play and qualify when not required at Frankston.

 

[hawka86]

East Brighton have lost Toby Mahoney (Port Melbourne), Michael Henningsen, Glen Marshall, Andrew Howson and Ryan Emmett leaving Hurlingham Reserve. Added Matt Skehan (who has played in four years and has some body issues). Good player when fully fit, would love him back at Chelt.

From what I have heard/seen, Chelsea Heights have seen a big turnover of players with Brad Dean and Brad Carmody (didn't play last year due to injury) departing, Jarryd Uren and Tim Grant have joined Paul Wineberg at Ashwood, and stars Mark Fitcher and Jarrod Dalton are heading to new boys Carrum-Patterson Lakes in Division Three. Also talk recently that Barr won't play much, if at all and that Travis Johnstone may also be heading to Carrum-Patto Lakes (just a rumour!!). No real additions of note and from talking to a few down there, they are looking at blooding some kids and going with youth.

Now on St Pauls, whilst they have lost a few young guns in Matt Kreymborg (Sandringham), Jesse Plostins (Sandringham), Harley Ambrose (Karingal) and Jackson Heagney-Steart (Old Haileybury/Collingwood VFL), those losses have been off set by the quality ins such as Luke James, Jay Bruno, Tim Blackwood.

On the other clubs, St Kilda City have put the band back together with Quinn, O'Neill, Tasiyan and co. back on deck. Will age catch up with them though? All great players no doubt, but they are each the wrong side of 30.

Chelt has lost a bunch of key players depart in Keast, Martin and Donnell and Andrews. Brody Hodic will miss most of the year with his broken leg and Mackinnon/Weekes/Lynch have retired.

Dingley have lost star pairing in Daniel Turcarelli and Jack Clausen as well as Ben Arnold and Renato Nunziato without any real major in's.

Clayton have lost star Kennedy along with Kreskas and a few fringe players but importantly retained Purvis.

Both Highett and Heatherton have both lost a truck load of players and are expected to battle big time. Both lost practice games at the recently to lower division clubs…not a good sign no matter what players are available.

No real idea on East Malvern, but there list in 2012 was pretty good...just a bit old. They should be competitive though if they are all retained and may surprise with others came back to the pack.

Ladder prediction right now...

St Pauls


East Brighton
Chelsea Heights
St Kilda City

Cheltenham
East Malvern
Dingley
Clayton

Highett
Heatherton

Ive also heard that the heights lost 2 out of there top 4 B&F place getters in Steve Murphy and Luke Newton... any truth to that rumour? if so with the loss of especially Murphy and all there other losses i cant see them making finals.

 

[flaghopefulls]

Fish can we have an explanation to why EM are a little to high?

 

[Fish 20]

Just from what I saw last year, the will need to recruit to work on their depth. Big step from Div 2 to Div 1. Don't take it too personally

 

[backtoback08]

They've put up 90k worth of new lights on the back oval, i hope someday they look to develop a second grandstand and fence in the back oval to create a second top quality oval (the surface is really good atm).

must be getting expensive down at doggy land with your up front payments tiger, not only bruno upfront, but now james has fronted with a bill as well, but then again its no expense matters season at the doggies>LOL

 

[backtoback08]

no quim

Hey SF good work on SEN Who have Chelsea and E. Bri lost to make St. Pauls unbackable in your valued opinion. What about City, Dingley & Clayton have they picked up enough to challenge, Any chance you could provide us your ladder predictions

no quinn mate we wish, arvanitis is a big in for us,we hope to make the five and improve on last year

 

[JustAnotherMembe]

Ive also heard that the heights lost 2 out of there top 4 B&F place getters in Steve Murphy and Luke Newton... any truth to that rumour? if so with the loss of especially Murphy and all there other losses i cant see them making finals.

Newton was at training last week.... Murphy is 50/50.

The call earlier that we're looking to blood some kids is kind of true. But we started doing it a couple years ago, so it's not really new info. If you don't put those plans in for the future, you're doomed...Unless you have someone at your club with an open chequebook. I'm not having a crack at any clubs in particular, every side pays players, we all know that. But those clubs that seem to be there abouts every year, generally have a list that they've built and has stayed together for a while.

As people here have said form the last few seasons, our list has been getting on a bit, so I think it's pretty exciting actually.

And hopefully for the final time, the players that were mentioned that have left this year...Fitch & Dalton...Off to play with some mates. Fitch has earnt his rest in 3rd divvy. Dalts is gonna be pretty hard to stop there. Grant & Uren to Ashy. Neither has played 1's for a couple years anyways. Nor has Dean & Carmody, who to be fair, never really performed at their best for us, mainly because of injury. So our senior side isn't really going to miss them.

 

[The_Koach]

Ladder prediction right now...

St Pauls


East Brighton
Chelsea Heights
St Kilda City

Cheltenham
East Malvern
Dingley
Clayton

Highett
Heatherton

No idea really, but will have a crack just to see how little i know when I'm not even close come end of the year

St Pauls
East Brighton
Chelsea Heights
St Kilda City
Cheltenham
Dingley
East Malvern
Clayton
Highett
Heatherton

OK so not much different as it turns out - just swapped EM and Dingley... Obviously injuries and depth will have an effect on the season, but can imagine that any of the 4 teams between St Kilda and Malvern could knock each other off on their day

 

[footballs great]

Sorry to hear, as it was a great idea

The Southern Football League Season Launch has been regrettably cancelled for 2013 due to the Trevor Barker Oval being declared unfit for play.

Bayside City Council and Sandringham Football Club have recently had the ground resewn with grass in an attempt to repair the damaged areas however the ground will not be in an acceptable condition by Friday 12thApril.

The SFL have explored a number of alternative venue possibilities however restrictions on appropriate match lighting and function facilities have made relocation opportunities not feasible.

The Cheltenham v St Kilda City senior match will now revert back to Saturday 13th April 2:00pm at Cheltenham Recreation Reserve.

 

[footballs great]

Don't forget
ROUND TWO is the Sunday game April 21st Foundation 49 Cup
East Brighton vs St Pauls at East Brighton Football Club
517 Nepean Hwy Hurlingham Park, Brighton East
Main Game Starts 2.30pm

For more info download our Mobile App (Just click here)

This is one of the biggest SFL home & away games for the year, and most clubs from the SFL come down to watch it.
The 2012 premiership flag will be raised for the first time and the Lunch will start at 12.30pm,
Guest speakers from Foundation 49 plus other top guest speakers .
So book your seats at the lunch early, for bookings e-mail: business@thevampires.org
It is free entry to the ground and many prizes will be given away on the day.

 

[footballs great]

As for having another go at the ladder, after all the ins and out that we know about.
As everyside will lose players so it is who you get in that counts and EBFC are very happy as to who we have picked up. The only players that we have lost from the 2012 premiership team that will not play for sure in 2013 are Glen Marshall, and Ryan Emmett

East Brighton
St Pauls
Chelsea Heights
St Kilda City
Dingley
Clayton
Cheltenham
East Malvern



Highett
Heatherton

 

[bigwilly]

Sorry to hear, as it was a great idea

The Southern Football League Season Launch has been regrettably cancelled for 2013 due to the Trevor Barker Oval being declared unfit for play.

Bayside City Council and Sandringham Football Club have recently had the ground resewn with grass in an attempt to repair the damaged areas however the ground will not be in an acceptable condition by Friday 12thApril.

The SFL have explored a number of alternative venue possibilities however restrictions on appropriate match lighting and function facilities have made relocation opportunities not feasible.

The Cheltenham v St Kilda City senior match will now revert back to Saturday 13th April 2:00pm at Cheltenham Recreation Reserve.

It's got me beat why they don't use Linton St

There has been practice matches played on it this preseason

 

[superfreak]

No lights, one set of showers, no public toilets, no shelter, no function room.

 

[gotcha1]

No lights, one set of showers, no public toilets, no shelter, no function room.

 

[JustAnotherMembe]

No lights, one set of showers, no public toilets, no shelter, no function room.

Hopefully that will be remedied in the next couple years. Would make a fantastic finals venue!

 

[guttertrash]

Heard at a praccy match today that Highett is folding and Old Mentonians will be taking over the ground. Can someone please verify. Also some doubt over Heatherton fielding 2 sides.

 

[Uncle Mick]

That's bullshit. Old Mentonians established a relationship last season and will play 3 home games at Turner Rd in 2013. Highett are definitely in struggle town, but they'll come out the other end. They've got a strong junior program. They just need to ensure the pathway is there to nurture the next generation through to become senior footballers.

 

[Fish 20]

Heard at a praccy match today that Highett is folding and Old Mentonians will be taking over the ground. Can someone please verify. Also some doubt over Heatherton fielding 2 sides.

We heard a similar Old Mentonians rumour last year, but with a merger with Mordialloc. Obviously they desperately want to get off the school's ground in Keysborough. Or the school want them out??