Fence might have sold it to me...!We moved house some years ago & a box of old footy records, clippings & other bits went missing.
I have my suspicions!
What would an ideal Tasmanian league look like?
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I started to collect the TFL record each week from the late 1960's.
I stopped in the late 1980's when I was working in Sydney/Melbourne. I restarted intermittently when I returned in the late 1990's. I do wish I had all that stuff now.
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I’m not a Tassie boy, just related to a heap but even I can see how 3 sides on the north coast (Devonport, Ulverstone and Burnie) and one Launnie side wouldn’t work or make sense. Ulverstone doesn’t get a seat, the other two should.
Invite Port Melbourne and Williamstown so they can play in a proper League.
Is this from end of 1896?....
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Once Tassie gets into the $FL they will have their Ressies in the VFL so realistically there will be no further need for a State league in Tassie but a better setup of the SFL and NTFL, probably to an extent the NWFL also.
CHFL
Same
DFL
Same
ODFA
Same
KIFL
Same
NWFL
Same
NTFL Premier - 10
Burnie
Circular Head
Devonport
Hillwood
Latrobe
Launceston
North Launceston
Penguin
Ulverstone
Wynyard
NTFL 1 - 10
Bracknell
Bridgenorth
Deloraine
George Town
Longford
Rocherlea
South Launceston
Scottsdale
St Patrick's
Old Scotch
NTFL 2 - 8
Bridport
East Coast
Evandale
Lilydale
Meander Valley
Old Launy
Perth
UTAS
SFL A - 10
Clarence
Cygnet
Glenorchy
Huonville
Kingborough
Lauderdale
Lindisfarne
North Hobart
Brighton
Claremont
SFL B - 10
Dodges Ferry
New Norfolk
Sorrell
Hobart
DOSA
Hutchins
OHA
St Virgils
Richmond
Uni
Tasmania Football premiers is won by the winner from previous season getting Rd 1 bye (say SFL).
Round 1:
CHFL play KIFL
DFL play ODFA
NWFA play NTFL
Round 2 is randomised:
ODFA play NTFL
SFL play KIFL
Round 3
SFL play NTFL
Winner is the Tasmainian Champ
CHFL
Same
DFL
Same
ODFA
Same
KIFL
Same
NWFL
Same
NTFL Premier - 10
Burnie
Circular Head
Devonport
Hillwood
Latrobe
Launceston
North Launceston
Penguin
Ulverstone
Wynyard
NTFL 1 - 10
Bracknell
Bridgenorth
Deloraine
George Town
Longford
Rocherlea
South Launceston
Scottsdale
St Patrick's
Old Scotch
NTFL 2 - 8
Bridport
East Coast
Evandale
Lilydale
Meander Valley
Old Launy
Perth
UTAS
SFL A - 10
Clarence
Cygnet
Glenorchy
Huonville
Kingborough
Lauderdale
Lindisfarne
North Hobart
Brighton
Claremont
SFL B - 10
Dodges Ferry
New Norfolk
Sorrell
Hobart
DOSA
Hutchins
OHA
St Virgils
Richmond
Uni
Tasmania Football premiers is won by the winner from previous season getting Rd 1 bye (say SFL).
Round 1:
CHFL play KIFL
DFL play ODFA
NWFA play NTFL
Round 2 is randomised:
ODFA play NTFL
SFL play KIFL
Round 3
SFL play NTFL
Winner is the Tasmainian Champ
Tandy
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With Tas state league side most likely joining the AFL reserves comp over the VFL does this change your opinion on a main Tas State League. I can see the argument for just having 2 or 3 major leagues and the lower teirs under them.
I like the idea of the premiers of Circular Head, Darwin, King Island and Oatlands playing off for a Country Championship.
Played at the one centre over a weekend with two matches each day.
e.g. Saturday - CHFL premier v ODFA premier followed by DFA premier v KIFA premier.
Sunday - two winners in the final and the two losers in a playoff for third.
You could do it as a club-based series or even as rep footy.
King Island would be uncompetitive. These days, they play around a dozen a side, with open registrations in case a visitor who says he played footy once visits that weekend...!
If you were ranking the leagues, the numbers seem to show that the tiers below the four big comps stratify like this:
Top: NTFA 2
Next: DFA, Old Scholars
Then: NWFA, ODFA
Then: CHFA
Last: KIFA
Need my docs to see if I've missed anyone...? These are going great, by the way...s**t tons of material obtained since last summer, and constant CTRL V/C is not helping my arthritis...! Simon, Kingpin, Phil, plus others...too many champions to salute...!
Locals could argue these, I could be wrong, but it looks that way from the results and numbers from the pov of an invested outsider...!
Locals could also contest my thought that the two big NW local leagues, DFA and NWFA, could swap or relegate sides because some are perennially bad...would a combined stratified league put players off if they didn't want to travel the 50km between Burnie and Devonport...? Motton Preston and South Burnie make every GF, while West Ulverstone have a few sides to compete with for players, never mind the atrocity that is East Devonport's absence from any comp. We've just lost Spreyton, and a few others over the years, all of them required to field two sides...meanwhile the ODFA, 5 of the 7 anyway, put out a decent product with no seconds, and the Old Scholars cruise along sometimes paying elite players more than the TSL can...!
It would just be great if we created a landscape where smaller communities are encouraged to reform their teams that have been missing for years, and we actually saw leagues expand. We know it will never look like the 1950's, with every town having two or more sides in tons of leagues across the state, but if you want to play serious footy or alternatively if you want to sit around in the back pocket at forty making the kids do all the running before chugging a beer at half time, you should be able to do either without watching your team fold...
If you were ranking the leagues, the numbers seem to show that the tiers below the four big comps stratify like this:
Top: NTFA 2
Next: DFA, Old Scholars
Then: NWFA, ODFA
Then: CHFA
Last: KIFA
Need my docs to see if I've missed anyone...? These are going great, by the way...s**t tons of material obtained since last summer, and constant CTRL V/C is not helping my arthritis...! Simon, Kingpin, Phil, plus others...too many champions to salute...!
Locals could argue these, I could be wrong, but it looks that way from the results and numbers from the pov of an invested outsider...!
Locals could also contest my thought that the two big NW local leagues, DFA and NWFA, could swap or relegate sides because some are perennially bad...would a combined stratified league put players off if they didn't want to travel the 50km between Burnie and Devonport...? Motton Preston and South Burnie make every GF, while West Ulverstone have a few sides to compete with for players, never mind the atrocity that is East Devonport's absence from any comp. We've just lost Spreyton, and a few others over the years, all of them required to field two sides...meanwhile the ODFA, 5 of the 7 anyway, put out a decent product with no seconds, and the Old Scholars cruise along sometimes paying elite players more than the TSL can...!
It would just be great if we created a landscape where smaller communities are encouraged to reform their teams that have been missing for years, and we actually saw leagues expand. We know it will never look like the 1950's, with every town having two or more sides in tons of leagues across the state, but if you want to play serious footy or alternatively if you want to sit around in the back pocket at forty making the kids do all the running before chugging a beer at half time, you should be able to do either without watching your team fold...
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bring back sandy bay
Thats up to the Sandy Bay people. Where are they?
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fr but would be great to see them back
