Would we better off with a stand alone ressies team?

[keepzitreal]

Just throwing it out there. We've got the money for it. After watching Geelong win the VFL yesterday it seemed the club was really united.

Like how much do our senior boys care about Bendigo? Do they even like travelling there?

Collingwood are doing it too also. Sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Do they even like travelling there?

lol who would?

 

[tristo]

Had a stand alone team a few years back, and got hammered.
Still need top-up players to make up the numbers in VFL.

 

[Longy413]

Didn't we make the finals in 2002?

We wouldn't be any worse off from a player point of view.
The better Bendigo players are mostly Essendon based anyway.

 

[keepzitreal]

Had a stand alone team a few years back, and got hammered.
Still need top-up players to make up the numbers in VFL.

So we just sign up some extra players. It would be like an extension of the rookie list

 

[ant555]

Yes and no. It would be good if Bendigo was better funded and able to spend more on the reserves and players so we didnt fall in a big hole when there are only 7 or so Essendon listed players going around.Lets face it if we had a stand alone side this year we would have been siging players up off the street for the final against Nth Ball.
On the other side , we rarely have to play our guys in the VFL reserves.
We get to play our players in whatever position we want.
The Bendigo coach spends most of his time with us as development coach anyway.
We have the option of giving injured players game time in the VFL reserves when they come back to gain match fitness.