Champ I love your style. You just proved you know nothing - IB has the smallest town in the hills comp by a mile. Nearest school is at Scott Creek and less than 60 kids. How many reside in M P and Echunga. I know to the dollar what Motlop and Jarman get and you are so far off the mark its laughable. I for one like many believe money is killing footy and the only way you can kind of police that is to put the player payments through the books - give them group certs and then say to clubs right you must play 18-19 local players out of 21 or 22 each week. - 3 imports only. They do this in a couple of leagues I have seen in Vic and it works quite well. FYI you will find that the ATO auditors are now starting to look harder at local clubs and guess who is going to be responsible for accounting practices and tax avoidance - cash payment- issues. You guessed it Committees and Presidents. As the economy tightens things will change all for the better hopefully.


Can't see this working. If every team only is allowed 3 imports then all of a sudden a club like Mt Barker which has 10,000 people in their township has a massive advantage over clubs like Echunga, TV, Ironbank and Uraidla. ATM this is the closest year of footy in A grade I have seen. Any team on any day can win, isn't that great for the game? Only a few years back Lobey and lofty played out a game with a 50 goal margin...now do we want to see this again? The standard is that good atm it makes every player around the comp work even harder to succeed, cant see that being anything but a positive for the Hills football comp. Clubs need to manage their finances and their points accordingly and it becomes a skill in itself. Obviously we don't want clubs spending more then they can afford but you can only assume the people on each clubs board would have the clubs best future interests at heart. And I'm sure every club out there is still working to improve their facilities as they all have area's that could be improved. Clubs like bridgy or onkas this year may not spend much coin but in years to come with their locals having some games under their belt they may wish to recruit 2 players that can help them bridge the gap to the top few. Like Lobethal have done and are starting to seem them get real close to a flag.

The original oval delegation was for Lobethal to host the first semi on the Sunday and the second semi to be at echunga on the Saturday and last Sundays elimination was to be at mt barker. But the board in their wisdom assumed that Lobethal would loose and then hence be playing in the first semi on the Sunday (Lobethal oval) so they swapped the Lobethal and mt barker grounds games.. Of course that backfired and Lobethal was to play in the Saturday and mt barker in the Sunday so they had to swap the mt barker and echunga oval games. Now of course echunga and mt barker
are playing on Sunday next week and as the A grade can not play on their home ground this has caused a problem. Had they left it as it was there would not have been a problem. They should leave the prelim at balhannah because if echunga win on Sunday they can not play on their home ground and there are not many decent ovals left to allocate for the prelim so please don't tell me they will put the prelim at mt Torrens. Difficult all round.

Of course, the Callington Oval (the best playing surface in Central) is also available. After successfully hosting the 2013 Preliminary Final, the HFL in its wisdom decided not to give Bridgewater/Callington a final in 2014 (despite the fact that clubs such as Hahndorf, Onkas and Uraidla haven't missed out in years).


You need to do some research Elmer. Uraidla didn't have a final played there last year. Re the Callington issue, ya a good surface, wouldn't say it's the best surface either. Very hard deck atm. No doubt one of the better ovals to play on but the facilities at the oval are horrid. You need to go check the changerooms and the toilets the players have to use. They are well below par.