I was being slightly facetious with the 1 term thing. But what my point is you can have a college side bring in an abundance of 0 pointers as well as their 15 points allocated. They can literally recruit a whole new 21.
Kid finishes school, goes and plays at a suburban club for 3 years, plays some SANFL footy, goes back to old scholar team a 0 pointer. The metro clubs kids get cherry picked to the private schools on footy scholarships. I find it interesting that pre the APPS coming into play college sides sat in the lower divisions, they now occupy almost half of Div 1, a few in Div 2 and 3.
And no don’t put me in charge of APPS. I’ll run you a great canteen though ;)
What's the difference between a player returning to play with his school mates at an old scholars club (zero pointer), and returning to his suburban club where he played juniors (also zero pointer).
PNU for example can go an recruit as many 25 year old's as they want, provided they played enough juniors with PNU.
ROCs should have the same opportunity to recruit the 25 year olds that played enough school games with Rostrevor.
Some of these colleges have a 1st, 2nd and sometimes 3rd 18. How many of those kids each year are then an option for their OS team coming out of year 12? Yet PNU might get what? 5-6 u/17.5s come up each year?
PAC have an E grade I believe and then we have community clubs struggling to fill B grade sides.
well considering a side could play with 45 points in their B Grade side down, I am not sure how the points would stop PAC having an E Grade Team
