River Murray Football League talk

[FootyWiz81]

Would giving the 2 Bridge clubs 2 fewer points to use per game help close the gap a little? I guess the reverse to the exception that Meninge get, which is fair enough.

Absolutely!!!

i was told Ramblers weren't even using all their points?? so atm no losing 2 points wouldnt hurt them.

as has been said 1 year fix's arent what a club like tailem needs. next year, all this years recruits will lose a point and you will be able to get a few more blokes, and if you do things right keep your current good ones.
sure when you hit rock bottom the points system hurts you on the way up. (which potentially could be addressed) but it is from an outside veiw a pretty solid system.

But it might next year or the year after.
It's also hard to hold on to recruits when your getting belted each week regardless of the culture at your club. Players
can hang in there but for only so long, remember most of these recruits travel 45-90+ mins to play at clubs in the Rmfl. Country clubs at the bottom need to be able to rebuild quicker. Rmfl point system could work better if the points were adjusted slightly. 1st - 10 points. 2nd & 3rd - 12 points. 4th & 5th 15 points. 6th & 7th - 18 points . Bridge clubs -2 points, if they finished top they get 8. Meninge +2 but a max of 18.
Thoughts?

What are the current points allocated WOW??

[FootyWiz81]

Footywiz81 very strange posting. What has netball got to do with being a strong football club. Some of the girls at Mypo have no affiliation with the football club I.E husbands or boyfriends. As Far as junior developmeant goes of course the local teams should be stonger with the population per head. If a new family moves to the Bridge good chances are they will go to a local club so they do not have to travel to get to training or games. 75% of the games played in the town they live. The only way the outside teams get stonger in the juniors is from Familys moving to that particular town or if the kids have mates that havent played the game before and want to get involved. Get your head out the sand Footywiz81 and look outside the circle.

The point I was making with netball is how can Mypo win 12 grand finals last yr in netball and then struggle to get players there to win premiership in footy, jervois would be the only town with less populatin than mypo and seems as tho they can build a club.

[FootyWiz81]

So Steve can turn a town of 500 kids into the same talent of a town of which 5000 reside? is that what you're saying?

Steve will bring kids to the club that love to play football like he has with imps just with his positive coaching and knowledge he has brought up to 10 players into 15s and 17s in last couple years

[FootyWiz81]

There is nothing anyone can do about Murray Bridge having 20,000 people and only 45mins from Adelaide compared to Meningie with a few thousand and 90mins from Adelaide, to make competition perfect why don't we make 7 Murray Bridge Clubs and non outside of town?

There will always be someone winging there club doesn't get it good enough.
From RMFL to the AFL it will never be perfect that's what makes the game so good

[RyderCourtney]

There is nothing anyone can do about Murray Bridge having 20,000 people and only 45mins from Adelaide compared to Meningie with a few thousand and 90mins from Adelaide, to make competition perfect why don't we make 7 Murray Bridge Clubs and non outside of town?

There will always be someone winging there club doesn't get it good enough.
From RMFL to the AFL it will never be perfect that's what makes the game so good

Your absolutely right there is nothing anyone can do about this and this is a challenge our town has always and will always have.

Im sure we are not the only club with this problem. Just means the club and committee have to work twice as hard to attract and try and keep quality players.

[bigbadkenny]

Footywiz81 very strange posting. What has netball got to do with being a strong football club. Some of the girls at Mypo have no affiliation with the football club I.E husbands or boyfriends. As Far as junior developmeant goes of course the local teams should be stonger with the population per head. If a new family moves to the Bridge good chances are they will go to a local club so they do not have to travel to get to training or games. 75% of the games played in the town they live. The only way the outside teams get stonger in the juniors is from Familys moving to that particular town or if the kids have mates that havent played the game before and want to get involved. Get your head out the sand Footywiz81 and look outside the circle.

The point I was making with netball is how can Mypo win 12 grand finals last yr in netball and then struggle to get players there to win premiership in footy, jervois would be the only town with less populatin than mypo and seems as tho they can build a club.

get the netball commitee to run the footy department and get rid of guys like zadow ect,they need new school not old school running the club

[FootyWiz81]

Mypo do look like one of the only clubs who haven't taken a risk in many years, 1 good season out of last 10 and nothing has changed coach wise in last 5yrs

[Goldberg]

From an outsider looking in at Mypo's situation, I dont think they could have for seen losing alot of players after that GF loss to us! If they had retained those guys or even a percentage of them, I think they wouldn't have been in the same situation over the past 2 years! Things like this happen to clubs, & with the points system it makes it hard to "auto build" so I think they have probably gone about it much better then clubs like Tailem who have been paying blokes who simply weren't worth the money over that same period (obviously not this year as they have some real GUNS). They've gone with their kids, got game time into them & now have an excellent local base on which to build upon.

We lost Button & Morris & went from virtually indistructable, to not even making the GF with just 2 outs, & I think they lost something like 8 from that side.

[teaoby]

From an outsider looking in at Mypo's situation, I dont think they could have for seen losing alot of players after that GF loss to us! If they had retained those guys or even a percentage of them, I think they wouldn't have been in the same situation over the past 2 years! Things like this happen to clubs, & with the points system it makes it hard to "auto build" so I think they have probably gone about it much better then clubs like Tailem who have been paying blokes who simply weren't worth the money over that same period (obviously not this year as they have some real GUNS). They've gone with their kids, got game time into them & now have an excellent local base on which to build upon.

We lost Button & Morris & went from virtually indistructable, to not even making the GF with just 2 outs, & I think they lost something like 8 from that side.

yeh but thats your 2 best players!

[pigskin]

From an outsider looking in at Mypo's situation, I dont think they could have for seen losing alot of players after that GF loss to us! If they had retained those guys or even a percentage of them, I think they wouldn't have been in the same situation over the past 2 years! Things like this happen to clubs, & with the points system it makes it hard to "auto build" so I think they have probably gone about it much better then clubs like Tailem who have been paying blokes who simply weren't worth the money over that same period (obviously not this year as they have some real GUNS). They've gone with their kids, got game time into them & now have an excellent local base on which to build upon.

We lost Button & Morris & went from virtually indistructable, to not even making the GF with just 2 outs, & I think they lost something like 8 from that side.

yeh but thats your 2 best players!

All clubs lose players, and 2-3 a year you can cover but.........

2008 outs from GF side for Mypo:
1,Joe Pedler- Went OS for a year
2,George Pedler- went OS for a Year
3,Sam Flinn- Got an offer too good to refuse from home club, with the introduction of the points system
4,Jed Dunbar- Went OS for a year
5,Brendan Corrie- Was unable to return to the club because of points which later became available
6,Aaron Zrim- retired for 3 years
7,David Wallfried- Chased the dollar to Karoonda
8,Ned Kelly- Retired
9,Ashley Martin- Did a knee

2009 outs form GF side:
James Pedler- Went home to Cummins, this then had a flow on effect as George went home also, & therefor Joe & Jed had no real "roots" to come back to the club.

2010 outs from GF side
C. Lynne- Gone to Peake
K. Jaensch- Gone to Peake
Joe Oxborrow- Gone to Brown Wells
John Oxborrow- Gone to Brown Wells

14 would be hard for any club to cover in the Short term

[vics01]

OK, I'm going to play devils advocate here! Even though I think he acted poorly

A, If we were paying a very high priced recruit & coach, that allegedly got his $$ regardless of his playing capacity, I would hope our club would do their best to make sure we weren't flushing it down the toilet too. In many ways the Jervois football club should be commended for being hugely supportive of Chris.

B, I think it is the RMFL who have failed here! Back your tribunal in, dont turn, run & hide at the first sign of a challenge. If my understanding is correct, they actually put it on the other 6 clubs to pay for anything, had they have lost Like another poster has suggested, did they even contact the SANFL or CFB to see what sort of assistance they could have got? Who knows?

The 1 thing I think is lost in all of this is Joel Kay is unable to play for atleast 7 weeks, now has 2 Titanium plates in his Jaw, & a number of screws for the rest of his life

Did the Police become involved??

[Goldberg]

No

[biffboy]

From an outsider looking in at Mypo's situation, I dont think they could have for seen losing alot of players after that GF loss to us! If they had retained those guys or even a percentage of them, I think they wouldn't have been in the same situation over the past 2 years! Things like this happen to clubs, & with the points system it makes it hard to "auto build" so I think they have probably gone about it much better then clubs like Tailem who have been paying blokes who simply weren't worth the money over that same period (obviously not this year as they have some real GUNS). They've gone with their kids, got game time into them & now have an excellent local base on which to build upon.

We lost Button & Morris & went from virtually indistructable, to not even making the GF with just 2 outs, & I think they lost something like 8 from that side.

Think you'll find we lost more than those two the following year.

Trant Paech and Ryan Bretag are two that come to mind, i'm sure there were more

[Chuck Wepner]

From an outsider looking in at Mypo's situation, I dont think they could have for seen losing alot of players after that GF loss to us! If they had retained those guys or even a percentage of them, I think they wouldn't have been in the same situation over the past 2 years! Things like this happen to clubs, & with the points system it makes it hard to "auto build" so I think they have probably gone about it much better then clubs like Tailem who have been paying blokes who simply weren't worth the money over that same period (obviously not this year as they have some real GUNS). They've gone with their kids, got game time into them & now have an excellent local base on which to build upon.

We lost Button & Morris & went from virtually indistructable, to not even making the GF with just 2 outs, & I think they lost something like 8 from that side.

Think you'll find we lost more than those two the following year.

Trant Paech and Ryan Bretag are two that come to mind, i'm sure there were more

BB, Whatever happened to Trent Paech? I remember his dad being the best player in the RMFL for many years...

[biffboy]

From an outsider looking in at Mypo's situation, I dont think they could have for seen losing alot of players after that GF loss to us! If they had retained those guys or even a percentage of them, I think they wouldn't have been in the same situation over the past 2 years! Things like this happen to clubs, & with the points system it makes it hard to "auto build" so I think they have probably gone about it much better then clubs like Tailem who have been paying blokes who simply weren't worth the money over that same period (obviously not this year as they have some real GUNS). They've gone with their kids, got game time into them & now have an excellent local base on which to build upon.

We lost Button & Morris & went from virtually indistructable, to not even making the GF with just 2 outs, & I think they lost something like 8 from that side.

Think you'll find we lost more than those two the following year.

Trant Paech and Ryan Bretag are two that come to mind, i'm sure there were more

BB, Whatever happened to Trent Paech? I remember his dad being the best player in the RMFL for many years...

A few things but mainly ankle injuries, plus i'm pretty sure his missus has his balls in a jar

[Big Fulla]

From an outsider looking in at Mypo's situation, I dont think they could have for seen losing alot of players after that GF loss to us! If they had retained those guys or even a percentage of them, I think they wouldn't have been in the same situation over the past 2 years! Things like this happen to clubs, & with the points system it makes it hard to "auto build" so I think they have probably gone about it much better then clubs like Tailem who have been paying blokes who simply weren't worth the money over that same period (obviously not this year as they have some real GUNS). They've gone with their kids, got game time into them & now have an excellent local base on which to build upon.

We lost Button & Morris & went from virtually indistructable, to not even making the GF with just 2 outs, & I think they lost something like 8 from that side.

Think you'll find we lost more than those two the following year.

Trant Paech and Ryan Bretag are two that come to mind, i'm sure there were more

BB, Whatever happened to Trent Paech? I remember his dad being the best player in the RMFL for many years...

A few things but mainly ankle injuries, plus i'm pretty sure his missus has his balls in a jar

Reality BB, footy is not always number 1 priority once other things enter your life, particularly children. Also, I can imagine with Trents run with injuries a break would be something any player would consider. He's still one of the best blokes goin around, top bloke.

[biffboy]

Yeah I know Big Fulla, I actually feel sorry for him cos a couple times he has wanted to return and just have a run in the ressies for some fun and just gets confronted and thrown into a-grade after 1 game.

Sometimes Ramblers seem to run on that if you can play b's then your right to play a's. But in my view, you'd rather have someone running around in the seconds instead of not at all

[Goldberg]

Yeah I know Big Fulla, I actually feel sorry for him cos a couple times he has wanted to return and just have a run in the ressies for some fun and just gets confronted and thrown into a-grade after 1 game.

Sometimes Ramblers seem to run on that if you can play b's then your right to play a's. But in my view, you'd rather have someone running around in the seconds instead of not at all

[RyderCourtney]

I'll second that Big Fulla. Top bloke Trent

[GWW]

On the Mallee thread some talk that a merger of clubs/leagues may be on the cards some time within that league.

Any talk within RMFL circles whether or not this is likely to involve the RMFL?