SAAFL Division 7 2013

[marbles]

separate the A-grade clubs from the C-Grade clubs and stop the innuendo

[Yank Man]

Agree.

Make it categorical. No ifs, no special rules, no maybes or grey areas, no "we wont be as strong next year".

You finish in the bottom two. You're going down. Make the GF, you're going up. That should be the end of it really.

That is the real answer morell. All our problem solving doesn't alter 2013. MP are going up, TTG arn't. So Ingle Farm and Houghton get put under pressure to make decisions. If they both want to stay up then Adel Uni is a C grade team, do they get an option, if Henley says no do Angle Vale or North Pines get options? There should be no options, you play in a GF and you go up and you finish bottom 2 and you get relegated. Div's 6 7 and 8 still need work and the league will act responsibly I'm sure. Unless they have got a couple of new clubs coming in.

[zedman]

Marion to div 6 would be a good fix. Just saying..

[Yank Man]

Marion to div 6 would be a good fix. Just saying..

Hahaha. looks like we get the same mail Zed. We're gunna get on just fine.

[X Runna]

Agree.

Make it categorical. No ifs, no special rules, no maybes or grey areas, no "we wont be as strong next year".

You finish in the bottom two. You're going down. Make the GF, you're going up. That should be the end of it really.

NAILED

[Yank Man]

Agree.

Make it categorical. No ifs, no special rules, no maybes or grey areas, no "we wont be as strong next year".

You finish in the bottom two. You're going down. Make the GF, you're going up. That should be the end of it really.

NAILED

Yes you are right X Runna, NAILED. You know in the cold heart light of day I just hope everyone understands just how good TTG were in 2012. Beaten by a very good A grade club yes, but a super team and they should be forced to go up because if they all came back in 2013 they would also be a very very good team in Div 6. If they take the now infamous Shoc option and all decided to come back again in March then look out Div 7.

[Haynzy]

Agree.

Make it categorical. No ifs, no special rules, no maybes or grey areas, no "we wont be as strong next year".

You finish in the bottom two. You're going down. Make the GF, you're going up. That should be the end of it really.

NAILED

Yes you are right X Runna, NAILED. You know in the cold heart light of day I just hope everyone understands just how good TTG were in 2012. Beaten by a very good A grade club yes, but a super team and they should be forced to go up because if they all came back in 2013 they would also be a very very good team in Div 6. If they take the now infamous Shoc option and all decided to come back again in March then look out Div 7.

I think that Morell is probably right, that things would be easier if they just took away the option and if a c grade club goes up and loses all their players, then they need to suffer a year of losses before dropping back down again.

saying that, i don't think any club would choose to go up when it's team is uncertain and they could possibly suffer a year of humiliating defeats when the alternative is to stay down and worst case scenario is your competitive, best case scenario is that you maintain existing team and are successful again.

[Bluedemon]

Marion to div 6 would be a good fix. Just saying..

has this been confirmed as yet?

[old farmer]

I heard Brighton and Marion will be joining SAAFL next year.....Should be able to have 7 divisions of A grade then and purely C & D grade comps in Div 8 & 9

[woodublieve12]

I heard Brighton and Marion will be joining SAAFL next year.....Should be able to have 7 divisions of A grade then and purely C & D grade comps in Div 8 & 9

brighton would win every week by a mile if they were in d7.... 20+ goals imo...

[X Runna]

Agree.

Make it categorical. No ifs, no special rules, no maybes or grey areas, no "we wont be as strong next year".

You finish in the bottom two. You're going down. Make the GF, you're going up. That should be the end of it really.

NAILED

Yes you are right X Runna, NAILED. You know in the cold heart light of day I just hope everyone understands just how good TTG were in 2012. Beaten by a very good A grade club yes, but a super team and they should be forced to go up because if they all came back in 2013 they would also be a very very good team in Div 6. If they take the now infamous Shoc option and all decided to come back again in March then look out Div 7.

I think that Morell is probably right, that things would be easier if they just took away the option and if a c grade club goes up and loses all their players, then they need to suffer a year of losses before dropping back down again.

saying that, i don't think any club would choose to go up when it's team is uncertain and they could possibly suffer a year of humiliating defeats when the alternative is to stay down and worst case scenario is your competitive, best case scenario is that you maintain existing team and are successful again.

This is absolutely no different if it were an A Grade side in any grade.

[happilyretired]

I did see via Facebook that Flinders Crabs had their AGM yesterday.

Any word if there is a change in the coaching there or if they discussed staying in div 7 or moving down to div 8?

you would think going to div 8 would make it much harder to attract players and any sponsorship?

[X Runna]

I heard Brighton and Marion will be joining SAAFL next year.....Should be able to have 7 divisions of A grade then and purely C & D grade comps in Div 8 & 9

brighton would win every week by a mile if they were in d7.... 20+ goals imo...

I saw Brighton play in the SFL G/F this year. They would do the same in ANY grade up to AT LEAST Div 3.

[Executive Member]

I heard Brighton and Marion will be joining SAAFL next year.....Should be able to have 7 divisions of A grade then and purely C & D grade comps in Div 8 & 9

not happening

[Esteban Vihaio]

I did see via Facebook that Flinders Crabs had their AGM yesterday.

Any word if there is a change in the coaching there or if they discussed staying in div 7 or moving down to div 8?

you would think going to div 8 would make it much harder to attract players and any sponsorship?

Don't know about the AGM, but do know B. Roocke has the job for 2013 for the 1's.

[marbles]

so nothing happens, houghton & ingle farm come to div 7, ttg stay in div 7, and flinders uni go to div 8 replacing gepps cross

will the league have the courage to make div 6 hav only 9 teams and a bye hmmm

[Executive Member]

so nothing happens, houghton & ingle farm come to div 7, ttg stay in div 7, and flinders uni go to div 8 replacing gepps cross

will the league have the courage to make div 6 hav only 9 teams and a bye hmmm

close but D6 will be an 8 team comp and run over 21 weeks so everyone plays each othe 3 times, as Uni will drop to D7

[Bigshow82]

so nothing happens, houghton & ingle farm come to div 7, ttg stay in div 7, and flinders uni go to div 8 replacing gepps cross

will the league have the courage to make div 6 hav only 9 teams and a bye hmmm

close but D6 will be an 8 team comp and run over 21 weeks so everyone plays each othe 3 times, as Uni will drop to D7

Lets hope that is a joke EM??

[old farmer]

so nothing happens, houghton & ingle farm come to div 7, ttg stay in div 7, and flinders uni go to div 8 replacing gepps cross

will the league have the courage to make div 6 hav only 9 teams and a bye hmmm

close but D6 will be an 8 team comp and run over 21 weeks so everyone plays each othe 3 times, as Uni will drop to D7

Lets hope that is a joke EM??[/quote]

Has to be. Surely you don't have an 8 team comp and 10 in Div 7. THe aim is to work your way up to div 1, the pinnacle. so why would teams want to be in div 7 or 8 when that is going in the opposite direction. But then again this is the SAAFL, with no opposition so i suppose they can do as they please.

[lutz]

On another subject:

I heard the other day that Houghton have appointed their new coach. Is this true? Where's he from?