SAAFL Div 7 & 7R (2009)

[Barnyard]

well houghton gave us a good game but another AGRADE side couldnt beat a CGrade side look forward to playing st pauls next week should be a good game i reckon

It was a good game, close all day and going into the last quarter with the wind, at six goals to four, we had the game for the taking. Your coach was good enough to put on the flood, but we shot ourselves in the foot by taking the ball to the dead pocket far too often and by not converting some easy shots on goal in the last. To have 80-90% of the play, not get a major and allow you guys an easy goal was pretty shattering, but there's always next time.

And it's pretty dumb to compare our A Grade sides, what you'll pay Colville to play this year is probably more than our total sponsorship. And I bet he won't be doing tequila shots at the bar with you and dancing like Peter Garrett 'til midnight.

Well Quichey I agree it was a good game and played in good spirits if you did kick straight in the last quater may of been different and the fact we played the last quater on that far side was probably our saving grace i guess.The other thing is Gav Colville was at the club until after i left i left at 11 and he spends his fair share of money at the club no he doesnt do shots but he does support the club which is good look forward to playing u guys again hopefully in better conditionsI think yous will definately be around the mark

[25ofthebest]

well houghton gave us a good game but another AGRADE side couldnt beat a CGrade side look forward to playing st pauls next week should be a good game i reckon

Can't win with blokes like you and especially Athelstone, when you win you say "can't even beat a C grade side" when you lose we hear "we're only a C grade side" I look forward to next week also!

I agree with Barnyard, Athelstone and Henley do a great job in div 7 and have a right to pipe up when they win, They are 3rd tier players at their club and get hardly any help from their club because of this reason, unlike the a grade sides in the comp who have the full backing from their clubs. to expect teams like Athelstone and Henley compete in div 6 if they won the flag would be stupid, c grade sides can't recruit players, they rely on the a grade recruiting players, noone is going to rock up and go ohh i might play div 7 Div 6 rather than div 1 and 2.

[Q.]

well houghton gave us a good game but another AGRADE side couldnt beat a CGrade side look forward to playing st pauls next week should be a good game i reckon

It was a good game, close all day and going into the last quarter with the wind, at six goals to four, we had the game for the taking. Your coach was good enough to put on the flood, but we shot ourselves in the foot by taking the ball to the dead pocket far too often and by not converting some easy shots on goal in the last. To have 80-90% of the play, not get a major and allow you guys an easy goal was pretty shattering, but there's always next time.

And it's pretty dumb to compare our A Grade sides, what you'll pay Colville to play this year is probably more than our total sponsorship. And I bet he won't be doing tequila shots at the bar with you and dancing like Peter Garrett 'til midnight.

Well Quichey I agree it was a good game and played in good spirits if you did kick straight in the last quater may of been different and the fact we played the last quater on that far side was probably our saving grace i guess.The other thing is Gav Colville was at the club until after i left i left at 11 and he spends his fair share of money at the club no he doesnt do shots but he does support the club which is good look forward to playing u guys again hopefully in better conditionsI think yous will definately be around the mark

Good to hear, but does he dance like Peter Garrett?

[Q.]

well houghton gave us a good game but another AGRADE side couldnt beat a CGrade side look forward to playing st pauls next week should be a good game i reckon

Can't win with blokes like you and especially Athelstone, when you win you say "can't even beat a C grade side" when you lose we hear "we're only a C grade side" I look forward to next week also!

I agree with Barnyard, Athelstone and Henley do a great job in div 7 and have a right to pipe up when they win, They are 3rd tier players at their club and get hardly any help from their club because of this reason, unlike the a grade sides in the comp who have the full backing from their clubs. to expect teams like Athelstone and Henley compete in div 6 if they won the flag would be stupid, c grade sides can't recruit players, they rely on the a grade recruiting players, noone is going to rock up and go ohh i might play div 7 Div 6 rather than div 1 and 2.

The rest of us in Div 7 have an equally hard time in recruiting, don't think you are alone. And you choose to play Div 7, the benefit being that your two sides are always playing together at the one ground, easier to organise trainers and volunteers that way, but in doing so you must be prepared for the fact that the GF sides get promoted.

[nuggety goodness]

so what were the scores in the games this week? i can't get onto the SAAFL site to check them either.... piece of crap!

i don't even know the final score in our match!!!

[25ofthebest]

well houghton gave us a good game but another AGRADE side couldnt beat a CGrade side look forward to playing st pauls next week should be a good game i reckon

Can't win with blokes like you and especially Athelstone, when you win you say "can't even beat a C grade side" when you lose we hear "we're only a C grade side" I look forward to next week also!

I agree with Barnyard, Athelstone and Henley do a great job in div 7 and have a right to pipe up when they win, They are 3rd tier players at their club and get hardly any help from their club because of this reason, unlike the a grade sides in the comp who have the full backing from their clubs. to expect teams like Athelstone and Henley compete in div 6 if they won the flag would be stupid, c grade sides can't recruit players, they rely on the a grade recruiting players, noone is going to rock up and go ohh i might play div 7 Div 6 rather than div 1 and 2.

The rest of us in Div 7 have an equally hard time in recruiting, don't think you are alone. And you choose to play Div 7, the benefit being that your two sides are always playing together at the one ground, easier to organise trainers and volunteers that way, but in doing so you must be prepared for the fact that the GF sides get promoted.

if they c grade sides went into Div 6 where would the club get players from to improve their side! its hard enough for c grade sides to keep a side together as it is, they lose players to higher grades plus injuries something the a grade side wouldn't understand, apart from injuries obviously??

it would be alot easier for an grade sides to improve their side if they got promoted. where would henley and Athelstone get their players from for these sides if they were promoted? C grade sides cant compete higher than div 7 its pretty simple!

[Q.]

The rest of us in Div 7 have an equally hard time in recruiting, don't think you are alone. And you choose to play Div 7, the benefit being that your two sides are always playing together at the one ground, easier to organise trainers and volunteers that way, but in doing so you must be prepared for the fact that the GF sides get promoted.

if they c grade sides went into Div 6 where would the club get players from to improve their side! its hard enough for c grade sides to keep a side together as it is, they lose players to higher grades plus injuries something the a grade side wouldn't understand, apart from injuries obviously??

it would be alot easier for an grade sides to improve their side if they got promoted. where would henley and Athelstone get their players from for these sides if they were promoted? C grade sides cant compete higher than div 7 its pretty simple!

Like I said, if you wanna play Div 7 and win the premiership, you have to also be prepared to take the promotion. We are in the same boat as you regarding recruiting - who wants to come out and play Div 7 or Div 6? Not too many, you have to be innovative and rely on persistent nagging at mates that play elsewhere, that's what got me out there.

[Keepitreal]

The rest of us in Div 7 have an equally hard time in recruiting, don't think you are alone. And you choose to play Div 7, the benefit being that your two sides are always playing together at the one ground, easier to organise trainers and volunteers that way, but in doing so you must be prepared for the fact that the GF sides get promoted.

if they c grade sides went into Div 6 where would the club get players from to improve their side! its hard enough for c grade sides to keep a side together as it is, they lose players to higher grades plus injuries something the a grade side wouldn't understand, apart from injuries obviously??

it would be alot easier for an grade sides to improve their side if they got promoted. where would henley and Athelstone get their players from for these sides if they were promoted? C grade sides cant compete higher than div 7 its pretty simple!

Like I said, if you wanna play Div 7 and win the premiership, you have to also be prepared to take the promotion. We are in the same boat as you regarding recruiting - who wants to come out and play Div 7 or Div 6? Not too many, you have to be innovative and rely on persistent nagging at mates that play elsewhere, that's what got me out there.

Amateur League need to sumbit extra Divs just for C & D grade sides and enforce it to higher grade clubs that they must submit 4 sides, this will finally resolve promotion excuses for C & D sides but if Uni's C&D's had to go up can't see why others can't as well and cop the good times with the bad the same as smaller A Grade clubs have to.

[nuggety goodness]

Athelstone 13.10 88 v 06.14 50 Adelaide University
Flinders University 08.16 64 v 06.12 48 Sacred Heart OC
Henley 07.06 48 v 04.07 31 Houghton Districts
North Pines 09.08 62 v 10.07 67 Ovingham
Angle Vale 09.11 65 v 12.11 83 St Paul's OS

just found this... was it very wet at athelstone or angle vale?

our game was much drier than the B's. but still pretty slippery, especially in the last. good to get a win on the board, especially against the Pines who we have a small rivalry against. any reports from other matches?

here's a brief from ours.

Pines got out to a good start with a 9 point quarter time lead and extended that to about 14 at half time. we got sprayed in the break and responded well and come back to be down by two points at 3/4 time. Pines kicked the first goal of the last but we fought back and kicked a couple to take the lead. the Pines then took the lead back before a 50m goal by yours truely sealed the match. the last few minutes were intense with the ball moving from one end to the other but defenses holding strong and we got up by 5pts. Umpires were atrocious! bad decisions all day on both sides, fortunately they were bad for both teams, no bias i thought and the game went right down to the wire.

Best for us were M. Newman, R Jurina and A Cooke

[Lightning McQueen]

Round 3 Tips

Athelstone vs Uni : 86 points, too strong at home
Flinders Uni vs SHOC : 21 points, the Crabs fought hard last week, SHOC just a bit too good this week
[b]Henley vs Houghton : 17 points, home ground factor[/b]
Angle Vale vs St. Pauls : 9 points, the Saints will start gelling
North Pines vs Ovingham : 19 points, Ovies to open their account with a couple more inclusions this week.

4/5. Spot on in the Henley game.

[Barnyard]

I enjoy playing in div7 and yes if we do make the gf this year we will have to go up and we know that but that is along way away to even start contemplating that we still have 20 weeks at least to go to we get there if we do

We have also had 40 players go through the Cgrade in 3 weeks and probably by the end of the year it will be up near 60 which it was last year
As for the Colville question no he wasnt dancing but he doesnt go to bad when he does

[Barnyard]

The rest of us in Div 7 have an equally hard time in recruiting, don't think you are alone. And you choose to play Div 7, the benefit being that your two sides are always playing together at the one ground, easier to organise trainers and volunteers that way, but in doing so you must be prepared for the fact that the GF sides get promoted.

if they c grade sides went into Div 6 where would the club get players from to improve their side! its hard enough for c grade sides to keep a side together as it is, they lose players to higher grades plus injuries something the a grade side wouldn't understand, apart from injuries obviously??

it would be alot easier for an grade sides to improve their side if they got promoted. where would henley and Athelstone get their players from for these sides if they were promoted? C grade sides cant compete higher than div 7 its pretty simple!

Like I said, if you wanna play Div 7 and win the premiership, you have to also be prepared to take the promotion. We are in the same boat as you regarding recruiting - who wants to come out and play Div 7 or Div 6? Not too many, you have to be innovative and rely on persistent nagging at mates that play elsewhere, that's what got me out there.

Amateur League need to sumbit extra Divs just for C & D grade sides and enforce it to higher grade clubs that they must submit 4 sides, this will finally resolve promotion excuses for C & D sides but if Uni's C&D's had to go up can't see why others can't as well and cop the good times with the bad the same as smaller A Grade clubs have to.

In 2005 we did go to div 6 we got smashed by 30 goals every week only won 3 games and that year was the first year our dgrade had to forfiet a game

[Q.]

I enjoy playing in div7 and yes if we do make the gf this year we will have to go up and we know that but that is along way away to even start contemplating that we still have 20 weeks at least to go to we get there if we do

We have also had 40 players go through the Cgrade in 3 weeks and probably by the end of the year it will be up near 60 which it was last year
As for the Colville question no he wasnt dancing but he doesnt go to bad when he does

Yeah, I had a good look at your team before saturday, five blokes had played one or two games in your B grade this year, five blokes hadn't played yet, and one was from your D grade. Fair turnover there.

[The_Warrior]

3/5 of this week. Back to reality

Looks like Coach Ross Brokensha gave his Flinders boys a good spray after their inept performance against St.Pauls, posting an upset win over SHOC's. The Pines v Ovingham game was always gonna be close, and my prediction was on the wrong side of the ledger.

Riddler would be happy with another win for his lads. Willaston Oval was in fine condition, unfortunately the weather made the surface slippery and a scrappy encounter. St.Pauls should have nailed the game in the first qtr, kicking with a strong breeze managed 5.7 to 1.0. The Angle Vale Owls kept in the contest with their tenacity, but the class of the St.Pauls forward Ivan Novosel 4.8, the determination of ANZAC medalist D.Larking and the blanketing of dangerous Owls forward Ash Walker by Rob Eckersly saw the Saints home. Should be a good test for the Saints this week in both grades against the undefeated Henley.

[Lightning McQueen]

3/5 of this week. Back to reality

Looks like Coach Ross Brokensha gave his Flinders boys a good spray after their inept performance against St.Pauls, posting an upset win over SHOC's. The Pines v Ovingham game was always gonna be close, and my prediction was on the wrong side of the ledger.

Riddler would be happy with another win for his lads. Willaston Oval was in fine condition, unfortunately the weather made the surface slippery and a scrappy encounter. St.Pauls should have nailed the game in the first qtr, kicking with a strong breeze managed 5.7 to 1.0. The Angle Vale Owls kept in the contest with their tenacity, but the class of the St.Pauls forward Ivan Novosel 4.8, the determination of ANZAC medalist D.Larking and the blanketing of dangerous Owls forward Ash Walker by Rob Eckersly saw the Saints home. Should be a good test for the Saints this week in both grades against the undefeated Henley.

Who played well for the Hooters?

[The Riddler]

3/5 of this week. Back to reality

Looks like Coach Ross Brokensha gave his Flinders boys a good spray after their inept performance against St.Pauls, posting an upset win over SHOC's. The Pines v Ovingham game was always gonna be close, and my prediction was on the wrong side of the ledger.

Riddler would be happy with another win for his lads. Willaston Oval was in fine condition, unfortunately the weather made the surface slippery and a scrappy encounter. St.Pauls should have nailed the game in the first qtr, kicking with a strong breeze managed 5.7 to 1.0. The Angle Vale Owls kept in the contest with their tenacity, but the class of the St.Pauls forward Ivan Novosel 4.8, the determination of ANZAC medalist D.Larking and the blanketing of dangerous Owls forward Ash Walker by Rob Eckersly saw the Saints home. Should be a good test for the Saints this week in both grades against the undefeated Henley.

Who played well for the Hooters?

Nick Hook was great in the middle for The Owls and their young ruckman Burgess tried hard all day...poor kid rucked by himself the whole game, if he goes down at any time of the year they are in trouble.

[finn]

well houghton gave us a good game but another AGRADE side couldnt beat a CGrade side look forward to playing st pauls next week should be a good game i reckon

Can't win with blokes like you and especially Athelstone, when you win you say "can't even beat a C grade side" when you lose we hear "we're only a C grade side" I look forward to next week also!

I agree with Barnyard, Athelstone and Henley do a great job in div 7 and have a right to pipe up when they win, They are 3rd tier players at their club and get hardly any help from their club because of this reason, unlike the a grade sides in the comp who have the full backing from their clubs. to expect teams like Athelstone and Henley compete in div 6 if they won the flag would be stupid, c grade sides can't recruit players, they rely on the a grade recruiting players, noone is going to rock up and go ohh i might play div 7 Div 6 rather than div 1 and 2.

that's bollocks - and as a part of a club that has a c grade side in div 7 I know how it works. c grade sides can be competitive in div 6 - uni's a few years ago went up and played finals before losing a heap of players and finishing bottom. Theoretically the better quality and quantity of players pushes b graders down to the c grade.

saafl rules state that a club can choose to stay down for a year in henley's situation but if they make the gf the following year there's no choice but going up.

there's no point in going on about sandbagging because the club has made a decision about where they think they'll be competitive - the committee makes that decision not the players. Equally there's also no point rabbitting on about the quality of your c grade when the club's a grade is playing div 1; as a div 1 club recruits should be easier to find and of a better quality.

[nuggety goodness]

hey finn i see Michael Hogg played for your div 7 boys on the weekend. is he there all year or pushin for a higher spot? i'd love to play against him this year. we played together during school in the riverland...

[The_Warrior]

well houghton gave us a good game but another AGRADE side couldnt beat a CGrade side look forward to playing st pauls next week should be a good game i reckon

Can't win with blokes like you and especially Athelstone, when you win you say "can't even beat a C grade side" when you lose we hear "we're only a C grade side" I look forward to next week also!

I agree with Barnyard, Athelstone and Henley do a great job in div 7 and have a right to pipe up when they win, They are 3rd tier players at their club and get hardly any help from their club because of this reason, unlike the a grade sides in the comp who have the full backing from their clubs. to expect teams like Athelstone and Henley compete in div 6 if they won the flag would be stupid, c grade sides can't recruit players, they rely on the a grade recruiting players, noone is going to rock up and go ohh i might play div 7 Div 6 rather than div 1 and 2.

that's bollocks - and as a part of a club that has a c grade side in div 7 I know how it works. c grade sides can be competitive in div 6 - uni's a few years ago went up and played finals before losing a heap of players and finishing bottom. Theoretically the better quality and quantity of players pushes b graders down to the c grade.

saafl rules state that a club can choose to stay down for a year in henley's situation but if they make the gf the following year there's no choice but going up.

there's no point in going on about sandbagging because the club has made a decision about where they think they'll be competitive - the committee makes that decision not the players. Equally there's also no point rabbitting on about the quality of your c grade when the club's a grade is playing div 1; as a div 1 club recruits should be easier to find and of a better quality.

Coming from a bloke at a club which has multiple sides.

[finn]

hey finn i see Michael Hogg played for your div 7 boys on the weekend. is he there all year or pushin for a higher spot? i'd love to play against him this year. we played together during school in the riverland...

he's training with the big boys - has played a b grade (2 res) game this year already - i'd expect him to flit between the b's and c's