SAAFL Division 7 2013

[Hefty]

Stop yer bitching

Now you can go and re-post this in the correct thread thanks

About bloody time

[Shark_Hunter]

Money talks here boys, therell be no shakin the buffalos away

I don't know about money, but there has to be something going on. Someone mentioned the delegates voting on it at the meeting last night. What's the bet after the inept committee put it to the floor the vote was carried about 58 to 9? 58 clubs who don't give a f**k & just follow the proposal because it doesn't affect them and the 9 clubs who are in Div7 voting against it.[/quote]

You guys are so far off the mark on UniSA it is not funny. The club is being put together by a group of players from the successful UniSA Basketball Club who got enough interest from friends etc that they thought they would try to get a footy club up and running for the first time in over 19 years.

The last time UniSA had a footy club was circa 1992, straight after the merger. Antecedent institutions of UniSA including the various Teachers Colleges and SAIT had reasonable success throughout the SAAFL through the 70s and 80s in particular.

The University actually has nothing to do with sporting clubs, they are all administered and financed through the independent student association UniLife. While there is talk this may change sometime down the track, there is absolutely no way UniSA is paying anything to the UniSA Footy club or the SAAFL at this point in time.

While I won't weigh into the debate about which grade they should start in, I am just pleased to see the Uni trying to get a club together again. I imagine that a large number of UniSA students would currently end up playing for other clubs (e.g. Mawson Lakes or even Adelaide Uni) due to the lack of an option at UniSA.

I know that UniSA was trying to develop a relationship with MLFC, possibly to have a UniSA-based team start under the MLFC banner as a C or D grade side and perhaps look at furthering that relationship in future years when it was clear the UniSA contribution was beneficial for both clubs. MLFC are (understandably) a little peeved at the way it has panned out, but when a group of students wants to start a club and have enough interest to register it with UniLife, there is nothing UniSA can do to deny them.

Thought it might be useful to clarify the situation and put a stop to the ridiculous rumours floating around on here.

[Haynzy]

Div 7 no doubt has to have C grade teams Atm, but please let's not have them complaining about playing A grade clubs. TTG and Henley, 2 great and strong clubs, would have played in 9 out of 10 Grand Finals in Div 7 in 2012, but ran in to the best Div 7 A grade team in a very long time. Sorry but Mitchell Park are going to be Div 5 or better very soon if their structures and players stay together which I am confident they will. Div 7 needs C grade teams but only the best will do and Henley will only make clubs like UniSa and Ovingham pale in to insignifigance. If the current proposed standings apply then Henley would be odds on to take out the flag and maybe join Adel Uni in Div 6. My thoughts only on what I know and have seen. Banter all you like.

So modest Funny thing is I've spoken to a heap of guys who played Div 7 last year and consensus was the comp was much weaker this season than it was in previous ones, they even said both yourselves & TTG wouldn't have got close to the 2 grand finalists of 2011 so who's lying? I went to the GF and I can tell you neither of you would have made the top 5 in Div 6 this year but please keep posting about it so it keeps inflating your ego and makes you feel good about yourself.

I'm interested to know who you spoke to, because we came bloody close to Mawson Lakes and Sacred Heart last year but am pretty confident would have beaten them quite easily with this years team as we added 5 or 6 ex 'A' graders plus a dominant ruckman but couldn't get over the top of Mitchell Park.

[mozzie]

Money talks here boys, therell be no shakin the buffalos away

I don't know about money, but there has to be something going on. Someone mentioned the delegates voting on it at the meeting last night. What's the bet after the inept committee put it to the floor the vote was carried about 58 to 9? 58 clubs who don't give a f**k & just follow the proposal because it doesn't affect them and the 9 clubs who are in Div7 voting against it.

You guys are so far off the mark on UniSA it is not funny. The club is being put together by a group of players from the successful UniSA Basketball Club who got enough interest from friends etc that they thought they would try to get a footy club up and running for the first time in over 19 years.

The last time UniSA had a footy club was circa 1992, straight after the merger. Antecedent institutions of UniSA including the various Teachers Colleges and SAIT had reasonable success throughout the SAAFL through the 70s and 80s in particular.

The University actually has nothing to do with sporting clubs, they are all administered and financed through the independent student association UniLife. While there is talk this may change sometime down the track, there is absolutely no way UniSA is paying anything to the UniSA Footy club or the SAAFL at this point in time.

While I won't weigh into the debate about which grade they should start in, I am just pleased to see the Uni trying to get a club together again. I imagine that a large number of UniSA students would currently end up playing for other clubs (e.g. Mawson Lakes or even Adelaide Uni) due to the lack of an option at UniSA.

I know that UniSA was trying to develop a relationship with MLFC, possibly to have a UniSA-based team start under the MLFC banner as a C or D grade side and perhaps look at furthering that relationship in future years when it was clear the UniSA contribution was beneficial for both clubs. MLFC are (understandably) a little peeved at the way it has panned out, but when a group of students wants to start a club and have enough interest to register it with UniLife, there is nothing UniSA can do to deny them.

Thought it might be useful to clarify the situation and put a stop to the ridiculous rumours floating around on here.

Now just to let you in on a few facts, as i run football at Mawson Lakes i can tell you that not once have UniSA spoken to Mawson Lakes about joining us in a C or D grade banner. We already have a C grade side which we have had for the last couple of seasons.
As i said, they have not spoken to Mawson lakes in any way. A couple of guys who are starting this club up are actually past members of Mawson Lakes. What i can tell you, is that they have even spoken to the Uni about using our oval in front of us. If you call that trying to start a working relationship well i willl go he!
If you would like to put some more truths on here i would love to hear them.

[The Riddler]

Div 7 no doubt has to have C grade teams Atm, but please let's not have them complaining about playing A grade clubs. TTG and Henley, 2 great and strong clubs, would have played in 9 out of 10 Grand Finals in Div 7 in 2012, but ran in to the best Div 7 A grade team in a very long time. Sorry but Mitchell Park are going to be Div 5 or better very soon if their structures and players stay together which I am confident they will. Div 7 needs C grade teams but only the best will do and Henley will only make clubs like UniSa and Ovingham pale in to insignifigance. If the current proposed standings apply then Henley would be odds on to take out the flag and maybe join Adel Uni in Div 6. My thoughts only on what I know and have seen. Banter all you like.

So modest Funny thing is I've spoken to a heap of guys who played Div 7 last year and consensus was the comp was much weaker this season than it was in previous ones, they even said both yourselves & TTG wouldn't have got close to the 2 grand finalists of 2011 so who's lying? I went to the GF and I can tell you neither of you would have made the top 5 in Div 6 this year but please keep posting about it so it keeps inflating your ego and makes you feel good about yourself.

I'm interested to know who you spoke to, because we came bloody close to Mawson Lakes and Sacred Heart last year but am pretty confident would have beaten them quite easily with this years team as we added 5 or 6 ex 'A' graders plus a dominant ruckman but couldn't get over the top of Mitchell Park.

I agree we didn't improve at all compared to 2011.

[carey]

My god i look forward to seeing these guys results the gap between 6 and 7 is the length of south road and before rabbits get on here mouthing off about trial games pfft they are exactly that trial games.

Mawson Lakes were a better side in 2012 than 2011 and made a great fist of it in there first year to make the finals after a fantastic start to the year.

And with Rosewater and Westminster coming down and CLG getting a hell of a lot stronger i expect the fight for the top 5 to be as tough as ever....

[Shark_Hunter]

Its obvious that unisa are paying big money to the league maybe under the table or maybe via sponsorship cos so theres been no backward steps as the league seem quite happy to disregard their own integrity in exchange for a massive financial bonus which when put on the table did nothing but light up the eyes of all involved and like what we are seeing in this outrageous introduction to div 7, the league has simply responded by saying 'yes master, anything u wish master'

Money talks here boys, therell be no shakin the buffalos away

I don't know about money, but there has to be something going on. Someone mentioned the delegates voting on it at the meeting last night. What's the bet after the inept committee put it to the floor the vote was carried about 58 to 9? 58 clubs who don't give a f**k & just follow the proposal because it doesn't affect them and the 9 clubs who are in Div7 voting against it.

You guys are so far off the mark on UniSA it is not funny. The club is being put together by a group of players from the successful UniSA Basketball Club who got enough interest from friends etc that they thought they would try to get a footy club up and running for the first time in over 19 years.

The last time UniSA had a footy club was circa 1992, straight after the merger. Antecedent institutions of UniSA including the various Teachers Colleges and SAIT had reasonable success throughout the SAAFL through the 70s and 80s in particular.

The University actually has nothing to do with sporting clubs, they are all administered and financed through the independent student association UniLife. While there is talk this may change sometime down the track, there is absolutely no way UniSA is paying anything to the UniSA Footy club or the SAAFL at this point in time.

While I won't weigh into the debate about which grade they should start in, I am just pleased to see the Uni trying to get a club together again. I imagine that a large number of UniSA students would currently end up playing for other clubs (e.g. Mawson Lakes or even Adelaide Uni) due to the lack of an option at UniSA.

I know that UniSA was trying to develop a relationship with MLFC, possibly to have a UniSA-based team start under the MLFC banner as a C or D grade side and perhaps look at furthering that relationship in future years when it was clear the UniSA contribution was beneficial for both clubs. MLFC are (understandably) a little peeved at the way it has panned out, but when a group of students wants to start a club and have enough interest to register it with UniLife, there is nothing UniSA can do to deny them.

Thought it might be useful to clarify the situation and put a stop to the ridiculous rumours floating around on here.

Now just to let you in on a few facts, as i run football at Mawson Lakes i can tell you that not once have UniSA spoken to Mawson Lakes about joining us in a C or D grade banner. We already have a C grade side which we have had for the last couple of seasons.
As i said, they have not spoken to Mawson lakes in any way. A couple of guys who are starting this club up are actually past members of Mawson Lakes. What i can tell you, is that they have even spoken to the Uni about using our oval in front of us. If you call that trying to start a working relationship well i willl go he!
If you would like to put some more truths on here i would love to hear them.

Mozzie, the talks were extremely informal between UniSA staff and your President over a coffee. It would have never got close to committee level, so I'm not sure who you are, but I'm assuming you are not the Pres? It was more along the lines of this could be a possible way to go forward sometime in the future. I might have made it sound a little more formal than it actually was, so I apologise.

This was just a few interested staff from UniSA trying to form a relationship with MLFC which resulted in MLFC helping to host a small UniSA 9-a-side competition on their oval in September. MLFC also made use of UniSA/UniLife marquees at several home games last season. This was completely separate from the UniSA club that has now been formed and I can understand MLFC being peeved about what happened. Do you want to tell me that all of this is untrue?

[Yank Man]

My god i look forward to seeing these guys results the gap between 6 and 7 is the length of south road and before rabbits get on here mouthing off about trial games pfft they are exactly that trial games.

Mawson Lakes were a better side in 2012 than 2011 and made a great fist of it in there first year to make the finals after a fantastic start to the year.

And with Rosewater and Westminster coming down and CLG getting a hell of a lot stronger i expect the fight for the top 5 to be as tough as ever....

Of course you are right carey, I'm stokin' the fire to take the heat of marbles. One thing you get on the Div 7 forum is fire in the belly and if you make an outlandish statement it goes for days. Gives me something to read in the off season.

[marbles]

My god i look forward to seeing these guys results the gap between 6 and 7 is the length of south road and before rabbits get on here mouthing off about trial games pfft they are exactly that trial games.

Mawson Lakes were a better side in 2012 than 2011 and made a great fist of it in there first year to make the finals after a fantastic start to the year.

And with Rosewater and Westminster coming down and CLG getting a hell of a lot stronger i expect the fight for the top 5 to be as tough as ever....

Of course you are right carey, I'm stokin' the fire to take the heat of marbles. One thing you get on the Div 7 forum is fire in the belly and if you make an outlandish statement it goes for days. Gives me something to read in the off season.

if you dont pay players in div 6 your matches will be over by quarter time

[marbles]

Meanwhile me and my team mates at the royal pony club hav just won the ponys of the month trophy so whilst sitting around celebrating and polishing our victorious saddles we all decided to make a footy club.

The RIVER TORRENS PONYS will also be joining division 7 in 2013 and gepps cross cgrade will be our reserves side and theyll play at gepps and well play at west beach

seeing we're an agrade club unfortunately a cgrade club has gotta go. Well flinders park already got the boot so next in line is sacred heart. Sorry boys u too are in div 8

[Phantom Gossiper]

My god i look forward to seeing these guys results the gap between 6 and 7 is the length of south road and before rabbits get on here mouthing off about trial games pfft they are exactly that trial games.

Mawson Lakes were a better side in 2012 than 2011 and made a great fist of it in there first year to make the finals after a fantastic start to the year.

And with Rosewater and Westminster coming down and CLG getting a hell of a lot stronger i expect the fight for the top 5 to be as tough as ever....

Real men ride steeds

[dee man]

they even said both yourselves & TTG wouldn't have got close to the 2 grand finalists of 2011 so who's lying?

The 2011 Mitchell Park side beat SHOC twice and had two pretty tight contests with Mawson Lakes. In fact if I had of held a mark at home against the Lakers we might have been able to overrun them. Oh well.

Finals are different and we failed there, but I think its a bit of a stretch to say we wouldn't have gotten close when we beat the victors during the year. In addition the 2012 Mitchell Park side was at least 10 goals better than 2011. There is no doubt in my mind that this years MP team would have given both SHOC and Mawson Lakes a very, very serious run for their money in the 2011 GF.

Having said all that I agree if we are to make the finals in Div 6 we will need to recruit well and add some strong depth to the squad. In addition to keeping everyone. The leap from Div 7 to Div 6 is huge and we have our work cut out.

And leave Yank Man alone, he is proud of his achievements and rightly so, the turn around at Mitchell Park that he was a massive part of has been extraordinary.

hi morgs
after watching several div 6 games and the same amount of div 7 games last year ,the lions would have finished in the bottom half between 6 and 8
even tho i was rapt for the club and believe they played some really good footy,the div 6 i saw this year was back around the quality of several seasons ago,when paralowie,brahma lodge,heccies ect were at the top of their game in div 6
for the lions to mount an attack on the top five they would need to recruit 5 to 6 quality players for the areas they will struggle in

[Q.]

Good first up training session out at HDFC tonight. About 25 lads out for run, a few new faces too - all of us sweating bullets

Having another short run on Monday night at 6:30pm for anyone that is keen to have a kick.

[morell]

they even said both yourselves & TTG wouldn't have got close to the 2 grand finalists of 2011 so who's lying?

The 2011 Mitchell Park side beat SHOC twice and had two pretty tight contests with Mawson Lakes. In fact if I had of held a mark at home against the Lakers we might have been able to overrun them. Oh well.

Finals are different and we failed there, but I think its a bit of a stretch to say we wouldn't have gotten close when we beat the victors during the year. In addition the 2012 Mitchell Park side was at least 10 goals better than 2011. There is no doubt in my mind that this years MP team would have given both SHOC and Mawson Lakes a very, very serious run for their money in the 2011 GF.

Having said all that I agree if we are to make the finals in Div 6 we will need to recruit well and add some strong depth to the squad. In addition to keeping everyone. The leap from Div 7 to Div 6 is huge and we have our work cut out.

And leave Yank Man alone, he is proud of his achievements and rightly so, the turn around at Mitchell Park that he was a massive part of has been extraordinary.

hi morgs
after watching several div 6 games and the same amount of div 7 games last year ,the lions would have finished in the bottom half between 6 and 8
even tho i was rapt for the club and believe they played some really good footy,the div 6 i saw this year was back around the quality of several seasons ago,when paralowie,brahma lodge,heccies ect were at the top of their game in div 6
for the lions to mount an attack on the top five they would need to recruit 5 to 6 quality players for the areas they will struggle in

No doubt mate, absolutely agree with you. We would know better than most about having a good year in Div 7, going up to Div 6 without recruiting a hell of a lot and struggling

MPFC need to add at least one or two more good A grade midfielders. We need a monster ruckman. We need more youth and pace in the key defensive spots. We need more and varied avenues to goal etc etc.

There is a nucleus there which we can build around, but if the 2012 D7 MPFC goes into 2013 D6 without addressing the above then there is no doubt in my mind we will be very much struggling to keep up with the stronger sides.

[moses]

Morell doesn't seem the premiership coach thinks along your lines?

Div 7 no doubt has to have C grade teams Atm, but please let's not have them complaining about playing A grade clubs. TTG and Henley, 2 great and strong clubs, would have played in 9 out of 10 Grand Finals in Div 7 in 2012, but ran in to the best Div 7 A grade team in a very long time. Sorry but Mitchell Park are going to be Div 5 or better very soon if their structures and players stay together which I am confident they will. Div 7 needs C grade teams but only the best will do and Henley will only make clubs like UniSa and Ovingham pale in to insignifigance. If the current proposed standings apply then Henley would be odds on to take out the flag and maybe join Adel Uni in Div 6. My thoughts only on what I know and have seen. Banter all you like.

[morell]

Not the first time nor the last!

[1 club]

Flinders Park and Modbury slated to be in D8, Broadview in D7.

Very surprised to hear parks going down as they have been strong in there c's & d's for afew years now

[Gatt_Weasel]

hang on is this the same mitchell park who said they could beat div 1 reserve sides ??? and provided graphs on players and said they had least 3-4 walk in A grade div 1 players

according to all this unless them players are gone why recruit current list should walk through div 6 and div 7

[Q.]

I love how the story has gone from a D5 team beating a D1R team all the way to a D7 team doing it...lololololol

[old fullback]

Has pre-season started without me Old Farmer?