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Suri wrote:

The_Informer wrote:

TIRED TIGER wrote:Can't believe that players in div 7 are getting paid well over a hundred a game. Where is footy heading,surely you can attract players to your club without offering ridiculous money.will be bloody cold training in the middle of winter at this club
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You have to be joking? There is no way any players in Div7 should be getting paid at all let alone over a hundred bucks. What type of club would do this?

People wonder why clubs fade away and die!

This would have to be a joke?

OR this could be the way the club is able to work its way up the Divisions, which is after all what all SAAFL clubs are trying to do. Maybe this club has exhausted all avenues in recruiting and has decided to fork out some coin to attract players that are going to help them win a flag, or at least make the GF so they can be promoted.

If its within your means to pay players why not use it to your advantage. You just want to make sure you recruit/pay the right type of player who supports the club off the field as much as he does on.

This is the crucial point. And one where many (if not most) clubs fail. All about short term gains vs long term gains.

MegaNeck wrote:

Suri wrote:

The_Informer wrote:

TIRED TIGER wrote:Can't believe that players in div 7 are getting paid well over a hundred a game. Where is footy heading,surely you can attract players to your club without offering ridiculous money.will be bloody cold training in the middle of winter at this club
.

You have to be joking? There is no way any players in Div7 should be getting paid at all let alone over a hundred bucks. What type of club would do this?

People wonder why clubs fade away and die!

This would have to be a joke?

OR this could be the way the club is able to work its way up the Divisions, which is after all what all SAAFL clubs are trying to do. Maybe this club has exhausted all avenues in recruiting and has decided to fork out some coin to attract players that are going to help them win a flag, or at least make the GF so they can be promoted.

If its within your means to pay players why not use it to your advantage. You just want to make sure you recruit/pay the right type of player who supports the club off the field as much as he does on.

This is the crucial point. And one where many (if not most) clubs fail. All about short term gains vs long term gains.

Unfortunately meganeck, you don't pay and you run the risk of losing your best players. I thought we recruited well at MP and the guys played for the love, but along comes the money tree and all of a sudden guys are getting offered more than half their weekly work salary to move on. Makes it hard to keep them. The budgets of some clubs I have heard in Div 6 and 7 blows me away, right up there with my time in Div 1 and 2. Makes our 2012 GF all the more special because really good players went to war just for the game and each other,

MegaNeck wrote:

Suri wrote:

The_Informer wrote:

TIRED TIGER wrote:Can't believe that players in div 7 are getting paid well over a hundred a game. Where is footy heading,surely you can attract players to your club without offering ridiculous money.will be bloody cold training in the middle of winter at this club
.

You have to be joking? There is no way any players in Div7 should be getting paid at all let alone over a hundred bucks. What type of club would do this?

People wonder why clubs fade away and die!

This would have to be a joke?

OR this could be the way the club is able to work its way up the Divisions, which is after all what all SAAFL clubs are trying to do. Maybe this club has exhausted all avenues in recruiting and has decided to fork out some coin to attract players that are going to help them win a flag, or at least make the GF so they can be promoted.

If its within your means to pay players why not use it to your advantage. You just want to make sure you recruit/pay the right type of player who supports the club off the field as much as he does on.

This is the crucial point. And one where many (if not most) clubs fail. All about short term gains vs long term gains.

Simple answer to that is, don't re-sign them.

All clubs have debatable tactics to become succesful and as the world gets more and more competitive it will get more intense. Can't tell me the best clubs in the SAAFL rely on solely on juniors and the love of the club. Even the college sides would have fringe benefits to high prized recruits as per district clubs in many cases too.

Who gives a rats what clubs spend and even if it back fires you can't really tell if a recruit is a bad egg. Seen many blokes turn their lives around when surrounded with the right people and that cash turns in to the best cash you have spent.

LaughingKookaburra wrote:All clubs have debatable tactics to become succesful and as the world gets more and more competitive it will get more intense. Can't tell me the best clubs in the SAAFL rely on solely on juniors and the love of the club. Even the college sides would have fringe benefits to high prized recruits as per district clubs in many cases too.

Who gives a rats what clubs spend and even if it back fires you can't really tell if a recruit is a bad egg. Seen many blokes turn their lives around when surrounded with the right people and that cash turns in to the best cash you have spent.

You're right LK, who gives a rats, except maybe the taxation department. The more clubs spend the more likely they will be to sniff.

LaughingKookaburra wrote:All clubs have debatable tactics to become succesful and as the world gets more and more competitive it will get more intense. Can't tell me the best clubs in the SAAFL rely on solely on juniors and the love of the club. Even the college sides would have fringe benefits to high prized recruits as per district clubs in many cases too.

Who gives a rats what clubs spend and even if it back fires you can't really tell if a recruit is a bad egg. Seen many blokes turn their lives around when surrounded with the right people and that cash turns in to the best cash you have spent.

ABSOLUTELY & EXACTLY

Yank if Victorian Country clubs put $150k on players per year and don't even get investigated then the pissant city clubs have zilch to worry about.

The Glenunga Football Club is looking for an A & B Grade Trial on March 15th.

Glenunga (Webb) oval is not available on this day so the trial will need to be away.

If interested PM me.

C united are staying in div 6 so I've heard from a few people

so have the final teams been decided yet...?

happilyretired wrote:so have the final teams been decided yet...?

Just got word from cufc committee bye bye div 7, back to div6 and try to gain some respect back from rhe saafl comminity,

woofwoof wrote:

happilyretired wrote:so have the final teams been decided yet...?

Just got word from cufc committee bye bye div 7, back to div6 and try to gain some respect back from rhe saafl comminity,

Ah right, interesting.. does this mean someone come back in?

SHOCS?
Flinders Park?

I would think SHOC is the team to come back in as they were more than competative last season!!!!

woofwoof wrote:

happilyretired wrote:so have the final teams been decided yet...?

Just got word from cufc committee bye bye div 7, back to div6 and try to gain some respect back from rhe saafl comminity,[/quote


So I guess that has been approved by the league. Yes?

Yank Man wrote:

woofwoof wrote:

happilyretired wrote:so have the final teams been decided yet...?

Just got word from cufc committee bye bye div 7, back to div6 and try to gain some respect back from rhe saafl comminity,[/quote


So I guess that has been approved by the league. Yes?

Would have thought only the SAAFL could approve it

Yank Man wrote:

woofwoof wrote:

happilyretired wrote:so have the final teams been decided yet...?

Just got word from cufc committee bye bye div 7, back to div6 and try to gain some respect back from rhe saafl comminity,[/quote


So I guess that has been approved by the league. Yes?

Yes saafl told us on tueday that it was offical.

Thus leaving two CU v Smithfield game to the imagination

A good day to have training at water world!

Have heard, albeit 3rd hand, that its a bit of a case of "last one out turn the lights off" at Flinders Uni..

It appears after their breakout year last year it is one step forward two steps backwards

Apparently have lost about 20-25 players so far and have already canned the C grade.

Very sad if true as I saw some games last year and they had some real talented and hard at it players!

Anyone else heard anything or anyone from their club on here?

happilyretired wrote:Have heard, albeit 3rd hand, that its a bit of a case of "last one out turn the lights off" at Flinders Uni..

It appears after their breakout year last year it is one step forward two steps backwards

Apparently have lost about 20-25 players so far and have already canned the C grade.

Very sad if true as I saw some games last year and they had some real talented and hard at it players!

Anyone else heard anything or anyone from their club on here?

one season of glory and the crabs are in demand! getting the big bucks now! other clubs have gone crabbing