HH3 wrote:afc9798 wrote:marbles wrote:in 10 years that sfl flag will be ours! ya doing well great work
in 2014 we'll concentrate on handballing, the next year marking, then 2016 we'll teach ya tackling!!! mm yeah love you sfl, my next 200 games with christies will certainly be very fulfilling
Probably doesn't warrant a response as you're clearly trolling for a response, however, you clearly haven't noticed the significant improvement of a number of clubs this year in the SFL. Edwardstown, Christies and Hackham all had significant improvement over the prior year. Christies were very competitive and matched it with a number of the top teams for sustained periods, EDwardstown were 3 kicks away from a prelim and hackham had a few wins, beating Flagstaff Hill along the way.
If you want to comment, you should actually get a clue about what is happening in the league instead of preaching a model that is according to many in the SAAFL, a broken model itself.
SFL is far from perfect, but most of us here support the league in its current form whilst hoping for some changes that will improve it, ratyher than radically change the whole concept.
Ive played in both, and believe me, playing for North Haven A Grade in Div 5 is much more rewarding than playing in the As at Hackham and getting pumped by almost 60 goals one long arvo at Brighton Oval.
This isn't a knock on Hackham, because they're awesome people there, doing a ridiculously hard job.
There's a reason most SAAFL divisions are so competitive, and that's the promotion/relegation system. In the 3 seasons Ive been back at the Haviery, the teams competing in finals havent been decided until the final regular season game.
Just because its Div 5, doesn't mean we don't or shouldn't appreciate our successes.
This whole arguments like saying Div 1 teams shouldnt consider their premierships successes because they didnt do it in the SANFL. And SANFL Premiers shouldnt consider it a success because they didnt do it in the AFL.
I don't disagree with you and can certainly appreciate the situation with being belted week in week out. I do not support other posters comments about the relevance of flags in any division, but I do take exception to this being the great panacea for struggling SFL Clubs. if it was, they would be doing it now. As I said SFL is far from perfect, but there is a reason clubs aren't leaving it.
We love the fact that our teams play against traditional rivals, all teams mostly play at the same grounds and we get to build that culture within the club of having all our guys developing together. it's not a slight on the SAAFL as it obviously works for most of those clubs, it's just a different model.