HFL Division 2 (Country)

[Media Park]

Was that quarter time? Or is this a less-imposing team?

[bloods08]

Was that quarter time? Or is this a less-imposing team?

According to the sunday mail.

Struggling to believe it as well but it was fairly wet yesterday.

[magpie in the 80's]

Looking both Country and Central results it appears the conditions played a big part in the low scores

[The Duke]

Sedan Cambrai 2.4-16 def. by Macclesfield 19.12-126
Gumeracha 2.12-24 def. by Torrens Valley 11.17-83
Kangarilla 12.9-81 def. Meadows 7.3-45
Echunga 19.22.136 vs Callington 0.0.00
Nairne Bremer 4.2-26 def. by Kersbrook 13.12-90

One of the more nail bitting rounds of football produced in 2010 by the HFL.
Any clubs in the market for an impact coach in 2011?

[aceman]

Sedan Cambrai 2.4-16 def. by Macclesfield 19.12-126
Gumeracha 2.12-24 def. by Torrens Valley 11.17-83
Kangarilla 12.9-81 def. Meadows 7.3-45
Echunga 19.22.136 vs Callington 0.0.00
Nairne Bremer 4.2-26 def. by Kersbrook 13.12-90

One of the more nail bitting rounds of football produced in 2010 by the HFL.
Any clubs in the market for an impact coach in 2011?

Has the great man SJ gone out on a 'high'?

[Alaska]

Echunga v CALLINGTON
B Grade 35 to nothing

Well every team has to play them twice a year.
We have played them on the last game for the last two years. They showed some fight last year
This year at Echunga/Plug. (I am sure hundreds can remember the old oval) Not a good situation to try to gain an advantage in the FINAL FIVE.
I watched ¾ of the B grade and found that Callington have No Idea!
This was the game you needed to be at OWEN.
I thought that after watching this debacle, that Training with the Cones would have been a better option.
I could if required give 7 out of the 15 players that turned up for Cally a critique on their game that involved them being new to AFL ( I think dancers would have been appropriate) (Chasing butterflies would be a positive).
So to all you Hills dwellers..Yes your U14 team that has a reasonable coach could beat them.

Also what To Do from here on?

I think as a result of today FINAL 5 positions have been decided?

[Footy Warrior]

How many did the '40 goal FF' kick this week? A globe?

Next year it could be scarey who TV unveil. Backwell's name been thrown around and heard a former 3 Club AFL player may be rucking for them next season.

[Off The Wall]

Echunga v CALLINGTON
B Grade 35 to nothing

Well every team has to play them twice a year.
We have played them on the last game for the last two years. They showed some fight last year
This year at Echunga/Plug. (I am sure hundreds can remember the old oval) Not a good situation to try to gain an advantage in the FINAL FIVE.
I watched ¾ of the B grade and found that Callington have No Idea!
This was the game you needed to be at OWEN.
I thought that after watching this debacle, that Training with the Cones would have been a better option.
I could if required give 7 out of the 15 players that turned up for Cally a critique on their game that involved them being new to AFL ( I think dancers would have been appropriate) (Chasing butterflies would be a positive).
So to all you Hills dwellers..Yes your U14 team that has a reasonable coach could beat them.

Also what To Do from here on?

I think as a result of today FINAL 5 positions have been decided?

Just to clarify, do you mean 35 points to nothing? Must of been a mud pit of epic proportions there

[Swamp Donkey]

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The Hills league should be very disappointed with the 2 muppets that got on the Footy show
and had a good laugh at Callington's expense, they big-noted themselves for kicking a bag against
a team that would lose games at Under-14 level.
Bet the Footy show wasn't ringing the week before when Gumeracha got rolled by 7 goals,
and the 2 'stars' kicked 2 goals and 1 goal, couple of real champions against decent opposition.

Big noting themselves ?? You should probably loosen the grip you have on yourself.

Chances are both of these guys have achieved more in their footballing lives than you, as was mentioned on TFS when they introduced Quinno as a 4 time SANFL premiership player, im pretty sure that makes him a champion against decent opposition....... They werent on there to embarass Callington although it was inevitable that was going to happen.

Torrens Valley 11.17-83 def.Gumeracha 2.12-24 Damn those footy gods

[Benchwarmer]

Sherminator - cannot agree more.

Maybe they can get the Gums dills back on TFS and tell us all how they went against a benchmark team! How wonderful of them to boast about easy goals against an undermanned team busting its guts out to keep a club going.

From what I have seen in country footy in Vic and WA over the past few decades, less than 1% of clubs that fold ever reform (even as half of a merger party after being in recess).

If your club was struggling like Cally are, would you walk and go to a better performing club and hope someone else would pull up their sleeves and do the hard work or would you stay there and fight for the jumper no matter how bad things got.

Obviously a couple of dozen people have enough pride and fight to keep their club alive and that is a highly commendable thing.

I would love to bet that the aforementioned two players would never ever consider the achievement of joining a club like Cally and helping them turn around from where they are now to finals or a flag. Doing something like that would kick the sh1t out of an achievement like a ton of goals or a one game effort that will be just a forgettable sentence in a newspaper soon.

[NSP]

Sherminator - cannot agree more.

Maybe they can get the Gums dills back on TFS and tell us all how they went against a benchmark team! How wonderful of them to boast about easy goals against an undermanned team busting its guts out to keep a club going.

From what I have seen in country footy in Vic and WA over the past few decades, less than 1% of clubs that fold ever reform (even as half of a merger party after being in recess).

If your club was struggling like Cally are, would you walk and go to a better performing club and hope someone else would pull up their sleeves and do the hard work or would you stay there and fight for the jumper no matter how bad things got.

Obviously a couple of dozen people have enough pride and fight to keep their club alive and that is a highly commendable thing.


I would love to bet that the aforementioned two players would never ever consider the achievement of joining a club like Cally and helping them turn around from where they are now to finals or a flag. Doing something like that would kick the sh1t out of an achievement like a ton of goals or a one game effort that will be just a forgettable sentence in a newspaper soon.

Well actually if you turn the clock back a few years gumeracha was in a very similar position to what callington is they were getting beaten convincingly every week before thommo came to the club and got it to where it is now which is back to back finals in the a-grade

[Alaska]

Echunga v CALLINGTON
B Grade 35 to nothing

Well every team has to play them twice a year.
We have played them on the last game for the last two years. They showed some fight last year
This year at Echunga/Plug. (I am sure hundreds can remember the old oval) Not a good situation to try to gain an advantage in the FINAL FIVE.
I watched ¾ of the B grade and found that Callington have No Idea!
This was the game you needed to be at OWEN.
I thought that after watching this debacle, that Training with the Cones would have been a better option.
I could if required give 7 out of the 15 players that turned up for Cally a critique on their game that involved them being new to AFL ( I think dancers would have been appropriate) (Chasing butterflies would be a positive).
So to all you Hills dwellers..Yes your U14 team that has a reasonable coach could beat them.

Also what To Do from here on?

I think as a result of today FINAL 5 positions have been decided?

Just to clarify, do you mean 35 points to nothing? Must of been a mud pit of epic proportions there

35 Goals

[The Sorce]

Has there been any word on where Finals will be played this weekend?
Wouldn't be too many grounds in good shape at the moment with all the rain around!.

Echunga Vs Kersbrook???

Gumeracha Vs Macclesfield???

Both games should be a good start to finals I would Think.

[1250express]

pretty sure the 2v3 final will be held at gumeracha on saturday and 4v5 i think is at meadows (check this) on sunday.

the following week the 2nd qualifying final (1st v 2/3) is at kangarilla

i assume the GF will be at maccy again? played there a few weeks ago and its definatly not in as good nick as this time last year.

[Tanka]

Gum has been condemned for the finals at this stage. Depending on weather they may get one at a later date.

[Media Park]

Sherminator - cannot agree more.

Maybe they can get the Gums dills back on TFS and tell us all how they went against a benchmark team! How wonderful of them to boast about easy goals against an undermanned team busting its guts out to keep a club going.

From what I have seen in country footy in Vic and WA over the past few decades, less than 1% of clubs that fold ever reform (even as half of a merger party after being in recess).

If your club was struggling like Cally are, would you walk and go to a better performing club and hope someone else would pull up their sleeves and do the hard work or would you stay there and fight for the jumper no matter how bad things got.

Obviously a couple of dozen people have enough pride and fight to keep their club alive and that is a highly commendable thing.

I would love to bet that the aforementioned two players would never ever consider the achievement of joining a club like Cally and helping them turn around from where they are now to finals or a flag. Doing something like that would kick the sh1t out of an achievement like a ton of goals or a one game effort that will be just a forgettable sentence in a newspaper soon.

In Pt Lincoln, Bostons were getting flogged (not quite to Cally's extent, but 30-odd goals, and it took a few blokes (probably only three or four from memory), who'd played a lot of footy, and won all the premierships and individual medals that they wanted, and decided to "give something back" to the game they love, came over to Bostons, and, although the side is still struggling, they improved the team, so that they were not such a laughing stock.

It wasn't about big noting themselves, it was about improving the competition, and with Cally in the situation they are, it'd be a great story if half a dozen lads from the better sides went over to help them out.

THAT would be worth tuning into TFS for.

[Benchwarmer]

Exactly what I mean!

[Media Park]

Only question Benchy, and this is me not knowing Hills FL at all, is:

Does that League have anyone prepared to play, just to help out football?

Or are the majority of people dead set about victory, or otherwise snookered (stuck at a club thru employment)?

[Justquietly]

MP - I'm used to reading your thoughts on PL footy. Good to see your interest here.
I think that the PLFL is fairly different, having played in both leagues myself. Rarely do you get A graders (in central & country HFL) changing teams. PLFL is more tightly knit and the HFL is almost 10-12 versions of the PLFL. Most players are pretty passionate about their colours and hence wouldn't contemplate a change of guernseys, ever. What happened in Linclon is commendable and knowing some of the guys that made that step, believe they did it purely for the health of PL footy.
With 20 teams in 2 leagues here, IMHO I think you'd struggle to get guys leaving other teams to prop up Cally. Location-wise it also struggles. A lot of the other clubs struggle to keep their heads above water as it is. 'Cut throat' probably isn't fair or accurate, but it's the closest descriptor I can think of when it comes to Hills footy. It's taken pretty seriously. There are plenty of recruits but most clubs still have locals that wouldn't go to Cally, they need to keep their respective club healthy.

[HB_Flanker]

Sherminator - cannot agree more.

Maybe they can get the Gums dills back on TFS and tell us all how they went against a benchmark team! How wonderful of them to boast about easy goals against an undermanned team busting its guts out to keep a club going.

From what I have seen in country footy in Vic and WA over the past few decades, less than 1% of clubs that fold ever reform (even as half of a merger party after being in recess).

If your club was struggling like Cally are, would you walk and go to a better performing club and hope someone else would pull up their sleeves and do the hard work or would you stay there and fight for the jumper no matter how bad things got.

Obviously a couple of dozen people have enough pride and fight to keep their club alive and that is a highly commendable thing.

I would love to bet that the aforementioned two players would never ever consider the achievement of joining a club like Cally and helping them turn around from where they are now to finals or a flag. Doing something like that would kick the sh1t out of an achievement like a ton of goals or a one game effort that will be just a forgettable sentence in a newspaper soon.

They did join a club like Cally - Gumeracha was getting belted by 50 goals a couple of years back. At their lowest point they only mustered 14 players for the last game against Echunga and played a 14 a side game. Sure they get a bit of dough but Quinno in particular is motivated by seeing the club improve.

Quinno was invited on the FS - they approached him, who wouldnt take up the opportunity. Ashby was just a hanger on.

Get off their backs they're footballers trying to make the most of their opportunity for gods sake, not Rohdes Scholars. If you want to experience selflessness and suffering for the greater good become a Monk or start hanging around them not football clubs.