finn wrote:I would say that this newest saafl lower grade proposal has the potential to end up badly especially if they wish to have any consistency with upper grade teams of the same club. perhaps they're looking back at promotion/relegation for c grade sides again? It certainly stuffs up triple headers; I know that there's a full afternoon of games now.
I can understand that this measure makes game programming much simpler but there's generally a reason why teams are in c4 and c6 rather than c2; there's a marked difference in the levels as generally c grade sides of upper division teams have a better spread of talent. I fear that there's going to be massive gulfs between upper and lower clubs which in turn can lead to people dropping off (see ovingham/wingfield etc) and numbers of sides eventually declining.
I'd much rather see the correlation between the division 2 teams and c grade continue with extra teams such as uni filling in spots elsewhere so that byes can be avoided where possible.
I have to admit that the few peoiple from our club i have spoken to like the idea of having both our C and D grade playing at the same ground each week. It helps with support staff etc. It is also a better way to play the D grade too as we are only playing against D grade sides.
Another benefit we saw was that when players get dropped from our B grade through form lack they should still play in a decent comp when they play Cs. For us i guess our C grade are only moving up one grade from where they were supposed to play. There seems to be a few sides in this grade that would have played in or won grade finals last season? I know of ours (we won) and PAOC who won. I think Flinders Park won also? Not sure who else did but maybe Broadview and UNI playted in GFs also? Hard not to have back to back for some team this year. C2 looks as though it will be the toughest C grade comp out of them all!
Thanks for having me thread. is there a c1 2011 forum?
