Pag wrote:footy fan wrote:Sorry PAg understand where you are coming from but just dont think they should be in the comp. How do you go finding a prak when you play Uni, Shithouse, how do you go in their club rooms, shithouse your not welcome, unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth!!!
I can't speak about the clubrooms or the parking because I've never played against Uni, but I know when we host finals at our oval they always bring a decent crowd and make a pretty good atmosphere.
Unfortunately university is in the parklands - women's & children's hospitals, adelaide oval etc but it's never been a major problem finding a park even on days where adelaide oval is being used.
The club rooms are the general havelock hotel where anybody is welcome - uni don't have a clunrooms due to council regulations (nothing can be built on parklands without city council permission) - which is a shame but is worked around. I'd like clubrooms but if it can't be done it can't be done.
The stereotyping of uni players as spooners is passe - uni have a side made of country kids studying at roseworthy, rural kids and from many many educational backgrounds.
I've asked this question before and not had it answered, why does having junior sides make a club more of a club than a club that has only senior sides? University could go into junior grades but it is based around an eductaional level rather than a common geography ie suburb. If uni did get junior sides, I'm sure that clubs would scream blue murder regarding pinching local young players.
I've played at district clubs (tea tree gully and payneham) and at university and have found that uni is as much a club as those clubs with as much voluntary work put into the club. Ex Uni players are also actively involved in many district clubs and primary schools teaching and coaching sides.
cheers.