Secondsquare wrote:I am amazed at how much the southern football league has deteriated! It use to be easily the best comp out of div1 amateurs!! It is now being talked about as being a joke ! Aldinga seem happy to be known as the team that gets flogged every week a bit like goolwa port Elliot use to be , they were flat out taking the piss out of them on the footy show and the president just laughed along , to embarrass the coach on a national stage like they did was disgraceful! He was probably only coaching them as no one else wanted to and even the new coach doesn't really want to coach them as he is an interim coach ! Not even Kevin sheedy could make there squad competitive! I can't believe that a competition based in metropolitan area can't get a b grade team together! There's towns in the country who have 30 total population but manage to field two senior teams an d 14s and 16 etc ! The southern teams whinge and bitch about losing players to country teams for money! If they fund raised more and made the clubs an environment for family's etc to hang around they might create more income to pay players! Some clubs don't even have a change table for baby's etc ! Just excepting that the players will play and then take of home and don't need to cater for people watching! Yes there are wealthy farmers but there are wealthy people at a lot of these clubs etc to ! The only top four team to improve seems to be reynella and that's prob because of premiership window! Most teams have gone backwards other than Hackham and maybe flaggies! Start excepting that a grade football anywhere is going to cost you money or keep sliding down the ranks as a competition! The new rules they are talking about next year aren't gonna solve anything !
Got no problem with paying players a bit of pocket money or compensate a days wages to some players.
The problem is that some clubs are paying more than a weeks pay for a bloke to keep him self fit and play a game of football.
Don't you think it is getting out of hand.
I would rather live like we are than live like encounter bay, victor harbour and Kilburn ect.
If you are happy bleeding the farmers dry and wrecking football as a sport good on you, to me that is not grass roots football.
Would much rather have players playing for the jumper than a brown paper bag full of money.
Would have thought the new rules put in place were partly to protect clubs and farmers from going broke.
The difference between my club and Reynella at the moment is Reynella have a ex A.F.L footballer who has returned to his
grass roots and is giving something back.
The last A.F.L footballer we had is still taking from us.
EMUS? the rock stars of the outback.
emus are berserk. they run fast, playhard,
and to be honest, we admire their insanity.