Down the Hill wrote:Yungmuney wrote:whufc wrote:scottroo wrote:APPS is overkill if you’ve already got a salary cap(and clubs abide by it) just cap the amount of transfers from one club to another. If your club is good enough to attracts players, while sticking to financial rules then let’s not stop that, in fact we should be encouraging it
You could argue for equalization it would be better to keep the points but have no salary cap.
With the reverse argument of that if each team has 15 points than they can possibly recruit the same amount of players...if you have positioned yourself well enough financially to attract higher quality players with more money for your 15 points than good luck to you.
Especially given the points are much easier to police than salary cap ever will be.
Points system great in country footy. If you live in the town you’re a 0, if you’re a recruit your points etc. Not sure it holds the same merit in suburban footy with no zones etc to recruit 0 pointers from. Then you have footy factory old scholar clubs that can bring in 15 players a year but because the spend 1 term going to school there they are a 0 pointer. It’s definitely not even playing field in the city
INCORRECT. You're clearly not someone who deals with APPS. We all play to the same rules other than AdFL being 15 points across the board wheras country leagues can adjust points per club as a form of equalisation policy. Where you live has nothing to do with it. 20 junior games at the club or majority of games outside of A grade in the last 2 seasons are the main conditions for being 0 points. The Old Scholar clubs still have to provide evidence that the lad played 20 or more school games in his time at the school.
I was being slightly facetious with the 1 term thing. But what my point is you can have a college side bring in an abundance of 0 pointers as well as their 15 points allocated. They can literally recruit a whole new 21.
Kid finishes school, goes and plays at a suburban club for 3 years, plays some SANFL footy, goes back to old scholar team a 0 pointer. The metro clubs kids get cherry picked to the private schools on footy scholarships. I find it interesting that pre the APPS coming into play college sides sat in the lower divisions, they now occupy almost half of Div 1, a few in Div 2 and 3.
And no don’t put me in charge of APPS. I’ll run you a great canteen though