HFL Division 1 (Central)

[Amateur Footy]

Good discussion guys and always gonna miss people depending on what teams you watch most.....

So would Div 1 beat Div 2?? Why isn't that then the association game, instead of playing BLG in some game that in all honesty no one really gives a crap about? I reckon you would have a massive crowd and the players would be very keen to prove they play in a strong comp.

It may be slightly more interesting at the moment with a few extra quality players in the top Div 2 sides, but in the longer term it would result in too many drubbings and be pointless.

I agree that BLG is somewhat pointless, bring back lovelock or atleast the riverland trip. Good times.

[Kick'n Back]

I'll have a stab for you Cougar, however i am sure many good players will be missing.
Note that this will not be the Best 22 players in the comp, but the best in each position right now in my opinion, or at least who i can think of at the moment. ( threw Burch in the BP because he has to be in the team)

F: D Brown A Roche A Bishop

B Pistola B Devries D Gigney

M Bartemucci M Cooper N Smart

S Sutherland C Shee M Stansbourough

Wood J Aufderheide B Burch

Ruck: A Bawden A Klun M Krieg

Int: T Nicholas S Smith B Eckermann M Vidic

Notable absentees: S Nunan, W Mclean, S Ebert, D Ebert, M Down, P McGarey, R McGahey, G Dempsey, T Kaeslar, D Roberts, A Stephens, M Stapleton, B Gordon, L McLean, B Howman, J Gallagher, S McCormick, J Brown, S Tanner, M Bradley and im sure a few others that people will make me aware of.

Pretty darn hard to pick that side, and Im sure many of you will pick holes in it. The question I have is, which one of the 22 I put in the side, or the ones I mentioned were notable absentees, would not make the Country Division side?

Great effort BP. Would have liked S.Ebert in. Not gonna make outlandish comments and say the Hills Country Div team would smash that mob, but the match ups would be great. Bawden v Jacques, Burch v Roger, Beef on young Pistols, Sutherland on Slattery, 2 Doggies Premiership players squaring off, Carter vs Devries. Would make a great spectacle and would probably attract a large crowd. Pity it will never happen.

It would be a pretty fair unit if we could get this team up against Barossa when you could also add L.Slattery, J.Jaques, P.James, B.Pearce, M.Clayton and maybe M.Ashby from div 2

[Alaska]

Dont a certain amount of u23 players have to play?

6 Under 23's have to be sqeezed in to each squad.
Who are the Best 6 U23's for both Leagues?

[Holy Grail]

Dont a certain amount of u23 players have to play?

6 Under 23's have to be sqeezed in to each squad.
Who are the Best 6 U23's for both Leagues?

not 100% sure on the ages of some of the older U23 possibilties but some of the recent entries into senior ranks from colts could but included- A.Kirwan, D.Abernethy, B.Pistola, J.Bampton, C.Healy, L.Staniford, D.Brown, M.Tudor-Tsourtos, A.Edwards, M.Higgs

[bridgyboy]

Dont a certain amount of u23 players have to play?

6 Under 23's have to be sqeezed in to each squad.
Who are the Best 6 U23's for both Leagues?

I'm sure that Luke McLean and Ben Eckermann (both Bridgy) who have been named in the training squad are both u23

[dangermouse]

I agree that would Central v Country would be a ripper contest and I think the best Country 21 would serve it right up to the best Central 21 if not beat them. It would start to get very lop-sided however if the second best, or third best 21 from each div also squared off. There is no doubt that Country div has some tremendous players running around every saturday, who would also dominate Central div. The main difference is the depth of the teams running around. In the top 5 or 6 Central sides you have quality players in every position on the field, meaning that the best Central players are matched up against solid opponents all day (most weeks these days). This is not the case when playing the lower ranked teams, or against Country div teams (Kersbrook excepted). A true measure of the strength of any league (or even club) is how strong the bottom third is, not the top third.

[CountryVic]

I agree that would Central v Country would be a ripper contest and I think the best Country 21 would serve it right up to the best Central 21 if not beat them. It would start to get very lop-sided however if the second best, or third best 21 from each div also squared off. There is no doubt that Country div has some tremendous players running around every saturday, who would also dominate Central div. The main difference is the depth of the teams running around. In the top 5 or 6 Central sides you have quality players in every position on the field, meaning that the best Central players are matched up against solid opponents all day (most weeks these days). This is not the case when playing the lower ranked teams, or against Country div teams (Kersbrook excepted). A true measure of the strength of any league (or even club) is how strong the bottom third is, not the top third.

Another problem is that perhaps people can get an inflated opinion of a gun player in lesser leagues because he doesn't have the same competition. No doubt some players from Country would be great in the Central comp but having 18 good players opposed to them quickly changes the landscape.

[Jailbird]

Looks like another long day for the Roos this weekend with another 3 injuries from Saturday. All should be 4-6 weeks. Testing times for us as we have to wait until next week when 7 are due to return. At training tonight there were more A's in the trainers room than out on the park, 12 all up.
Lofty by a shite load this weekend, will be a disappointing day considering the reunion of the 59 (A+B's),69 (A+B's) and 79 (A) Premiership teams will be happening throughoout the day and night.

On another note, some plans for the new ovals have been drawn and should be confirmed within the next few weeks, subject to council approval of course! Will paste a link when they are available.

What's the goss on the new oval JB? I heard Mt Ronnie have been saving their pennies for years and are looking at getting two new ovals approved(one playing and one training oval) over next to the golf course, is this true? If so when is it all likely to happen? Is Grainger still the planning manager out there at The Ron? Good luck trying to reason with that bloke!

Definately have the land, council have purchased 88 acres. From there we have submitted plans for a main oval and then a smaller oval more for colts and training, yet still bigger than bridgy and bankers ground. There is 8 netty / tennis courts and a big cricket net area. The function centre will hold around 350 people seated.
As for the grandstand that will hold around a 1000 with there being 4 major changerooms, just larger in size to the woods home rooms with 2 trainers rooms the size of woods opposition changerooms. The plans that I saw last week had been forwarded to council but I haven't heard when or if they are going to be approved first time.
As for Grainger I'm not sure don't have much to do with the planning, just get to see some plans every now and then.

Sounds fantastic, although it is well overdue. The 350 seat function centre sounds interesting, i would presume that it would be run by someone other than the football club. You'd hope that it wouldn't be the clubrooms where players have a beer and a meal after the game, that would have less atmosphere than the blackwood clubrooms!

Having said that it sounds as though onkas will be relegated down the pecking order as the show piece of hills football which is great for the comp. I hope it's up and running before i hang up the boots.

The clubrooms will be in 2 parts. One more of a normal bar and the second part a function area. That way private functions can be held on a Saturday night during the season and we still have a place to have preso's and a feed etc.
Still got a timeline of being ready for the 2012 season, so hopefully both of us can have a kick on it when it is ready.

[Jailbird]

[quote="Banker"]Jailbird- What about Sturt? Any involvement from them? I heard they were hoping to play some games up there

Banker, I have been told they have no money to put towards the project. From what I have heard around the traps is that a HFL based team may be formed to create 10 teams in the SANFL. Still a while off but may happen by 2013-4.
Sturt want to play games up here but it will not be easy trying to get a crowd on a sat when all of us are playing / following our own teams. Sunday games would be the only option. If the HFL put their prices up another dollar then both leagues will have the same entry fee?
Will have to wait and see what happens in the next few years.

[the runner]

cmon dangermouse u have got to be kidding me if u think that the country best 21 would beat the central 21 , Im guessing u havent played A Grade central div footy lately with comments like that!
country footy is slower and you have more time and less pressure to dispose of the footy compared with central
id say central by 10goals with a few lads rested in the last

[dangermouse]

Um, I've played plenty of A grade footy, and still am. The country 21 would be a quality outfit, I don't think anyone could argue with that, and I did say they COULD knock off the central team (all pie in the sky stuff anyway). The point of my post was comparing the qaulity of each league as a whole, in which there is absolutely no contest.

[Cougar]

I agree that would Central v Country would be a ripper contest and I think the best Country 21 would serve it right up to the best Central 21 if not beat them. It would start to get very lop-sided however if the second best, or third best 21 from each div also squared off. There is no doubt that Country div has some tremendous players running around every saturday, who would also dominate Central div. The main difference is the depth of the teams running around. In the top 5 or 6 Central sides you have quality players in every position on the field, meaning that the best Central players are matched up against solid opponents all day (most weeks these days). This is not the case when playing the lower ranked teams, or against Country div teams (Kersbrook excepted). A true measure of the strength of any league (or even club) is how strong the bottom third is, not the top third.

Fair post. No doubt the sides that KNB and BP have put up would provide a great contest, and I'm sure a blow out either way wouldn't occur. But DM is right in saying that if each league had to select a 2nd and 3rd tier teams there would be a blowout in Central's favour because of their greater depth, as there should be. Central is Hills League Div 1, but I'm sure blokes like Dave Murphy (Maccy/Mt.Barker), Anthony Cooper (Mt.Lofty/Torrens Valley) and Matt Gardener (Onkas/Kersbrook) could vouch that there are still some good players running around in Div 2.

[Silky skills]

hahndorf by 3 goals over Terrys Warriors

had a chat with a lofty power forward (pistols) last night, he was saying he is going 1 out in the cage with mclean, but he was saying it will take king kong to stop him from kicking 8 tomoro.. he also has a knee sharpened for Vidics back when he goes to chop out infront of him

[Dashin]

hahndorf by 3 goals over Terrys Warriors

had a chat with a lofty power forward (pistols) last night, he was saying he is going 1 out in the cage with mclean, but he was saying it will take king kong to stop him from kicking 8 tomoro.. he also has a knee sharpened for Vidics back when he goes to chop out infront of him

We're actually playing Mt Barker tomorrow Silky.

[Tanka]

hahndorf by 3 goals over Terrys Warriors

had a chat with a lofty power forward (pistols) last night, he was saying he is going 1 out in the cage with mclean, but he was saying it will take king kong to stop him from kicking 8 tomoro.. he also has a knee sharpened for Vidics back when he goes to chop out infront of him

We're actually playing Mt Barker tomorrow Silky.

Forgive Silky...... it his day off.....

[supercoach]

Silky, hope you play a bit better for the blues tommorrow than your effort above.

[BoundaryRider84]

Good discussion guys and always gonna miss people depending on what teams you watch most.....

So would Div 1 beat Div 2?? Why isn't that then the association game, instead of playing BLG in some game that in all honesty no one really gives a crap about? I reckon you would have a massive crowd and the players would be very keen to prove they play in a strong comp.

It may be slightly more interesting at the moment with a few extra quality players in the top Div 2 sides, but in the longer term it would result in too many drubbings and be pointless.

I agree that BLG is somewhat pointless, bring back lovelock or atleast the riverland trip. Good times.

Apart from the fact that the BLG is probably one of the only associations that could beat you. little scared to get smashed again are we's?

[MONTE CRISTO]

BD - Make sure you are there to watch when the Hills play BGL this year. With it compulsory to play and a former AFL champ coaching we will smash that mob into next year. If the Hills get anywhere near their best team on the park the BLG won't have a chance in hell!

[Bat Pad]

Good discussion guys and always gonna miss people depending on what teams you watch most.....

So would Div 1 beat Div 2?? Why isn't that then the association game, instead of playing BLG in some game that in all honesty no one really gives a crap about? I reckon you would have a massive crowd and the players would be very keen to prove they play in a strong comp.

It may be slightly more interesting at the moment with a few extra quality players in the top Div 2 sides, but in the longer term it would result in too many drubbings and be pointless.

I agree that BLG is somewhat pointless, bring back lovelock or atleast the riverland trip. Good times.

Apart from the fact that the BLG is probably one of the only associations that could beat you. little scared to get smashed again are we's?

Doubt it considering Hills have beaten BLG more times than BLG have beaten them. Keep feeling good about beating our B Grade

[Amateur Footy]

Good discussion guys and always gonna miss people depending on what teams you watch most.....

So would Div 1 beat Div 2?? Why isn't that then the association game, instead of playing BLG in some game that in all honesty no one really gives a crap about? I reckon you would have a massive crowd and the players would be very keen to prove they play in a strong comp.

It may be slightly more interesting at the moment with a few extra quality players in the top Div 2 sides, but in the longer term it would result in too many drubbings and be pointless.

I agree that BLG is somewhat pointless, bring back lovelock or atleast the riverland trip. Good times.

Apart from the fact that the BLG is probably one of the only associations that could beat you. little scared to get smashed again are we's?

My point had nothing to do with strength of BLG, simply that blokes have to be interested in playing. Riverland trip was a great bus trip and there was always genuine interest in Lovelock when we played against our neigbouring comps. I don't see the point in playing against the same league year after year, switch it around.