BL&G Football League

[magpie in the 80's]

Hills 16.17 (113) def Barossa Light & Gawler 10.11 (71)

Best:
Hills: J Jaques, M KreIg, R McGahey, P Magary, D Ebert.
Barossa, Light & GawIer: G Bain, R Christie, R Foullis, C Thomas, D Sharp, S Walton, L Wells.

Goals:
Hills: B Gordon, B Pearce, N Twomey 3, M Cooper, M Bartemucci 2, T Kaesler, R McGahey, P Magarey.
Barossa, Light & Gawler: C Thomas, R Foulis 3, L Howard, G Bain, H Commane, D Hillebrand.

[NO-MERCY]

swooper- tanunda are the geelong of the BL&G thats why they had 7. think if u go back and check ur facts i stated that before the side was posted here

Tanunda ( big fish in small sea ) not much to beat!

then explain why they have lost a game?

Everyone has a bad day & they had one yes 1.

[NO-MERCY]

swooper- tanunda are the geelong of the BL&G thats why they had 7. think if u go back and check ur facts i stated that before the side was posted here

Tanunda ( big fish in small sea ) not much to beat!

NM- u would know all bout being a big fish in small sea

No i wouldn't fill me in.

[aceman]

Hills 16.17 (113) def Barossa Light & Gawler 10.11 (71)

Best:
Hills: J Jaques, M KreIg, R McGahey, P Magary, D Ebert.
Barossa, Light & GawIer: G Bain, R Christie, R Foullis, C Thomas, D Sharp, S Walton, L Wells.

Goals:
Hills: B Gordon, B Pearce, N Twomey 3, M Cooper, M Bartemucci 2, T Kaesler, R McGahey, P Magarey.
Barossa, Light & Gawler: C Thomas, R Foulis 3, L Howard, G Bain, H Commane, D Hillebrand.

I'm looking at the names above in the BP & goal kickers for the Hills league, it reads a bit like a footy budget, most have played at SANFL level so they should have won fairly easily, don't you think?

[Pinch Hitter]

All 6 or 7 best players today for the Barossa and Gawler association team should receive cash awards as a bonus for performing and making the side.
Yes it is an honour to play for your association but we have players coming up with niggling injuries again and its not fair on the association committee and players that would never get that opportunity to play that would want to have a crack.
Everyone has to be positive about the concept of association football, as a kid everyone wants to play, but as a senior its not as important.
If we have negative vibes and negative people about the concept, it will continue to be non appealing.
Im sure if we can get more hype about it and offer incentives to better players who perform on the day along with the state country selection concept we can still make the concept work.

i agree with you here bag that something needs to be done to make it more appealing to senior players because their attitude to playing will inevitably rot through the junior grades and it will become a non event if it already hasn't. more resources need to be pumped into it by the league whether it be a cash incentive for best on ground or some other form of benefits to the players and the clubs. maybe a club could be given money or a new football for each player selected.

[Liquid Confidence]

Until the Association themselves take the concept seriously, it will never be a success...

And if they think they are they are kidding themselves...

For starters, ownership of the concept in the future comes from the juniors, yet from all reports nothing was done to get them to engage in the concept... Correct me if Im wrong, but apparently the treatment of the juniors by the association was a disgrace. The hills teams apparently all decked out in association jackets/jumpers, clearly visable and looking professional, BLG juniors not given a jumper or even a T-shirt, all turned up in casual clothes and unrecognisable. So they get a new pair of socks and shorts for training.... To go with that apparently the coaching staff were not even given anything to wear (jumper/jacket/shirt)....

Yet the amount of officials walking around... DOING NOTHING... wearing jumpers etc, disgrace....

Then you get to the seniors, if they are serious about the game, the U23 rule goes out the window... If a bloke hasnt made the grade by 23 they never will..... Then selection is an issue... A lot of players picked on name rather than form... Some seem to get a gig every year no matter how well they have been playing...

Then I was told they are still playing in those woolen jumpers... They must be kidding.... The association has enough coin to buy a new set every year let alone 1 new set since 1990.... If you want incentive, players get to keep their jumpers...

If what Im told is correct, I am glad I didnt waste my time and effort travelling down there to watch the rabble that respresented the league (on and off the field)!!!

[Pinch Hitter]

Until the Association themselves take the concept seriously, it will never be a success...

And if they think they are they are kidding themselves...

For starters, ownership of the concept in the future comes from the juniors, yet from all reports nothing was done to get them to engage in the concept... Correct me if Im wrong, but apparently the treatment of the juniors by the association was a disgrace. The hills teams apparently all decked out in association jackets/jumpers, clearly visable and looking professional, BLG juniors not given a jumper or even a T-shirt, all turned up in casual clothes and unrecognisable. So they get a new pair of socks and shorts for training.... To go with that apparently the coaching staff were not even given anything to wear (jumper/jacket/shirt)....

Yet the amount of officials walking around... DOING NOTHING... wearing jumpers etc, disgrace....

Then you get to the seniors, if they are serious about the game, the U23 rule goes out the window... If a bloke hasnt made the grade by 23 they never will..... Then selection is an issue... A lot of players picked on name rather than form... Some seem to get a gig every year no matter how well they have been playing...

Then I was told they are still playing in those woolen jumpers... They must be kidding.... The association has enough coin to buy a new set every year let alone 1 new set since 1990.... If you want incentive, players get to keep their jumpers...

If what Im told is correct, I am glad I didnt waste my time and effort travelling down there to watch the rabble that respresented the league (on and off the field)!!!

while i can concur with many of your comments, it is bit rough to suggest the players and coaches were a rabble i am sure they all still did what was asked of them and no doubt would have wanted to win.

[Osama]

Quote Osama "As long as the Hills can field a mediocre side at best, they will towel up this BL&G side. This side is distorted with the inclusion of unwarranted U23 representatives and players not in form".

Well I said it a week ago, this result comes as no surprise.
Now the excuses will start coming out, unfortunately the competition can no longer officially claim to be the best country league in SA.
Until the side is picked on form, not on unwarranted reputation this will continue to happen.
If the juniors weren't kitted out in the correct apparel, this is a disgrace and someone should be banished into obscurity for such a ludicrous oversight/decision.
Let’s get back to the real stuff this weekend, while the pro-inter-league lobbyist’s sit there scratching their head for another year.

[Liquid Confidence]

Until the Association themselves take the concept seriously, it will never be a success...

And if they think they are they are kidding themselves...

For starters, ownership of the concept in the future comes from the juniors, yet from all reports nothing was done to get them to engage in the concept... Correct me if Im wrong, but apparently the treatment of the juniors by the association was a disgrace. The hills teams apparently all decked out in association jackets/jumpers, clearly visable and looking professional, BLG juniors not given a jumper or even a T-shirt, all turned up in casual clothes and unrecognisable. So they get a new pair of socks and shorts for training.... To go with that apparently the coaching staff were not even given anything to wear (jumper/jacket/shirt)....

Yet the amount of officials walking around... DOING NOTHING... wearing jumpers etc, disgrace....

Then you get to the seniors, if they are serious about the game, the U23 rule goes out the window... If a bloke hasnt made the grade by 23 they never will..... Then selection is an issue... A lot of players picked on name rather than form... Some seem to get a gig every year no matter how well they have been playing...

Then I was told they are still playing in those woolen jumpers... They must be kidding.... The association has enough coin to buy a new set every year let alone 1 new set since 1990.... If you want incentive, players get to keep their jumpers...

If what Im told is correct, I am glad I didnt waste my time and effort travelling down there to watch the rabble that respresented the league (on and off the field)!!!

while i can concur with many of your comments, it is bit rough to suggest the players and coaches were a rabble i am sure they all still did what was asked of them and no doubt would have wanted to win.

Your right Pinch Hitter, I wasn't meaning to suggest that either, just didnt properly get my point across... I am sure ALL the coaches did their best to get the desired result, And the players (allthough I dont agree with some selections, its not their fault) would be doing the same....

But the way the association apparently presented itself out side those factors, perhaps left a little be to be desired!

[Pinch Hitter]

Quote Osama "As long as the Hills can field a mediocre side at best, they will towel up this BL&G side. This side is distorted with the inclusion of unwarranted U23 representatives and players not in form".

Well I said it a week ago, this result comes as no surprise.
Now the excuses will start coming out, unfortunately the competition can no longer officially claim to be the best country league in SA.
Until the side is picked on form, not on unwarranted reputation this will continue to happen.
If the juniors weren't kitted out in the correct apparel, this is a disgrace and someone should be banished into obscurity for such a ludicrous oversight/decision.
Let’s get back to the real stuff this weekend, while the pro-inter-league lobbyist’s sit there scratching their head for another year.

Only game of interest this week will be your panthers v my donnybrooks..

i assume dawes fractured cheek bone has heeled since last week and he will be suiting up?

[Osama]

Quote Osama "As long as the Hills can field a mediocre side at best, they will towel up this BL&G side. This side is distorted with the inclusion of unwarranted U23 representatives and players not in form".

Well I said it a week ago, this result comes as no surprise.
Now the excuses will start coming out, unfortunately the competition can no longer officially claim to be the best country league in SA.
Until the side is picked on form, not on unwarranted reputation this will continue to happen.
If the juniors weren't kitted out in the correct apparel, this is a disgrace and someone should be banished into obscurity for such a ludicrous oversight/decision.
Let’s get back to the real stuff this weekend, while the pro-inter-league lobbyist’s sit there scratching their head for another year.

Only game of interest this week will be your panthers v my donnybrooks..

i assume dawes fractured cheek bone has heeled since last week and he will be suiting up?

Yes I am looking forward to it Pinch Hitter. I think that Zoolander and his assistance would have had their magnet board in readiness some six months ago for this stoush. Could be a defencive shutdown game of football with Hadden and his mentor going head to head.

[Pinch Hitter]

could be and i think the young apprentice might strike first blood this week with his side travelling better at the minute.

[Ablett]

Quote Osama "As long as the Hills can field a mediocre side at best, they will towel up this BL&G side. This side is distorted with the inclusion of unwarranted U23 representatives and players not in form".

Well I said it a week ago, this result comes as no surprise.
Now the excuses will start coming out, unfortunately the competition can no longer officially claim to be the best country league in SA.
Until the side is picked on form, not on unwarranted reputation this will continue to happen.
If the juniors weren't kitted out in the correct apparel, this is a disgrace and someone should be banished into obscurity for such a ludicrous oversight/decision.
Let’s get back to the real stuff this weekend, while the pro-inter-league lobbyist’s sit there scratching their head for another year.

well Osama you've hit the nail on the head with every comment on here...

scratching their heads... haha... great comment... i think someone needs to print this comment off and give it to the president of the association... who is it now is it nobby symes still or what... maybe reading this and scratching their heads might get something in motion within the next century...

[Osama]

I think that Mark's trait of down playing things has rubbed off on you Pinch Hitter. Mark will be quietly enthusiastic and confident in coming back to the club that made him the coach he is and make a statement.
Will he pull a few rabbits out of the hat with his match ups? or will he famously not “reveal all his cards until the major round”

[Pinch Hitter]

I think that Mark's trait of down playing things has rubbed off on you Pinch Hitter. Mark will be quietly enthusiastic and confident in coming back to the club that made him the coach he is and make a statement.
Will he pull a few rabbits out of the hat with his match ups? or will he famously not “reveal all his cards until the major round”

the donnybrooks faithful are just hoping the boys get a kick each after last games towling.

With norsworthy breaking down in the association game on saturday i'd say angaston would be monties to get the money in the mud.

Craig to be crowned the new messiah of angaston and be given a heroes welcome at the club saturday night.

[Liquid Confidence]

Angaston v Willaston
Gawler Central v Kapunda
South Gawler v Tanunda
Freeling v Nuriootpa
Bye Barossa District

Could see some rather large scores this weekend....

Any news if players have come up from their "injuries":

Kennedy and his ankle - Tanunda
Valentine's knee (does anyone know the outcome here) - Kapunda
Hahn - Gawler Central - Not sure why he was a scratching
Baker - Willaston

[Ablett]

Angaston v Willaston
Gawler Central v Kapunda
South Gawler v Tanunda
Freeling v Nuriootpa
Bye Barossa District

Could see some rather large scores this weekend....

Any news if players have come up from their "injuries":

Kennedy and his ankle - Tanunda
Valentine's knee (does anyone know the outcome here) - Kapunda
Hahn - Gawler Central - Not sure why he was a scratching
Baker - Willaston

Angaston v Willaston by 4 or 5 goals
Gawler Central v Kapunda i want to say 15+ goals but im not sure
South Gawler v Tanunda 15+ goals
Freeling v Nuriootpa 15+ goals
Bye Barossa District

[On The Pine]

Now that the BL&G is no longer the best country league in the state as they think they are, is it time for the league and players to stop looking down on other leagues as has been the habit in the past?

[Swooper]

Thanks for the support Skip but I don't really care about a few %. I think Daysy has admitted that he/she did not know that there where 7 Tanunda players named (Kennedy probably out due to an ancle injury) despite the team being listed on this site before Daysy shot his/her mouth off. Even if 6 Tanunda players play it is a big effort by Tanunda and I would think Daysy would retract his/her comment that they are the Geelong of the BLG.

Skip - Prior, Kieboom & Schiller are all injured, Kieboom would not make it anyway but the other two would if they where alright, pretty sure both played last season.

Swooper

swooper- tanunda are the geelong of the BL&G thats why they had 7. think if u go back and check ur facts i stated that before the side was posted here

Take that one on the chin Days should have checked to see that there where 4 on the bench not 3. Did watch Tanunda last weekend and I know that they had some big names on the sidelines but they are not as good as last season, hardly the Geelong of the BLG.

Skip

Skip

Fair observation Skip, Tanunda with a full side are as good as last year but they don't have the depth this year and with a few injuries like we have had make us very vulnerable. That is footy though and on the day you must present your best side and have no excuses just like the inter-league side.

On The Pine I'm not too sure about your remarks that the BLG look down their noses at other leagues. Certainly the BLG comp is on the better one's in SA but not the best when you look at the GSFL and obviously the Hills.

Swooper

[Lace Out]

Now that the BL&G is no longer the best country league in the state as they think they are, is it time for the league and players to stop looking down on other leagues as has been the habit in the past?

Well the BLG has won the past two years so suddenly they lose one game and they are not the best still?
Does every other so called gun league have their best players dropping out with injuries or does the GSFL have to play five under 23's???