HFL Division 2 (Country)

[the breezer]

The wheels fell off from a Gumeracha perspective yesterday.

A few undisiplined players, once they were rattled with score board pressure, they went the man, this escalated in numerous free kicks to Kangarilla mostly in front of goals, 50m penaltys and red cards, a lesson to all teams who wish to beat Gum this year, they will retaliate, ive seen stray dogs with more discipline than what Gum put on display in the last half yesterday and after watching them in the last half against Meadows aswell in round 1, cant wait to see how they will cope against the better sides when the pressure intensifies.

Number 11 from Kangarilla, once he started winning centre breaks was obviously targeted.

Good to see Sedan crack their first win in the comp, hopefully Callington can recover from the weeks procedings, its never fun losing every week but being associated with Milang (good luck boys!!) the key is to stick with it through the bad and savour the good moments.

Looks like Torrens Valley wont have it all their way this year as previously predicted by many with the brookers and Echunga can certainly match it with them on the day.A few injuries to Torrens Valley along the journey and anything can happen. Gunning seems to be the man to shut down.

Top 3 looks settled and then a log jam of Maccy, Kangy, Gum and Nairne fighting for the other 2 spots.. Meadows seem a little further off the pace but have the talent to upset a few teams along the way.

Callington another wooden spoon on the horizon..

[archbishop yee]

The wheels fell off from a Gumeracha perspective yesterday.

A few undisiplined players, once they were rattled with score board pressure, they went the man, this escalated in numerous free kicks to Kangarilla mostly in front of goals, 50m penaltys and red cards, a lesson to all teams who wish to beat Gum this year, they will retaliate, ive seen stray dogs with more discipline than what Gum put on display in the last half yesterday and after watching them in the last half against Meadows aswell in round 1, cant wait to see how they will cope against the better sides when the pressure intensifies.

Number 11 from Kangarilla, once he started winning centre breaks was obviously targeted.

Good to see Sedan crack their first win in the comp, hopefully Callington can recover from the weeks procedings, its never fun losing every week but being associated with Milang (good luck boys!!) the key is to stick with it through the bad and savour the good moments.

Looks like Torrens Valley wont have it all their way this year as previously predicted by many with the brookers and Echunga can certainly match it with them on the day.A few injuries to Torrens Valley along the journey and anything can happen. Gunning seems to be the man to shut down.

Top 3 looks settled and then a log jam of Maccy, Kangy, Gum and Nairne fighting for the other 2 spots.. Meadows seem a little further off the pace but have the talent to upset a few teams along the way.

Callington another wooden spoon on the horizon..

A couple of thoughts

- Big O has stated that the town of Cally need a footy club..never going to deny that from anyone...bite the bullet and some pride and play C grade for the rest of the competition..allow them to play every game at home...the league have proven that they are flexible enough with juniors to let Cally still to play..great to see their u13 side win two in a row...Would hate to see what happened to the Murray Bridge Redlegs..who depsite their a and b grade being non competitive their folding meant alot of junior footballers where missing out on games

- The unfortunate thing for Gums is that Thommo, while single handedly making the club competitive through who he was able to bring needs a more experienced coach to support him..tough call though..as if you dragged one player for an undisciplined act it may lead to players leving the club snowball, brew ha ha etc

[BRaG]

Sniping of Kangy ??......... You cant be serious !!! Both sides were equally ill disciplined but the men in yellow only had eyes for one side in a poor display after half time, even they said the red wasnt deserved but wont resinced it. The guy i question knew he did wrong and was upset by it. Love the attitude of the Kangarilla heroes on the sidelines after the long break, shouting wonderful comments and lovely chatter, continuing the pigheaded arrogant attitude theyve shown since coming back to the HFL. That said. well played to their blokes on the field, they shouldnt have even been a chance given our poor goalkicking but they played well and got the chocies....... Much soul searching done in the Gumeracha rooms tonight and you can be sure that a performance like that wont happen again.

Much will be made of our players and their actions today but it takes 2 to tango, our blokes dont hit for no reason, its just sad people only have eyes for us and not the opposition.

Hey Shorty There seems to be a constant theme with both reports from Gum games, and your replies to these reports. You seem to always say the player is disappointed with his actions blah blah blah and that the umpires only ever target your players. This just smacks of denial that there is a serious problem with your club. Yes its good to see you guys competitive again, but at what cost?

Yes, the guys you have recruited come into the competition with reputations, which you claim are unwarranted but it seems to me these people are living up to their reputations.

Gums have to be careful because the reputation they are quickly getting or got is a hard one to shake down the track, you may find down the track that in some cases your players will not recieve the benifit of the doubt.

This is not a personal attack on you, as you are just defending your club and I understand that but I think the sooner Gums realise they have a culture problem the better, because it just seems to me that people involved there are always trying to lay the blame elsewhere.

[Shortman]

If you saw the bloke after the game youd know he was rather upset with himself and he has every right to be, what he did was stupid and I dont in any way want to shy away from that and its horrible to hear that about Wakefield if that is indeed the case. The problem that I have is that both sets of players arent being protected by the umpires, who up until the 3rd qtr were having a reasonable day IMO but lost control.

Countless times yesterday when a couple of players in particular our side were attacking the ball they were smacked in the face and nothing was done. At one stage a guy whose shoulder was clearly dislocated and laying on the ground was laid into by his Kangarilla opponent and again nothing was done. Couple that with the constant abuse coming from the outer and its not hard to see why SOME of our players react the way they do. Of course youd like to think some of them have a bit thicker skin but they dont and thats life, not everyone does. And before you go attacking the club culture at Gumeracha take a step back 12 months and remember which clubs supporters ran onto the field and kinghit some of our guys during a game. Isolated incident maybe, but its hardly the type of thing you want.

[overthehill]

If you saw the bloke after the game youd know he was rather upset with himself and he has every right to be, what he did was stupid and I dont in any way want to shy away from that and its horrible to hear that about Wakefield if that is indeed the case. The problem that I have is that both sets of players arent being protected by the umpires, who up until the 3rd qtr were having a reasonable day IMO but lost control.

Countless times yesterday when a couple of players in particular our side were attacking the ball they were smacked in the face and nothing was done. At one stage a guy whose shoulder was clearly dislocated and laying on the ground was laid into by his Kangarilla opponent and again nothing was done. Couple that with the constant abuse coming from the outer and its not hard to see why SOME of our players react the way they do. Of course youd like to think some of them have a bit thicker skin but they dont and thats life, not everyone does. And before you go attacking the club culture at Gumeracha take a step back 12 months and remember which clubs supporters ran onto the field and kinghit some of our guys during a game. Isolated incident maybe, but its hardly the type of thing you want.

2 things Shortman. In the budget it says Kym Graham was 1 of the umpires, he is definitely in the top 5 umpires in the league (although umpires in the hill are not very good). I dont know who Ross Wall is but your probably not gonna get much better umpires then that so it is something Gum will have to live with.
Second thing how did Ashby go yesterday? did he back up his 8 goals from the week before in which i here he was unstoppable?

[Shortman]

As I said they were great up until halftime until they lost a little bit of control and things got out of hand. It only takes one umpire to feel the pressure a little and then in turn the other starts to make mistakes. Youre right, we'll have to deal with it and its a situation that weve played a reasonable part in creating. As ive mentioned though, its not just the opposition teams copping it but us aswell and thats what the club is concerned about. Im sure itll all be sorted out in the wash.

As for Mick, he copped a massive amount of attention after his 11 last week, some of it one would consider outside the rules of the game but so be it. I think he got 3-4 I might be wrong and like his mates he missed a few shots too.

[Dogmatic]

As I said they were great up until halftime until they lost a little bit of control and things got out of hand. It only takes one umpire to feel the pressure a little and then in turn the other starts to make mistakes. Youre right, we'll have to deal with it and its a situation that weve played a reasonable part in creating. As ive mentioned though, its not just the opposition teams copping it but us aswell and thats what the club is concerned about. Im sure itll all be sorted out in the wash.

As for Mick, he copped a massive amount of attention after his 11 last week, some of it one would consider outside the rules of the game but so be it. I think he got 3-4 I might be wrong and like his mates he missed a few shots too.

Pretty handy average!

[benchmark]

As I said they were great up until halftime until they lost a little bit of control and things got out of hand. It only takes one umpire to feel the pressure a little and then in turn the other starts to make mistakes. Youre right, we'll have to deal with it and its a situation that weve played a reasonable part in creating. As ive mentioned though, its not just the opposition teams copping it but us aswell and thats what the club is concerned about. Im sure itll all be sorted out in the wash.

As for Mick, he copped a massive amount of attention after his 11 last week, some of it one would consider outside the rules of the game but so be it. I think he got 3-4 I might be wrong and like his mates he missed a few shots too.

Please deal with the facts ..wakefield was king hit ,then belted and was quite ill after the game and today .Ashby was tagged who wouldnt be after 11 week before and tagged was all nothing else happened .The constant sniping of small players is a disgrace and takes us back to the 60s and 70s.
Umpires are scared to act we witnessed that from the outer after one umpire was abused he did nothing. This has happened three weeks in a row and has to be stopped either by the club or the league.
Please dont defend or condone blatant "sniping" .Someone will be seriously hurt soon ,it is a disgrace . Please dont try and paint a picture that the team in blue provoked it all as thats untrue ,it happened when Gumeracha had thier lead challenged by scoreboard pressure.

[Shortman]

As I said they were great up until halftime until they lost a little bit of control and things got out of hand. It only takes one umpire to feel the pressure a little and then in turn the other starts to make mistakes. Youre right, we'll have to deal with it and its a situation that weve played a reasonable part in creating. As ive mentioned though, its not just the opposition teams copping it but us aswell and thats what the club is concerned about. Im sure itll all be sorted out in the wash.

As for Mick, he copped a massive amount of attention after his 11 last week, some of it one would consider outside the rules of the game but so be it. I think he got 3-4 I might be wrong and like his mates he missed a few shots too.

Please deal with the facts ..wakefield was king hit ,then belted and was quite ill after the game and today .Ashby was tagged who wouldnt be after 11 week before and tagged was all nothing else happened .The constant sniping of small players is a disgrace and takes us back to the 60s and 70s.
Umpires are scared to act we witnessed that from the outer after one umpire was abused he did nothing. This has happened three weeks in a row and has to be stopped either by the club or the league.
Please dont defend or condone blatant "sniping" .Someone will be seriously hurt soon ,it is a disgrace . Please dont try and paint a picture that the team in blue provoked it all as thats untrue ,it happened when Gumeracha had thier lead challenged by scoreboard pressure.

He was smacked in the face consistantly almost at the first bounce but hey obviously its only our players who do the wrong thing here....... Im not saying Kanagrilla started it all but let me ask you all a question. How would you deal with being abused and having your character questioned by not only the opposition players but coaching staff and supporters EVERY SINGLE WEEK. Im guessing a few of you would have had jack of it by now too.

Yes what happened to Brett Wakefield wasnt pleasant and no one wants to see it, But if we isolate that one incident from everything that goes on every week to our blokes they hardly do anythong untoward. Despite what people are saying this doesnt, and wont happen every week and ill take a guess that now its all come to a head it wont at all (Wakefield incident). But if umpires are scared to act they shouldnt be umpiring the game at all. Graham wasnt scared, he acted in the way he thought he should. He sent the player off and he deserved to be no one at our club will argue that fact. Most of the crowd abuse was coming from the blue section of the crowd.... that is also "dealing with the facts".

I understand that most of what I say wont be listened to or taken in but those are not just my feelings they are the facts. Also, I think people are trying to say this was a coaches directive to go out and 'snipe' the player. It was not, Thommo was as disgusted and is as sick of it as you guys. It lets the supporters down and the other players, majority of whom play by the rules and dont do these stupid things.

[carey]

its unfortunate that the actions of the minority tare a whole group with the same brush but again once you 'get a name' as a club its very hard to get rid of as they say mud sticks!

i speak to quinton graham reguarly and he to thinks that gums arnt the snipers they are made out to be and actually thinks it happens just as much to them as what they give out and i know he plays his footy very fair, hard but fair.

[jumbo20]

last nights results?All grades yesterday?

[GWW]

last nights results?All grades yesterday?

Links to results on the SportingPulse site for various leagues, including Hills Country, can be found here:

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[Choccies]

Sniping of Kangy ??......... You cant be serious !!! Both sides were equally ill disciplined but the men in yellow only had eyes for one side in a poor display after half time, even they said the red wasnt deserved but wont resinced it. The guy i question knew he did wrong and was upset by it. Love the attitude of the Kangarilla heroes on the sidelines after the long break, shouting wonderful comments and lovely chatter, continuing the pigheaded arrogant attitude theyve shown since coming back to the HFL. That said. well played to their blokes on the field, they shouldnt have even been a chance given our poor goalkicking but they played well and got the chocies....... Much soul searching done in the Gumeracha rooms tonight and you can be sure that a performance like that wont happen again.

Much will be made of our players and their actions today but it takes 2 to tango, our blokes dont hit for no reason, its just sad people only have eyes for us and not the opposition.

It's spelt 'Choccies' thanks Shorty

[NSP]

gumeracha up over sedan/cambrai by 40 goals

[aceman]

What was the damage TV versus Callington?
Whatever it was, the whole setup is a blight on the HFL for allowing it to continue.


As expected, TV 60+ goals, Callington 0.0. Best Players; The HFL Board of Directors.
What an absolute thrill the TV juggernaut must get out of a hollow victory such as this.

[FairDinkum]

You're right about the set up, I think the HFL needs a rethink, I might be asking a dumb question but what is the long term plan and goal for the HFL, where do they see the HFL in 5 and 10 years time or even next year?
It's probably easier for metro leagues and country leagues futher out where you know your limitations but there are so many variables within the HFL environment that you would expect there to be a fairly well planned way forward in place.

[Off The Wall]

A great game at Meadows saw Kersbrook just get up by two goals. Meadows reserves did the exact reverse.

[the big fella]

Maccy too big too strong for rams youngsters by 3 goals.

congrats to Chris Pfeiffer on the biggest footy comeback since Lazarus!!

[archbishop yee]

Rams gone..admirable for the club to be sticking with their juniors just hope that they keep the group together long enough to have some success

[The Crumber]

What was the damage TV versus Callington?
Whatever it was, the whole setup is a blight on the HFL for allowing it to continue.


As expected, TV 60+ goals, Callington 0.0. Best Players; The HFL Board of Directors.
What an absolute thrill the TV juggernaut must get out of a hollow victory such as this.

The best comment on here in weeks Aceman. We may as well all just throw our hands up in despair at these goings-on. What a sad state of affairs in this so-called "competition". Nothing is going to be done.