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Dogwatcher wrote:

MW wrote:Mob mentality in full flight...
Don't let me stop your hatred clouding facts.

Well, what are the facts?
A West official posted on his page that this situation occurred. That post has since been removed. That's enough to cloud the facts.
So what facts do you know?

Come on DW, you should know you don't need facts to come on here & blindly post

Hey, you just posted a fact.

Keep it down you lot. Stop picking on crows

(Please take the suitable amount of piss from this post)

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Dogwatcher wrote:Hey, you just posted a fact.

Hey, if you don't like it, just return to sender! Alternative facts are just as good these days.

First bit of research Gucci has done for quite a while, looked back through his own archives and rehashed one of his own articles. Well done Muppetangelo Gucci you can now add "investigative journalist" to your crayoned resume.

State SANFL u15 championships are on and they have 2 divisions, one called Crows and one called Power. I KID YOU NOT....

http://sanfl.com.au/2017-sanfl-state-u1 ... pionships/

Dutchy wrote:State SANFL u15 championships are on and they have 2 divisions, one called Crows and one called Power. I KID YOU NOT....

http://sanfl.com.au/2017-sanfl-state-u1 ... pionships/

wtf

Dutchy wrote:State SANFL u15 championships are on and they have 2 divisions, one called Crows and one called Power. I KID YOU NOT....

http://sanfl.com.au/2017-sanfl-state-u1 ... pionships/

Well if we thought the SANFL management were on the payroll I think this confirms it. Total Joke.

As an old Torrens man I resent being associated with Port. Just an old dislike.

I'm not sure this is an issue.
Ultimately, that's where the kids want to head.

Been called that way for a while now, as I understand it, a few years at least.

Nothing to see here move on.

Dogwatcher wrote:I'm not sure this is an issue.
Ultimately, that's where the kids want to head.

16 other teams should get a crack then

goddy11 wrote:

Dutchy wrote:State SANFL u15 championships are on and they have 2 divisions, one called Crows and one called Power. I KID YOU NOT....

http://sanfl.com.au/2017-sanfl-state-u1 ... pionships/

Well if we thought the SANFL management were on the payroll I think this confirms it. Total Joke.

As an old Torrens man I resent being associated with Port. Just an old dislike.

Two way street.

THE final siren has sounded on the VFL reserves, the Development League.

Clubs had been campaigning to save the competition, calling it an essential bridge between the TAC Cup and VFL seniors.

They said it gave opportunities to hundreds of aspiring players, many of them graduates of the Under 18s.

But last night AFL Victoria CEO Steve Reaper told presidents and general managers that the VFL executive would be recommending to the AFL Victoria board that the Development League be wound up at the end of the season.

The board will meet tomorrow.

AFL Victoria said last month the competition was under review owing to “cost pressures on clubs, scheduling difficulties, pressure on staff and volunteers given the scheduling difficulties, player recruitment, relationships with community clubs and leagues and how to best ensure the senior team can be competitive’’.

AFL Vic spokesman Anthony Stanguts said this morning it would not comment until after tomorrow’s board meeting.

Port Melbourne, Williamstown, Casey Demons, Sandringham, Northern Blues, Coburg, Box Hill Hawks and Werribee all field DL teams.

Williamstown coach Andy Collins, who has been advocating for the retention of the Development League, said this morning: “Very disappointing. I think it will be one of the worst decisions in Victorian football’s history.

“It’s just so important to have elite pathways there for boys at 18 years of age. It shouldn’t be that dreams finish at 18.

“I’ve said this on numerous occasions, a lot of players at that age just aren’t ready for senior football and so they can mature both physically and mentally in the Development League. We’ve seen a lot of examples of that, not just at our football clubs but right around the VFL.


“We’ve seen that if you give them quality coaching and quality facilities they will improve as footballers and as young men. In fact most mature-age footballers who have been recruited from the VFL will have come through Development League.

“It’s expecting a lot of local football to have to pick up the slack and develop them.’’


Sandringham president Danny Corcoran said he was disappointed with the decision.

He said the ramifications for his club, which is aligned with St Kilda, were “considerable in terms of maintaining a list and how we actually run a football club’’.

Former Port Melbourne coach and AFL recruiter Neil Ross tweeted last night that it was a “very sad day for Victorian football, massive blow to the pathway for TAC Cup kids’’.

And former long-standing Williamstown general manager Brendan Curry called it a “farcical and disgraceful decision’’.

A string of AFL players came through the DL, including premiership players Liam Picken (Williamstown) and Taylor Duryea (Box Hill Hawks).

The demise of the Development League means clubs with alignments will have their representation in the VFL seniors reduced to supplementing numbers for a senior team.

Werribee coach John Lamont said they would take on the form of “a management group for top-up players’’.

Asked if Sandringham would consider ending its alignment with St Kilda and going it alone, Corcoran said: “I wouldn’t like to comment on that. We haven’t had a board meeting but we’ll certainly gather as a board and discuss the ramifications.

“We’ll speak with St Kilda as well, which we have been doing all along. We’ll keep the dialogue going … hopefully we can come up with a solution, and it may well involve us establishing a VFL Women’s team sooner rather than later, because we still have to be a club and maintain our identity. We can cry a river but we’ve got to be creative and explore all options.’’

Speaking earlier this month, Northern Blues coach Josh Fraser said it would be illogical to scrap the Development League.

“I haven’t heard a logical argument as to why it shouldn’t be in place,” Fraser said.

“I don’t understand why it is being considered as something that is going to be taken away.

“It’s a really important step between local football and VFL football.

“I just haven’t heard a compelling argument as to why they are going to get rid of it.”

Not much point in having a development league for a development league.

Aerie wrote:Not much point in having a development league for a development league.

Why not we have a reserves team of a reserves team in our league

Once you take out the AFL players how many spots are left for genuine VFL players?

so, if it appears all the clubs are against removing the reserves (well, the article didnt quote any club representative in favour of it at least, which i realise is a different thing) why is the league apparently going against its clubs in going ahead with it?

I have been saying for several years that if the afl has its way the sanfl and what was the wafl will end up being an u/21 feeder type competions with no reserves rather backup players being from u/18 academies. Sadly, when talking to various senior sanfl club officials at several clubs they all seem to agree with this potential-- scarey

The vfl move to me is the first step in this direction and given that the afl now effectively owns the wafl they will be next.

Nothing shown to date by the sanfl commision employees or commision gives me great hope

CUTTERMAN wrote:First bit of research Gucci has done for quite a while, looked back through his own archives and rehashed one of his own articles. Well done Muppetangelo Gucci you can now add "investigative journalist" to your crayoned resume.

ROFL