Southern Football League

[shoe boy]

Reynella over ran them kicking into a fair wind in the last.

Score anyone ?

[hollywood7477]

Reynella over ran them kicking into a fair wind in the last.

Score anyone ?

Reynella 12.16 88 def Morphett Vale 9.7 61

[ol man emu]

Reynella over ran them kicking into a fair wind in the last.

Score anyone ?

27 points

[Look Good In Leather]

Reynella over ran them kicking into a fair wind in the last.

Score anyone ?

27 points

3 goals 9 behinds

[King]

I notice N. Manhood appears on the Porties B Grade team list today. Is this the A Grade coach and if so did he actually play ?

Yes he did

As Maxwell Smart would say, "very interesting". Making up numbers or trying to qualify for finals?

[Courtney Fish]

Therein lies the problem with just 2 divisions in any sporting comp. The gap between Div 1 and Div 2 will often be more than a true 1 division gap. Every time a Div 1 Hills team gets relegated they either go through the next season undefeated or close to undefeated and win the flag.

If (a big IF) we ever got back to 2 Divisions, promotion and relegation should not be automatic. Lonsdale won a Div 2 flag in 2000 or 2001 with a 6-10 minor round record and then won 3 straight finals in some of worst finals conditions the SFL has encountered in my time associated with the SFL. And from memory their B grade didn't make finals that season. If we went to 2 Divisions, should a team be automatically promoted on that basis - particularly if the bottom team in Division 1 still wins 3 or 4 games.

Kangarilla was consistently the strongest the team in the period leading up to merging the divisions and they were never interested in being promoted which was probably fair enough with their lack of genuine depth and junior numbers.

Unfortunately we can keep debating the merits of the current 15 team comp and the argument around 1 or 2 Divisions but there is no quick fix unless their is a sudden reduction or increase in clubs. Getting back to an even number of teams to remove the BYE would be my first wish.

Exactly DTH. The fact that Lonsdale merged with Sullies after winning the last Div 2 flag shows the depth needed to jump to Div 1. With that 2001 team there was at least 5 players recruited from Div 1 clubs that come across knowing they didn't have to play against their old clubs. Only a couple stayed in 2002 to play against their old mates. I know Kangies had a few ex Div 1 players too.

[marbles]

am still curious as to where osullivans beach football club was before it merged?? anyone?

[Waterboy]

am still curious as to where osullivans beach football club was before it merged?? anyone?

Galloway Road, O'Sullivan Beach

[Dutchy]

From memory it had much better facilities than Lonsdale has, anyone know why Lonsdale was kept as the home ground?

[Farva]

From memory it had much better facilities than Lonsdale has, anyone know why Lonsdale was kept as the home ground?

Lonsdale was kept as the home ground due to the bar profits going to the football club. We also had a few issues with the soccer club at O'sullivan Beach.

[woodublieve12]

From memory it had much better facilities than Lonsdale has, anyone know why Lonsdale was kept as the home ground?

I think it was financial

[Look Good In Leather]

From memory it had much better facilities than Lonsdale has, anyone know why Lonsdale was kept as the home ground?

I think it was financial

Financial decision. They got the bar at the High School, rather than sharing it with/losing it to Soccer at Galloway Rd

[twobob]

marion, edwardstown, brighton and morphies should just bite the bullet & play metro amateur footy where they belong & the saafl should make drastic changes to accomodate them, everybody wins and life goes on

Simply because geographically a SAAFL club south of the city is a nightmare, there is a team playing out of Gawler FFS! Give me a once a year trip to Aldinga any day.

marion to aldinga - nice

word is angle vale moving to adelaide plains league

Marion to Aldinga a 25 min drive up the expressway ...... not like Flinders Uni to Houghton 50 min + 30 sets off traffic lights ......

Sounds like its time to bring back the old Glenelg/South Adelaide league. There is already a thriving junior competition with most clubs that would geographically be in that zone. It seems to me that re-inventing that competition would solve a lot of problems.

[lion heart]

Some posters wont like what I have got to say but lets be honest. If the SFL doesnt do something about fixing the competition they will start to lose clubs - just not the ones it wants.
I have spoken to someone on their executive and HV will be one of many clubs that will look elsewhere. Last week against Hackham was the final straw for him. Clubs cant continually afford the loss of revenue from playing weaker clubs without a full compliment of teams and the capacity to draw a crowd through the gate. It affects gate, canteen, bar revenue significantly more than the SFL would realise
The SFL needs to stop trying to save their beloved Lonsdale (how many Lonsdale life members are on the SFL board?) and try to fix the competition before it loses the clubs keeping it afloat. 2 divisions would be a start

And how would keeping 1 division be helping us exactly? Have you been sleeping under a rock? We are getting no favours whatsoever and OSB/Lonsdale is all for a 2 division proposal.

[lion heart]

From memory it had much better facilities than Lonsdale has, anyone know why Lonsdale was kept as the home ground?

I think it was financial

Financial decision. They got the bar at the High School, rather than sharing it with/losing it to Soccer at Galloway Rd

Zero from bar takings for the last few years and a miniscule percentage before that. We were being pushed out. Club survived on gate, canteen, BBQ and a few sponsors. We never had money and couldn't pay players which was why so much young talent left after juniors and a major reason why our 2 cracks in division 1 were a failure at senior level (won at least 2 div 1 junior flags). Junior talent was never a question.

[shoe boy]

2016 will we see 4 clubs introduced to the SFL and 2 divisions in place ?

2016 will we see SFL and HFL merge into 3 divisions ?

Leadership needs to take place as doing nothing is easy to do !
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion"

[King]

2016 will we see 4 clubs introduced to the SFL and 2 divisions in place ?

2016 will we see SFL and HFL merge into 3 divisions ?

Leadership needs to take place as doing nothing is easy to do !
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion"

WOW!! A Shoes boy into philosophy. Now I'm afraid of that!!!

[cracka]

2016 will we see 4 clubs introduced to the SFL and 2 divisions in place ?

2016 will we see SFL and HFL merge into 3 divisions ?

Leadership needs to take place as doing nothing is easy to do !
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion"

Does anyone from the HFL know of these changes

[Look Good In Leather]

2016 will we see 4 clubs introduced to the SFL and 2 divisions in place ?

2016 will we see SFL and HFL merge into 3 divisions ?

Leadership needs to take place as doing nothing is easy to do !
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion"

Does anyone from the HFL know of these changes

They have their own issues to deal with

[Courtney Fish]

Some posters wont like what I have got to say but lets be honest. If the SFL doesnt do something about fixing the competition they will start to lose clubs - just not the ones it wants.
I have spoken to someone on their executive and HV will be one of many clubs that will look elsewhere. Last week against Hackham was the final straw for him. Clubs cant continually afford the loss of revenue from playing weaker clubs without a full compliment of teams and the capacity to draw a crowd through the gate. It affects gate, canteen, bar revenue significantly more than the SFL would realise
The SFL needs to stop trying to save their beloved Lonsdale (how many Lonsdale life members are on the SFL board?) and try to fix the competition before it loses the clubs keeping it afloat. 2 divisions would be a start

lonsdale would be far better off relocating, that is a shocker of a place for a district football club, at the back of a high school

you aint gonna draw players, or crowds when 3 quarters of the oval has no parking and u cant sit in your car to watch the game

Beloved? If the SFL wanted to help out Lonsdale maybe they would look at capping Mini's of neighboring clubs or going to 2 Divs. And if we weren't at a PRIMARY school. Reynella's overflow wouldn't have anywhere to play their excess mini's teams that can't fit on Reynella oval. The Mawson Football club was created to let the kids that weren't getting a game at other clubs play footy. Back when the league thought it wasn't a good idea to let a club have as many teams as they wanted. A lot of those kids went to the school where the club is.
And when was the last time you went to the footy and everyone was sitting in their car anyway?