bird of prey wrote:Did the league choose this salary cap themselves or was it forced upon them
You're always going to get more money in the country than you would in Adelaide.
$400 is still a lot of money.
Not every player is interested in travelling once or twice a week for that extra cash.[/quote]
Yea but most are and as a result this league shrinks deflates of calibre and all the old scholars clubs rise to div 1 (in time)[/quote]
That's why if you work hard on promoting your juniors, you will always have a steady flow of good players coming through. Then when those players who have left you want to return to the city, they'll come back in as 0 pointers.
As soon as clubs realise that, it won't be just the college sides reaping the benefits. It'll be the ones that have a strong & relatively loyal culture the whole way though.[/quote]
Very difficult to build juniors overnight. Takes time and a lot of effort. College sides have an extreme advantage.[/quote]
What, do you think there is a magic potion that turns struggling clubs into powerhouses over night? It does take time. That's the point.
Where were PAC and SPOC 10 years ago? SHOC have kind of come and gone and come again. Rocs have kind of been around the mark, but never been considered a powerhouse.
Are goodwood a college side? They seem to have a pretty good thing going.
Gaza were up there for 10-12 years, had a couple of lean years, and now we're rebuilding through juniors in div 2.
I'm sure in 10 years time not all these same college sides will be up in div 1. It's just part of the cycle.[/quote]
You are correct but I still would still suggest that these college teams have too much of an advantage, teams like PAC from now onwards can approach their graduating year 12's and lure to them with big coin, 0 points and get them to play div 1 and there will be plenty of these players considering PAC have about 4-5 teams at school, and then where does that leave teams like Gaza? They have one team coming through to seniors (under 18's) and the guns would go to SANFL, some stop playing, some lured to other clubs so they might get maybe 10 players into seniors? These college teams have the biggest advantage ever to get the next generation superstar footy players and plenty of them for 0 points whereas teams like Gaza are left in the dark trying to get older players who mostly want to play div 1 or go play somewhere else for money.