Great Southern Football League

[Turfie]

Mclaren short in the B’s on Saturday, needing 5 senior colts to fill in. Probably not unusual for some clubs but geez that’s unheard of at Mclaren.

[field of dreams]

Mclaren short in the B’s on Saturday, needing 5 senior colts to fill in. Probably not unusual for some clubs but geez that’s unheard of at Mclaren.

While it looks like they lost a couple from the week before, I only count 2 colts not 5. One has played 4 Bs and the other has played 1 B and 1 A games.
I note they also had Camm, Groves and Chahla in the Bs who have played As nearly all year along with Bellen and Gomer who have played 5-6 As each too. Looks like Mutton is on the way in for finals too.
Hardly looks like panic stations.


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[Turfie]

Either way, that’s rare for Mclaren to need to do that, especially with only 2 rounds to go.

[field of dreams]

Either way, that’s rare for Mclaren to need to do that, especially with only 2 rounds to go.

Yes I think it would be. 20 years ago they had enough to fill 2 b grade sides


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[jackpot jim]

Mclaren short in the B’s on Saturday, needing 5 senior colts to fill in. Probably not unusual for some clubs but geez that’s unheard of at Mclaren.

Creeks who were 3rd in the B Grade were forced to use 4 Senior Colts on Saturday at Myponga to fill a side such is the unavailability list predominantly due to injuries. Earlier in the season a dozen players were missing out on a game weekly

Coming to the pointy end of the season at it seems there are a quite a number of clubs battling long injury lists that are sure to impact finals

[Barkeroo]

Mclaren short in the B’s on Saturday, needing 5 senior colts to fill in. Probably not unusual for some clubs but geez that’s unheard of at Mclaren.

Creeks who were 3rd in the B Grade were forced to use 4 Senior Colts on Saturday at Myponga to fill a side such is the unavailability list predominantly due to injuries. Earlier in the season a dozen players were missing out on a game weekly

Coming to the pointy end of the season at it seems there are a quite a number of clubs battling long injury lists that are sure to impact finals

Seems to be a higher than normal amount of people crook at the moment as well.

[inthestands]

Hearing that Willunga are in a bit of strife missing key personnel. No Lee, No Jack Redden this week and both not playing finals....
If that is the case, can't see them getting past week 1.........

[Cheap Seats]

Hearing that Willunga are in a bit of strife missing key personnel. No Lee, No Jack Redden this week and both not playing finals....
If that is the case, can't see them getting past week 1.........

Have you heard why? Seems an odd statement unless both have serious injuries, which hasn't made it's way to the main stream yet and both are big names so you'd expect the Fleurieu Sun or Times to be all over that?

[inthestands]

Hearing that Willunga are in a bit of strife missing key personnel. No Lee, No Jack Redden this week and both not playing finals....
If that is the case, can't see them getting past week 1.........

Have you heard why? Seems an odd statement unless both have serious injuries, which hasn't made it's way to the main stream yet and both are big names so you'd expect the Fleurieu Sun or Times to be all over that?

Daniel Lee did his ankle (again) against Strath and is struggling to get around. Not sure about why Jack not playing.

Has anyone got the real story as to why Hughes, Heintze etc walked out of GPE? See they are going out early on coaching appointments.

[field of dreams]

Round 17…

Smart money goes with ladder position today.

Creek over Goolwa convincingly
McLaren to beat Bays
Pongy over Willunga
Strath over yank by plenty
Victor to beat compass in a slog

Margins at the mercy of the weather and ovals.


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[jackpot jim]

Round 17…

Smart money goes with ladder position today.

Creek over Goolwa convincingly
McLaren to beat Bays
Pongy over Willunga
Strath over yank by plenty
Victor to beat compass in a slog

Margins at the mercy of the weather and ovals.


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They look the obvious tips.

McLaren v Bays is the KEY game of the round. McLaren lose and they'll likely lose the Minor Premiership which would put a severe dent in their chances of going Back to Back. Win and they'll stay top and go straight into the 2nd Semi. Bays have pushed the top sides in most games and unfortunate not to have taken more scalps.
Tip - McLaren by 11 - 20 only because they have more to play for

Creeks only just got over GPE in Round 8 but this time will be easier despite being depleted with injuries but so are GPE. Creeks by 70 - 80

Pongy took care of the Creeks last week in the slush on the back of a dominant 2nd quarter. They'll be hoping for a more 4 quarter effort today against the Demons who quite frankly are spluttering towards the Finals. Ponga have the incentive of a possible top spot if McLaren stumble so that should be enough motivation to win by 20 - 30

Strath will take care of Yank by 80 - 90

Compass have done well to secure a finals spot whilst Victor having wrapped up a double chance still have a chance of top spot the same as Myp/Sellicks so with that incentive they'll account for the Bulldogs by 11 - 20

[jackpot jim]

Rd 17 done and dusted and the Top 5 will remain as is unless Yank upset McLaren next week and Myp/Sell down Compass which would see the Mudlarks take the Minor Premiership.

McLaren it seems will fall in to take the Minor Premiership after downing the Bays by a solitary point. Would be a long time since a Minor Premier will go into finals in such poor form and will be interesting to see if they can turn that around in 3 weeks.
For the Bays the narrow loss sums up their season. They've lost all their matches against the top 5 teams in the 2nd half of the season by 20 points or less.
Great Southern is probably the envy of just about every other country Association when the 8th ranked team is so competitive against EVERY other team.

Compass keep surprising imo and in a game where Victor had a lot more at stake , Compass won by 4 goals. Not sure where Victor are at after that result? Still right in the premiership mix as they'll finish Top 3 tho finals are shaping up where any result shouldn't be unexpected.

Myponga/Sell comfortably accounted for Willunga who seemingly are on a down hill spiral with their form and hard to see them going deep in finals.

Strath had a smaller than expected win against Yank by only 31 points. Apart from 1 or 2 blowout results Yank have been pretty competitive in the back half of the season.

L Creek continued GPEs misery by inflicting another massive defeat on them to the tune of 199 points. And that with the Creeks not playing well at times during the game. GPE struggled to field a B Grade team, i think they played with 16 that included a few senior colts. Gonna be a massive task for them to rebuild for next year.

[field of dreams]

Credit where due, Compass play their dung-heap very well.
With 4 of the finals being at compass, McLaren, pongy and willunga, they have as good a chance as any of performing well in the finals.


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[field of dreams]

What were the conditions like at the Creek JJ? That’s a biiigg win.


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[field of dreams]

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[field of dreams]

Looks like Butcher has decided he’s a Pongy player with Maffra out of final’s contention.
I wonder how happy the people in power are with the way the clearances in and out have been handled.


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[jackpot jim]

What were the conditions like at the Creek JJ? That’s a biiigg win.


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Conditions pretty much ideal. 2 goal breeze to the Southern End. Pitch square fine. Ground a touch tacky around CHF both ends.
Creeks really should have kicked closer to 40 goals. Butchered numerous chances in 1st quarter. (6 - 10) . Very good 2nd quarter into the breeze (9 - 4 )
Very ordinary for the 1st 10 minutes of the 3rd quarter before getting it together to finish with (11 - 7). Last quarter kicked 6 reasonably quickly but then went goaless for the last 15 minutes, kicking a string of points.
GPE were the most Most noncompetitive team i've seen since the days Port Elliot were copping hidings back in the day. Having said that the guys out there gave it their best shot all day fighting it out to the finish but it's obvious they've lost a shit load of players in the last month .

[field of dreams]

GPE were the most Most noncompetitive team i've seen since the days Port Elliot were copping hidings back in the day. Having said that the guys out there gave it their best shot all day fighting it out to the finish but it's obvious they've lost a shit load of players in the last month .

It's a fine line....

When they lost to GPE in round 11, Compass had 4 guys out that would be in their best side.

GPE had 14 of the same players on the field against Creek that played against Compass. From that side they have lost Jacob Hughes, Brett Heintze and James Fry since round 12, Josh Slape since 14, Jesse Bates since 16. Thats 5 of their best, however they had regained recruits Lucas Hughes and Justin Watson.... Gone from 48pt win to a 199pt loss!

Add to that they've also lost 3 other Goody Saints recruits - Jordon Turner since rd15, Luke Stanton (played 6 games early in year) and Tom Barry ( 3 games early in year).

[Turfie]

GPEFC are very much like the Cove FC, who almost lost their facility at the hands of the Marion Council. The local council are trying their best to make it difficult for football to operate at the faculty. The actual game is a long way off their agenda. Lots of meetings and legal battles. Football not high on the priority list. This has happened to mt barker too, but they’ve been lucky enough to be able to stay out until the summit is sorted, which will likely not happen

[field of dreams]

That’s not good to hear Turfie. Why the hell do they have such an agenda?


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