I can’t wait to hear the querulous Morphie Park posters and EV who for some reason wants to have a crack every chance he/she gets and yet his/her club is impacted by the point structure as it is.
Fact a number of clubs applied for and were granted extra points in order to build from the bottom up they were Hackham/Aldinga/OSB/Morphie Parks/Marion, and later Christies were given extra points as:
1. They applied
2. They were identified as special needs due to their junior numbers being down and not coming through to senior ranks.
It appears on the surfaced the Hawks/Sharks/OSB/ Marion and Christies have done the right thing as to why clubs were given the points to start with.. Being to re build your club, not have instant success.
HAWKS, have improved played competitive footy this year with a young list and the club willing build over a number of years to achieve long term stabilisation. Working very hard to recruit and maintain juniors for Saturday football.
SHARKS, struggled however they are trying, some promising junior players got a gig this year and junior sharks did ok. Plenty to build on.
LIONS, struggled with numbers, blooded juniors, club trying hard but being sandwiched between some of the larger clubs makes life very difficult. May need to look at another merger to survive the 15 years before the primary school kids are old enough to play senior footy.
SAINTS, Improved out of site, got themselves a good, well respected coach, worked hard on building juniors with some reasonable success.
RAMS, struggled to field juniors, however did manage to get some Saturday sides up.
ROOS, Rorted the system were given points to build, went out to obtain instant success rather than do the hard yards, claim to have tried to build Saturday juniors, yet promoted the juniors as all games on a Sunday before the season started. When that didn't work caused reorganisation for the whole league to accommodate them.
Continued to play an underage lad in the A grade side during the year in order to accommodate the point’s players. Lad got very little game time which has probably not done anything towards developing his footy. Still after finishing in the 8 for the last 3 years 8th /4th /4th still get extra points, even though the SFL can review the points each year it has chosen to let MP retain their extra points.
Point’s consideration was for an even playing field; well it would appear that some have a distorted idea of what an even playing field is.
On wonders how many will stick it out in the city given the farmers have had a record yield of grain this year, more grain than storage space plenty of $$ to travel bush.
