mutton cove wrote:Looks Good in Leather.
GSFL. 2.5 games between 1st & 5th 3.5 games between 1st & 6th. SFL 7 games between 1st & 5th. 9 games between 1st & 9th. GSFL any of the top five could win the premiership. SFL It's a matter of who comes second.
My comment was about the netball competition. What's your point?
The GSFL is a great competition at the moment, I do see some massive challenges over the next few years however. The GSFL is designed around small country towns with two clubs based in growing suburban locations (McLaren and Willunga). These two clubs will have to turn away kids as there is no scope or allowance within the league to expand beyond the two colts grades and the micky mouse Modies program.
There will come a time that both clubs will outgrow the GSFL and will seek additional flexibility to manage their junior programs. Willunga left the SFL as the competition was changing as a result of the inclusion of suburban clubs and they saw themselves as a small country town. Clubs from places like Christies Beach, Morphett Vale, Reynella and Port Noarlunga, and later Happy Valley and Flagstaff Hill. They departed at the point that Morphettville Park, Marion and Plympton joined.
Willunga and McLaren are now the two suburban invaders of the country GSFL competition.
This century over half of the GSFL premierships have been hogged by two clubs (Willunga and Langhorne Creek), and only 4 others have won 1 or more.
In the SFL we have had 8 different clubs win premierships over the same period.
In the past 25 seasons, all bar one of our A-Grade clubs has won a Premiership, GSFL has three that have not and those go back well over 30 years - they are currently the bottom 3 clubs.
So you can pull any sort of stats to present your particular competition in whatever light you want. Both leagues cater for different markets - most of the criticism of the SFL comes from a complete lack of understanding of it, likewise the GSFL is far from the utopian competition.
Both Leagues have their challenges, difference is the SFL in recent years has had the strength to make tough decisions, move on some clubs that did not fit correctly, and is now much better placed to strengthen and develop. Unlike the GSFL, the SFL is not a closed shop and there is one vacancy available for the right club, it will be interesting to see which club is forward thinking enough to take it.