The Crumber wrote:How very rude ML WALKER. We're not "morons" on here for having a valid point of view. And youngpace is correct in that decent and competitive junior football is played when there's an even playing field. You maintain that 11 year olds standing 14 year olds doesn't happen at Callington, then you justify your own clubs' position by saying that seven years olds standing 10 year olds is okay. All very confusing. As far as I can see the bottom line is that if your club is genuine and sincere about keeping kids in the game, you'd ensure that every single one of them is referred to a club which can accommodate them until your own club can.
Thank you to the "all knowing" Crumber for your insightful views! Proving 1: You can't read, and 2: You sprout off without having a clue what your on about!
The Crumber wrote:"You maintain that 11 year olds standing 14 year olds doesn't happen at Callington"
Again, how could this have happened if we were not playing 14 year olds???
The Crumber wrote:"then you justify your own clubs' position by saying that seven years olds standing 10 year olds is okay. All very confusing."
You have completely misunderstood this comment and failed to see the point of it. It is not us, but other clubs that think it's unfair for us to play 13 yo permit players against 11 & 12 year olds, but they are quite happy to match their 12 year olds with our 7 / 8 / 9 year olds, instead of matching them with their younger 10 / 11 year olds.
In a perfect world it would be great if all competitions were fair and even, but the fact is there simply isnt enough kids to go around when you have so many clubs in close proximity to each other. Especially when certain clubs with already great numbers purposely target smaller already struggling areas. How does a club like us have a chance when we're up against somewhere like Nairne who were purposely targeting our own town primary school?
Because we are struggling for Junior numbers, we're supposed to just give up on them completely??? None of those remaining kids were forced to stay with us. The older ones have been together and a part of the club for a long time, and even most of the younger underage boys have still played a couple of years of modifieds with us. They were there because they wanted to be there.
None of the underage kids were forced to play Under 13's. Most of them decided they wanted to and played the first few weeks before modifieds began and loved it. It was them that did not want to go back down.
The Crumber wrote:As far as I can see the bottom line is that if your club is genuine and sincere about keeping kids in the game, you'd ensure that every single one of them is referred to a club which can accommodate them until your own club can.
Well as far as I can see the bottom line is that if OTHER CLUBS are genuine and sincere about keeping kids in the game, they would cap each age group at a certain number and refer extras to help boost struggling clubs. But the sad truth is some of these clubs don't care as much about the game / sport as they do about the win. So the strong will keep getting stronger and the weak will keep getting weaker.
A great point from On the Pine as well, people keep saying we were disadvantaging these younger kids, but if fact it was the opposite, the carnivals proved that when they did play the combined United / Sedan boys did get a chance to play their own age level, 8 wins from 8 games, absolutely dominating the opposition.
youngpace wrote:Cally cant not currently (and i do not see them ever again) provide for those kids what they need, how many of them will still be wanting to play footy when they are 14/ after as many as 7 years of playing out of their depth and getting smashed each week!
Keep getting smashed each week?? Not sure what planet your on? Our 13's finished above you and actually made the finals. You really can't talk, you have your own 13's goal umpire caught on film calling a clear point as a goal so you can win the game and get ahead of us, but i the end it still didn't matter!
