SAAFL Division 6 & D6R (2012)

[hotpies]

I thank you for your honesty Phantom. When we were there i could not believe you could have such a big group of people standing next to the club and drinking out of there eskies.
I hope for the clubs sake you can clean that up as that is a joke in itself. For people to then come on here and say it is ok to do because they have helped out the club in the past is a disgrace. Who controls the drunks up there?
I take my hat of to you as you are willing to try change the club and move it forward like we all had read and hoped it had.
I hope you get the support of the new people to the club and not guys stuck in there old ways.
You are proud of your club and it is great that you are willing to try change it.
Good luck and hopefully all this crap is a thing of the past.

[Cash 123]

By the sounds of it Ingle farm shouldn't be bitching about B grade umpires
Have seen a lot of posts on here about how this Knowles bloke has changed the culture of the club
Ha so blokes getting king hit every week & now teams being locked in change rooms waiting for cops to arrive as a near on riot is happening outside between IF supporters, Im glad the culture has changed!! how bad must it of been before he got to IF..
Really feel for the skipper who's what 44 & best player by far & still watching this rubbish they dish out every week!
0-6 good choice of coach my kid will never play for them again

How old is your kid? do u tell him where he will play? If playing seniors surely old enough to decide for himself?

[Footy Chick]

We still do oranges from time to time (definitely in finals)

We do half time Zooper Doopers at the Valley

[Lightning McQueen]

i knew someone would come up with that

actually cant remember the last time i saw cut oranges being shared at quarter breaks in senior footy..see a few lollies here and there now

When you wore a set of these hey Z?

[zedman]

so did SAAFL start in 2012?..it seems the entire history of previous seasons is nowhere on the internet..please explain? have i missed a link?

[Lightning McQueen]

:)

so did SAAFL start in 2012?..it seems the entire history of previous seasons is nowhere on the internet..please explain? have i missed a link?

I couldn't find anything either. I'm sure they'll fix it up in time.

[Footy Chick]

Yeah, they've had to stick a whole lot of stuff in archive when they did the new website. It'll all go up again in time

[Brodlach]

Ban both parties for life, sets an example that the club wont put up with crap, i thought when we played you earlier in the year, you were very clean and played the game in the right spirits. Going back 5-10 years my club (clg) had a pretty bad reputation. We stopped picking the trouble makers, recruited young blokes who were not only good players, but also good people. During this preseason the coach and footy director chatted to allot of guys about joining the club, and some we decided not to pursue as they were not the right fit for us. Yes they could play the game, but we have to look at the bigger picture. We are working really hard on our junior program and now have 4 teams. The most pleasing thing for me is seeing junior parents, coaches, commitee coming down on saturday with there kids watching the senior team then sticking around for a couple of drinks afterwards.

My family is new to CLG this year with my kids playing in the juniors and I couldnt be happier with the way the club is run. It is really a great family enviroment.

[scottroo]

Ban both parties for life, sets an example that the club wont put up with crap, i thought when we played you earlier in the year, you were very clean and played the game in the right spirits. Going back 5-10 years my club (clg) had a pretty bad reputation. We stopped picking the trouble makers, recruited young blokes who were not only good players, but also good people. During this preseason the coach and footy director chatted to allot of guys about joining the club, and some we decided not to pursue as they were not the right fit for us. Yes they could play the game, but we have to look at the bigger picture. We are working really hard on our junior program and now have 4 teams. The most pleasing thing for me is seeing junior parents, coaches, commitee coming down on saturday with there kids watching the senior team then sticking around for a couple of drinks afterwards.

My family is new to CLG this year with my kids playing in the juniors and I couldnt be happier with the way the club is run. It is really a great family enviroment.

Great to hear positive feedback. will look out for you on a thursday night

[Phantom Gossiper]

..who carries a knife on them when they go to a SAAFL game anyway?

Grabbed off the table next to the BBQ im told

[lutz]

Good on you for being honest PG. Terrible to hear of what happened. Was the player at the centre of all this someone who Knowles brought with him? Or a product of IF juniors?

[Phantom Gossiper]

Good on you for being honest PG. Terrible to hear of what happened. Was the player at the centre of all this someone who Knowles brought with him? Or a product of IF juniors?

A product of IF juniors. Very talented youngster who appears to have let his short term success and ability go to his head.

[beeroclock]

TL:DR

Can you sum it up in 10 words

We ****** up.. we will fix.. the end..

new coaches with best intentions, implementing rules, want to see the club turn around it's fortunes, etc, etc. nothing different to ones that have left. All soon realise that looking in from the outside is easier than being on the inside and actually having to put these statements into practice. as you have said in the past PG, unless you have 40+ blokes that are really interested and committed nothing is gonna change.
coaches forced to bend rules initially then brake rules as pressure mounts to try and get a win, more losses, season looking down the barrel, less training as can't be bothered, more losses as fitness slides becomes a vicious circle.
coaches blamed for performance with too few to do to much, so they move on, when what is really required is a whole culture change and maybe finally some hard decisions will be made whatever the outcome for the betterment of the club and some of the bad element moved on permanently.

Brilliant sum up.

[bagster]

The End. lol

well put forward PG, i would welcome you at my club anytime, passionate people who only want whats best for their club and are WILLING TO DO SOMETHING are very hard to find... IFFC need to act swiftly on the people involved and ban them, and ban the byo... even if they are ex club legends or whoever, they should know better, to byo at THEIR own club is rude, to do it 10yards away from the front door of THEIR clubrooms and in the best viewing area of the oval is a disgrace........ maybe next home game fence off the area involved, put up a sign that says un-financial members and BYO drinkers only, and shame them... see who sits in it... wont take long and they will be sitting on the otherside of the oval and not USING the club and the facilities.. goodluck to you and the club.

[playon]

just catching up on all the news in Amatuer league as ive been away for last 3 months, wow! reading the div 6 thread and what has happened at Ingle Farm, my son played a few junior games out there a few years ago, just going downhill. good to see a club like mawson lakes show that a club is on the rise and new to div 6, do they have juniors that have come up and playing a grade?

[beeroclock]

By the sounds of it Ingle farm shouldn't be bitching about B grade umpires
Have seen a lot of posts on here about how this Knowles bloke has changed the culture of the club
Ha so blokes getting king hit every week & now teams being locked in change rooms waiting for cops to arrive as a near on riot is happening outside between IF supporters, Im glad the culture has changed!! how bad must it of been before he got to IF..
Really feel for the skipper who's what 44 & best player by far & still watching this rubbish they dish out every week!
0-6 good choice of coach my kid will never play for them again

Not the coaches fault pal.
Look at the admin and the people who are meant to make the coaches job as smooth as possible.

[Yank Man]

Good on you for being honest PG. Terrible to hear of what happened. Was the player at the centre of all this someone who Knowles brought with him? Or a product of IF juniors?

A product of IF juniors. Very talented youngster who appears to have let his short term success and ability go to his head.

PG you are clearly a passionate Farmer. I feel for Knowlsey a lot, as you would be aware MP and IF have similar reps. Last season I worked hard on getting the playing group focused but spent more time getting rid of the idiot mentality. I took this year to recruit quality people who were disciplined. I have no doubt that is where Wayne's head is, so, to coin a phrase, "get around him" it takes time. Good luck.

[hotpies]

Yeah i must say that Ingle farm were clearly the better team in the last quarter and nearly pinched the win.
Played a very good brand of football but i also think a bit of respect has to be given to Mawson lakes for coming back and hitting the front twice in the last 2 minutes when they could of easily got beat.
All the momentum was with the Farmers but just couldn't hold on.

Also on the guys on the hill, don't take this the wrong way but how does the club allow them to sit right next to there clubrooms which are nearly empty and drink out of there own eskies all day?
Im not trying to be a smartarse, im just asking the question.

The hiil at IF has been going on for the 17 years i've been there and these guys have spent plenty in the club every year, so i don't see a problem with them drinking their own during the day. Start making bulls**t rules like that and these guys won't be there. Club is going ok and doesn't need to penny pinch over nothing

I think attitudes like this is half Ingle Farms problem. Get rid of people like this Phantom with this thought process and u are half way there.

[Yank Man]

Yeah i must say that Ingle farm were clearly the better team in the last quarter and nearly pinched the win.
Played a very good brand of football but i also think a bit of respect has to be given to Mawson lakes for coming back and hitting the front twice in the last 2 minutes when they could of easily got beat.
All the momentum was with the Farmers but just couldn't hold on.

Also on the guys on the hill, don't take this the wrong way but how does the club allow them to sit right next to there clubrooms which are nearly empty and drink out of there own eskies all day?
Im not trying to be a smartarse, im just asking the question.

The hiil at IF has been going on for the 17 years i've been there and these guys have spent plenty in the club every year, so i don't see a problem with them drinking their own during the day. Start making bulls**t rules like that and these guys won't be there. Club is going ok and doesn't need to penny pinch over nothing

I think attitudes like this is half Ingle Farms problem. Get rid of people like this Phantom with this thought process and u are half way there.

Sure they know what to do hotpies, sometimes it's easier said than done.

[bulldogs]

By the sounds of it Ingle farm shouldn't be bitching about B grade umpires
Have seen a lot of posts on here about how this Knowles bloke has changed the culture of the club
Ha so blokes getting king hit every week & now teams being locked in change rooms waiting for cops to arrive as a near on riot is happening outside between IF supporters, Im glad the culture has changed!! how bad must it of been before he got to IF..
Really feel for the skipper who's what 44 & best player by far & still watching this rubbish they dish out every week!
0-6 good choice of coach my kid will never play for them again

Not the coaches fault pal.
Look at the admin and the people who are meant to make the coaches job as smooth as possible.

That's off the mark