SAAFL Division 7 2013

[zedman]

who will be the 'The team to beat' in div 7 this year?

Angle vale
sacred heart
houghton
flinders park
ingle farm
smithfield
north pines
broadview
flinders uni
henley

ingle farm




houghton
angle vale
smithfield
shoc
north pines
henley
flinders uni
broadview
flinders park

my predictions from 3 weeks ago which i am sticking with for now..if clancy plays C grade then SHOC go up a spot and smithfield need to pull a few good recruits to stay in the top 5 or be replaced with north pines (who are now added in) or henley..

[Q.]

Powell is a very good player. A grade Premiership player and would be hard to stop in div 7.

He's a good lad and I've been very impressed by his fitness. He smashed the Uni Loop last week.

[Gatt_Weasel]

Powell is a very good player. A grade Premiership player and would be hard to stop in div 7.

He's a good lad and I've been very impressed by his fitness. He smashed the Uni Loop last week.

did you time it or he just flogged all the other players in the run?? be interested to know what time he does it in

[Q.]

Powell is a very good player. A grade Premiership player and would be hard to stop in div 7.

He's a good lad and I've been very impressed by his fitness. He smashed the Uni Loop last week.

did you time it or he just flogged all the other players in the run?? be interested to know what time he does it in

Was timed, finished top 3. Don't ask me what they got though - all I know is that they were way ahead of me.

[Gatt_Weasel]

Powell is a very good player. A grade Premiership player and would be hard to stop in div 7.

He's a good lad and I've been very impressed by his fitness. He smashed the Uni Loop last week.

did you time it or he just flogged all the other players in the run?? be interested to know what time he does it in

Was timed, finished top 3. Don't ask me what they got though - all I know is that they were way ahead of me.

we did ours at the same time as the track women i never tryed so hard to run and look good at doing it at the same time lol

[Q.]

we did ours at the same time as the track women i never tryed so hard to run and look good at doing it at the same time lol

Ha, I reckon a few of the lads got caught behind a couple of pairs of pink tights and were very motivated to keep up the pace.

[marbles]

2 new teams coming into div 7 this year (Ingle Farm & Houghton) that together have won a massive 7 games from 36 matches in the last 12 months but yet theyre standout premiership favourites phht what a joke

hardly renowned for winning.

[tomo]

2 new teams coming into div 7 this year (Ingle Farm & Houghton) that together have won a massive 7 games from 36 matches in the last 12 months but yet theyre standout premiership favourites phht what a joke

hardly renowned for winning.

Massive difference between div 6 and 7 mate! With the quality players they have recruited in a lesser comp im sure they will get used to winning!!!!!

[Bigshow82]

Is it that big a gap? Is it any bigger a gap than the difference between other grades such as 6 to 5? I would have thought it be much the same. The gap between your best player and worst player on any given Saturday is bigger in div 7 then it would be in div 6 as it would be from div 6 to div 5 but is the standard of footy that great a difference that a club coming down from div 6 only has to recruit a couple of good players to add to the bunch of players they had in div 6 (that weren't good enough to avoid relegation) to make them a powerhouse div 7 team?

[X Runna]

Is it that big a gap? Is it any bigger a gap than the difference between other grades such as 6 to 5? I would have thought it be much the same. The gap between your best player and worst player on any given Saturday is bigger in div 7 then it would be in div 6 as it would be from div 6 to div 5 but is the standard of footy that great a difference that a club coming down from div 6 only has to recruit a couple of good players to add to the bunch of players they had in div 6 (that weren't good enough to avoid relegation) to make them a powerhouse div 7 team?

Have recruited more than a couple of good players Bigshow82 and yes, there is a big gap, my guess from what I have seen in the past couple of seasons, it's 6 - 7 goals.

[marbles]

Is it that big a gap? Is it any bigger a gap than the difference between other grades such as 6 to 5? I would have thought it be much the same. The gap between your best player and worst player on any given Saturday is bigger in div 7 then it would be in div 6 as it would be from div 6 to div 5 but is the standard of footy that great a difference that a club coming down from div 6 only has to recruit a couple of good players to add to the bunch of players they had in div 6 (that weren't good enough to avoid relegation) to make them a powerhouse div 7 team?

Have recruited more than a couple of good players Bigshow82 and yes, there is a big gap, my guess from what I have seen in the past couple of seasons, it's 6 - 7 goals.

Theyll be up around the mark for sure but it takes a long while to get over the trauma of being pumped by 20 goals each week

A player needs to recouporate from slayings and to heal and to find his feet. It takes many matches prob half the season to realise your no longer a part of a crap team thats prone to cop a beating

[Bigshow82]

Is it that big a gap? Is it any bigger a gap than the difference between other grades such as 6 to 5? I would have thought it be much the same. The gap between your best player and worst player on any given Saturday is bigger in div 7 then it would be in div 6 as it would be from div 6 to div 5 but is the standard of footy that great a difference that a club coming down from div 6 only has to recruit a couple of good players to add to the bunch of players they had in div 6 (that weren't good enough to avoid relegation) to make them a powerhouse div 7 team?

Have recruited more than a couple of good players Bigshow82 and yes, there is a big gap, my guess from what I have seen in the past couple of seasons, it's 6 - 7 goals.

So you are saying the bottom div 6 team as it is, is a 6-7 goal better team then the 3rd place div 7 team? I'm expecting both the relegated teams to be more than competitive but I just don't buy into the fact just because they have come down from div 6 to div 7 they will be streaks ahead of anyone else

[Q.]

Is it that big a gap? Is it any bigger a gap than the difference between other grades such as 6 to 5? I would have thought it be much the same. The gap between your best player and worst player on any given Saturday is bigger in div 7 then it would be in div 6 as it would be from div 6 to div 5 but is the standard of footy that great a difference that a club coming down from div 6 only has to recruit a couple of good players to add to the bunch of players they had in div 6 (that weren't good enough to avoid relegation) to make them a powerhouse div 7 team?

Have recruited more than a couple of good players Bigshow82 and yes, there is a big gap, my guess from what I have seen in the past couple of seasons, it's 6 - 7 goals.

Theyll be up around the mark for sure but it takes a long while to get over the trauma of being pumped by 20 goals each week

A player needs to recouporate from slayings and to heal and to find his feet. It takes many matches prob half the season to realise your no longer a part of a crap team thats prone to cop a beating

lol, you got no idea.

As I said to the boys at the end of the year, adversity only makes you stronger. Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I see a lot of tough **** on the track at the moment.

[Q.]

Is it that big a gap? Is it any bigger a gap than the difference between other grades such as 6 to 5? I would have thought it be much the same. The gap between your best player and worst player on any given Saturday is bigger in div 7 then it would be in div 6 as it would be from div 6 to div 5 but is the standard of footy that great a difference that a club coming down from div 6 only has to recruit a couple of good players to add to the bunch of players they had in div 6 (that weren't good enough to avoid relegation) to make them a powerhouse div 7 team?

Have recruited more than a couple of good players Bigshow82 and yes, there is a big gap, my guess from what I have seen in the past couple of seasons, it's 6 - 7 goals.

So you are saying the bottom div 6 team as it is, is a 6-7 goal better team then the 3rd place div 7 team? I'm expecting both the relegated teams to be more than competitive but I just don't buy into the fact just because they have come down from div 6 to div 7 they will be streaks ahead of anyone else

I think the difference between the two Divs is that, traditionally, the quality of the bottom five teams takes a much sharper decline in D7. Though I get the feeling that won't be the case this year.

[Bigshow82]

Last year flinders Uni was the only team I felt you really had to have a bad day to lose too. Smithfield was a tough game, modbury, shoc and flinders park challenged all the teams that made the finals and only fell away due to injuries to their higher grades. I feel some underrate the strength of some of the clubs in this div.

[marbles]

Bahaha am hoping Q is running the show up there cos he claiming already without playing a game that houghton are too good for this comp and are walk up champions

The only thing a relegated side in any division currently is, is a team who has more expertise in losing than the hardness of victory and just because your looking pretty in febuary with your newly painted changeroom shed in the background doesnt qualify u the right to dismiss teams whos boots are still coated with mud of victory

angle vale are the front runner in this comp cos they know how to win. North pines too if their commitee has pushed for expansion

[tomo]

So basically any relegated team in any div has no hope because they only know how to lose?

No chance of going down a div and turning things around???

Sounds a bit far fetched to me!

[X Runna]

Is it that big a gap? Is it any bigger a gap than the difference between other grades such as 6 to 5? I would have thought it be much the same. The gap between your best player and worst player on any given Saturday is bigger in div 7 then it would be in div 6 as it would be from div 6 to div 5 but is the standard of footy that great a difference that a club coming down from div 6 only has to recruit a couple of good players to add to the bunch of players they had in div 6 (that weren't good enough to avoid relegation) to make them a powerhouse div 7 team?

Have recruited more than a couple of good players Bigshow82 and yes, there is a big gap, my guess from what I have seen in the past couple of seasons, it's 6 - 7 goals.

So you are saying the bottom div 6 team as it is, is a 6-7 goal better team then the 3rd place div 7 team? I'm expecting both the relegated teams to be more than competitive but I just don't buy into the fact just because they have come down from div 6 to div 7 they will be streaks ahead of anyone else

No, what I am saying is that the overall standard of Div 6 is AT LEAST a 6 - 7 goal better standard than Div 7. A further comparison is that Woody South would have smashed Mitchell Park, and by a lot more than 6 - 7 goals. If you want an indicator, have a look on Henley's website over the past few years.

[Q.]

Bahaha am hoping Q is running the show up there cos he claiming already without playing a game that houghton are too good for this comp and are walk up champions

The only thing I am claiming is that you are a buffoon.

When you are getting beating week upon week, and you sit back after each game and reflect, you come to the conclusion to never take footy for granted. And we will not be taking anything or any teams for granted this year.

[zedman]

Do your top 10 then marbles..and we can check back later..it's a bit different when you have to place a 10 not just knock a few..