EP Sport - back with a vengeance

[spitt]

why would souths entertain the idea of moving to centenary and invest more money into lights as they and waybacks both were encouraged to move to ' ravendale' to develope the area more than 2 decades ago only to have their lights torn down by the council. Council with their track record could do the same again , bang a road thru centenary and souths lose both lights and oval - any permanent fixture built on council land can be removed or remodelled to whatever. Just because council helped hockey (big following!!!) and tasmans (who couldn't keep their own clubrooms) to build a shed at ravendale why should waybacks and south shift from their training oval especially after 25 or so years. The council have even cut the power to their (souths) training room, tasmans have offered new rooms but nothing is ready thus games changed to centenary. A concrete commitment from council that centenary will remain as is, would be appropriate. The 'rate payers' buiding should have been between netball and football playing arenas, council have stuffed up on what could have been (looking into the sun from the bar not many watch from boston's windows)

[bluestheboy]

Absolutely correct spitt...LS should not have to fork out for lights..the lPLFL &/or council should wear the cost of this.....

BTW...whats a concrete commitment from the council worth?

[spitt]

concrete boots for previous council CEO--- concrete commitment!!!

[OldCooper]

what happened to young todd owen? I seen him and has got arm in a sling, is it very serious or not?

[our_longreach]

Steiger, you raise some very interesting points regarding mergers...one thing we all need to be conscious of with these sorts of discussions is the extreme difficulties and barriers that are associated with the integration of cultures from different clubs. Take your example the merging of Waybacks and Bostons - quite a few cultural differences there, many I'm sure Waybacks would not want inherit (and maybe vice versa!?!) The merger approach is almost an impossible task and certainly one that is fraught with danger...

Saw a fantastic game at wangary on sat, grand final preview, no doubt about that. Same old same old with bostons. Grub what happened at centenary? Are mallees that bad or are souths a lot better than expected?

[another grub]

Mallee Park just have no key position players OL, the regular players look unfit and disinterested. They are in dissaray and it needs to be fixed quickly or they will only win 3 games for the year. They dont have anyone to kick to up forward! Not supplying junior umpires and the mess the young lads left on the grass section at Centenary didnt help the impression they gave. Souths go OK, big test in coming weeks against Tas and MR.
How did you see the votes at Centenary ak? What about you biggles at Poole?
I see they have brought the boundry in 9 meters on the wings at Ravendale, they must be giving up on trying to get that surface ready and concentrating on the centre section.
Lincoln South will have no problem moving to Centenary when the lights problem is fixed, putting in $20,000 and having them ripped down (not being told) and training in the dark last year.... we will wait before commiting.
Did anyone see the game in the EEFL, was it a typo or did one team kick 22 goals 0 behinds to 4 goals 0 behinds? that would have to be some sort of record no behinds in a whole game (I see their B grade kicked 14.27).

[bystander]

Same old same old with bostons.

Can't say i agree with you OL, only 2 goal 9 for the day sure, but only seemingly a matter of weeks into a major rebuild, (not a quick fix) if you like, and getting more competitive every week, good on ém i reckon. By seasons end they could very well give some teams a run for their money. Also very well done to Michael Paech, showed the Tasmans boys how to do it at times.

[steiger]

Steiger, you raise some very interesting points regarding mergers...one thing we all need to be conscious of with these sorts of discussions is the extreme difficulties and barriers that are associated with the integration of cultures from different clubs. Take your example the merging of Waybacks and Bostons - quite a few cultural differences there, many I'm sure Waybacks would not want inherit (and maybe vice versa!?!) The merger approach is almost an impossible task and certainly one that is fraught with danger...

Thanks for your comments OL. The culture one is relevant and perhaps Waybacks/Bostons might not work (WCP's MR/B idea may be better). However please don't make a broad statement such as a merger approach is almost impossible and fraught with danger - State your reasons, get them out in the open, let's discuss it and see if somehting just might work.

[therealROSSCO]

and I quote....."get them out in the open, let's discuss it and see if somehting just might work." - GOLD

steiger = Port Lincoln's Dr Phil!!

[ak]

Think the coaching staff at souths got it right for the votes grub..
3- K Cocks
2- S Rynne
1- C Akehurst
Dont think a Mallee Park player won his position, so cant see any of them getting in the top three on the ground...

[Justquietly]

What a fall from grace for Mallees.
If the other top 4 (as it stands now) take a game off each other at some stage, it's going to be very very difficult for Mallees to squeeze in, esp. if they don't get one on the board against the top 4 in the opening round.

[steiger]

1) BTB conducting the fastest interview in history
2) BTB holding his breath for a world record 1 mim 48 seconds

Want to know more - ask BTB - I'm incapable of going on - I can't stop laughing

[therealROSSCO]

he dropped his guts.....in his room before an unexpected interview.....

[bluestheboy]

he dropped his guts.....in his room before an unexpected interview.....

If I dropped my guts, I may have had to breathe...

[Justquietly]

What's goin on here?!

[therealROSSCO]

then explain.........

[our_longreach]

Same old same old with bostons.

Can't say i agree with you OL, only 2 goal 9 for the day sure, but only seemingly a matter of weeks into a major rebuild, (not a quick fix) if you like, and getting more competitive every week, good on ém i reckon. By seasons end they could very well give some teams a run for their money. Also very well done to Michael Paech, showed the Tasmans boys how to do it at times.

2 goal 9...WTF you still got flogged
By seasons end...WTF, how long is the season, 10 years?

[our_longreach]

Thanks for your comments OL. The culture one is relevant and perhaps Waybacks/Bostons might not work (WCP's MR/B idea may be better). However please don't make a broad statement such as a merger approach is almost impossible and fraught with danger - State your reasons, get them out in the open, let's discuss it and see if somehting just might work.

The success of any merger or change depends on many factors but most importantly commitment from all parties and a strong leader. Each and every club must embrace the concept for it to work - if there is a weak link the whole idea will fall apart. There must also be a strong and respected leader (and leadership group for that matter) who is able to drive and steer the idea from conception to implementation. Given the natural rivalries and differences between clubs and leagues it would be "almost impossible" to get the full commitment or the unanimous and mutual respect for a leader to see this concept through. Another issue if the fact that the process will take an incredible amount of time...it won't happen in 2 to 3 years. If it is going to happen in the next 10 years both leagues MUST BE PROACTIVE and start talking and acting now or it will be too late...

[bluestheboy]

[our_longreach]

Thanks Captain Smartarse...