Dogs64 wrote:Lucky the inception of the reserves sides has led to such great success for the Crows and Port in the AFL, imagine how poorly they'd be performing under the "old" system.
It is a great point. I think as bias as we are to the SANFL we could all appreciate the AFL teams want to have all their players under the same banner BUT if we are perfectly honest the stats have shown that it is has no direct correlation with success and may actually not improve a clubs performance.
Further to that look at how quick Brisbane have rised back to the top of the AFL yet their reserve players are arguably learning their trade in the lowest standard of competition amongst all AFL teams.