2023 Season – what’s happening Premier and Platinum Divisions

[5yearplan]

And the draw thing surprises anyone?

Promotion is a joke always has been and will be, run by muppets and until the afl in Melbourne shakes it up will be a rabble forever

It’s sad , so many clubs , so many people care yet the governing body doesn’t give a crap.

They divide and try conquer clubs, yet offer nothing for what they charge for the privilege to play under them.

Every year same people say same things …. It’s not the clubs it’s the top.

Anyway whenever season starts hopefully whoever and whatever has good season

[geedoubleuess]

Any trial game updates
How did your club go

Power and Mac Uni were supposed to have a trial yesterday but Mac Uni pulled out on Friday. Power had a scratch match with league umpires. A combo of 1s and 2s and 16 a side. Some solid youth coming through the club and a good hit out on a hot day.

[Beachboy]

Looks like there's already a bye in plates ressies

[Pekay]

Balmain? Don't appear to have great numbers on the track from their Facebook page.
I can't throw rocks, blokes are allergic to training these days!

[Blinkers28]

No, appears UNSW has dropped out of Platinum Reserves.

[Pekay]

The 4th grade team that put 15 goals on my boys and won a flag? Geez that's a stretch. Good value that they'll still field a team in the divisions though. Can't have them losing games

[Westy]

Balmain will be ok. Heard they picked up a few decent players (Trent Stubbs, Josh Battistella, Josh Duncan) to name a few.

Unsure how depth of numbers will go but some good players for their Platinum team

[mrns]

The 4th grade team that put 15 goals on my boys and won a flag? Geez that's a stretch. Good value that they'll still field a team in the divisions though. Can't have them losing games

I guess Luffy has hung up the boots and picked up the Vape.

Not sure how they've folded their 4th grade team when they also had a 5ths in division 3 last year

[andreww1]

The podcast they do is a good concept, but not done frequently enough.

Something like a season preview would be a good start.

The fact the draw hasn’t been finalised 2 weeks before round 1, when other local comps have their draws live, is pathetic.

Has been like this for at least 10 years.

Reason is some clubs still can’t confirm whether they can field teams in respective grades. 3 teams have dropped out of different grades in the last 2 days meaning the draw needs to be re-cut. Draw can’t be finalised until clubs commit to teams.
More a club issue than an AFL issue.


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[Beachboy]

Draw is out and we have byes in the higher divs
There really is no need for this

[Norris Lurker]

It's not ideal, but I don't see what they could have done to avoid byes in either Premier Division comp.

[Blinkers28]

Byes in Prems is not good, but the other thing that’s worth noting is that in the lower divisions and U19’s, there’s no more than 8 teams in each competition.

Will lead to a shorter finals series with less teams participating - top 4 instead of top 5.

How much if this is down to the disruption last year brought with so many games called off with rain?

It’s a shame to see, what appears to be, a decent drop in the number of guys and girls participating.

[saviour01]

Couple of interesting things I noticed -
ECE only have mens prems, ressies and u19s.
Magic down to 1 mens team.
Randwick div 1 and div 3 instead of platinum.
UNSW going div 1 over platinum reserves (I would have guess div 1 is harder than platinum reserves?)
Sydney Uni, North Shore and UNSW results in platinum will be interesting. I assume they play their third team here? How does it compare against platinum clubs first teams?

[mrns]

Couple of interesting things I noticed -
ECE only have mens prems, ressies and u19s.
Magic down to 1 mens team.
Randwick div 1 and div 3 instead of platinum.
UNSW going div 1 over platinum reserves (I would have guess div 1 is harder than platinum reserves?)
Sydney Uni, North Shore and UNSW results in platinum will be interesting. I assume they play their third team here? How does it compare against platinum clubs first teams?

Yes they will play their thirds in platinums from earlier in this thread.

UNSW D1 not playing platinum reserves and thus forcing a bye is ridiculous for the evenness intended with the platinum/platinum reserves structure, but my guess is sydneyafl preferred to have 8 teams in division 1 than just 7.

ECE makes sense considering they were fielding their best team in D2 last year, I imagine those old prems players have no hung them up or at other clubs I believe?

[5yearplan]

Great promotion from the league for the season isn’t it. ????

One week to go the have with what they take from clubs have promoted it well.

Good luck to all clubs, minus clubs the idiots running it woundnt get paid

It’s a disgrace an only comp in a major state has nothing yet clubs cop it, get charged for it and forums like this clubs turn on each other when the state body and afl offer nothing.

Go afl… but seriously all should think about the year on year crap on here band together and challenge it

Over and out