2023 Season – what’s happening Premier and Platinum Divisions

[justabaraker]

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

Wow 5YP - you obviously aren't happy with our Lords and Masters....I hope you find something to like about our footy this year

[5yearplan]

Seriously if anyone thinks they do a good job ….

Clubs do their best and I hope footy is good but the top brass I am sure this forum will in 5-10-20 years will be same thing

Been 20 plus years I have been involved in and the common issue is league.

The league divides clubs , only advice is clubs dictate to league grow comp and support our clubs.

[mrns]

We've gotten a UTS season preview posted 29th March referencing upcoming pre-season games on the 18th and 26th of March.

Hard to just post content written but someone else :P

[Beachboy]

So the 23 season is here
Prems look same
Big changes in platnum and lower divs
How will the new clubs go playing there 3rd & 4th teams against big money spending 1st teams

[Norris Lurker]

So the 23 season is here
Prems look same
Big changes in platnum and lower divs
How will the new clubs go playing there 3rd & 4th teams against big money spending 1st teams

Platinum will be interesting. North Shore and Sydney Uni have had very strong third grade teams, but this will be a tougher test for them. Will be fascinating to see how the Prems third grade teams go against the stand-alone Platinum clubs.
And for anyone in Platinum with ambitions to go into Prems, this tests them out as well. They'd need to lap third-grade teams if they want to get a crack against their seniors.

[saviour01]

Agree. It'd be sad if North Shore, Sydney Uni and UNSW finish up the top with their thirds.

Already a forfeit in each of div 1, 2 and 3. Not a good start.

[Blinkers28]

2 reigning premiers and a Div 3 finalist from last year making up the 3 forfeits, astonishing.

[Beachboy]

Round 1 done
Doesn't look good for the new platinum boys.
Only North getting the win
Students & Dogs not a good day

[Mac warrior]

Are UNSW imploding. Only fielding 4 teams and even then still had to forfiet div 1.......

[HoldingTB]

Are UNSW imploding. Only fielding 4 teams and even then still had to forfiet div 1.......

It doesn't look good does it? Will be a top tier team in Prems but forfeits and losses without registering a score will not help retention of players in the lower grades. Moving up to Platinum doesn't look like the right choice, albeit only 1 round in. Hopefully they get it sorted out but you do wonder what the cause of it must be?

[andreww1]

It doesn't look good does it? Will be a top tier team in Prems but forfeits and losses without registering a score will not help retention of players in the lower grades. Moving up to Platinum doesn't look like the right choice, albeit only 1 round in. Hopefully they get it sorted out but you do wonder what the cause of it must be?

I do wonder with UNSW whether focussing mostly on winning men’s Prems at the expense of lower grades and women is starting to catch up with them. They continually bring in paid senior players from outside their club to play Prems which would be frustrating for any lower grade player or u19 hoping to play Prems. They have the 2nd highest rego cost in Prems so as a lower grade player it would piss me off paying so much $ to allow 24 players to fly to Adelaide for a pre-season game that I am not able to play. Plus I hear of other instances where Prems get the red carpet and women and lower grades get treated as second class citizens. They even do separate mad Monday events I’m told. So most are lacking any sense of being part of a club. In those circumstances I reckon it would be easy to leave and do something else.


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[Beachboy]

Looking at the ladder in lower divs
You can already pencil in the finalist
3 rounds in
Going to be a long year for some

[Pekay]

We've debuted 13 players to the game in the past 2 weeks. We are back to a development stage, and been put in Division 1. It's going to be a slog to keep this going, one can only remain optimistic for so long

[Blinkers28]

Can’t remember this ever happening but both Power women’s teams registered a score of 0.0.0 over the weekend.

[Norris Lurker]

In all 3 games in Womens Div 3, the losing team was held to a score of zero. Not particularly healthy for that comp.