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Thread: NEAFL - Thoughts on Year 1?

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    Before the Sydney teams were admitted, the NEAFL had clubs from Canberra and Brisbane. The view of the NEAFL people was that they'd rather have clubs rather than rep teams - mainly because they already had volunteer networks to handle game-day operations.
    Divisionalisation has its advantages and disadvantages, as we've discussed on other threads - but one big impact it has is that volunteers can be split over a few grounds. No club would have anyone spare to help out with NEAFL rep teams. It's hard hard enough for the league to find volunteers for the rep teams on bye weekends; let alone trying to do it while their club is playing at the same time.

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    I don't really think the AFL has a genuine interest in NEAFL anyway.

    Yes, the facilities and people who are providing the infrastructure for 2 Sydney NEAFL teams are coming from 2 Sydney Clubs.

    But success breeds success, and interest, and ultimately money makes that possible!

    Put some AFL money in, and do what needs to be done to make those teams REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WHOLE SYDNEY AFL COMMUNITY, and you will get a much stronger infrastructure and wider network of volunteers.

    Not just that, you will also get more supporters, more sponsors, and importantly, MUCH STRONGER TEAMS.

    I reckon right now you could pick 3 teams from the SAFL that would belt either SHE or SU's NEAFL sides. They would generate more interest too, as they would feed from a number of clubs. If they were set up from a pool of players for a full season of football, and played their home games on rotation with the different clubs they represent, it would help boost support for those club games as well. That structure would also attract better players to Sydney clubs.

    At the moment, if your club side happens to be playing at the same venue as SU NEAFL, does anyone really care??? Most people just go home after their side is finished.

    Fact is, whilst SHE will do OK, as they are in fact a community club with juniors and a strong grass roots "network", SU is destined for failure, because they don't, and the players who SHOULD BE PLAYING AT THAT LEVEL will in the main resist the poaching and will stay loyal to their Sydney AFL clubs.

    The AFL knows the answer to this ... if you want the concept to succeed in a new market like Sydney, you need winning clubs in that market, so you need to give them every bit of help (see GWS and GC Suns).

    So it stands to reason that the half baked attempt to get NEAFL up and running in Sydney, had nothing to do with improving the stature of the code in Sydney, but rather was a band-aid solution for the 4 AFL Club Reserve teams' lack of competition issues ... and they have conned the Sydney based volunteers into believing something different, and providing them with their solution at minimal cost ... smart people st the AFL (in Melbourne).

    PS: If "University" clubs was the answer, Rugby Union would be the pre eminent participation code in Sydney, and in fact in every major city ... it is not.
    Last edited by unconfuseme; 29th August 2012 at 06:26 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by unconfuseme View Post
    I don't really think the AFL has a genuine interest in NEAFL anyway.

    Yes, the facilities and people who are providing the infrastructure for 2 Sydney NEAFL teams are coming from 2 Sydney Clubs.

    But success breeds success, and interest, and ultimately money makes that possible!

    Put some AFL money in, and do what needs to be done to make those teams REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WHOLE SYDNEY AFL COMMUNITY, and you will get a much stronger infrastructure and wider network of volunteers.

    Not just that, you will also get more supporters, more sponsors, and importantly, MUCH STRONGER TEAMS.

    I reckon right now you could pick 3 teams from the SAFL that would belt either SHE or SU's NEAFL sides. They would generate more interest too, as they would feed from a number of clubs. If they were set up from a pool of players for a full season of football, and played their home games on rotation with the different clubs they represent, it would help boost support for those club games as well. That structure would also attract better players to Sydney clubs.

    At the moment, if your club side happens to be playing at the same venue as SU NEAFL, does anyone really care??? Most people just go home after their side is finished.

    Fact is, whilst SHE will do OK, as they are in fact a community club with juniors and a strong grass roots "network", SU is destined for failure, because they don't, and the players who SHOULD BE PLAYING AT THAT LEVEL will in the main resist the poaching and will stay loyal to their Sydney AFL clubs.

    The AFL knows the answer to this ... if you want the concept to succeed in a new market like Sydney, you need winning clubs in that market, so you need to give them every bit of help (see GWS and GC Suns).

    So it stands to reason that the half baked attempt to get NEAFL up and running in Sydney, had nothing to do with improving the stature of the code in Sydney, but rather was a band-aid solution for the 4 AFL Club Reserve teams' lack of competition issues ... and they have conned the Sydney based volunteers into believing something different, and providing them with their solution at minimal cost ... smart people st the AFL (in Melbourne).

    PS: If "University" clubs was the answer, Rugby Union would be the pre eminent participation code in Sydney, and in fact in every major city ... it is not.
    Spot on post!!!!

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