Well done to Camden. Obviously their recruiting will be crucial.
Will be an interesting comp in what will probably be named Div 1. You will have Nor-West, Town, Wollondilly and Randwick competing if an earlier post is correct. You would think that as first grade sides, they will feed into finals. I'm tipping UTS to win their last four games of the H & A season to slip into fifth spot, then take home the flag. It is, realistically, Div 4 you know
Yes your right their Seniors should be competitive especially against the bottom sides if they can recruit some players. It will be their Reserve grade that will cop some floggings coming from Div 3 playing against Div 1 teams that their Seniors couldn't beat this year.Originally Posted by Tom Wills
Prem comp was closer than it looked last year.....Wests beat 4th place unsw manly beat penno (premiers) and north shore (3rd) ECE beat Syd Uni and UTS beat UNSW i wouldnt be targetting the lower sides too easy
Good luck tho i reckon you will go alright.....where does this leave Wests ? will c town folk go back to camden ie Cameron Gordon and the likes?
Little less of the "you will do alright" or you might upset them im definitely not from Camden HAHA. Gordon will stay at Wests, he's still under contract to them and Im pretty confident with the relationships he's built there and his thoughts on Camden he will be staying where he is until he's finished playing Prems.
Has the complete structure been published anywhere?
BatBury. Like Bradbury, but with UTS involved.
Would likely throw in the 3rd grades of Penno, North Shore, and the Unis into the mix if they are unable to nominate for the Platinum comp. No guarantees of finals for the clubs like mine who have their seniors in this. A much better option than playing out of our depth against Div 1 and 2 teams though. Especially when half our squad head to a festival every few weeks.
Don't think so.
But what's planned for next year is a Premier Division with 10 teams, with Seniors and Reserves who will always play together. No promotion/relegation.
Then there's a Platinum Division with 7 teams, with Seniors and Reserves who will always play together. No promotion/relegation.
Then there's Divisions 1, 2 & 3 for clubs who aren't in Premier or Platinum and clubs' 3s, 4s, 5s. I think there's still proposed to be promotion/relegation for this.
No change to Under 19s so far as I'm aware. At one stage there was talk of having Under 19s as part of the Premier Division structure, but nothing came of that. UTS doesn't have Under 19s; and Wests would be hoping for a stand-alone Under 19s team next year but in Div 2.
Womens will have a Div 2 coming in under the existing Premier Division & Div 1. The number of new teams that have come in the last couple of years and anticipated further growth made that inevitable. It wouldn't be viable to include Womens footy as part of the Premier Division structure - there's a vast difference between the womens teams at the Premier Division clubs; and clubs like Wollongong, Newtown Breakaways and Mac Uni clearly belong in the top womens' comp.
Wouldn�t it make sense for clubs with 4 opens men�s teams to play their 3rds and 4ths in the platinum comp? eg SU, UTS, Penno. That was suggested in that mock structure mooted in this site.
Past experience would suggest some clubs hungry for silverware would exploit things - perhaps this is why. UTS would have screamed blue murder if they were made to play in the plat comp btw.
Correct Tara. For the first time since divisionalisation, the platinum teams who make finals will generally be playing the same team that they played in the home and away season.
What is the issue with 16 a side in U19s? Why are they against it?
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I thought Prems (or div 1 ) 19's was staying at 18 a side, with the Div 2 19's going to 16 a side. This supposedly is to encourage more teams to field stand alone teams rather than JV teams.
If 2 players is the difference between fielding or not fielding a team you are cutting fine anyway.
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