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No-one biting Blinkers - that’s disappointing!! It’s all a bit boring without the chat isn’t it? Particularly given we get zero promotion from the AFL.
North Shore big sliders? Plenty of quality players called it a day in 2019, so can see how the ill informed might jump to that conclusion. Who wants to give me odds on that?
Tagliabue to SU at prems level rather than going back to UNSW. Underscores what’s been said about the problem with the NEAFL program and the rules around it. Also Will Sierakowski (originally North Shore) so they’ll be better. They haven’t been well coached though, so they’ll need to fix that.
UNSW have just recruited Patty Dangerfield and Nat Fyfe to help educate the juniors, so they should be okay.
Penno will be interesting. They’re always solid and have some very good kids, but their availability could be an issue. Not sure?
East Coast - no clue. They look like a mix of really good players getting older and good kids who might be a bit green yet.
St George will improve plenty. Hearing Flanagan and McKellar both back full time from Swans NEAFL, plus a number of boys coming back. Muddy got some games into kids last year too, so tipping they’ll be better.
Hearing that UTS have recruited the Nick and Ed Lower and there’s a whisper that Will Langford will make an appearance for them too. That’ll lift them for sure, but there’s a long way from where they were to good.
Wests and Camden have both picked up good coaches, but to be successful Wests will need to spend more on their juniors than they have on a bus load of tourists from Tasmania.
Camden are a project that we need to be patient with.
Then there’s Manly. They’ll struggle.
Let’s have a crack at how we’ll finish — and another beer!
UNSW
Sydney Uni
North Shore
Penno
East Coast
St George
UTS
Camden
Wests
Manly
Premiers - Bombers of course!!
Still brand new to women’s Prem Div, but might as well have a crack.
We have picked up a couple, as well as 6 or 7 North Shore girls coming back now that we have prem div team. There will still be quite a few in each week who haven’t played that the level, so 2020 could be a learning year. Should be right there in 2021 though.
Mac Uni have lost plenty of good players and are likely to suffer from that. They’ve benefitted from East Coast, Penno and North Shore not having prem div sides, so you’d think that would have to start to unwind.
Not hearing that much has changed at East Coast, so after a year of experience the East Coast women look more likely than the boys.
Sydney Uni have lost a few players too, but a few well placed scholarships could fix that!
UNSW have picked up a few, so could improve from 2019.
Not sure if anything has changed at Southern Power, but they were pretty solid in 2019, so would expect them to be pretty decent in 2020 too.
Manly were very good in Div 1 last year - probably should’ve won that comp, so based on what East Coast did first year up in 2019, they could do pretty well.
Not hearing that Penno have recruited for prem div. The could have, but if they haven’t they could be stretched first year in prems.
No nothing about what’s happened at Wests or UTS
Tips for the ladder;
East Coast
UNSW
Sydney Uni
Mac Uni
Manly
North Shore
Southern Power
Penno
Wests
UTS
Premiers - East Coast
Let’s get some banter going lads.
Written more than Norris - should be getting paid for this. Off to the fridge.
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