The State of the game

[exitthesandman]

With the Premier Division finals places now being decided on match ratio due to the weather (can this be confirmed as official?), how costly will it be for Saints & Wests having missed out on games they both should/would have won (against UTS & ECE respectively), and I guess reverse fortune for Penno having lost against Norths. The next few weeks looking good for a very close fight for top 5 positions. Anybody care to predict the top 5? I think Easts, Norths & Uni will take the top 3 spots with Wests, Saints & Penno fighting out the last 2 spots. I can't see UTS making it personally as they have a tough run home and based on their results so far but who knows they could potentially spoil it for a few other teams. Key games in the weeks ahead are Rd 13 - Wests v Norths & Easts v Saints, Rd 14 Saints v Wests & Penno v Uni, Rd 15 Wests v Easts & Norths v Saints, Rd 16 Penno v Easts, Rd 17 Saints v Uni and Rd 18, the game that could determine the final spot in semis, Penno v Saints. Going to be a very close finish. Saints look to have the hardest run home and whilst my heart says yes my head says they may be the odd team out and will rue a couple of big blown leads in previous games against both Wests (led by 17 @ 3/4 time and gave up 6 last qtr goals - lost by 13 points) & Penno (led by 18 @ 3/4 time and gave up 5 last qtr goals - lost by 2 points) earlier in the year. Although I imagine every team has a "one that got away" story to tell. Time (and the weather!) may tell a different story. Thoughts anybody...

[mrns]

By the looks of it they beat St George which is why i'm guessing the sudden sparked interest in the ECE Div 2 results. Looking at their team all of the blokes you say have NEAFL experience are all 32+ except one who didn't play last year and is in his late 20s.

Didn't a gun St George forward spend a season or two with the 3rds when he was around 30?

Granted from my understanding there is a few of players who have come back to have a run around hence the number of experienced players within the team, but when your best player was running around in premier division just last year and from what I can understand from Saviours quote below, they don't even field a bench in the PREMIER grades above. It is not a great look.

No one is interested in their prems or ressies results, especially when they only play with 18 players.

[saviour01]

By the looks of it they beat St George which is why i'm guessing the sudden sparked interest in the ECE Div 2 results.

No one is interested in their prems or ressies results, especially when they only play with 18 players.

[Westy]

Had a quick look at the best on after the game last week. One had roughly 50 games of NEAFL experience with GWS, another played in the sydneyafl v canberra rep game, couple of guys who played prems last year.

Agree with Blinkers though, why get flogged in prems and reserves every week when you can get 50 kicks in division 2.

By the looks of it they beat St George which is why i'm guessing the sudden sparked interest in the ECE Div 2 results. Looking at their team all of the blokes you say have NEAFL experience are all 32+ except one who didn't play last year and is in his late 20s.

Didn't a gun St George forward spend a season or two with the 3rds when he was around 30?

[saviour01]

hoping they can pull of the tanking triple crown, 0 wins in prems, 0 wins in ressies, premiership in thirds

Had a quick look at the best on after the game last week. One had roughly 50 games of NEAFL experience with GWS, another played in the sydneyafl v canberra rep game, couple of guys who played prems last year.

Agree with Blinkers though, why get flogged in prems and reserves every week when you can get 50 kicks in division 2.