The future of Premier League

[Blinkers28]

The danger with going back to a divisionalised competition is that you could very well see a scenario of a 4 team Div 1 competition and a 20 team Div 5 competition, if clubs take advantage of the nomination process.

[Tom Wills]

I know I posted this suggestion on another thread, but more applicable here.

"What if SWS, Parra and Camden were all promoted (Yes all three would need some special assistance from Sydney AFL).

That would stop any newly promoted "West" team from poaching juniors from each other.

That would give 4 or 5 "bottom half" teams so they would regularly get wins or play in competitive games. It would be a perfect 12-team competition.

If we looked at it based on today's end of season ladders there would be a top 4, middle 3 and bottom 5.

[andreww1]

Wow, surprised prems reserves will be desolved too, any idea what the reasoning is there?

Seems like next year is going to be a whack year for premierships, those graded incorrectly are going to get a nice bit of a silverware

It is designed to make it easier for Platinum clubs to work their way in to Prems. Understandably the AFL are keen to get a club from south west Sydney or western Sydney up in to Prems eventually and create a strong club to represent the game in those growing geographical areas.


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[mrns]

That's what I'm hearing as well.
I'm also hearing that Prems Reserves & Platinum will be abolished and we're going back to divisionalisation.

Wow, surprised prems reserves will be desolved too, any idea what the reasoning is there?

Seems like next year is going to be a whack year for premierships, those graded incorrectly are going to get a nice bit of a silverware

[Norris Lurker]

I would think all 9 clubs from this year remain for next year, with South West moving up to make it a 10 team competition.

The desired alignment between Men’s Prems and Women’s Prems should be a step closer with Power dropping down and St George moving up.

That's what I'm hearing as well.
I'm also hearing that Prems Reserves & Platinum will be abolished and we're going back to divisionalisation.

[Blinkers28]

I would think all 9 clubs from this year remain for next year, with South West moving up to make it a 10 team competition.

The desired alignment between Men’s Prems and Women’s Prems should be a step closer with Power dropping down and St George moving up.

[WomblingFree]

Over the years the 1st division Sydney comp has had many names.

The overall history is that an eight team semi professional league is the natural amount of teams for a high level comp. Home and away plus a bye and a rep weekend.

So, what teams?

IMO all teams must have a junior base.

North Shore, Baulko, Penno, Easts/UNSW and St George are givens.

Add in Sydney Uni for their inner city work and private school connections.

So that leaves three into two?

UTS are a barnacle that adds little to the lcoal game. Drop them to the lower leagues and win flags against Penrith or Cronulla.

Manly have a good junior league and should be retained.

Wests have poor juniors and a marginal leagues club that used to bankroll them. I’d keep them for now but what we really need is a strong western Sydney team like what Campbelltown used to be. Problem is that, despite GWS AFL in western Sydney has never been weaker