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The Dees and the Hawks battle it out for the second time this year in the VFL as well as in the AFL.

Casey Demons vs. Box Hill Hawks Casey Fields 12.00pm.

 
 
2 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Telecast?

Not on Kayo, so waiting on Ch7. Our game is 3rd Vs 5th so should be match of the round but just watch Woods Vs Blues get the nod. 7th vs 14th a Blockbuster in the making.

57 minutes ago, KC from Casey said:

The Dees and the Hawks battle it out for the second time this year in the VFL as well as in the AFL.

Casey Demons vs. Box Hill Hawks Casey Fields 12.00pm.

saturday or sunday?


16 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Sunday as per the tag.

Is that "tag" new as well Jack?

1 hour ago, dworship said:

Not on Kayo, so waiting on Ch7. Our game is 3rd Vs 5th so should be match of the round but just watch Woods Vs Blues get the nod. 7th vs 14th a Blockbuster in the making.

The powers that be in the AFL/VFL aren’t demonstrating that they’re particularly interested in the proper promotion of community interests and football. The Pink Lady match is getting short shrift so don’t expect anything from them or 7 on the subject of the match of the round in this competition.

 

My possible team

B: Lockhart, Turner, J.Smith

HB: Bowey, Bradtke, D.Smith

C: Declase, Jetta, Baker

HF: Melksham, Weideman, Rosman

F: Bedford, Ellison, Chandler

FOLL: Daw, vandenBerg, Sparrow

IC: White, Munro, Foot, Grey

1 hour ago, Freddy Fuschia said:

The powers that be in the AFL/VFL aren’t demonstrating that they’re particularly interested in the proper promotion of community interests and football. The Pink Lady match is getting short shrift so don’t expect anything from them or 7 on the subject of the match of the round in this competition.

I believe the Casey v Box Hill game will be shown on 7.


2 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

I believe the Casey v Box Hill game will be shown on 7.

hope so would be great to have 2 wins on the weekend

Does anyone know if VFL games will be going ahead this weekend?


The VFL is a complete sham of a farce.

It’s not their fault but Southport is currently in second place with nine games for eight wins. That sounds like a fantastic record in any competition and the Sharks could not have done much more to get into that position. But ...

They were drawn to play the lowly Northern Bullants this week in what I considered a danger game for them. Why? The Bullants have won a few games of late and are playing with great spirit and look at who Southport have played to date -

Round 1 Carlton (14th) win by 1 point

Round 2 Apsley (21st) win by 14 points 

Round 3 UWS Giants (8th) lose by 30 points

Round 4 North Melbourne (18th) win by 107 points

Round 5 Apsley (21st) win by 109 points 

Round 6 Gold Coast (15th) win by 83 points

Round 7 Northern Bullants (17th) postponed 

Round 8 Sydney Swans (19th) win by 15 points

Round 9 Bye

Round 10 Brisbane Lions (16th) win by 107 points

Round 11 Gold Coast (15th) postponed 

Round 12 Bye

Round 13 Brisbane Lions (16th) win by 109 points

Round 14 Northern Bullants (17th) postponed/bye

To come Werribee (10th), Coburg (13th) Frankston (6th) and (for the third time this year) ... Brisbane Lions who they’ve beaten twice by more than 100 points.

This needs no further comment.

I think that it’s time for another change at the top, time for Gil to hand over to someone anyone that understands Aussie Rules football. vFL is borderline shambles, so many rule changes that the Magoos heads are spinning. We need some reality injected into the AFL ASAP.

18 minutes ago, DeeZone said:

I think that it’s time for another change at the top, time for Gil to hand over to someone anyone that understands Aussie Rules football. vFL is borderline shambles, so many rule changes that the Magoos heads are spinning. We need some reality injected into the AFL ASAP.

It is well past due time for the VFL competition to be better administered and conducted, with improved coverage, status and alignment to AFL clubs and supporters, such as pre-main game fixtures, venues and promotion, for example.

Some of us supporters really miss the 'reserves' competition as it was formerly known; it represented a whole day at the footy in one venue, providing tremendous information flows to crowds of supporters on their team and that of opposition sides, and to their attendees. 

 

 

11 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

The VFL is a complete sham of a farce.

It’s not their fault but Southport is currently in second place with nine games for eight wins. That sounds like a fantastic record in any competition and the Sharks could not have done much more to get into that position. But ...

They were drawn to play the lowly Northern Bullants this week in what I considered a danger game for them. Why? The Bullants have won a few games of late and are playing with great spirit and look at who Southport have played to date -

Round 1 Carlton (14th) win by 1 point

Round 2 Apsley (21st) win by 14 points 

Round 3 UWS Giants (8th) lose by 30 points

Round 4 North Melbourne (18th) win by 107 points

Round 5 Apsley (21st) win by 109 points 

Round 6 Gold Coast (15th) win by 83 points

Round 7 Northern Bullants (17th) postponed 

Round 8 Sydney Swans (19th) win by 15 points

Round 9 Bye

Round 10 Brisbane Lions (16th) win by 107 points

Round 11 Gold Coast (15th) postponed 

Round 12 Bye

Round 13 Brisbane Lions (16th) win by 109 points

Round 14 Northern Bullants (17th) postponed/bye

To come Werribee (10th), Coburg (13th) Frankston (6th) and (for the third time this year) ... Brisbane Lions who they’ve beaten twice by more than 100 points.

This needs no further comment.

I was staggered when I looked at the VFL schedule at the start of the season - so many teams it reminded me of the old County Cricket system before they brought in the Divisions - which is precisely what the VFL (or - AFL2?) needs.  Teams need to be incentivized to do better, and be challenged to do so - not just play a collection of wooden spooners every week.  It isn't a  real competition that promotes the game, improves players or entertains the fans.

Need to revert back to AFL Reserves comp, under full control of AFL. AFL clubs only permitted. No Southport, Apsley, Port Melb et al. Stuff em, time to make this ressies just like the old days and if you havent got a reserves side, get one quick or stiff luck!

Edited by picket fence


Have posted before there is minimal incentive to increase crowds at VFL matches.

Crowds cost money... attendants, toilets cleaning etc

The direction givien to the working party on the redesigned VFL was to save money and as part of that to better integrate the VFL schedule with the AFL schedule (playing the same  teams on a weekend etc).

The real question is why did they include the old stand alone clubs and in particular the interstate stand alone clubs. Was it part of a government funding package perhaps. I have no idea and it makes no sense.

If I was a conspiracy theorist you could say that they have set up a competition that must fail so they can close it down. The reality is that it is probably another stuff up.

FWIW other than the number of byes the old VFL/AFL comp while not the best worked reasonably well in my view.

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