Williamstown want to join Frankston and Port Melbourne as stand alone teams in 2013.
This would mean a 15 team competition in 2013.
Thoughts?
Williamstown want to join Frankston and Port Melbourne as stand alone teams in 2013.
This would mean a 15 team competition in 2013.
Thoughts?
the ghost is back to report that things are not quite settled but will rise from the dead if we are a stand alone team and get back into the land of the living and rejoice on the morris street wing. :bigsmile:
there are three meetings to attend before a final decision is made, so as it stands take it from one who knows it is yet to be decided. Willy has the funds to stand alone, may leave things a bit tight after putting in 3 mil for the redevelopement but importantly we will not have borrow money to recruit some top players.
As for the bulldogs - ask their coach, he is the source of all problems along with a very very very weak board. Macca will coach the doggies to the same place that the mighty Mr Football coached willy. >)
Thanks for the update gg, i assume you are referring to Teddy coaching us gloriously into 2nd Div back in the '60's. Apparently he used to make the players run a lap for each point that they lost a game by. After a 7 goal flogging one weekend nobody came to training on Tuesday night ;-)
Brendan Curry's 'No Comment' was enough for me to know that something is afoot on this issue. Piss 'em orf i say :-)
There is some difference between a struggling AFL club like Melbourne or Bulldogs to say VFL club like Coburg.
Bulldogs would have to find an extra 500,000 [maximum] to field a stand-alone VFL side, which isn't beyond a AFL club turning over $30 to $40 million dollars a year.
Issue is how many teams does AFL Victoria think is acceptable?
The great EJ coached the seagulls in 1975 for a spoon. Williamstown were last but the seagulls rebounded the following season beating Mordialloc in the Grand Final at Toorak Park. Mordialloc were very hot favorites and were no match for the seagulls in a very tough game. Williamstown won by 57 points.
Reading between the lines I think the seagulls will be stand alone next year. That would be what the vfl comp needs. As for Footscray they can do whatever they like. They might even end up with Coburg if Richmond decide to flick them. ?? Otherwise the dogs will have to revert back to Footscray name in the VFL and play games at Whitten/Western Oval.
Wouldn't be altogether a bad outcome if Footscray had their own team in the VFL, would certainly add to the western-suburban rivalry between Willi, Werribee & perhaps the Bullies. Trouble is, with their current list I couldn't imagine them winning a game in the VFL.
The great EJ coached the seagulls in 1975 for a spoon. Williamstown were last but the seagulls rebounded the following season beating Mordialloc in the Grand Final at Toorak Park. Mordialloc were very hot favorites and were no match for the seagulls in a very tough game. Williamstown won by 57 points.
Whitten also "coached" Yarraville to the 1961 Flag as he took over coaching for the week of the VFA GF and coached the Eagles on GF day as the usual coach of the firsts Kevin Drinan ex St Klida was OS on busines.
I thought it was EJ's brother who was coaching Yarraville & was unavailable for the GF for some reason, but i could be wrong.
Wally from Williamstown
Just checked Wikipedia, appears you are correct billy.
Wally from Williamstown
Don Whitten did play at Yarravlle.I spoke to him a few years back and he said by the time he got to Yarraville both his knees were stuffed.He went on to have a long coaching career in the country.
I was at the GF in 1961 and Whitten did coach the side againt Willy on a very hot day.
He had the players on oxygen at half time and its said thats what made the difference.
Heres an interesting link
http://www.yseagles.com/1961premiers.htm
wow, thanks for that billy, very interesting read indeed, Don Whitten playing in the side was the connection that i had heard or read about, not as coach. Is Ron Brown the same as the one who played at Sunshine?If so his son played at Willi for a few years & was a handy, rugged defender. Also, the captain John McTaggart is father/uncle of our former captain & team of the century member, Brett. I was also wondering if the guy Kinniburgh was any connection to the infamous Carlton Crew member.