It is Round 1 of the season, and team lists were submitted less than a fortnight ago. You'd expect the Football Record, which they charge you $2 for, to have the right details in it.
But Werribee today had errors everywhere. 1/3 of their list was wrong today. It can't be that difficult to allocate a bloke a jumper number and stick to it.
Football Victoria claim the VFL is the next best competition in Australia behind the AFL, it is about time they start cracking down on this issue. We are not watching some dinky little country league in outback Australia.
They want new people to start going to matches, well if there are first time VFL watchers who do decide to show up and cant tell whose who then i doubt they're really going to enjoy their day at the footy.
So clubs and Football Vic - GET SERIOUS ABOUT THIS ISSUE!
Multiple jumpers seem to be an issue with alot of clubs - eg, once a players jumper is damaged or bloodied they take the field with a different number, not just for one game, but a few weeks.
Maybe I'm seeing things..
Same problem at Tasmania v Springvale. Several players running around in incorrect jumpers.
Quite frankly, I think it's appalling given clubs have had months to finalise their lists.
This will be a significant issue as long as the alignment with AFL clubs exists. Clubs have extended lists and multiple guys for numbers. Since the same number cannot be used by 2 guys who may be playing at the same time, something has to change at the last minute.
It isn't much of a solution - getting each player to play in an individual guernsey would be the way to go, but that would see some teams having guys wearing "75" or higher.
Still, at least it makes each guy identifiable.
This has irked me for the past two seasons and still the clubs can't get
it right. We the supporters who go each week deserve better, maybe
the VFL should get tough and fine the clubs heavily if they ( the VFL )
want to be taken as a serious competition
I agree for clubs with alignments, but I fail to understand why Tasmania (who have no alignment) had at least 3 players running around on Saturday in incorrect jumpers.
Thanks GOALden, good to hear that it was a widespread problem in Round 1.
The double up of numbers is nonsense. I'll list the mistakes:
Damien McCormack was listed as #53, but he wore #16 and Edward Darcy wore #53. Can anyone give me the logic of that? Why didn't Darcy just wear #16?
Nobody wore #8 yesterday, Salim Hassan is listed to wear that. But he wore #19, as did someone else in the reserves game. Where is jumper #8?
Nobody wore #35 in either the seniors or reserves. Wayde Skipper is listed with that number. So why did he wear #42?
Will Minson is on the full team list page of the record (the one with the heights and weights) with #27, but on the goalkick team list he's been put in as #31. Can anyone explain that? Same with Steven Koops, listed as #51 on the full list, but is in the other list as #56. That shouldn't happen, that's sloppy administration work to have different numbers appear on the two lists.
Werribee had a revamped team list in Sunday's Record. It was a complete tidy up from the previous week.
Maybe those in charge do take note of what gets written on here?
Well Ben Robbins wore number 12 in Round 1 vs Werribee and on the weekend wore number 4 vs sandy in Round 2...explain that!