Saw Paul Amy's article in Inside Football, where Casey are calling for the introduction of new sides into the competition, either from a Metropolitan leage, a Geelong side, and even leftovers from TAC U18 squads.
Havent read the article but the reserves does need an overhaul. It's laughable at present. Good quality football, but basically being run for the sake of it rather than any purpose.
Take the Bullants reserves for example, they played Bendigo Bombers reserves side three times in six weeks during the season. Box Hill played Port Melbourne three times for the season, including twice within three weeks.
And to be quite frank with it all, you can mount strong arguments that the Bullants got 3rd on the reserves ladder because of the draw, and that Box Hill got fifth because of the draw. And the sides who miss out on the finals by one game or two games probably met the Seagulls three times. How can anyone respect a competition with an unequal draw like that? No where in the world would you find any competitive sport produce such an uneven draw.
It needs at least one more team, and far better promotion. The standard is improving all the time, but nobody pays it much attention. As Brian Woodman said in the story, the VFL needs to put a bit of creative thinking into it. Don't say why it can't happen. Say why it can happen
It goesn't need anything creative.
There has been been pressure from most clubs in the competition for a long time to resolve the issue by forcing Geelong to feild a reserves side.
That alone will fix a multitude of ills in the competition.
Not all of them, but it will go a bloody long way with some of them.
Honestly, chief, why should Geelong have to run VFL reserves? That would give them three teams when their core business revolves around one. ie the AFL. They struggled to field a VFL senior team last year.
Let's just file this under "Casey says a lot of things".
It's bad enough having one reserves and seniors comp merged. We don't want to create a series of inter-locked tiers.
It doesn't matter if they struggle. If they want to be part of this competition, then they should be in the competition under the same structure as every other mainland team in the competition.
[quote:d89d1e8f15="Sandridge"]Let's just file this under "Casey says a lot of things".
It's bad enough having one reserves and seniors comp merged. We don't want to create a series of inter-locked tiers.[/quote]
This may be the only time ever that I agree with Casey on anything.
Probably because they are taking the lead from others in the competition.
I don't understand what you mean about merging competitions.
The simple issue is that Geelong, as they exist in the VFL, should have a reserves team just like the others.
They should be required to field a reserves side just as Bendigo and Frankston were required to.
The AFL component is irrelevant. We are simply talking about VFL structure.
Hey, Dolphin, if your list is so good why don't you guys put up three teams!
I presume what Casey is suggesting is that there could be another club (or clubs), who only field a team in the VFL reserves, and not in the seniors (sort of like the Jim Beam Cup in NSW Rugby League).
Up until this post I thought you made a lot of sense.
Don't think I ever made a suggestion that our list was anything more than the best VFL list overall.
Strange stretch to come up with that responce.
[quote:adfeb03643="Sandridge"][quote:adfeb03643="Dolphin"]I don't understand what you mean about merging competitions.[/quote]
I presume what Casey is suggesting is that there could be another club (or clubs), who only field a team in the VFL reserves, and not in the seniors (sort of like the Jim Beam Cup in NSW Rugby League).[/quote]
OK, I agree that would make it pretty messy.
But something needs to be done about the Geelong situation, as well as the missing teams in the 2's.
Hey, I was having a dig. :wink: Lighten up big fella