What a joke, same ground for all finals. What happened to the old rule of playing all grand finals at the best possible venues???
And if you do change it why take it to a club that doesn't have a zone league squad?? My guess is Maryland Fletcher are coming back to zone league next year.
Luckily we have someone on huge $$ making all these decisions fair and equitable
My club looks unlikely to make finals in any grade but I even find this insane... any likelihood the venue could change? clubs considering formal complaints?
Once these people make their minds up, there’s no changing it. Their way or the highway.
The crowds at the games will be about 50% of what they would have been if they were at Adamstown, Magic, Darling street..
It's football, not s***er!!
Simple. Federation is going to war with NNSW, and no way they would allow their grand finals to be held at a NNSW club's ground. They're putting politics over what's best for the game. They need to be held accountable for this. There isn't a single club that would be satisfied with this, except for Maryland-Fletcher.
Anything stopping clubs from objecting and hosting their own GF day, provided the 6 teams/clubs from the division involved are all happy with the idea?
Imo, if there was a unified response that clubs were unhappy, surely their hands would be somewhat forced to allow it.
I’d be arguing ZPL want a good pitch, not one that’s seen a fair amount of traffic over the 2 days prior.
In general, transparency goes a long way. Informing clubs of WHY decisions are made, regardless of what that reason may be, goes along way to keeping parties happy. Maybe it is to announce Maryland fletcher are back in ZPL, maybe it’s a yearly lottery and they won, maybe they met all the criteria the best (publish this), maybe they know a guy who said it’s a good place and they went with that. Whatever the reason, let people know.
Rumour is the lighting might not be up the scratch for the Friday nights games so that’s being looked at now after the federation received a email about them.
Wow what a joke!
First finals series in three seasons and it's an absolute farce.
The zones only thinking about themselves with no thought whatsoever about the community clubs, volunteers, players and supporters. When will they realise that the game is not about them?
It's football, not s***er!!