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No that would be O35 Friday night
Nothing better than playing out the back of Maitland at 8pm on a cold, rainy night in the middle of winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taffy
Provides a lot more entertainment then a bunch of has beens and never weres trying to find some glory in 3rds.
Okay champ, thank you for your insightful contribution to the conversation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taffy
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Originally Posted by Taffy
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Originally Posted by Taffy
As good as anyone advocating for 3rds to be keptQuote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
I agree with Taffy, bin thirds. If clubs still want to keep around their clubmen, shove them in reserves. Ultimately only first grade matters in terms of promotion and relegation anyways so it shouldn't matter if you have a less than ideal ressies team.
As one of those clubmen I feel like I shouldn?t be shoved in Ressies ahead of a younger bloke with lots of potential.Quote:
Originally Posted by gtg
First grade matters of course, but when they all get too old and become one of the third grade has beens that everyone mentions.
Well suddenly you haven?t got the players to replace them because you you ditched the grade in which they can all play to get used to this level of the game.
Have the third grade and do you best to get the numbers and get the young fellas going up through the grades.
All this from a bloke whose third grade struggles every week yet I still see the value of it!
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Originally Posted by Taffy
Enjoyable i don't think so, bunch of old hackers suckin the big ones in, still thinking they can play football, playing against ex league players and AA players who are still chasing that title win that eluded them on Saturdays.
Playing games on a Friday night in bum**** nowhere, with no refs.
Yeh sounds great, doesn't it?
That sounds a lot like zone football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jardelsimage
If you have such a high standard go watch npl mate. Getting around 3 grades with your mates on a Saturday is the best start to the weekend for many of the blokes involved in a decent club. If you can?t stand 3rds, just don?t go. Doesn?t mean 1/3 of a squad should be cut to make ZPL more ?high quality?.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taffy
Nah. Theres only a few clubs that are pretending 3rds are worthwhile. Rather have more clubs putting real resources in the 2 grades. As for being cut?3rds are already cut from real football. You guys are a laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by 433Footy
Please name these only few clubs that value 3rd grade??
Because just from response on here already can see 1/4 of the competition value 3rds.
I highly doubt those two clowns are attached to any club in ZPL. Very easy to make nonsensical comments hiding behind a screen name. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but I'll let those ones go through to the keeper.
Who wants to bet that, even if they did cut thirds, the fee the clubs have to pay wouldn't go down. Clubs would then have to decide if they are going to pass on the fee increase to the players, cut paying their first grade players money and/or rego fees, or get many more sponsors. Could we see registration prices reach JDL levels? Around the $1500-$2000 mark per year?
It's pretty obvious why you guys don't want third grade. I think they should drop it from Zl1, but keep it in ZPLQuote:
Originally Posted by WWFC25
I think you have misunderstood the Westlakes poster. They are saying they are pro thirds.Quote:
Originally Posted by riverboy
I think they only ones that are anti-thirds aren’t actually associated with clubs..
If anyone is genuinely opposed to thirds and associated with a club, then I don’t see the reason of hiding which club you’re from unless you are simply a troll.
I didn?t realise I had been so cryptic! Thanks for clarifying that for everyone Zonal, I?d hate to upset Lofty by appearing anti thirds :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zonal Marking
Cause they are shit stirring. There wouldn?t be a club in ZPL that don?t value 3rd grade and if there is I?d love to know which one cause I?d be surprisedQuote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
Wdym? People on here are always on about how they don't pay players, only Croatia doQuote:
Originally Posted by gtg
Scrap 2nds while were at it.. bunch of flops in that grade as well!
That would make for an epic competition if every club could only have one team. Good idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeekendWarrior
NNSW so original, they dropped a grade in the 90?s and the comps didn?t improve then and won?t now. Shows how out of touch they are because NPL and NL1 are hardly an improvement to when it used to be first/second division with three grades. Just more money spent on ex A league players. The kids programs have huge score lines and how many of those kids go on to play first grade? Guessing at the top teams hardly any. ZPL teams beat NL1 teams but ZPL is the problem haha, yeah okay. Maybe the whinges should stick to their own clubs or are your clubs that much of a basket case they need to bag ZPL
Pretty sure only one ZPL team went through and beat a NL1 team this year. But it is all well and good to point at a single game and go they zone teams must be better but do it over a year not one that NL1 teams probably aren't that interested in considering they won't be getting to Round of 32 anyway. But no one here has bagged Zone just discussed if it is worth having a 3rd grade that struggles to have numbers every week
So one team struggled on 1 week and your solution is to ditch a whole grade when the 11 other clubs have no dramas. You?re the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taffy
Was more than one team and has been more than one week, some of us read the thread.
Why not bring back 23s and have overage players allowed (I wasn?t familiar with zpl when it had 23s so if it had issues I?d love to know them)
Or do it more like the English ressies system and decouple thirds and play them on a Friday night?
I know none of that would happen but they?re just my preferred options to scrapping the best grade.
23's didn't work, for many reasons, which i don't have time to explain.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDJ
3rds is more about having/keeping your workers/clubmen within the club and playing on game day. It also allows you the opportunity to blood some young fellas at the same time.
To those who want to rid us of 3rd grade, that's your option, you probably think NPL dropping U/18's was a good choice, so be it that's choice also, but it's obvious you have never run a club before.
There are 24 clubs who have 3rds, a couple struggle for a week and all hell breaks loose. To those who have either played, coached, managed or just been involved 3rds is like all the rest of the grades, not full of ex-alchos but blokes who like all the others want to have a kick.
so sorry it does not meet the standards of others, but who really gives a toss what they/you think...lets move on...
Westlakes vs Azzurri
3rds 1-4
Res 1-2
1st 3-3
Swansea v Dudley
3rds 0-3
Res 1-2
1st 0-4
Cardiff v Minmi
First 5-3 Cardiff
You sound intelligent 🤦🏼*♂️Quote:
Originally Posted by finzee
Spoken like a true alcoholic. Don’t drink and forum bro.Quote:
Originally Posted by finzee
What happened to 3rds and Reggie's? I know the threads been full of blokes suggesting 3rds don't matter, but surely you could post the scoresQuote:
Originally Posted by ForeverRed
3 nil to minmi reservesQuote:
Originally Posted by Eggs
5 nil to Cardiff thirds
So scrap this 3rds aids and get another ZL grade back in.
Is ZL3 still too high a grade for you?
Warners Bay v Mayfield
Firsts 1-1
Ressies 0-2
Thirds 5-1
Kotara v Olympic
1st 4-4
Res 2-3
3rd 1-0
sorry been busy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eggs
Cardiff v Minmi
3rds 5-0
reg 0-4
1st 5-3