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South Maitland Football Club seeking players for AA team in 2022. Message coaching@southmaitlandfc.com.au, 0410 189 333 or the club's Facebook/Instagram for more details!
Mayfield Juniors All age men - Looking for extra players - goal keeper needed - casual (lower grades) but still competitive.. Shoot a PM!
Looking for keepers at Cooks Hill, one lower grade and one mid-grade.
Any club looking able to take a Friday night all age team? Pretty much have a full squad that needs a club
PM me, cardiff could fit you inQuote:
Originally Posted by Mitchy
Any all age teams have spots for two outfield players?
Cardiff City zone league 3 is looking for a few more players to complete the squad. In particular we are after a few experienced players to compliment our younger players.
We are also looking for any All Age players who want to step up to zone league football. With 21 games of football it's much more appealing then the 14 games all age offers. Anyone interested can send me a private message or contact 0418453655
Hey Mitchy do you need any more players?
Cooks Hill looking for O35s Friday players
South Maitland looking for AA players
Hi just wondering if you are looking for any O35s players there are 3 of us
Kurri Kurri are also on the lookout for a few more 0/35s
Anyone got the list of Friday night all age allocations?
yepQuote:
Originally Posted by Cunning stunts
I guess you answered the question. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jardelsimage
Care to share?
Haven’t seen the full spreadsheet, but we (Kotara South) somehow got put into A grade in Fri O35’s. Dunno how tf that happened given we were middle of the road in C grade last year but we’re hoping to be regraded.
My commiserations. The grading always throws a few head scratchers out there every year. Did you have some new superstars sign up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Disinterested Bystander
Interesting to see two fewer grades in AA Sat, but both AA and O35s Fri picking up an extra grade each.
Yes, A is pretty challenging but If Kurri went up from C it would have been a reasonably easy comp for you. B grade sounds right for you lads.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disinterested Bystander
Kurri must surely be in A as well as the thugs from West side of the lake.
apparently the former NPL player for Kurri isn't in that team anymore
We're in C this season - which isn't the best given we're down a few good players
our other team, which we swap being the top one year on year, is up in B grade - up from D last season
and being in a seven team comp is a bit shit too
We've lost quite a few at Kurri but have still moved to B. By all accounts B is a mix of teams from last year's B C and D grades. Seems outrageous that Kotara South have gone to A
Yep we’ve apparently been told by NF that they needed numbers for A grade and we were the unlucky ones that got picked to bring it to 8 teams. If 8 teams is so important to them I’m tempted to go for the nuclear option and say we’ll withdraw the team from the comp, see if they blink…..
Who has 7 teams?Quote:
Originally Posted by boz-monaut
From what I have seen: (brackets if changed from last year)
A - Norths (B), Swansea 1's, Kahibah 1's (B), Valentine 1's, Mayfield Snrs 1's, Wallsend 1's (B), Kotara South (C), Stockton 1's
B - Kurri 1's (C), Tenambit 1's (D), Dudley 1's, Swansea 2's, Valentine 2's, Cooker 1's (D based on Boz's info), Newcastle Suns (New), New Lambton (D)
C - Greta 1's (F), Cardiff City 1's (B), Charlestown (D), Dudley 2's, Toronto 1's, Valentine 3's, Cookers 2's, Nelson Bay 1's (D).
A grade lost Hamilton Azzurri & Newcastle Olympic from a 6 team comp so were stuck with having to bring up more teams
But some of the changes are strange.
Kotata promoted past Toronto and Kurri
Toronto stays put in C
Cooks Hill going to B (regardless of the team swap)
Greta having a big jump
Why none of Maitland Jr's 5x teams having taken a big step up is beyond me.
Their F grade team last year had a goal difference of 89 and they ended up in D ??
Last year only 6 clubs nominated c grade or above. I imagine this year wasn’t much different. I’ve played teams in D grade that were just as good as ones I’ve played in A grade
Everyone prefers a season winning than a season of losing.
Swings and roundabouts, you’d hope.
The problem is that they don't necessarily look at what players are still in a team even where the finished the year before.
They do look at where clubs are asking to be graded. So the Kotara team that got pushed up to A may have asked to go in C and all other teams in there may have said D so their thinking is put the team that ranked themselves highest and wanted to be in the higher grade into a higher grade even if it isn't where they wanted to be.
There is also the comments option to put your case forward about what grade you should be in and why. If you don't do that or isn't convincing enough then it doesn't happen. Perhaps for next year speak to your registrar about what information they are submitting to the club to ensure if gives you the best possible chance of being put in a grade that you want to be put in
Yep this - for O/35s it seems they only look at the grades the club nominates and nothing else. It means clubs are nominating low knowing they'll be placed several grades above what they nominate. if you nominate where you think you should be (e.g. C grade), you'll end up in A grade.
We nominated D grade this year. if you exclude Kurri, Dudley and Stockton from last year the rest of us were pretty evenly matched, so if the season had completed we could have finished anywhere from 2nd to 6th, we lost 2 a players to retirement and replaced them with guys who haven’t played for a couple of years, and we’re all a year older so D seemed right, but we probably wouldn’t have embarrassed ourselves in C again. At least in A grade the travels not too bad, other than Lorn it’s all pretty close
sorry it looks like there was an error in the spreadsheet sent out by this new jerk who's taken over from me in running All Age and 35s this season - so hard to find good help these days @2ndclasscitizenQuote:
Originally Posted by Aegon
I was mistaken, we have eight in our comp - looks like a few from the same grade last season, Dudley, Toronto, Valentine and us - who were all pretty evenly matched
so in hindsight it's not that bad a grading this season
You're right on all counts actually. The spreadsheet is wrong, there's 7 teams in div C and you can't get good help: https://imgur.com/a/t4mVMKBQuote:
Originally Posted by boz-monaut
I'm angry people. Gradings are a farce. We finished with 2 wins 2 draws and -29 goal difference and we go from C to B. WTF?
Kurri finished with 12 wins, 2 draws and +38 goal difference and they went from C to B. How the hell do they think putting us up is even remotely close to the right grading?
We should have gone to E. The team average age is 50+ now and it's just no fun at all playing to get flogged every week.
$440 for another year of hell.
Id like to see the nomination sheet. You can see who is playing the systemQuote:
Originally Posted by tenschooners
Maybe just retire and go back to coaching. You don't need to worry about grades or your mates on the west side of the lake then😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Charman
Russell Henry has emailed clubs re-stating the grading process and also asking clubs to stop individual players from contacting them directly
so I'm guessing a lot of folks aren't happy this year
Have you got an updated list? I thought Dudley 2's were staying in C?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charman
yeah, retirement is probably getting closer maybe when I'm 60.Quote:
Originally Posted by anfield
Very ****ing unhappy. We even asked to go up a grade from the original into a comp with a bye and got knocked back. Now stuck in this comp with a lot of unhappy travellers:Quote:
Originally Posted by boz-monaut
https://i.imgur.com/waALqGQ.jpg
Do you know what was put down when the team was submitted? Your club might have just nominated you for C without any explanation. Certainly for next year I'd be speaking to your registrar about being put in F and explaining ages, past results etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charman
I read it as, they offered to go up and take the place of the bye. Meaning no bye in that comp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jardelsimage