They are volunteers, the money gets spent back on the facility which inevitably the W-League Jets call home... so whats your point? The committee doesn't divy up the profits at the end of the day and pay each person a wage...Originally Posted by Thomas477
Will be magic to have the WPL GFs at Broadmeadow... great ground, drains well, good stands for spectators, great atmosphere, better than other wind swept barren grounds we've been to. If magic makes some money out of this so friggin what, they've put in the effort to create a great facility.
Next year's WPL it's the juniors that matter, should be either keep the same clubs or cut one or two out and ensure good coaching. No point dropping a club and letting another in, there's no other clubs out there with quality jnrs, even current WPL clubs lack quality. It'd just be musical chairs.
You can tell the stark difference between the teams who have picked up the zone players and those who haven't esp in the 14s, but hopefully with appropriate coaching and kids being taught to Play football, in a few years as the kids progress to seniors, the comp will grow stronger. Just a pity this year has been watered down by no emerging jets, seniors leaving to play in Sydney and others playing locally outside of the WPL
Magicians Magic WPL experience matches the bits and pieces I heard around the time, and fits with my experiences. Hopefully now we can stabilize the competition a bit and then slowly move forward.
Have to congratulate the Merewether 1st grade girls and of course their coach Cass on the minor premiership.
Merewether were one of the foundation clubs of the WPL 7 odd years ago and this is the first silverware.
Thanks to all the people who have been involved over those 7 years who all played a part in this.
Congratulations Merewether and Cass.
Rumors are that Valentine will be withdrawing from the WPL next year, with possibly New Lambton taking their place.
Sad if true, Valentine being only one of three foundation clubs remaining.
With their men likely to be promoted to NPL next year sounds like they trying to free up some funds.
any rumours on potentially why they may be withdrawing?
Congrats to Merewether, also to Mid North Coast in 18s, South Wallsend in 16s, Thornton in 14s... all Minor Premiers by comfortable margins. Good to see mix of teams taking silverware, no dominance by one or two teams.
Valo out? Would be very surprised as their 1sts & 18s doing well, or is it due to their lack of jnrs? Based on performance, woulda thought Wallsend or Warners Pay out, neither figuring in any finals cept 16s and even then only cos Warners Pay took Valo players from last year.
Last edited by Footyhead; 03-08-2015 at 10:45 PM.
Key organizers moving on, does not look like they have replacements, also struggling wih player numbers. But then nearly everyone did this year.
struggling with player numbers..... we all knew this would happen when the federation pulled the trigger too quick with 3 new clubs in WPL this year. fair enough those 3 clubs applied for the opportunity to go up, but they were in the bottom half of the ZPL comp the previous year.
would reducing the number of teams again bring together a stronger bunch of teams in WPL and increase the quality again..... only one way to find out
Hey Footyhead its not very nice to refer to Warners Bay as Warners Pay, why are you being so derogatory ?
Do you actually really think that Warners Bay is the only club paying players ?
The u16 players that come over from Valentine were mainly ex Warners Bay juniors who left Warners Bay because Warners Bay didn't have WPL. Warners Bay has also lost juniors to Valentine and other clubs, yours included. This year two Warners Bay juniors went to Valentine and two Valentine juniors come to Warners Bay, fair swap.
The coach that is coaching the u16 team at Warners Bay has coached the returning u16 players before and has won two grandfinals and one runner up with Warners Bay girls in the last three years, as you can see the Majority of the current u16 Warners Bay team has been performing well for years.The players in the current u16 team have performed well all year and all the players in the team deserve credit for making the semi's, to say that the team only made the semis because of a couple of ex Valentine players is just ridiculous, they all contributed.
Your club currently has at least two Warners Bay juniors in its u18 team, from your reasoning I assume you would have to say that if your u18 team scrapes into the semis its only due to the ex Warners Bay juniors.
In relation to one of your earlier blog's Warners Bay currently has six juniors from their u14 and u16 teams trialling for the emerging jets because the club nominated them.
looking at the final table for WPL first grade, the goals against column for all bar the top 2 teams is quite significant. is this a sign that the comp has a very attacking mindset and little pride in the amount of goals one would concede?
Somewhat agree... from what ive seen i think the defenders are on par with other outfielders in their teams with respects to strength and skill but the quality of the goal keeping is quite low in the women's competitions. WPL needs a top to bottom strategy on improving women goal keepers, a one off night lets say at Speers Point Facility to get all keepers together, clubs can nominate 3, through the season would make a huge difference. I would love to see the statistic of goals scored from outside the box comparing the WPL to NPL, and i bet WPL with be significantly more based on the poorer standard of keeper. Not bagging the keepers there just isn't the quality to go around for every team.
agree, have seen quite a few long range goals this year that really should not have gone in
dont mind the idea on keeper training, but then again, shouldnt the individual clubs be trying to track down some training themselves??
an 8-0 thumping in a semi final from a team reportedly folding..... at least the 2 form teams in the comp will be playing in the GF next weekend, should be a very competitive match
A big scoreline but they did have quite a few out injured, plus 2 gone to the USA for College Football. Others had work commitments. They fielded 16 year olds in the last few games they were so short of players. If you think back a few weeks Adamstown were the only team to actually beat Merewether all season. So there are reasons behind the scoreline. Not to take anything away from Valentine. They were awesome and full credit to them for the performance. On paper they should have dominated all season. Should be a cracker of a Grand Final on Sunday.
Last edited by Mumbler; 18-08-2015 at 10:18 PM.
Wow can't take the sarcasm mate? Of course players change clubs, happens all the time... The point I'm making is Valo made the GF last year but have lost many players this year and the results show that, whereas Bay have been stronger I believe for those that were in Valo last year. Bay weren't even in 16as last year, or Bs, so what comp are you talking about?
Anyway, looking forward to a good game tomorrow between two teams who play a good brand of football.
I doubt you were being sarcastic. The Majority of the Warners Bay u16 girls won the u14 B grade comp last year. They were and still are a very young team, all but one girl can still play u16 next year and a few can play u16 for a few years to come yet.
1st grade game was a great game for the spectators, could have gone either way, Merewether got there in the end 3-2.
The amount of support Valentine had, surely someone will step up and take on the running of their WPL program and keep them in the competition..
Was a good crowd, more than turn up for w-league games.
Thanks to Magic, 4 games did a bit of damage to the field, they remarked some of the lines before the 1st grade game.
All in all a great advertisement for Women's football in the area.
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