Quote Originally Posted by Captain_Carl View Post
In an 8 team comp there should be 4 rounds. 2 home and 2 away games against each team to make a total of 28 games. This is aligned to Football Australia’s XI Principles, one of which being that we need to be playing more games to stay in touch with the rest of our region.
In the proposed format it will only be an 8 team comp half of the year.So it would be 11 games in phase 1 and 7 in phase 2. With pre-season and mid season comps (and semis for half the teams) it will fill out the games from minimum of 18 to around 26.Another issue surrounding this is fixtures and washouts.Surely we wont see another year like this but we are halfway through the youth season and some teams have only played 8/12 games while others 11.If those missed games are the difference between staying up or dropping down NNSW better be very organised to get replays done straight away.The other problem will be turning a draw around for the 2nd half of the season on short notice too.With teams in Tamworth,Coffs and Taree as much notice as possible needs to be given to clubs to schedule grounds for the entire 2nd half of the year depending on which division you are in.Im a big fan of the new format lets hope these sort of issues dont derail what is a really good idea.