Quote Originally Posted by riverboy View Post
I might have to sit our game out to watch New Lambton v Dudley or furthermore play it on a sunday.

In all serious I hope both teams sort issues out either way, maybe the judiciary did? Any news?

I think association should have considered 8 team comps. 11 is too many. Especially given only 4 make the finals. Which for us would be a massive achievement.
I have played in an 8 team comp and also a 6 team comp previously, and it doesn't work. If you are running an 8 team comp and you only play each team twice the season is far too short. Or if you play each team 3 times to make it worthwhile , it feels like you are playing the same players every week and get rather mundane. The year that the old ID3 was a 6 team comp we had to play each team 4 times and it was boring as all hell. Plus once the table started to sort itself out teams started forfeiting away games they couldn't be bothered to travel to if they had already played that team and lost a couple of times previously. It was all a bit of a farce really.

Playing football is actually expensive with rego clubs I have experienced sometimes being $300 and up. The more games that you get in the better, I mean thats what we sign up for right, to play games of football! So in an 11 team comp each team playing 20 games and facing opposition only twice in the season, I think its pretty good value for money really and keeps the comp interesting. The more teams challenging the better the competition.

As far as the finals thing goes, finals football is there as reward for the BEST teams in the competition. I personally wouldn't claim finishing in the top 50% of a competition to be that much of an achievement in all honesty, and I think comps with smaller numbers of teams and a higher percentage of finals places aren't as competitive as you can essentially be a pretty poor team and still be rewarded at the end of the season.