Quote Originally Posted by sammydog View Post
If I am honest, we shouldn't have been in B grade. We dropped out of A as we lost our entire midfield from last season and didn't think we were nearly as strong. We weren't but we still played well, till the finals when it all fell apart. I dont know how well we would have gone in A grade this season, but clearly the table shows we were. The rest of the comp was actually very close and it was only the last 2-3 rounds that the top 4 became a bit clearer.

I dont think the teams for either Warners Bay or Belswans were any different as the season progressed. Not that I noticed anyway, so I don't think anything dodgy went on with players for them. The nature of Saturday O35's is that there is only 4 grades, so the grading is probably a bit tougher to make sure teams are right. I would prefer that they made A and B grades 8 team comps though and just slid the teams up, but that wont happen.

If we had made the grand final we would have played Warners Bay 5 times during the season. Thats one of the things I hate about 6 team comps.
Grading is difficult in these grades. Last season Hamilton azzuri ran away with it with a couple of "younger" o35s and south Cardiff finished 2nd and both went up. Southy have had a very similar team for years with the odd younger guy coming in....southy made the finals in Agrade this year and azzuri didn't. This year garden suburbs and Dudley were running away with it until Dudley lost points and warners bay jumped up. Belswans have hovered in the top 4 of the b grade for about 4 years now. It really only takes a player or 2 to come in or leave a team that pushes them up or down the table.

Couldn't agree more about the 6 team comps either....bit silly but I guess with they way edgy are walking the a grade no one wants to play there....I'm pretty sure one of the new lambton teams went to Friday night last year because they got put up.