Originally Posted by
NumeroCuatro
What a shambles NNSWF are. This is a joke and makes a mockery of the whole league system. No matter what happens this year, Morisset has to be relegated if they cannot field all three grades. Totally not fair on the team coming last (most likely Hamilton Azzurri) who has spent a lot of time, money and resources to field 3 full grades and run them for the whole year and end up being relegated. While, Morisset cruised throughout the whole season managing two grades and completely broke the rules of ZL1 but gets to stay up. It's gotta be fair here on the successful run clubs.
Also, having a 5 or 6 team competition in ZL3 is a joke. That's worse than Friday Night All Age F who had 8 teams last year and Saturday All Age O who had 8 teams as well. NNSWF needs to help ZL clubs more and incentivise them more to keep teams out of All Age and in ZL.
Honestly, I think there should be a restriction on how many All Age teams a club can provide. Maybe 2 max? Last year for All Age Saturday clubs they had this many teams; Hamilton Azzurri - 6, Cooks Hill - 5, Shortland - 4, Valentine - 4, Lake Macquarie - 4, South Cardiff - 4, Belmont - 3. Clubs like; Shortland, Valentine, Lake Macquarie, South Cardiff and Belmont has to be pushed to have their best All Age and mediocre All Age team in ZL3. Maybe make it cheaper than playing in the All Age competition for the first year. I dont know? Although, something has to be done or the competitiveness of ZL or the competition itself will crumble in a few years.
