Agreed.Originally Posted by samcan
I don't have the answers to how to solve for grading either.
I'm not privvy to whether we were asked to or not - but we have graded the 9s and 10s into A and B. This is for player development, not result driven.
We collected and passed back to the SAP coordinator scores last year - so I can only assume they were passed on up the chain to Northern.
If there were enough games you'd just have each team play each other and take the top and bottom halves - but as we all know games and game time is reducing not increasing.
If clubs were going to field the same two teams consistently week-in, week-out you'd just ask them to nominate which half of the draw they think their teams would fit in. But personally I saw last year and have been told this year that clubs will be choosing different teams each round. Impossible to grade "teams" if the teams change that frequently.
My understanding is that the grading period will be the 3 weekends prior to Easter weekend; there will be no football Easter weekend, and competition games will start the following weekend (as Round 4?).
Now, that has the season "proper" starting April 10... 3 weeks after I would have assumed it would start.
And I assume the mid-season (after 8 rounds) re-shuffle of the draws will still happen?
The wet weather has severely hampered our preparation (one trial v Valentine indoors at howzat) - Johnson Park is just about always wet - so I'm half way happy that games are so far away so that we can actually get some time under our belts.
